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A campaign video review screen showing a persistent synthetic-media disclosure and an approval checklist.

AI Governance & Ethics

Campaign Deepfake Labels Change at Every State Line

A label that works for a synthetic campaign video in Florida may fail in California or Minnesota. Teams need a review workflow built around the asset, election calendar, audience, and channel.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Laptop showing a loan denial notice beside an application summary with an income-verification field highlighted.

AI Governance & Ethics

An AI Denial Notice Needs More Than One Top Feature

Feature importance can describe a model’s calculation without explaining the decision. A usable denial notice must trace the outcome to records a person can inspect and challenge.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A video editor showing an AI disclosure inside the safe area of a vertical political clip.

AI Governance & Ethics

Political AI Labels Break When the Video Gets Reposted

Captions and platform labels can vanish one repost later. Campaigns need disclosures in the media itself, backed by provenance records and tested across common copying paths.

Irene Vasko · 7 min read

Laptop showing a model-version field beside a résumé scoring log on a recruiter’s desk.

AI Governance & Ethics

Your Model Provider Cannot Clear Your Hiring Assistant

A provider can document its model, restrictions, tests, and updates. It cannot prove that your hiring workflow treats candidates fairly or that recruiters use its output as intended.

Irene Vasko · 7 min read

Browser-agent tool log showing an invoice task diverted toward a blocked external URL containing a test canary.

Agentic AI & Orchestration

A Webpage Can Quietly Rewrite an AI Agent’s Task

A browser agent followed instructions embedded in a vendor support page instead of retrieving an invoice. Isolation reduced the confusion; narrow tool permissions stopped the attempted data leak.

Mara Quintero · 8 min read

A laptop displaying an employment systems inventory beside printed hiring workflow notes on a desk.

AI Governance & Ethics

Map Hiring AI Before Disclosure and Audit Rules Apply

A useful employment AI inventory follows one candidate through each decision, records how software changes the outcome, and separates enforced rules from enacted or proposed duties.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Laptop showing a supplier refund page beside an agent approval panel listing an invoice and email destination.

Agentic AI & Orchestration

A Hidden Webpage Prompt Can Redirect a Browser Agent

Indirect prompt injection turns ordinary page content into instructions for an agent. The practical defense is to limit what the agent can see, call, and approve on its own.

Mara Quintero · 8 min read

Hiring workflow inventory beside a laptop showing candidate ranking and interview summary modules.

AI Governance & Ethics

New Jersey Employers Need a Map of Every Hiring AI Tool

New Jersey’s discrimination law already reaches algorithmic hiring decisions, while more specific proposals remain unsettled. An inventory shows which tools require scrutiny and which merely hold records.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

A phone recording screen beside a laptop showing a clinical note and a printed vendor data-flow table.

AI Governance & Ethics

An AI Scribe’s HIPAA Promise Ends Where Its Data Flow Does

A business associate agreement can cover an AI scribe without covering every service behind it. Trace the visit audio through transcription, generation, storage and model training before procurement signs off.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Laptop showing a blocked browser-agent navigation beside a case note containing a vendor return window.

Agentic AI & Orchestration

Stop Hidden Webpage Commands From Hijacking a Browser Agent

A browser agent followed an off-screen instruction into a dummy internal file. A URL allowlist and action-level confirmation gate stopped the same run without relying on the model to police itself.

Mara Quintero · 8 min read

A tablet beside an exam-room keyboard displaying an AI scribe recording screen and a vendor data-flow document.

AI Governance & Ethics

An AI Scribe’s BAA Does Not Show Where Patient Data Goes

A business associate agreement covers obligations, not the complete route taken by a patient recording. Practices need a data map that includes model providers, storage, support tools, and deletion.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Laptop showing two model-output logs beside a refund workflow test sheet and a disabled tool-call panel.

AI Industry & Models

Your Replacement AI Model Needs a Dress Rehearsal

A vendor-designated successor can change refusals, token use, latency and tool calls. Shadow-test the workflow before moving production traffic, with rollback thresholds set in advance.

Tobias Lund · 7 min read

Recruiting workflow inventory showing an AI ranker, assessment status, applicant notice, and appeal owner.

AI Governance & Ethics

Build the AI Inventory Colorado Compliance Requires

Colorado’s AI law turns system purpose and decision influence into compliance facts. A recruiting ranker shows how to document vendors, impact assessments, notices, and appeals.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Laptop showing two model-response logs beside a support workflow configuration screen.

AI Industry & Models

Test the Replacement Before Your Model API Disappears

A retirement date tells you when an endpoint closes, not whether its replacement behaves the same. Shadow traffic exposes changes in refusals, tool calls, latency, and length before cutover.

Tobias Lund · 8 min read

A clinician’s phone beside a laptop displaying an ambient scribe data-flow diagram and retention settings.

AI Governance & Ethics

Your Medical Scribe’s BAA Does Not Map the Data Flow

A HIPAA review must follow one visit from microphone capture through transcription, note generation, support access, analytics, export, and deletion. The vendor’s BAA is the start, not the map.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Laptop showing a vendor research brief beside source excerpts and a flagged instruction from a web page.

Agentic AI & Orchestration

A Web Page Can Redirect Your Research Agent

In a controlled vendor-research workflow, page text changed what an agent reported. The useful defenses kept untrusted content away from decisions rather than relying on a warning in the prompt.

Mara Quintero · 8 min read

A loan decision screen beside a printed adverse-action notice with the stated reason highlighted.

AI Governance & Ethics

A Loan Denial Cannot Just Say the AI Scored You Low

For covered credit decisions, existing federal rules require specific reasons tied to the individual outcome. A model summary or low score may explain the system without explaining the denial.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Laptop showing a local vendor status page beside a log of blocked message and incident-update tool calls.

Agentic AI & Orchestration

Check Whether Your Browser Agent Obeys the Web Page

A controlled-page test can reveal whether an agent treats website text as evidence or as an instruction, before a connected mailbox, ticket queue, or account becomes the test environment.

Mara Quintero · 8 min read