AI Ethics & Governance for Leaders, Boards & Trustees

What happens when legislation fails — and the nation has to keep operating anyway? By Dr. Freddie Seba © 2026 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. A note on vantage point and expertise wanted I write from Silicon Valley, not Parliament Hill. Canadian legal scholars, regulatory experts, policymakers, and those inside the governance institutions shaping how…

How Leaders Should Responsibly Engage the AI Transformation: Global Lessons from Emerging Governance Frameworks Ungoverned: AI Ethics and Governance for Leaders, Boards and Trustees By Dr. Freddie Seba · September 7, 2026© 2026 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. This Issue in 60 Seconds On Labor Day 2026—when we celebrate work and workers—a provocative question emerged:…

How Leaders Should Responsibly Engage the AI Transformation: The Argument in My Doctoral Dissertation, My Book, and These Eighty-Five Weeks Ungoverned: AI Ethics and Governance for Leaders, Boards and Trustees By Dr. Freddie Seba © 2026 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. This Issue in 60 Seconds This week, Bill Gates and MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee…

Last week I joined CHAI’s AI Cybersecurity Work Group kickoff as an AI Governance scholar-operator and author of Ungoverned: A Practical Guide to AI Minimum Viable Governance (2026). This was operational reality, not theoretical positioning. The economics flipped. According to Anthropic’s AI cyber team: 2.3 attacks per day on healthcare in H1 2026—up 14% from…

Ungoverned: AI Ethics and Governance for Leaders, Boards and Trustees By Dr. Freddie Seba © 2026 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. AI helps the students who least need it — and quietly sets back the ones who need it most. That is this week’s clearest evidence, and it is a warning for every institution deploying…

Meta proposed distributed AI governance for the world.Then it asked governments—not itself—to build accountability. By Dr. Freddie Seba. AI Governance as Leadership: The organizationsthat govern AI intentionally will lead. Those that don’t will facethe consequences. Part of the Ungoverned miniseries. Previous: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google. Meta positions open source as essential to prevent concentration.It argues geopolitical…

Ungoverned: AI Ethics and Governance for Leaders, Boards and Trustees By Dr. Freddie Seba © 2026 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. OPENING NARRATIVE FRAME A blind spot is not the absence of a wall. It is a wall you cannot see—until something breaks through it. Over the summer, when I immersed myself in Tuscany’s culture,…

Ungoverned: AI Ethics and Governance for Leaders, Boards and Trustees By Dr. Freddie Seba · August 10, 2026 © 2026 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. I first conceived this newsletter from an ancient Tuscan city whose walls — its mura — were raised as a barrier to protect its citizens, expanded several times over the…

By Dr. Freddie Seba © 2026 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. South Korea passed the world’s second comprehensive AI law while navigating a constitutional crisis. Governance does not wait for perfect conditions. Neither should your institution. What the world’s second comprehensive AI law governs — and what it leaves to your institution Applying the AI…

Ungoverned: AI Ethics and Governance for Leaders, Boards and Trustees The week two frontier labs learned their controls had failed — and why that lands on your board. By Dr. Freddie Seba · August 3, 2026 © 2026 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. We are deploying systems whose inner workings their own creators cannot fully…