Kevin Werbach
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Penn Prof (Chair of Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton). Pescatarian. Panentheist Jew. Parent. Philadelphian. Poconos Airbnb host. Perhaps Retired Restoration Shaman. Primarily focused on Accountable AI & crypto regulation. https://accountableai.net
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Kevin Werbach
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· Jan 13
Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative Launches the Wharton Accountable AI Lab, Led by Professor Kevin Werbach
Discover the Wharton Accountable AI Lab, a new initiative by the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative led by Professor Kevin Werbach, advancing ethical and responsible AI development. Learn how WAAL addr...
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Thrilled to launch the Accountable AI Lab at Wharton AI & Analytics! We’re tackling the critical challenges of ethics, governance, and regulation for AI innovation that benefits both business and society.
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#WhartonAI #AccountableAI
Oliver Patel, head of AI Governance at AstraZeneca, joins me this week on The Road to Accountable AI to share enterprise AI governance frameworks built from his experience.
Listen to the full episode at https:apple.co/accountable, or your favorite podcast platform.
Listen to the full episode at https:apple.co/accountable, or your favorite podcast platform.
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oliver Patel, head of AI Governance at AstraZeneca, joins me this week on The Road to Accountable AI to share enterprise AI governance frameworks built from his experience.
Listen to the full episode at https:apple.co/accountable, or your favorite podcast platform.
Listen to the full episode at https:apple.co/accountable, or your favorite podcast platform.
Maybe we've been approaching AI ethics the wrong way?
On this week's episode of The Road to Accountable AI, Ravit Dotan discusses how she shifted her approach, and why AI governance practitioners should be more like chefs.
Listen now: apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform.
On this week's episode of The Road to Accountable AI, Ravit Dotan discusses how she shifted her approach, and why AI governance practitioners should be more like chefs.
Listen now: apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform.
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Maybe we've been approaching AI ethics the wrong way?
On this week's episode of The Road to Accountable AI, Ravit Dotan discusses how she shifted her approach, and why AI governance practitioners should be more like chefs.
Listen now: apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform.
On this week's episode of The Road to Accountable AI, Ravit Dotan discusses how she shifted her approach, and why AI governance practitioners should be more like chefs.
Listen now: apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform.
Reminder that Monday is the submission deadline for the Accountable AI Research Conference, at the Wharton School in Philadelphia on Feb. 6.
For researchers on AI governance, responsibility, safety, ethics, or policy, don't miss this opportunity!
ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...
For researchers on AI governance, responsibility, safety, ethics, or policy, don't miss this opportunity!
ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...
Accountable AI Research Conference Accountable AI Research Conference
The first Accountable AI Research Conference will bring together scholars from law and other fields. The risks and limitations of AI have been the subject of scholarly attention for many years. Yet th...
ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu
October 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reminder that Monday is the submission deadline for the Accountable AI Research Conference, at the Wharton School in Philadelphia on Feb. 6.
For researchers on AI governance, responsibility, safety, ethics, or policy, don't miss this opportunity!
ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...
For researchers on AI governance, responsibility, safety, ethics, or policy, don't miss this opportunity!
ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...
“AI governance is a team sport.”
On Road to Accountable AI, Caroline Louveaux of Mastercard explains how trust, collaboration, and responsibility drive innovation in the AI era.
Listen now: apple.com/accountable
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On Road to Accountable AI, Caroline Louveaux of Mastercard explains how trust, collaboration, and responsibility drive innovation in the AI era.
Listen now: apple.com/accountable
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October 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“AI governance is a team sport.”
On Road to Accountable AI, Caroline Louveaux of Mastercard explains how trust, collaboration, and responsibility drive innovation in the AI era.
Listen now: apple.com/accountable
accountableai.net
On Road to Accountable AI, Caroline Louveaux of Mastercard explains how trust, collaboration, and responsibility drive innovation in the AI era.
Listen now: apple.com/accountable
accountableai.net
Exceptional article by @kaiserkuo.bsky.social on how China's successful rise should force us to reconsider our assumptions about modernity.
I'm frustrated how few Americans who aren't China specialists are willing to entertain such questions.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr...
I'm frustrated how few Americans who aren't China specialists are willing to entertain such questions.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr...
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
www.theideasletter.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Exceptional article by @kaiserkuo.bsky.social on how China's successful rise should force us to reconsider our assumptions about modernity.
I'm frustrated how few Americans who aren't China specialists are willing to entertain such questions.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr...
I'm frustrated how few Americans who aren't China specialists are willing to entertain such questions.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr...
"AI governance can’t be top-down—it has to be networked.”
On the Road to Accountable AI, former Acting US Secretary of Commerce Cam Kerry explains why flexible oversight is essential for AI, and what AI policy can learn from the long battle over privacy regulation.
Listen now: accountableai.net
On the Road to Accountable AI, former Acting US Secretary of Commerce Cam Kerry explains why flexible oversight is essential for AI, and what AI policy can learn from the long battle over privacy regulation.
Listen now: accountableai.net
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"AI governance can’t be top-down—it has to be networked.”
