Welcome to The Woody Report, where Washington & Lee School of Law Associate Professor Karen Woody and host Tom Fox discuss issues on white collar crime, compliance issues, international corruption, securities and accounting fraud, and internal corporate…
There is a hard truth at the center of modern AI governance that every compliance professional needs to confront: trust is not a control. For too long, organizations have approached…
A new governance gap is emerging around artificial intelligence, and it is one that Chief Compliance Officers, compliance professionals, and boards need to confront now. It sits at the intersection…
For years, concentration risk was treated as someone else’s problem. Procurement is worried about sole-source vendors. Treasury worried about counterparty exposure. Supply chain teams worried about bottlenecks. Compliance, by contrast,…
There is a temptation in every wave of new technology to focus first on speed. How much faster can we do the work? How many hours can we save? How…
There was a time when many executives could treat corporate values as a branding exercise, a recruiting line, or a paragraph on the company website. That time is over. Today,…
The Delaware Court of Chancery has handed compliance leaders and boards a timely lesson: generative AI is not a substitute for judgment, legal discipline, or governance. When leaders use AI…
Artificial intelligence may be built on data, models, and code, but governance ultimately rests on people. For boards and Chief Compliance Officers, one of the most important questions is not…
One of the clearest AI governance challenges facing companies today is not a failure of ambition. It is a failure of pacing. Put simply, strategy is moving faster than governance….
In this blog post, we turn to the fourth major governance challenge in AI: ongoing monitoring. This is one of the most persistent weaknesses in AI governance. Organizations may build…
Artificial intelligence may look like a technology story on the surface, but beneath that surface lies a governance reality every board and Chief Compliance Officer must confront. AI systems are…
