AI Ethics & Governance for Leaders, Boards & Trustees

Generative AI Ethics & Governance for Leaders Framing the Conversation By Freddie Seba • also on Substack and LinkedIn What happens when Generative AI (GenAI) begins to anticipate our intentions, manage our finances, and educate our children? Because today’s models no longer merely process data—they predict us—every leadership playbook built for linear tech adoption is…

Generative AI Ethics & Governance for Leaders By Freddie Seba. © 2025 Freddie Seba. Also on Substack & Linkedin New to this GenAI Ethics and Governance for Leaders Community? Welcome to a community of presidents, provosts, deans, clinicians, and product strategists who believe innovation must go beyond growth and efficiency to strengthen trust, ethics, and human dignity. If someone…

By Freddie Seba Generative AI Ethics & Governance for Leaders Also published on Substack and Linkedin © 2025 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. Framing the Conversation As Generative AI evolves, the most urgent challenges are no longer just technical—they are human, organizational, leadership, and ethical. The capability gap is widening. So is the leadership gap.…

By Freddie Seba © 2025 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. Framing the Conversation AI adoption is accelerating, but not evenly, and certainly not always wisely. Recent reports from Gallup and McKinsey reveal that the difference between stalled experiments and strategic advantage isn’t about having the best models. It’s about trust, culture, ethics, governance, and leadership…

Why ethics and governance must lead the way in the age of institutional autonomy By Freddie Seba © 2025 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. Framing the Week Twenty-two editions in, one theme continues to emerge: Leaders who treat ethics and governance as afterthoughts slow down, stumble—or worse, lose trust. But effective leaders who embed them…

A plot twist leaders didn’t script—and how to step back into the role. By Freddie Seba © 2025 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. A Movie We’re Suddenly Inside If this were a film, we’d be ten minutes in—snacking on popcorn—before realizing that the AI assistant quietly supporting operations has started making decisions on its own.…

By Freddie Seba © 2025 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. A Leadership Milestone: 20 Issues In With this 20th edition of Generative AI Ethics & Governance for Leaders, I want to mark a meaningful milestone—not just a publishing count but the evolution of a leadership-focused movement. Over the past year, we’ve explored ambient AI, deepfakes,…

By Freddie Seba © 2025 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. Overview As Generative AI evolves beyond a tool into an advisor—and in some cases, a gatekeeper—two recent developments demand attention from leaders across sectors. One involves surveillance-like behavior from Anthropic’s Claude 4. The other? A peer-reviewed study shows that GenAI can now be more persuasive…

By Freddie Seba © 2025 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. Introduction: Beyond AI-First—Why Ethical and Human-Centered Governance Must Be Backed In Leaders’ Strategy As headlines celebrate GenAI-fueled growth, leaders must ask: growth for whom? Duolingo recently doubled its language offerings/products to sell using GenAI (The Verge, 2025). But within days, reports confirmed hundreds of contractors—including…

By Freddie Seba © 2025 Freddie Seba. All rights reserved. Introduction When the Times reached out to discuss the ethical implications of a Gen AI application whose marketing message revolved around cheating, our conversation quickly moved beyond productivity or performance. We talked about trust and what it means when Gen AI tools don’t just assist…