On the Road to Accountable AI, former Acting US Secretary of Commerce Cam Kerry explains why flexible oversight is essential for AI, and what AI policy can learn from the long battle over privacy regulation.
Listen now: accountableai.net
On the Road to Accountable AI, former Acting US Secretary of Commerce Cam Kerry explains why flexible oversight is essential for AI, and what AI policy can learn from the long battle over privacy regulation.
Listen now: accountableai.net
What does it take to turn the theoretical ideal of fair AI into something organizations can implement? This week on The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with Derek Leben, Carnegie Mellon professor and author of the new book, AI Fairness.
Visit accountableai.net or your favorite podcast platform.
Visit accountableai.net or your favorite podcast platform.
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What does it take to turn the theoretical ideal of fair AI into something organizations can implement? This week on The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with Derek Leben, Carnegie Mellon professor and author of the new book, AI Fairness.
Visit accountableai.net or your favorite podcast platform.
Visit accountableai.net or your favorite podcast platform.
AI is spreading fast. Can governments keep up?
On today’s Road to Accountable AI podcat, Karine Perset, Acting Head of the OECD’s AI Division, explains how countries are working together to shape responsible AI.
Listen now:
accountableai.net or your favorite podcast platform.
On today’s Road to Accountable AI podcat, Karine Perset, Acting Head of the OECD’s AI Division, explains how countries are working together to shape responsible AI.
Listen now:
accountableai.net or your favorite podcast platform.
September 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
AI is spreading fast. Can governments keep up?
On today’s Road to Accountable AI podcat, Karine Perset, Acting Head of the OECD’s AI Division, explains how countries are working together to shape responsible AI.
Listen now:
accountableai.net or your favorite podcast platform.
On today’s Road to Accountable AI podcat, Karine Perset, Acting Head of the OECD’s AI Division, explains how countries are working together to shape responsible AI.
Listen now:
accountableai.net or your favorite podcast platform.
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
The Wharton Accountable AI Lab is hosting the 1st Accountable AI Research Conference at @Wharton on Feb 6, 2026.
Focus: law, ethics, governance & policy shaping real-world AI practice.
Submissions due: Oct 27, 2025. Learn more:
ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...
Accountable AI Research Conference Accountable AI Research Conference
The first Accountable AI Research Conference will bring together scholars from law and other fields. The risks and limitations of AI have been the subject of scholarly attention for many years. Yet th...
ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu
September 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
The Wharton Accountable AI Lab is hosting the 1st Accountable AI Research Conference at @Wharton on Feb 6, 2026.
Focus: law, ethics, governance & policy shaping real-world AI practice.
Submissions due: Oct 27, 2025. Learn more:
ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...
A report by an MIT research center claiming that 95% of genAI deployments fail got a lot of attention this week, even possibly contributing to a drop in AI stock prices.
As I explain on LinkedIn, the report doesn't offer any real support for its conclusion.
www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinw...
As I explain on LinkedIn, the report doesn't offer any real support for its conclusion.
www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinw...
State of AI in Business 2025 | Kevin Werbach
The "MIT report" which made a big splash this week, finding few generative AI deployments generate any returns, is deeply problematic. The incident is, frankly, a great example of confirmation bias. ...
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August 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A report by an MIT research center claiming that 95% of genAI deployments fail got a lot of attention this week, even possibly contributing to a drop in AI stock prices.
As I explain on LinkedIn, the report doesn't offer any real support for its conclusion.
www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinw...
As I explain on LinkedIn, the report doesn't offer any real support for its conclusion.
www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinw...
I never thought about it before, but if truths are "self-evident," why do we need to declare that we hold that to be true?
July 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I never thought about it before, but if truths are "self-evident," why do we need to declare that we hold that to be true?
Flashing red light for financial markets. With klaxons.
Crypto is a legit investment asset class. But if the thesis is financial engineering memecoins into traditional stock markets via SPACs, and the market is buying it, we're eventuially headed for a crackup.
www.ft.com/content/50f9...
Crypto is a legit investment asset class. But if the thesis is financial engineering memecoins into traditional stock markets via SPACs, and the market is buying it, we're eventuially headed for a crackup.
www.ft.com/content/50f9...
Companies load up on niche crypto tokens to boost share prices
Listed firms load up on ether, litecoin and $TRUMP as they bid to emulate Michael Saylor’s Strategy
www.ft.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Flashing red light for financial markets. With klaxons.
Crypto is a legit investment asset class. But if the thesis is financial engineering memecoins into traditional stock markets via SPACs, and the market is buying it, we're eventuially headed for a crackup.
www.ft.com/content/50f9...
Crypto is a legit investment asset class. But if the thesis is financial engineering memecoins into traditional stock markets via SPACs, and the market is buying it, we're eventuially headed for a crackup.
www.ft.com/content/50f9...
poetsandquants.com/2025/07/24/a...
Amen.
We're doing a lot to bring AI into the curriculum at @wharton. I'm rethinking my own courses from scratch. But this is a deep question about the future of business education, where we could benefit from engagement with our peers.
