AI in Ethics & Compliance: Risk to Manage, Tool to Leverage

AI in Ethics & Compliance:
Risk to Manage, Tool to Leverage 

AI in Ethics & Compliance Report: Risk to Manage, Tool to Leverage

Boards want assurance on AI governance. Regulators want evidence are more than principles on paper. The business wants useful AI now.

This means E&C teams need to move quickly from AI policy intent to practical guidance: acceptable use standards, decision rights, monitoring, vendor oversight, and employee expectations that can be applied across the enterprise.

This report helps ethics and compliance leaders strengthen AI policies for companies by showing where programs are today and how leading teams are building the artifacts behind responsible AI use, from an AI acceptable use policy and AI code of conduct considerations to risk reviews, human-in-the-loop triggers, and third-party governance. 

Featuring perspectives from SpeakUp and Davis Wright Tremaine, with real examples from E&C leaders who are setting the pace. 

Decision rights exist,
but artifacts lag. 

77% 

of E&C teams influence or coordinate AI governance internally 

57% 

have trained general employees on responsible AI use and AI policy expectations

84% 

own third-party risk management for AI-related vendor exposure

14% 

have audited even half their vendors for AI-related risks 

What you’ll get 

An overview of the regulatory landscape 

Control kits for model inventories, risk reviews, human-in-the-loop triggers, and monitoring 

Practical AI use cases for investigations triage, policies, and analytics 

First-person insights from CECOs and E&C leaders at Fortune 1000 companies 

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AI tools are powerful.
Governance allows impact.

Vendor AI Review Framework

Third-Party Risk Management

Vendor AI Review Framework

Turn AI vendor reviews into your competitive edge. When everyone else is checking off minimal requirements you’ll know what really matters. Use Ethisphere’s framework to stand out.

Download the workbook to gain:

  • A repeatable checklist to evaluate vendor AI systems for fairness, safety, and compliance
  • Clarity on what makes AI governance robust—and what doesn’t
  • Confidence that the vendors you work with won’t expose you to surprises
  • The ability to prove due diligence to regulators, customers, and partners

Grab your copy of the Vendor AI Review Framework and make smarter vendor decisions with peace of mind.

BELA Asks: How Can I Improve My Updates to the Audit Committee?

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BELA Asks: How Can I Improve My Updates to the Audit Committee?

In this episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of BELA, discusses how you improve and expand your quarterly reporting to the Audit Committee…and thereby build stronger relations between the ethics and compliance function and the Board.

This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which BELA members can submit questions regarding ethics and compliance and our internal experts will provide an answer plus helpful resources with information. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond thematically to high-level questions in the BELA Asks series for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.

Learn more about BELA, request guest access to the Member Resource Hub, and connect with a BELA Engagement Director at www.ethisphere.com/bela

Ethicast: It Pays to Take Speak Up Seriously

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Ethicast: It Pays to Take Speak Up Seriously

In this episode, Charles Cain, Forensic & Integrity Services managing director at EY, discusses the risks that organizations run when they fail to take their speak-up reporting seriously. Sometimes, companies either can’t—or won’t—take proper action on reports of misconduct that have been surfaced, and when that happens, the culture’s sense of organizational justice suffers. Once that corrosive effect takes root within a culture it can be very, very difficult to address it before some truly unfortunate things happen.

Listen to learn:

  • The damage done to businesses when speak-up programs falter
  • Where companies drop the ball on receiving and investigating reports of misconduct
  • How botched speak-up corrodes organizational trust
  • Recommendations for how organizations can address a weak or malfunctioning speak-up program
  • When speak-up systems work in public

BELA Asks: How Do I Reach Non-Wired Employees?

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BELA Asks: How Do I Reach Non-Wired Employees?

Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of BELA, discusses how you can socialize your ethics and compliance program with employees who might be out of reach of easy communications channels like e-mail or instant messaging because they’re on a factory floor, traveling in areas where that connectivity is unavailable, etc.

This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which BELA members can submit questions regarding ethics and compliance and our internal experts will provide an answer plus helpful resources with information. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond thematically to high-level questions in the BELA Asks series for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.

Learn more about BELA, request guest access to the Member Resource Hub, and connect with a BELA Engagement Director at www.ethisphere.com/bela