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A recruiter dashboard showing a ranked resume queue beside printed audit and notice records on a desk.

AI Governance & Ethics

NYC’s Hiring-AI Rule Turns on How Recruiters Use the Score

A resume model is not covered merely because a vendor calls it AI. Employers need evidence showing what it outputs, how recruiters use it, which jobs it affects, and whether required audits and notices exist.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Laptop displaying an expense workflow beside a security log showing an OAuth token marked revoked.

Agentic AI & Orchestration

An AI Agent’s OAuth Access Should End When Its Task Does

A one-time expense agent can retain access to email and files long after submitting the report. Expiring its credentials closes that gap, but only if the orchestrator controls the token lifecycle.

Mara Quintero · 8 min read

Laptop displaying response events beside a warranty PDF and a handwritten migration checklist.

AI Industry & Models

Moving Off OpenAI Assistants Means Rebuilding State

OpenAI’s Responses API unifies model input and tool use, but it does not turn every Assistant, Thread, or Run into an equivalent object. Here is the migration map.

Tobias Lund · 8 min read

A laptop showing a voice-generation approval form beside a microphone and printed customer-service script.

AI Governance & Ethics

A Voice Clone Needs More Than Recording Consent

A reusable voice model creates risks that deleting the original recording cannot fix. The approval ticket must cover model access, generated speech, revocation, and reuse.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A laptop displaying an AI discharge draft beside a printed hospital data-flow review checklist.

AI Governance & Ethics

Before Signing an AI BAA, Trace Where Patient Data Goes

A business associate agreement can cover an AI vendor’s HIPAA duties without revealing its data path. Hospitals should trace prompts, files, logs, model use, and subprocessors before sending patient data.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A recruiter’s laptop showing a ranked applicant list beside printed audit notes and a job requisition.

AI Governance & Ethics

NYC’s Hiring AI Law Requires a Narrow Bias Test

The city’s rule reaches tools that score or rank people and materially drive hiring or promotion decisions. Its required audit measures outcome disparities, not accuracy or general fairness.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A laptop displaying a decision-system inventory beside printed vendor documentation and a rental application form.

AI Governance & Ethics

New Jersey Businesses Should Map Automated Decisions Now

A vendor may call it analytics, but if it changes who gets housing, credit, work, or service, put it on the map. New Jersey’s existing laws and proposed rules make the missing records matter.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Spreadsheet mapping a hiring ranker to applicant review, vendor roles, decision points and supporting evidence.

AI Governance & Ethics

Map Colorado AI Decisions Before Buying Compliance Software

The Colorado AI Act turns on how a system affects a decision, not whether a vendor calls it AI. Start with one row per workflow, then determine which rows need legal review and impact assessments.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A loan appeal screen showing original inputs beside a model score, policy rule, and reviewer action log.

AI Governance & Ethics

An AI Denial Appeal Needs More Than the Final Score

A score cannot show whether bad source data, a model transformation, a policy threshold, or a human reviewer caused a denial. Preserve a decision-time record that can separate them.

Irene Vasko · 7 min read

A laptop showing a hiring workflow beside a printed AI impact assessment and candidate appeal checklist.

AI Governance & Ethics

Colorado Makes Businesses Own Their High-Risk AI Records

Businesses using AI for hiring, lending and other consequential decisions must build the compliance record. Vendor documentation helps, but it does not replace the deployer’s assessment.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A laptop displaying a robots.txt file beside a server log showing crawler requests.

AI Governance & Ethics

Your AI Training Opt-Out Stops at the First Crawler

A robots.txt rule can tell named AI crawlers to stay away. It cannot remove old copies, bind unknown scrapers, or prove that downstream model developers excluded the work.

Irene Vasko · 7 min read

Hiring manager’s desk with an assessment workflow, vendor contract and candidate notice open beside a laptop.

AI Governance & Ethics

Before AI Rejects a New Jersey Applicant, Build This File

New Jersey’s discrimination law already reaches automated hiring. Before a scoring tool goes live, employers need evidence for its job relevance, accommodation route, vendor controls and candidate notices.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A recruiter’s laptop showing a hiring workflow beside printed notices labeled New York City, Illinois, and Colorado.

AI Governance & Ethics

New Jersey Employers Face an AI Hiring Notice Patchwork

A Newark employer recruiting in Manhattan, Chicago, or Colorado can inherit different audit, consent, and appeal duties. The compliance trigger often follows the job or applicant, not headquarters.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A recruiting laptop showing a hiring workflow beside a spreadsheet listing automated scores, cutoffs, and review owners.

AI Governance & Ethics

New Jersey Employers Need a Map of Every AI Hiring Filter

An applicant may encounter four automated systems before a recruiter calls. Mapping those systems shows which discrimination duties, notices, bias reviews, and vendor records may apply.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A campaign video release ticket beside vertical video and audio disclosure previews on a desktop monitor.

AI Governance & Ethics

One Deepfake Ad Can Need Four Different Release Plans

State political deepfake laws disagree on disclosure text, election windows, covered formats, and penalties. Campaigns and platforms need an asset-level map before distribution.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read