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Mastering ChatGPT: Ethical Challenges of ChatGPT

In this Part 2 of a five-part blog post series, I am considering the revolution wrought by ChatGPT. Today we consider how and, more importantly, why AI developers and industry professionals need to garner insights into the ethical considerations surrounding AI and ChatGPT. With the guidance of AI expert and founder of Red Hat Media, Larry Roberts, we will delve into the complexities of AI ethics, including data privacy, misinformation, bias, and job displacement. Roberts’s extensive field knowledge and experience make him a relatable source for understanding the challenges and best practices in implementing ethical AI solutions. By addressing these ethical concerns head-on, this article will equip you with the necessary tools and knowledge to navigate the ethical landscape of AI development, ensuring responsible and informed decision-making. Say goodbye to uncertainties and us as we demystify AI ethics, paving the way for a more ethically sound AI industry.

Human in the Loop

Human in the Loop (HITL) is an interaction model involving a human operator in AI decision-making. Due to their unpredictability, HITL scenarios often occur when definitive responses are difficult for AI systems to generate without human intervention. HITL emphasizes that human input and collaboration are critical in AI development, as an AI alone may only partially account for unforeseen situations.  Larry Roberts discusses the ‘Human in the Loop’ approach extensively. He highlights examples where human intervention was necessary to prevent unforeseen outcomes, implying the indispensability of human involvement in AI usage and development. Larry reiterates that even with advances in AI technology, human input remains vital to ensure quality results and prevent unexpected consequences.

AI Ethics and Best Practices

AI ethics is the study of the ethical issues related to the development and application of AI. It includes accountability, privacy, intellectual property, discrimination, bias, and job displacement. Fostering a deeper understanding and implementation of AI ethics ensures that advancements in AI technology are a force for good, benefiting humanity as a whole.  Referencing the episode, Larry Roberts provides an in-depth discussion on AI ethics. He emphasizes that understanding the perspectives of AI developers is paramount to accurate assessment and mitigation of bias. Recognizing the issues surrounding job displacement due to AI implementation, Larry suggests the potential of AI to create new opportunities, underlining the necessity of monitoring and adapting to the evolving AI landscape.

Securing Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance

The digital revolution has brought to the fore the importance of securing data privacy and tick-marking all requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) across industries. The speed and sky-rocketing impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies necessitate special attention to these aspects. As data forms the lifeblood of AI systems, ensuring the secure handling of this data keeps prominence. Equally significant is the adherence to GDPR policies, which is a step beyond data privacy, focusing on EU citizens’ fundamental rights. Non-compliance can lead to severe penalties. Addressing these requirements is more than just about legal and ethical obligations; it’s about building trust with the end users, enhancing business reputation, and ensuring that privacy concerns or non-compliance issues do not hold back AI’s fantastic potential.

Mitigating the Misuse of AI Tools

As we consider the suitability of AI technologies for various tasks, it’s crucial to discuss the potential for misuse. With the pervasiveness of AI in our digital landscape, there’s an increasing risk of these technologies being exploited. One of the leading concerns revolves around ethical use, mainly because AI technologies like chatbots can process vast amounts of data, some of which can be sensitive or private. Consequently, the misuse of AI tools could result in a breach of privacy and security, making it significantly vital to establish preventative measures.

As we strive to achieve an increased understanding of AI ethics and best practices for implementation, let us remember that great power comes with great responsibility. By staying informed, remaining vigilant, and consistently reassessing our practices, we can pave the way for a future where AI serves as a force for good. Join us tomorrow when we consider how ChatGPT will transform compliance training.

For more information on Larry Roberts, check out Red Hat Media.

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: June 24, 2023 -The Falsifying Research Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen to the Daily Compliance News. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day we consider four stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional.

  • Tata was wracked by a bribery scandal. (Wion News)
  • Harvard prof on ethics accused of falsifying research. (NYT)
  • Third EU lawmaker charged in Qatargate corruption probe. (Al Jazeera)
  • Feds seek max sentence for Householder. (Fox 8)
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SBR Authors Podcast – Hal Hershfield, Your Future Self – Part 2

Welcome to the Sunday Book Review, the Authors Podcast! On this episode, Tom is joined by colleague Earnie Broughton for Part 2 of their interview with Hal Hershfield, author of Your Future Self, on Sunday Book Review-Author’s Edition. Join Tom and Earnie as they discuss cutting-edge ethical decision-making and behavior management solutions with Hershfield. The hosts delve into using aging apps and age progression algorithms to bring a vivid picture of one’s future self, ultimately leading to positive actions. But that’s not all. They introduce deep visualization exercises and the ancient tradition of idealism, which can help individuals make better choices and reduce anxiety. Hershfield shares his project about a chatbot that allows people to talk to their future selves, paving the way for groundbreaking research in long-term decision-making. Discover ethical commitment devices and other strategies in this captivating episode.

