The Road to Accountable AI

Brett Levenson (Moonbounce): The Best AI Security System is the One People Will Use

Kevin Werbach speaks with Brett Levenson, co-founder and CEO of Moonbounce, about building real-time controls that make AI systems follow the policies companies write for

Sharon Goldman (Ground Level AI): AI as It Meets the Real World

Kevin Werbach speaks with AI journalist Sharon Goldman about her new venture, Ground Level AI. Goldman describes taking on the AI beat at VentureBeat in 2022, months befo

Robert Levitan (Ethical Tech Project): Unlimited Intelligence, But Where's the Wisdom?

Kevin Werbach speaks with Robert Levitan, Chair of the Ethical Tech Project, about what the early internet can teach companies deploying AI today. Levitan, who helped bui

Harish Peri (Okta): When the Thing Accessing Your Systems Has a Brain

In the final episode of our series on governing AI agents, Kevin Werbach speaks with Harish Peri, SVP and General Manager for AI Security at Okta. Peri frames agent gover

Logan Kelly (Waxell): The Accidental Agent Governance Company

Logan Kelly never set out to build an AI governance solution. Waxell spun out of CallSine, an AI-native sales engagement platform, when the team realized that agents that

Nadav Cornberg (Eve Security): Interrogating Agents Before They Act

Kevin Werbach speaks with Nadav Cornberg, co-founder and CEO of Eve Security, about securing agentic AI where it counts: at the moment an agent actually does something. H

Venkat Siva (Compfly): Governing Agents at the Execution Boundary

Kevin Werbach speaks with Venkat Siva, co-founder and CEO of CompFly AI, about why governing autonomous agents requires a fundamentally different approach than securing t

Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech): Conversational AI and Mental Health

Conversational AI is increasingly being used as a source of emotional support, even though general-purpose chatbots were never designed for that purpose. Concerns about A

Emre Kazim (Holistic AI): Why AI Governance is Like Cybersecurity

Holistic AI was one of the first companies built specifically to govern, audit, and red team AI systems. As co-founder and co-CEO Emre Kazim explains, its original thesis

Rumman Chowdhury (Humane Intelligence): The Need for Discernment

Kevin Werbach speaks with long-time responsible AI leader Rumman Chowdhury the current environment, in which substantive standards and oversight efforts for AI are taking

Var Shankar: AI Governance for Smaller Organizations

Var Shankar makes the case that most AI governance guidance is built for large, sophisticated, multifunctional global enterprises — and that this leaves out the roughly h

Katie Fowler (Thomson Reuters Foundation): How 3,000 Companies Approach AI Governance

Good data about how companies are implementing AI governance programs is essential both for organizations to benchmark their efforts, and for observers to understand the

Henry Ajder, Latent Space Advisory: Deepfakes and the Crisis of Digital Trust

AI-generated deepfakes are exploding in volume and quality, posing frightening challenges for public discourse, security, safety, and more. My guest, Henry Ajder, has bee

Phil Dawson, Armilla AI: Insurance for AI Risks

Could a private insurance market play a significant role in compensating for AI-related harms and incentivizing companies to engage in more effective AI governance? Ph

Walter Haydock, StackAware: In Search Of AI Governance Certification

Walter Haydock draws a direct line from military risk management to the enterprise AI challenge. His argues that organizations need to stop doing "math with colors," and

Richa Kaul, Complyance: Asking the Right Questions

Richa Kaul breaks down the AI risk landscape for enterprises, and argues that the key to managing all of them is resisting the urge to sensationalize. Kaul offers a candi

Michael Horowitz, UPenn: Governing AI That's Designed to Kill

How AI is, could, and shouldn't be used in military and other national security contexts is a topic of growing importance. Recent conflicts on the battlefield, and betwee

Tanvi Singh, Ekta AI: The Case for Sovereign AI

Tanvi Singh draws on over two decades of building and governing AI systems inside global banks to make a provocative case: you cannot be accountable for decisions you do

Ray Eitel-Porter, Co-Author of Governing the Machine: The Confidence to Use AI

Ray Eitel-Porter, former Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture and co-author of the new book, Governing the Machine, discusses how enterprises can move from abstrac

Alexandru Voica: Responsible AI Video

Alexandru Voica, Head of Corporate Affairs and Policy at Synthesia, discusses how the world's largest enterprise AI video platform has approached trust and safety from da