AI incident response: write the plan before the incident
Documented AI incidents rose by more than half in a year, and some are now reportable by law. A one-page procedure per system is the difference between a bad day and a crisis.
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Trust in AI is low. That makes it a management skill.
Fewer than half of people say they trust AI, and in the United States the figure is lower still. People judge AI at work by what their own managers do with it.
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The golden set: the one evaluation every AI purchase needs
Public benchmarks cannot tell you how a system will handle your documents and your edge cases. A few hundred of your own examples can, and they keep paying for themselves after launch.
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Hiring for AI judgment: what to look for, and what to ask
Employers say the skills that matter more now are checking AI output and thinking critically about it. Those are hard to see on a resume and easy to test in an interview.
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The EU agreed to delay the AI Act’s high-risk deadlines. Do not plan as if it is law yet.
Parliament and Council reached a provisional deal on May 7 and Parliament voted on June 16. Until the Council adopts it and it is published, August 2, 2026 remains the legal date.
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Mobley v. Workday and the question every buyer of AI hiring tools should ask
A lawsuit against the vendor of an AI screening system, rather than the employers using it, has already changed what careful buyers put in their contracts.
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US AI law in 2026: no federal statute, a patchwork of state rules, one compliance standard
Federal policy now pushes against state AI laws, but an executive order cannot preempt them. For managers, the binding obligations still come from the states.
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Fairness testing for AI decisions: start with the four-fifths rule, do not stop there
A 1978 screening test is still the first check a regulator or court will expect on any AI that helps decide who gets a job, a loan or a service. Here is how to use it and where it falls short.
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Colorado replaced its AI Act before it took effect. Here is the new law.
SB 26-189, signed on May 14, swaps impact assessments and a duty to prevent discrimination for a notice-based regime from January 1, 2027. The work for deployers changes shape, not size.
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Why enterprise AI assistants overshare, and the control that stops it
An assistant that searches your documents will happily show anyone anything it can reach. The fix is not a better model; it is permissions that follow the data.
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Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index: the organization, not the individual, decides AI impact
Two-thirds of the measured impact came from culture, managers and talent practices. For anyone building a career around AI, that changes where to spend effort.
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What the controlled studies say about AI at work: novices gain most, and the frontier is jagged
Three controlled studies with working professionals should shape every adoption plan. They show where AI lifts performance, where it quietly makes people worse, and who to train first.
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Why your AI productivity numbers are probably wrong, in both directions
Self-reported time savings overstate some gains and miss others, and real gains often arrive after a dip. Two pieces of research explain what to measure instead.
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