The standard approach to responsible AI is fundamentally broken. In the age of generative AI, it’s too slow, too vague, and too hard to communicate. Instead of focusing on values and policy, companies would be better served by focusing on their worst-case scenarios—their AI ethical nightmares. That’s because this focus allows them to apply a novel, rapidly implementable approach that works for everything from narrow AI to governing AI agents. The Ethical Nightmare Challenge asks three questions: 1) What are the ethical nightmares of your organization as they pertain to AI? 2) What resources will you build to avoid those nightmares? 3) How will you train your people to use those resources effectively?

The standard approach to responsible AI is fundamentally broken. In the age of generative AI, it’s too slow, too vague, and too hard to communicate. Instead of focusing on values…

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