Tune in to the SBR-Authors Podcast and gain insight into how behavioral science can transform your life.

Key Highlights Include:

  • The Power of Age Progression Algorithms
  • Connecting with Future Self
  • Using Commitment Devices to Achieve Goals
  • Finding Balance with Commitment Devices
  • Multiple Selves and Technological Aids
  • Technology for Long-Term Decision Making

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“If we can work with someone on really deeply visualizing their future selves and seeing that person and feeling their feelings, that’s the type of thing that I think can hopefully change behavior.”

“Commitment device is one of my favorite behavioral science topics to explore. The basic idea here is that this version of me wants to eat healthy right now. What a commitment device does is it commits me to act a certain way. It puts constraints on my future behavior.

“The basic idea is I read a letter to my future self, and then I tried to write one back from that person. Fascinating exercise because it forces you to step into the shoes of your future self and see the world through their eyes.”

“When people were asked to do this send and reply exercise, it did cause them to take a step back, and it almost calms the feelings of the situation at hand. And that helped them see the big picture and ultimately feel better now.”

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SBR Authors Podcast – Hal Hershfield, Your Future Self – Part 1

Welcome to the Sunday Book Review, the Authors Podcast! In this episode, Tom is joined by colleague Earnie Broughton. Join Tom and Earnie as they interview Hal Hershfield, author of Your Future Self, on Sunday Book Review-Author’s Edition. Delve into the psychology of decision-making and the importance of understanding present and future selves. Listen in as they discuss how organizational identity influences risk and ethical decisions and how the concept of multiple selves relates to integrity and making ethical decisions. Discover the neuroscience behind thoughts about one’s future self and how forgiveness and self-forgiveness can overcome procrastination. Learn how a connection to one’s future self can affect ethical behavior in an organizational context and find practical ways to bring ethics and compliance into workplace programs. Make sure to catch the release date of Hershfield’s upcoming book and where to find his research. Tune in now for an engaging and thought-provoking conversation!

Key Highlights Include:

·      Inaccurate Self-Prediction in Organizations

·      Collective Identity and Ethical Decision Making

·      Challenges of Future Self Concept

·      Importance of Future Self in Decision Making

·      Visualization, Procrastination, and Forgiveness

·      Connection to Future Self and Ethical Behavior

·      Ethical Behavior and Personal Values

 Notable Quotes:

“People who have a stronger sense of connection to their future selves end up doing more of the stuff that they say they want to do, saving more, for instance, reporting higher levels of subjective health.”

“If an organization has a strong collective identity and sees itself almost as a person would over time, then you might imagine if the employee is there and the decision makers there, I buy into that identity, and they feel strongly about where the organization will go in the future, then I could imagine that level of connection will be an important input into these risk decisions, ethical decisions.”

“The essential self. The one that is continuous over time that others see as these moral traits that you’re talking about…I think that relates to the ethics topic of integrity integration and bringing those disparate parts in the resonance.”

“Our future selves evoke similar activity patterns as thoughts about others. In the brain, our future selves look like other people.

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Because That’s What Heroes Do – Firefly – Episode 2, The Train Job

Megan and I go in a different direction for our next sci-fi series as we take up the 2002 series Firefly. The show is an American space Western drama television series. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a “Firefly-class” spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.

Get ready to ride the space rails with hosts Tom Fox and Megan Dougherty in the latest episode of Because That’s What Heroes Do. In this new adventure, the duo dives into the second episode of Firefly, “The Train Job.” Discover new insights on the classic Western trope of using spaceships to rob trains, meet the ruthless villain, Niska, and learn about the value of money in the show. Explore the crew’s willingness to do anything for a quick buck and how their ethical issues rear their heads. Get excited to hear the hosts’ thoughts on the crew’s botched cover story and the extreme consequences of stealing valuable medicine. Join in on the conversation as they discuss the perils of TerraForming and the failures of the Alliance. Plus, stick around for their thoughts on an episode with the perfect blend of Western and sci-fi themes. Tune in to Because That’s What Heroes Do and get swept away in this space western adventure!

Highlights:

  • Firefly’s Train Job: Classic Western trope with a twist
  • Train Robbery and Terraforming Consequences
  • Controversy Surrounding Shipping Homeless People

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Compliance Week 2023 Speaker Series – Jisha Dymond on Managing Ethical AI Risk

In this episode of the Compliance Week 2023 Speaker Preview Podcasts series, Jisha Dymond discusses her panel at Compliance Week 2023, “The Role of Corporate Compliance Programs in Managing Ethical AI Risk.”

