The Road to Accountable AI

Tanvi Singh, Ekta AI: The Case for Sovereign AI

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tanvi Singh draws on over two decades of building and governing AI systems inside global banks to make a provocative case: you cannot be accountable ...

Ray Eitel-Porter, Co-Author of Governing the Machine: The Confidence to Use AI

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ray Eitel-Porter, former Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture and co-author of the new book, Governing the Machine, discusses how enterprises c...

Alexandru Voica: Responsible AI Video

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alexandru Voica, Head of Corporate Affairs and Policy at Synthesia, discusses how the world's largest enterprise AI video platform has approached trus...

Blake Hall: Safeguarding Identity in the AI Era

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Blake Hall, CEO of ID.me, discusses the massive escalation in online fraud driven by generative AI, noting that attacks have evolved ...

Mitch Kapor: AI Gap-Closing

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Legendary entrepreneur and investor Mitch Kapor draws on his decades of experience to argue that while AI represents a massive wave of disruptive inno...

Brad Carson: Sharing AI's Bounty

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Former Congressman and Pentagon official Brad Carson discusses his organization, Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI), which seeks to bridge the...

Oliver Patel: Sharing Frameworks for AI Governance

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Oliver Patel has built a sizeable online following for his social media posts and Substack about enterprise AI governance, using clever acronyms and v...

Ravit Dotan: Rethinking AI Ethics

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ravit Dotan argues that the primary barrier to accountable AI is not a lack of ethical clarity, but organizational roadblocks. While companies often u...

Trey Causey: Is Responsble AI Failing?

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach speaks with Trey Causey about the precarious state of the responsible AI (RAI) field. Causey argues that while the mission is critical,...

Caroline Louveaux: Trust is Mission Critical

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach speaks with Caroline Louveaux, Chief Privacy, AI, and Data Responsibility Officer at Mastercard, about what it means to make trust miss...

Cameron Kerry: From Gridlock to Governance?

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cameron Kerry, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Acting US Secretary of Commerce, joins Kevin Werbach to explore t...

Derek Leben: All of Us are Going to Become Ethicists

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carnegie Mellon business ethics professor Derek Leben joins Kevin Werbach to trace how AI ethics evolved from an early focus on embodied systems—ind...

Heather Domin: From Principles to Practice

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews Heather Domin, Global Head of the Office of Responsible AI and Governance at HCLTech. Domin reflects on her path into AI gove...

Dean Ball: The World is Going to Be Totally Different in 10 Years

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews Dean Ball, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and one of the key shapers of the Trump Administration's a...

David Hardoon: You Can't Outsource Accountability

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews David Hardoon, Global Head of AI Enablement at Standard Chartered Bank and former Chief Data Officer of the Monetary Authorit...

Karine Perset: Building Bridges for Global AI Governance

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews Karine Perset, Acting Head of the OECD’s AI and Emerging Technology Division, about the global effort to shape responsible ...

DJ Patil: AI's Steering Wheel Challenge

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews DJ Patil, the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist under the Obama Administration, about the evolving role of AI in government, he...

Kay Firth-Butterfield: Using AI Wisely

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews Kay Firth-Butterfield about how responsible AI has evolved from a niche concern to a global movement. As the world’s first ...

Dale Cendali: How Courts (and Maybe Congress!) Will Determine AI's Copyright Fate

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews Dale Cendali, one of the country’s leading intellectual property (IP) attorneys, to discuss how courts are grappling with c...

Brenda Leong: Building AI Law Amid Legal Uncertainty

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews Brenda Leong, Director of the AI division at boutique technology law firm ZwillGen, to explore how legal practitione...

Shameek Kundu: AI Testing and the Quest for Boring Predictability

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews Shameek Kundu, Executive Director of AI Verify Foundation, to explore how organizations can ensure AI systems work reliably i...

Uthman Ali: Responsible AI in a Safety Culture

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Host Kevin Werbach interviews Uthman Ali, Global Responsible AI Officer at BP, to delve into the complexities of implementing responsible AI practices...

Karen Hao: Is Imperial AI Inevitable?

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews journalist and author Karen Hao about her new book Empire of AI, which chronicles the rise of OpenAI and the broader impl...

Jaime Banks: How Users Perceive AI Companions

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI companion applications, which create interactive personas for one-on-one conversations, are incredibly popular. However, they raise a number of cha...

Kelly Trindel: AI Governance Across the Enterprise? All in a Day’s Work

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Kevin Werbach interviews Kelly Trindel, Head of Responsible AI at Workday. Although Trindel's team is housed within Workday’s legal...

David Weinberger: How AI Challenges Our Fundamental Ideas

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Werbach interviews David Weinberger, author of several books and a long-time deep thinker on internet trends, about the broader implications...

Ashley Casovan: From Privacy Practice to AI Governance

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Werbach talks with Ashley Casavan, Managing Director of the AI Governance Center at the IAPP, the global association for privacy professiona...

Lauren Wagner: The Potential of Private AI Governance

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach interviews Lauren Wagner, a builder and advocate for market-driven approaches to AI governance. Lauren shares insights from her experien...

Medha Bankhwal and Michael Chui: Implementing AI Trust

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach speaks with Medha Bankhwal and Michael Chui from QuantumBlack, the AI division of the global consulting firm McKinsey. They discuss how...

Eric Bradlow: AI Goes to Business School

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach speaks with Eric Bradlow, Vice Dean of AI & Analytics at Wharton. Bradlow highlights the transformative impacts of AI from his perspecti...

