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Beyond plug-and-play: How to adopt AI without losing expertise
The paper addresses a hidden risk in AI adoption: organisations may automate a workflow without fully understanding or preserving the human expertise that makes it work. Written procedures rarely capture every judgement call, exception or contextual cue that experienced professionals rely on. These can be lost when work moves into an AI-enabled system.

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CALIFORNIA SB 574: DID CALIFORNIA NEED TO CREATE ANOTHER LAYER OF ATTORNEY REGULATION?
On September 30, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Senate Bill 574 into law. The law takes effect January 1, 2027. SB 574 is the first law of its kind, and poses a question for the legal community: Does the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in legal practice really require new legislative mandates when existing professional duties, judicial rules, and disciplinary mechanisms already address many of the same concerns?

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Oct 196 min read


Practical AI Governance in Switzerland: What Companies Are Learning from Early Adoption and Pilots
This blog explores how companies across four key Swiss sectors : life sciences, academia, finance, and non-profits, are adopting AI tools, the lessons learned, and the governance protocols emerging from their experiences.

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Sep 2110 min read


Benchmarks and beyond: measuring progress in LLMs.
Paper 1 defines the problems of benchmark saturation as the loss of reliable discriminative power among top-performing models under comparison and identifies benchmark properties usually associated with saturation after an analysis of 60 benchmarks, and makes concrete anecdotally known characteristics of benchmarks, with implications for benchmark lifecycle management. Paper 2 questions the benchmark culture itself, and how this is perpetuating structural harms towards less r

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Sep 162 min read


The Question of Legitimate Interest As Lawful Basis for Training AI Models
In this article, Petruta Pirvan and Sonal Makhija explore several real-world use cases and highlight the practical challenges that organizations commonly encounter.The growing reliance on legitimate interest as the primary lawful basis for AI training has been broadly accepted by EU data protection authorities. In comparison to the impracticality of obtaining consent at scale, legitimate interest offers a more pragmatic path. However, its applicability depends on the specific

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Apr 277 min read


Navigating the AI Act & AI Governance Risks
This article Sonal Makhija, an AI & data compliance lead at the H&M Group, where she has led the AI Act implementation. It explores the kind of legal ambiguity that small and medium enterprises face when navigating the AI Act and the resulting need for greater clarity and practical guidance. It also discusses how AI governance risks arising out of everyday AI use cases, which typically fall within limited to low-risk classifications under the AI Act, but pose significant secu

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Jan 195 min read


AI Agents in Action: Why Evaluation and Governance Matter Now
As AI agents become more capable — reasoning, collaborating, adapting, and acting independently — the questions of evaluation, safety, governance, and trust become even more urgent.
To help shape this global conversation, we’ve highlighted a few key insights from the World Economic Forum white paper contributed to by Nebahat Arslan, our Global Head of Partnerships.
These insights point to what responsible, inclusive AI must look like in the age of agentic systems.

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Dec 21, 20253 min read
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