Advanced artificial intelligence at a corporate responsibility crossroads: employees as risk management advocates
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to highlight how tech industry employees and artificial intelligence (AI) scientists are expressing concerns that AI companies have too great financial incentives to avoid effective self-regulating oversight, and that current corporate governance structures can...
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2025-06-01
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| author | Thomas A. Hemphill |
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| description | Purpose – The purpose of this study is to highlight how tech industry employees and artificial intelligence (AI) scientists are expressing concerns that AI companies have too great financial incentives to avoid effective self-regulating oversight, and that current corporate governance structures cannot change this situation. Design/methodology/approach – This viewpoint takes a narrative approach to describing proposed AI principles to address AI risk management (safety) issues. Findings – This viewpoint recommends that in the USA, a complementary approach, one involving a private governance framework addressing AI safety concerns, whereby the employees share an important role in developing a safe, advanced AI product for commercialization, and a public governance phase of oversight, involving an independent, federal agency administratively testing to meet prescribed safety thresholds. Originality/value – This viewpoint offers a proposal implementing a private/public risk management approach to developing a safe, advanced AI commercial product. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-91671e43d66347a8a4d4a4f307ef9a3a2025-08-20T02:05:42ZengEmerald PublishingJournal of Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Technology2633-74362633-74442025-06-0151404610.1108/JEET-01-2025-0003Advanced artificial intelligence at a corporate responsibility crossroads: employees as risk management advocatesThomas A. Hemphill0Department of Management and Marketing, School of Management, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, Michigan, USAPurpose – The purpose of this study is to highlight how tech industry employees and artificial intelligence (AI) scientists are expressing concerns that AI companies have too great financial incentives to avoid effective self-regulating oversight, and that current corporate governance structures cannot change this situation. Design/methodology/approach – This viewpoint takes a narrative approach to describing proposed AI principles to address AI risk management (safety) issues. Findings – This viewpoint recommends that in the USA, a complementary approach, one involving a private governance framework addressing AI safety concerns, whereby the employees share an important role in developing a safe, advanced AI product for commercialization, and a public governance phase of oversight, involving an independent, federal agency administratively testing to meet prescribed safety thresholds. Originality/value – This viewpoint offers a proposal implementing a private/public risk management approach to developing a safe, advanced AI commercial product.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JEET-01-2025-0003/full/pdfRisk managementAdvanced artificial intelligenceAI principlesEmployee whistleblower protection |
| spellingShingle | Thomas A. Hemphill Advanced artificial intelligence at a corporate responsibility crossroads: employees as risk management advocates Journal of Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Technology Risk management Advanced artificial intelligence AI principles Employee whistleblower protection |
| title | Advanced artificial intelligence at a corporate responsibility crossroads: employees as risk management advocates |
| title_full | Advanced artificial intelligence at a corporate responsibility crossroads: employees as risk management advocates |
| title_fullStr | Advanced artificial intelligence at a corporate responsibility crossroads: employees as risk management advocates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advanced artificial intelligence at a corporate responsibility crossroads: employees as risk management advocates |
| title_short | Advanced artificial intelligence at a corporate responsibility crossroads: employees as risk management advocates |
| title_sort | advanced artificial intelligence at a corporate responsibility crossroads employees as risk management advocates |
| topic | Risk management Advanced artificial intelligence AI principles Employee whistleblower protection |
| url | https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JEET-01-2025-0003/full/pdf |
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