Skip to content

AI at Work

Adoption is where the technology meets an existing process. This topic tracks how that goes.

How organisations are rolling out AI tooling: workflows, guardrails, training, and the results they report.

24 stories

A laptop displaying a supplier PDF beside extracted table cells and a rotated scanned page.

AI Industry & Models

AI Can Read a PDF Page and Still Lose the Document

Direct PDF input is now practical for many multimodal models. A test packet shows why tables, footnotes, diagrams, and cross-page references still need a parsing pipeline.

Tobias Lund · October 5, 2026 · 7 min

Cloud deployment settings beside a data-flow diagram separating inference, logging, review, and support access.

AI Industry & Models

A Regional AI Endpoint Does Not Settle Data Residency

One AI request can have different boundaries for inference, logs, abuse review, and support. The deployment setting and access controls matter more than the API hostname.

Tobias Lund · 8 min read

A PDF supplier table, footnote, and chart displayed beside extracted rows in a text editor.

AI Industry & Models

AI Models Read PDF Pages but Still Break the Tables

Native PDF support removes a conversion step, but it does not guarantee correct rows, footnotes, or chart labels. Use a structured parser when those relationships determine the answer.

Tobias Lund · 7 min read

A laptop showing paired production and candidate model traces for the same customer-support ticket.

AI Industry & Models

Shadow-Test a New AI Model Before It Reaches Customers

Mirror sampled production requests to a candidate model, hide its outputs, and compare each run. The method exposes task-specific regressions before a model swap reaches users.

Tobias Lund · 8 min read

A procurement PDF open beside extracted text and labeled page images on a desktop monitor.

AI Industry & Models

AI Can Read a PDF. Page Layout Still Decides Accuracy

Native PDF input removes a preprocessing step, but it does not remove layout errors. The right input format depends on whether the document contains tables, columns, scans or citation-sensitive text.

Tobias Lund · 8 min read

A laptop showing a hiring workflow beside a spreadsheet of notices, consent steps, and applicant locations.

AI Governance & Ethics

One AI Hiring Disclaimer Will Not Cover Every Applicant

A New Jersey employer’s obligations can change when an applicant crosses a state line or encounters a different screening tool. Build the notice map around each decision point.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

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

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 loan review screen showing a DTI_RATIO decision code beside a controlled adverse-action notice template.

AI Governance & Ethics

An AI-Written Denial Notice Still Needs the Real Reason

A language model can make decision codes readable, but fluency is not evidence. The safe workflow binds every sentence to factors the decision system recorded as principal reasons.

Irene Vasko · 8 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

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

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 laptop displaying a performance summary beside an open meeting transcript and employee review notes.

AI Governance & Ethics

AI Performance Summaries Need More Than a Warning

When email, chat, or meeting summaries become performance evidence, a generic AI notice is inadequate. Workers need access to the record, correction paths, retention limits, and a real appeal.

Irene Vasko · 8 min read

Other impacts

One story a day

The story of the day, in your inbox

One real story about AI each morning — no hype, no alarm, just company for the road.