The Human Factor of AI: Integrating Ethical Oversight into AI Governance

In the rush to deploy Copilot, Agents, and other generative AI tools, many organizations treat Governance as a security checklist and ignore the complex human and ethical factors that actually determine success. But in academic research, we have a proven model for this: the Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Join a Microsoft Copilot Architect and a published Behavioral Health Researcher from the University of South Florida, as they dismantle the "innovate at any cost" mentality and offer more ethically responsible alternatives. How might AI implementation evolve if it were governed by the same rigor applied to research review, including a defined structure, formal oversight, and ethical evaluation?

In this session, a rigid rulebook won’t be defined, but rather a set of best practices drawn from decades of human-subject research. We will guide you through thought experiments on how to adapt these principles and considerations into your organization’s own “AI-RB” (AI Review Board). Come ready to rethink your governance strategy and how you can account for the Human Factor.