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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: September 4, 2026, The Cutting False Positives Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Using Agentic AI to cut false positives in AML. (FinTech Global)
  2. The compliance gap in AI notetakers. (Investment News)
  3. 3 paths forward for AI in healthcare. (Healthcare Finance)
  4. AI adoption gaps in finance. (Fintech Finance News)
  5. Looking for AI-proof assets. (WSJ)

For more information on using AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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Compliance and AI

Compliance and AI: The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: Overcoming Fear, Identity Threat, and Shadow AI

What is the intersection of AI and compliance? What about machine learning? Are you using ChatGPT? These questions are just three of the many we will explore in this cutting-edge podcast series, Compliance and AI, hosted by Tom Fox, the award-winning Voice of Compliance. Today, Tom visits with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky about his book, The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results (Georgetown University Press), arguing that AI adoption fails mainly due to human factors, not tool complexity.

Citing Pew research showing widespread anxiety about AI and an MIT finding that 95% of AI pilots fail to scale, Dr. Tsipursky describes three emotional blockers: fear of job loss (“AI alarmists”), identity threat when AI automates work people take pride in (“pragmatic resisters”), and shame-driven “reluctant adopters” who use AI secretly, fueling shadow AI risk and limiting ROI. He advises leaders to commit to growth over layoffs, automate disliked tasks first, model AI use, and create sharing channels and meetings to normalize safe adoption. He also emphasizes governance with clear ethical guardrails and individual accountability, replacing approval bottlenecks that drive shadow use.

Key highlights:

  • Why AI Adoption Fails
  • Three Emotional Blockers
  • Trust and Social Stigma
  • AI Versus Calculators
  • Creating Psychological Safety
  • Tactics for Identity Threat
  • Ending Shadow AI Usage
  • Ethical Guardrails and Governance
  • What Success Looks Like

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Book: The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work on Amazon

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: September 3, 2026, The Spotting Cybersecurity Gaps Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. AI spots Cyber gaps faster than companies can fix them. (FT)
  2. OpenAI to restrict Astra. (WSJ)
  3. Is AI governance following the same path as privacy compliance? (JD Supra)
  4. NVB urges banks to embrace AI for transaction monitoring. (AML Intelligence)
  5. AML foundations must be robust for AI to work. (FinTechGlobal)

For more information on using AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: September 2, 2026, The Farmers Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Streamlining compliance reviews with AI. (Business Wire)
  2. Musicians sue Suno. (WSJ)
  3. Consultants heading for a showdown with clients. (FT)
  4. John Deere to create a chatbot for farmers. (Bloomberg)
  5. USDA to use AI and satellites for crop estimates. Farmers are not amused. (Reuters)

For more information on using AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: September 1, 2026, The Increased Burden Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. The new burden for compliance in the age of AI. (Forbes)
  2. How agentic AI is reshaping financial crime compliance. (AML Intelligence)
  3. ChatGPT says it didn’t steal Apple employees; rather, Apple has ‘poor offboarding.’ (WSJ)
  4. ChatGPT faces tougher safety issues in the EU. (FT)
  5. Banks are rethinking legacy SW costs to fund AI. (Asian Banking & Finance)

For more information on using AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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Innovation in Compliance

Innovation in Compliance: Paul Welter on AI Legal Reasoning for Embedded Compliance Workflows

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with Paul F. Welter, co-founder at Bayshore AI.

Welter is a German-qualified lawyer whose path into legal innovation began with an early background in software engineering, giving him a rare combination of legal and technical expertise. That experience led him to study how legal reasoning could be automated at Stanford Law School’s Codex, and later to co-found Bayshore AI to build LLM-based tools for in-house legal and compliance teams. He believes AI can help scale legal and compliance support because demand far exceeds human capacity, but he expects adoption to happen gradually through copilots, policy chatbots, and targeted workflow automation rather than a sudden transformation. At the same time, he stresses that regulated companies need systems that are transparent, auditable, and able to show how decisions are made, with human oversight remaining essential for higher-risk matters and regulator-facing accountability.