Join Jisha and her fellow panelists as they discuss the following:

  • Understanding the current Ethical AI regulatory environment;
  • Examining how corporate compliance teams are equipped with the infrastructure necessary to implement programs to manage risk around new regulatory regimes such as risk assessments, policies, procedures, monitoring, and testing; and
  • Exploring whether translating an Ethical AI regulatory compliance model into a corporate compliance framework is impossible or inevitable.

I hope you can join me at Compliance Week 2023. This year’s event will be May 15-17 at the JW Marriott in Washington, DC. The line-up of this year’s event is simply first-rate, with some of the top ethics and compliance practitioners around.

Gain insights and make connections at the industry’s premier cross-industry national compliance event offering knowledge-packed, accredited sessions and take-home advice from the most influential leaders in the compliance community. Back for its 18th year, compliance, ethics, legal, and audit professionals will gather safely face-to-face to benchmark best practices and gain the latest tactics and strategies to enhance their compliance programs. And many others to:

  • Network with your peers, including C-suite executives, legal professionals, HR leaders, and ethics and compliance visionaries.
  • Hear from 75+ respected cross-industry practitioners who are CEOs, CCOs, regulators, federal officials, and practitioners to help inform and shape the strategic direction of your enterprise risk management program.
  • Hear directly from the two SEC Commissioners, gain insights into the agency’s enforcement areas, and walk away with guidance on remaining compliant within emerging areas such as ESG disclosure, third-party risk management, cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and more.
  • Bring actionable takeaways from your program from various session types, including ESG, Human Trafficking, Board obligations, and many others, for you to listen, learn and share.
  • Compliance Week aims to arm you with information, strategy, and tactics to transform your organization and career by connecting ethics to business performance through process augmentation and data visualization.

For information on the event, click here. Listeners of this podcast will receive a discount of $200 by using code TF200 on the link here.

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: May 4, 2023 – The 5% of Global GDP Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen to the Daily Compliance News. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day we consider four stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional.

Stories we are following in today’s edition:

  • Senate panel explores ethics at Supreme Court. (Reuters)
  • Poloniex pays $7.6MM for sanctions violations. (WSJ)
  • Corrupt costs the world 5% of global GDP. (UN)
  • B-Corp attracts better talent. (BBC)
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Principled Podcast

Season 9 Episode 5 – How Company Principles and Values Make Compliance Simple?

What you’ll learn on this podcast episode?

What is the most effective way to help employees make ethical and compliant decisions regardless of the different situations they face? Should they consult a lengthy list of rules and try to find one that fits the situation? Or can they be trusted to apply critical principles that embed company values? In this episode of the Principled Podcast, host Susan Divers talks with Dana McMahon, the vice president and chief compliance officer of Stryker, about how her team works to empower and help its employees live the medical device company’s mission and values. Their secret? Simplicity. 

Guest: Dana McMahon

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Dana McMahon leads global compliance, privacy, and enterprise risk at Stryker. Prior to her current role, Dana served as Chief Legal Counsel and led a global legal and compliance team advising on regulatory and quality, manufacturing and supply, technology and cybersecurity, commercial and government contracting, and privacy.

Dana has 20 years of experience in the life sciences industry. She joined Stryker in 2017 from Novo Nordisk, where she served as Assistant General Counsel. During her 14-year career at Novo Nordisk, Dana held several positions of escalating responsibility within the legal team, overseeing support to the commercial, regulatory, clinical, medical affairs, compliance, and government affairs organizations. Dana has worked extensively on matters related to product development and commercialization, market access and compliance. Previously, Dana worked in private practice at O’Melveny in New York City.

Dana received her law degree from New York University School of Law and her bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College.

Host: Susan Divers

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Susan Divers is the director of thought leadership and best practices with LRN Corporation. She brings 30+ years’ accomplishments and experience in the ethics and compliance arena to LRN clients and colleagues. This expertise includes building state-of-the-art compliance programs infused with values, designing user-friendly means of engaging and informing employees, fostering an embedded culture of compliance, and sharing substantial subject matter expertise in anti-corruption, export controls, sanctions, and other key areas of compliance.

Prior to joining LRN, Mrs. Divers served as AECOM’s Assistant General for Global Ethics & Compliance and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer. Under her leadership, AECOM’s ethics and compliance program garnered six external awards in recognition of its effectiveness and Mrs. Divers’ thought leadership in the ethics field. In 2011, Mrs. Divers received the AECOM CEO Award of Excellence, which recognized her work in advancing the company’s ethics and compliance program.

