AI Ethics & Governance for Leaders, Boards & Trustees

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…

When fifty companies agree, the institution still has to decide for itself. By Dr. Freddie Seba© 2026 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved.Applying the AI Minimum Viable Governance (AI-MVG) framework and the Seba 12 Ps of Responsible AI. AI Governance as Leadership. On July 24, 2026, roughly fifty companies put their names to a single document…

Ungoverned | Singapore Agentic AI Framework IMDA — Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore By Dr. Freddie Seba © 2026 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. Singapore: a city-state with no frontier AI lab just governed what most institutions have not: what happens when the agent acts, and no human authorized it. What the world’s first agentic…