AI Ethics & Governance 101
Security, Risk, and AI Compliance for Business — a practical field guide by Sam Samie.
What this book is
Artificial intelligence is already making decisions inside businesses — screening hires, flagging customers, drafting the reports someone signs their name to. Most organisations discovered this after the fact. This book is for the people who now have to govern it.
It is written for executives, managers, developers, and risk professionals rather than academics. The framing throughout is operational: what could go wrong, how you would notice, and what you put in place before you need it.
What it covers
- Bias and fairness — where it enters, and how it survives review.
- Data poisoning and prompt manipulation — the attack surface specific to AI systems.
- Shadow AI — the tools already in use that nobody approved.
- Legal liability — who owns the outcome when the model is wrong.
- Ethical impact assessments and meaningful human oversight.
- Incident response and audit trails for AI-driven decisions.
- The EU AI Act and the wider global compliance landscape.
- Turning compliance from a cost centre into a competitive advantage.
Who it is for
Anyone accountable for a system they did not personally build: leadership signing off on AI adoption, risk and compliance teams writing the policy, and the engineers who have to make that policy real.