Key highlights:

  • AI Legal Reasoning for Embedded Compliance Workflows
  • Auditable Legal Decision Logic from Conventional Programs
  • Customer-Specific Policy Logic with Deterministic Compliance
  • Logic translated into code for reviewable decisions
  • Full-time employee days of manual compliance checks
  • AI copilots, compliance workflows, and decision trails

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Bayshore

Innovation in Compliance was recently honored as the Number 4 podcast in Risk Management by 1,000,000 Podcasts

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FCPA Compliance Report

FCPA Compliance Report: Mara Senn on AI-Native, Human-in-the-Loop Investigations for Compliance

In this episode, Tom Fox welcomes Mara Senn, founder and CEO of Ethakos, about her path from big law and a decade as a partner at Arnold & Porter to anti-corruption work at the Kleptocracy Initiative, investigations at the World Bank, and in-house leadership roles at Fortune 500 medical device and pharma companies.

Senn explains she built the Ethakos compliance investigations platform using “vibe coding” with Claude, reducing reliance on software engineers and enabling rapid product decisions. She describes Ethakos as AI-native and human-in-the-loop, designed around how compliance teams actually work, with cleaner data creation, configurable workflows, and features that automate painful reporting tasks (e.g., investigation updates) and first drafts of chronologies, interview outlines, and reports. Senn emphasizes audibility via logs and citations, advises starting AI projects with clear risk goals, and predicts AI will remove menial work so teams can cover more risks while becoming more data- and tech-forward. Contact options include ethakos.com, email, and LinkedIn.

Key highlights:

  • Why Build Ethakos
  • AI Native Platform Design
  • Solving Reporting Pain
  • Starting AI in Compliance
  • Avoiding Common AI Mistakes
  • Investigation Workflow Automation
  • Auditability and Regulator Proofing
  • Future of Compliance Teams

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To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: August 31, 2026, The AI for Mental Health Treatment Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. AI implementation with compliance. (PharmExec)
  2. AI redefining regulation and compliance. (FinTechGlobal)
  3. AI on reading the body’s signals. (MedCityNews)
  4. Should you use AI for mental health treatment? (WSJ)
  5. Reimagining health care delivery through AI. (Cleveland)

For more information on using AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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From the Editor's Desk

From the Editor’s Desk: Aaron Nicodemus on the August and September in Compliance Week

In this episode of ‘From the Editor’s Desk,’ Tom Fox visits with Compliance Week editor-in-chief Aaron Nicodemus to discuss highlights from Compliance Week in August, take a look at what is coming down the pike in September in Compliance Week, and discuss the upcoming Third Party Risk Management and Supply Chain Summit in Chicago.

Tom and Aaron review key August coverage and upcoming priorities. They discuss new columnist Ben Mason’s “The Hidden Cost of Compliance Leadership,” outlining five recurring burdens for compliance leaders: independence that is often only theoretical, job risk from doing the role properly (including survey findings that nearly 70% of compliance officers have experienced retaliation), inability to voice doubts internally, the invisibility of effective prevention work, and weak leadership support—creating isolation and prompting ideas for safe forums such as the vetted CW app and event roundtables. Nicodemus highlights his Mayo Clinic whistleblower story alleging AI use may endanger patient privacy and outpace internal guardrails. He also describes a National Conference “Practitioner’s Briefing” distilling six Chatham House themes, previews a September 1MDB case study on enablers, plans AI-governance essays for National Compliance Officers Day, and promotes the Oct. 28–29 Chicago TPRM Summit.

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Third Party Risk Management and Supply Chain Summit

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: August 28, 2026, The Just Table Stakes Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Bill Gates warns on AI. (NYT)
  2. AI governance beyond compliance. (IAPP)
  3. CIGNA AI chief on investing in AI. (Fortune)
  4. AI is now a table stake for compliance monitoring. (National Law Review)
  5. Will Agentic AI refine banking? (International Banker)

For more information on using AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.