Before joining AECOM, she worked at SAIC and Lockheed Martin in the international compliance area. Prior to that, she was a partner with the DC office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. She also spent four years in London and is qualified as a Solicitor to the High Court of England and Wales, practicing in the international arena with the law firms of Theodore Goddard & Co. and Herbert Smith & Co. She also served as an attorney in the Office of the Legal Advisor at the Department of State and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN working on the first anti-corruption multilateral treaty initiative.

Mrs. Divers is a member of the DC Bar and a graduate of Trinity College, Washington D.C. and of the National Law Center of George Washington University. In 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Ethisphere Magazine listed her as one the “Attorneys Who Matter” in the ethics & compliance area. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Rutgers University Center for Ethical Behavior and served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Practical Training from 2005-2008. She resides in Northern Virginia and is a frequent speaker, writer and commentator on ethics and compliance topics.

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Sunday Book Review

January 22, 2023 – Top Ethics Books To Read in 2023 Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone who might be curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, we consider some of the top ethics books which every compliance professional should read in 2023:

·       Ethics for Behavior Analysts by Jon Bailey and Mary Burch

·        Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology: Caught in the Web by Edward Spence

·       The Rise of Business Ethics by Bernard Mees

·        Business Ethics for Better Behavior by Jason Brennan, William English, John Hasnas, and Peter Jaworski

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20 Best New Ethics Books To Read In 2023 by Annemarie Slaughter

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Principled Podcast

Season 8 – Episode 11 – Part 1: Geopolitics are Impacting Workplace Ethics and Compliance Programs

What you’ll learn on this podcast episode

As the world emerges from a pandemic mindset, we confront new geopolitical realities with Putin’s war in Ukraine and increasingly fraught relations between the US and China. How is this geopolitical landscape changing the compliance landscape? In this episode of the Principled Podcast, host Susan Divers is joined by Tom Fox, the founder of the Compliance Podcast Network and aptly accredited “Voice of Compliance.” Listen in as the two discuss the impact of geopolitics on ethics and compliance and what issues should be top-of-mind for E&C leaders in the near future.

To learn more, download a copy of Tom Fox’s white paper Never the Same: Five Key Areas in Which Business Will Never Be the Same After the Russian Invasion.

Guest: Tom Fox

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Tom Fox is literally the guy who wrote the book on compliance with the international compliance best-seller The Compliance Handbook, 3rd edition, which LexisNexis released in May 2022. Tom has authored 23 other books on business leadership, compliance, ethics, and corporate governance, including the international best-sellers Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics and Best Practices Under the FCPA and Bribery Act, as well as his award-winning series “Fox on Compliance.”

Tom leads the social media discussion on compliance with his award-winning blog and is the Voice of Compliance, having founded the Compliance Podcast Network and hosting or producing multiple award-winning podcasts. He is an executive leader at the C-Suite Network, the world’s most trusted network of C-Suite leaders. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com.

Host: Susan Divers

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Susan Divers is the director of thought leadership and best practices with LRN Corporation. She brings 30+ years of accomplishments and experience in the ethics and compliance arena to LRN clients and colleagues. This expertise includes building state-of-the-art compliance programs infused with values, designing user-friendly means of engaging and informing employees, fostering an embedded culture of compliance, and sharing substantial subject matter expertise in anti-corruption, export controls, sanctions, and other key areas of compliance.

Prior to joining LRN, Mrs. Divers served as AECOM’s Assistant General for Global Ethics & Compliance and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer. Under her leadership, AECOM’s ethics and compliance program garnered six external awards in recognition of its effectiveness and Mrs. Divers’ thought leadership in the ethics field. In 2011, Mrs. Divers received the AECOM CEO Award of Excellence, recognizing her work advancing the company’s ethics and compliance program.

Before joining AECOM, she worked at SAIC and Lockheed Martin in the international compliance area. Before that, she partnered with the DC office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. She also spent four years in London and is qualified as a Solicitor to the High Court of England and Wales, practicing in the international arena with Theodore Goddard & Co. and Herbert Smith & Co law firms. She also served as an attorney in the Office of the Legal Advisor at the Department of State. She was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN, working on the first anti-corruption multilateral treaty initiative.

Mrs. Divers is a member of the DC Bar and a graduate of Trinity College, Washington D.C., and of the National Law Center of George Washington University. In 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 Ethisphere Magazine listed her as one of the “Attorneys Who Matter” in the ethics & compliance area. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Rutgers University Center for Ethical Behavior and served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Practical Training from 2005-2008. She resides in Northern Virginia and is a frequent speaker, writer, and commentator on ethics and compliance topics.