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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 @kwerb.com · Jan 13
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.

Learn more: ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/news/announc...

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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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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 27d
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:
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 29d

🚨 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:
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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...
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Aug 23
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.

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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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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 25
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?
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 25
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.

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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
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 25
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.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
The Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi has been offering female riders the option of female drivers around the world for soem time.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
The more the US becomes like China, the harder it is for China to become like the US. That should concern us deeply.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
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."
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
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.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
No doubt. Yet if one accepts the imagined construct that some models explicitly impose their own preferences, vs. striving for some version of fidelity to reality, Grok is the clear proven example. But of course, not the droids they are looking for.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
Only one frontier AI model, Grok, has been documented to engage in "top-down ideological bias" prohibited under the US AI Action Plan, by literally checking that certain answers agree with xAI's CEO. Presumably its $200 million DOD contract is about to be revoked?
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
Given that the government procures the same foundation models that are marketed the private sector, how can it not?
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
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.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
That was a given. Fortunately, if the primary goal is to build AI infrastructure, the laws of economics point toward the cheapest energy sources. Which are, increasingly, renewables.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
It will be interesting to see how the FCC implements and legally justifies is role in reviewing state AI legislation. I unerstand the desire to use whatever tools are available to cut red tape for AI development, but the FCC path worries me.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
I started my career at the FCC, leading internet policy there in the 1990s. The FCC has extraordinary power to control speech and free flow of information, which is only justified in the context of legal and practical limits. Otherwise it's no different than the Cyberspace Administration of China.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
First, it's completely eliminating the idea that the FCC is a creation of Congress, not an arm of the Executive Branch. Which is the only reason agencies like the FCC have the authority they do. Second, it's abandoning the idea of the FCC as a technically expert regulator, vs. a political body.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
Apparently the Administration's strategy for killing state AI laws, after failing to impose a moratorium in budget legislation, is to use the FCC. The opening section of the Communications Act has a broad aspirational mandate, but using that to preempt state AI regulation is a dangerous path.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
I'm scratching my head about this language in the Trump AI Action Plan:

"Led by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), evaluate whether state AI regulations interfere with the agency’s ability to carry out its obligations and authorities under the Communications Act of 1934."
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 23
Here's the Trump Administration's AI Action Plan. Three pillars: removing regulatory impediments, infrastructure, and diplomacy/security.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jul 8
So after all this time we find that Grok is just a wrapper on Microsoft Tay?
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jun 28
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!
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Jun 26
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.
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