Wendy Gonzalez: Managing the Humans in the AI Loop

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kevin Werbach is joined by Wendy Gonzalez of Sama, to discuss the intersection of human judgment and artificial intelligence. Sama provides...

Jessica Lennard: AI Regulation as Part of a Growth Agenda

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The UK is in a unique position in the global AI landscape. It is home to important AI development labs and corporate AI adopters, but its regulatory r...

Tim O'Reilly: The Values of AI Disclosure

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Kevin speaks with with the influential tech thinker Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media and popularizer of terms such...

Alice Xiang: Connecting Research and Practice for Responsible AI

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Professor Werbach in his conversation with Alice Xiang, Global Head of AI Ethics at Sony and Lead Research Scientist at Sony AI. With both a rese...

Krishna Gade: Observing AI Explainability...and Explaining AI Observability

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach speaks with Krishna Gade, founder and CEO of Fiddler AI, on the the state of explainability for AI models. One of the big challenges of ...

Angela Zhang: What’s Really Happening with AI (and AI Governance) in China

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Professor Werbach is joined by USC Law School professor Angela Zhang, an expert on China's approach to the technology sector. China is both...

Shae Brown: AI Auditing Gets Real

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Werbach speaks with Shea Brown, founder of AI auditing firm BABL AI. Brown discusses how his work as an astrophysicist led him to and machin...

Kevin Bankston: The Value of Open AI Models

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Professor Werbach is joined by Kevin Bankston, Senior Advisor on AI Governance for the Center for Democracy & Technology, to discuss the be...

Lara Abrash: How Organizations Can Meet the AI Challenge

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Professor Kevin Werbach sits with Lara Abrash, Chair of Deloitte US. Lara and Kevin discuss the complexities of integrating generativ...

Adam Thierer: Where AI Regulation Can Go Wrong

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Werbach speaks with Adam Thierer, senior fellow for Technology and Innovation at R Street Institute. Adam and Kevin highligh developments in...

Reggie Townsend: The Deliberate and Intentional Path to Trustworthy AI

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Kevin Werbach is joined by Reggie Townsend, VP of Data Ethics at SAS, an analytics software for business platform. Together they disc...

Helen Toner: AI Safety in a World of Uncertainty

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Professor Kevin Werbach in his discussion with Helen Toner, Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants at Georgetown’s Center for Se...

See you in September for Season 2!

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After 16 episodes in Season 1, we're taking a summer break at The Road to Accountable AI. Look for more compelling content on AI governance, regulatio...

Nuala O'Connor: Frontline Human-Machine Interface at Walmart

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Kevin and Nuala as they discuss Walmart's approach to AI governance, emphasizing the application of existing corporate principles to new technolo...

Suresh Venkatasubramanian: Blueprints and Redesign: Academia to the White House and Back

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Kevin and Suresh as they discuss the latest tools and frameworks that companies can use to effectively combat algorithmic bias, all while navigat...

Diya Wynn: People-Centric Technology

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach speaks with Diya Wynn, the responsible AI lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Diya shares how she pioneered a formal practice for ethical...

Paula Goldman: Putting Humans at the Helm

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach is joined by Paula Goldman, Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer at Salesforce, to discuss the pioneering efforts of her team in buildin...

Navrina Singh: AI Alignment in Practice

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach speaks with Navrina Singh of Credo AI, which automates AI oversight and regulatory compliance. Singh addresses the increasing importance...

Scott Zoldi: Using the Best AI Tools for the Job

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Werbach speaks with Scott Zoldi of FICO, which pioneered consumer credit scoring in the 1950s and now offers a suite of analytics and fraud dete...

Olivia Gambelin: Ethical AI as Good Business Practice

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kevin Werbach and AI ethicist Olivia Gambelin discuss the moral responsibilities surrounding Artificial Intelligence, and the practical step...

Beth Noveck: Effective and Accountable AI in the Public Sector

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Professor Kevin Werbach and Beth Noveck, New Jersey's first Chief AI Strategist, as they explore AI's transformative power in public governance. ...

Jean-Enno Charton: Operationalizing AI Ethics

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Professor Kevin Werbach and Jean-Enno Charton, Director of Digital Ethics and Bioethics at Merck KGAA, as they explore the ethical challenges of ...

Dominique Shelton Leipzig: Building Trust When Every Company is an AI Company

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Professor Kevin Werbach and Dominique Shelton Leipzig, an expert in data privacy and technology law, as they share practical insights on AI's tra...

Dragos Tudorache: Next Steps for the World's First Comprehensive AI Law

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Professor Werbach and Dragos Tudorache, co-rapporteur of the EU AI Act and one of the most essential AI policymakers in the world, to discuss the...

Richard Benjamins: A Multi-Year Journey Toward Responsible Enterprise AI

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Professor Kevin Werbach and Dr. Richard Benjamins, former Chief Responsible AI Officer at Telefónica, discuss Telefónica's journey ...

Elham Tabassi: Framing and Taming AI Risks

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Professor Kevin Werbach and Elham Tabassi, Associate Director for Emerging Technologies at NIST, as they explore the nuances of the NIST AI Risk ...

Reid Blackman: Aligning AI with Ethics in the Real World

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Professor Werbach and Reid Blackman, the founder of Virtue and author of ‘Ethical Machines,’ to unravel the fabric of ethical responsibilitie...

Azeem Azhar: Exponential Challenges of Exponential Technologies

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Werbach is joined by Azeem Azhar, a leading expert in exponential technologies, for a riveting conversation on the trajectory of AI, regulat...

Kevin Werbach: Why You Should Care About AI Accountability

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Road to Accountable AI. Explore the crucial intersection of technology, law, and business ethics with Wharton professor Kevin Werbach, ...