If your AI does the crime, you'll do the time, warns DoJ
If juggling the extreme cost and hazy ROI of AI weren't enough of a headache, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) now expects enterprise compliance officers to start weighing the tech's potential for harm – or risk stiff fines if it breaks the law.
Nicole Argentieri, the principal deputy assistant attorney general for the DoJ's criminal division, discussed the changes made to the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program (ECCP) guidelines [PDF] in an address to the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics earlier this week.
The guidelines detail how DoJ prosecutors should approach criminal investigations and evaluate service providers' effectiveness at preventing criminal behavior. As such, the ECCP effectively functions as a guide for compliance officers looking to avoid the DoJ's ire.
After a pilot program, these rules have officially been extended to include the use of AI. The tech is are increasingly being deployed by businesses and could therefore conceivably be used to make decisions or facilitate actions that are less than legal.