Amen.
We're doing a lot to bring AI into the curriculum at @wharton. I'm rethinking my own courses from scratch. But this is a deep question about the future of business education, where we could benefit from engagement with our peers.
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
poetsandquants.com/2025/07/24/a...
Amen.
We're doing a lot to bring AI into the curriculum at @wharton. I'm rethinking my own courses from scratch. But this is a deep question about the future of business education, where we could benefit from engagement with our peers.
Amen.
We're doing a lot to bring AI into the curriculum at @wharton. I'm rethinking my own courses from scratch. But this is a deep question about the future of business education, where we could benefit from engagement with our peers.
The more the US becomes like China, the harder it is for China to become like the US. That should concern us deeply.
July 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The more the US becomes like China, the harder it is for China to become like the US. That should concern us deeply.
The reality is that China has an ideology, and the US has an ideology. The argument that "American AI" should win is that our ideology is best for human flourishing. Claiming that our AI is "objective" and theirs is "ideologically biased" is just the mirror of their claims of "scientific socialism."
July 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The reality is that China has an ideology, and the US has an ideology. The argument that "American AI" should win is that our ideology is best for human flourishing. Claiming that our AI is "objective" and theirs is "ideologically biased" is just the mirror of their claims of "scientific socialism."
Interesting that the White House did a public comment process on the AI Action Plan, in which all the AI companies said their most important existential issue is copyright liability and...said exactly nothing about copyright.
Then again, probably better it didn't.
Then again, probably better it didn't.
July 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Interesting that the White House did a public comment process on the AI Action Plan, in which all the AI companies said their most important existential issue is copyright liability and...said exactly nothing about copyright.
Then again, probably better it didn't.
Then again, probably better it didn't.
The Trump AI Action Plan comes down squarely for open-weight models. Yet its proposals are all about promoting academic R&D. Which is great, but no substitute for what's happening in China. There the top AI startups and digital giants are opening their models. In the US, even Meta is backtracking.
July 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Trump AI Action Plan comes down squarely for open-weight models. Yet its proposals are all about promoting academic R&D. Which is great, but no substitute for what's happening in China. There the top AI startups and digital giants are opening their models. In the US, even Meta is backtracking.
Here's the Trump Administration's AI Action Plan. Three pillars: removing regulatory impediments, infrastructure, and diplomacy/security.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
July 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Here's the Trump Administration's AI Action Plan. Three pillars: removing regulatory impediments, infrastructure, and diplomacy/security.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
So after all this time we find that Grok is just a wrapper on Microsoft Tay?
July 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
So after all this time we find that Grok is just a wrapper on Microsoft Tay?
Good news of the day. The Red Cross is eliminating the worst part of donating blood -- the finger stick to check hemoglobin levels, replacing it with a sensor. More painful than the actual blood draw!
June 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Good news of the day. The Red Cross is eliminating the worst part of donating blood -- the finger stick to check hemoglobin levels, replacing it with a sensor. More painful than the actual blood draw!
On this week’s episode of The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with responsible AI pioneer Kay Firth-Butterfield about what it really means to design AI that serves people—not just profit.
Available on your favorite podcast platform, or visit accountableai.net.
Available on your favorite podcast platform, or visit accountableai.net.
June 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
On this week’s episode of The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with responsible AI pioneer Kay Firth-Butterfield about what it really means to design AI that serves people—not just profit.
Available on your favorite podcast platform, or visit accountableai.net.
Available on your favorite podcast platform, or visit accountableai.net.
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Love learning and writing about the information ecosystem? Want to tackle the toughest questions facing democracy, and do something about it?
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--Engagement and Policy Manager
Love learning and writing about the information ecosystem? Want to tackle the toughest questions facing democracy, and do something about it?
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[Both $55,000-$72,000]
Americans are way too sanguine that the algorithmic surveillance state is only a Chinese phenomenon, because they believe the US is "free" and China is not. This oped by @megankstack.bsky.social is on point but, frankly, doesn't go far enough.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
June 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Americans are way too sanguine that the algorithmic surveillance state is only a Chinese phenomenon, because they believe the US is "free" and China is not. This oped by @megankstack.bsky.social is on point but, frankly, doesn't go far enough.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
What happens when copyright law meets generative AI? Is there a workable path forward?
On this week’s episode of The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with leading IP litigator Dale Cendali of Kirkland & Ellis.
Full episode out today on your favorite podcast platform, or visit accountableai.net.
On this week’s episode of The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with leading IP litigator Dale Cendali of Kirkland & Ellis.
Full episode out today on your favorite podcast platform, or visit accountableai.net.
June 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
What happens when copyright law meets generative AI? Is there a workable path forward?
On this week’s episode of The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with leading IP litigator Dale Cendali of Kirkland & Ellis.
Full episode out today on your favorite podcast platform, or visit accountableai.net.
On this week’s episode of The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with leading IP litigator Dale Cendali of Kirkland & Ellis.
Full episode out today on your favorite podcast platform, or visit accountableai.net.