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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 21/01/2026

We are delighed to announce the release of the Wharton Stablecoin Toolkit: Financial and Market Dimensions. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the stablecoin world, including the business ecosystem, categories of approaches, and use cases. whr.tn/stablecointo...

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 11/12/2025

AI has scaled fraud to a global industrial level. On The Road to Accountable AI, ID.me CEO Blake Hall explains why old verification methods are obsolete, and why we need a secure, user-controlled digital identity layer. Listen at apple.co/accountable, or visit accountableai.net

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 05/12/2025

Registration is open for the first Accountable AI Research Conference, at The Wharton School in Philadelphia on Feb. 6, 2026. ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco... If you're an AI governance practitioner or researcher, looking for insights on the future of responsible AI, please join us!

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 04/12/2025

On The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with Mitch Kapor @mkapor, legendary entrepreneur, digital policy visionary, and impact investor, about what we haven’t learned from past tech waves, how VCs can close societal gaps, and why responsible AI requires more than good intentions. accountableai.net

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 20/11/2025

On The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with @bradrcarson of @americans4ri, about why politics is inescapable for AI's future, the prospects for bipartisan agreement in the US, and how to navigate the challenges of AI policy. Listen at apple.co/accountable, or your favorite podcast platform.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 14/11/2025

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.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 06/11/2025

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.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 23/10/2025

“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

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 16/10/2025

"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

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 09/10/2025

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.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 11/09/2025

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.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 25/07/2025

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 · 26/06/2025

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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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 23/06/2025

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...

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 19/06/2025

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.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 12/06/2025

How can lawyers advise companies about AI when the law hasn't caught up with rapid technological developments? This week on The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with Zwillgen's Brenda Leong about the practice of AI law. Tune in at apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 05/06/2025

Testing is the missing link for truly effective AI governance. This week on The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with Shameek Kundu of Singapore-based AI Verify, about its pioneering work on real-world testing of AI systems. Tune in at apple.co/accountable, or your favorite podcast platform!

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 26/05/2025

Back from an amazing week in Beijing with 40 Wharton MBA/EMBA students, for a deep dive on tech and AI in China. Fascinating learnings from businesses, VCs, and academics, including visits with startups, tech giants, and AI applications in healthcare. Plus a side trip to the Great Wall.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 18/05/2025

This by @matteowong.bsky.social is an important coda to the sliver of Silicon Valley embracing Trump. The bigger contingent dismissing the danger of his policies because (1) everything but AGI is irrelevant, (2) we have people are in the Administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 08/05/2025

My guest this week on The Road to Accountable AI is Kelly Trindel, Chief Responsible AI Officer at Workday. Tune in through your favorite podcast platform to hear about to infuse AI governance effective throughout an organization. apple.co/accountable accountableai.net

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 01/05/2025

What if AI is changing not just business and our lives, but the very way we understand the world? Renowned author and internet thinker @weinberger.org joins me on the Road to Accountable AI to discuss the deeper human implications of AI. apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 17/04/2025

Can corporate actions, driven by market forces, effectively address the need for AI governance? Lauren Wagner, my guest on this week’s episode of The Road to Accountable AI, has been working for years to align incentives for more trustworthy AI. apple.co/accountable accountableai.net

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 04/04/2025

Full house for today's Penn AI Governance Workshop that the Wharton Accountable AI Lab organized with co-sponsors from Penn Engineering, Penn Carey Law, Perry World House, and Wharton AI & Analytics.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 04/03/2025

Good to see that, despite the increasingly difficult hiring market for MBA graduates, #Wharton appears to consistently have the best record of students getting jobs after graduation. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 25/02/2025

The Wharton Blockchain and Digital Asset Project held our first Reg@Tech roundtable in Asia yesterday. Thanks to Singapore Management University for hosting a great discussion featuring regulators, industry leaders, and academics from around the region, Europe, and the US!

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 02/01/2025

I kept thinking this is what would be in the middle of those images if the pothole wasn't there. (You and Doc are probably the only ones who will get the reference!)

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 29/12/2024

Rocky thinks the #Eagles should play Saquan for the record next week.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 15/12/2024

6/ Here's a diagram I use in some of my presentations, distinguishing different kinds of AI risks.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 12/12/2024

AI models depend more than most realize on the work of large numbers of humans. How can annotation, testing, evaluation, and fine-tuning be done effectively and ethically at scale? Wendy Gonzalez, CEO of Sama, joins me this week on The Road to Accountable AI. apple.co/accountable accountableai.net

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 12/12/2024

Always a good idea to verify which public officials don't want your bank credentials before you send them a money transfer.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 09/12/2024

Penn has many many wonderful alumni who are both very successful and doing good in the world. They are the vast majority of the visible leaders representing the institution.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 09/12/2024

And he was apparently a game designer!

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 09/12/2024

The person arrested in connection with the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO has the same name as a recent Penn graduate. We'll see soon enough if it's the same person.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 02/12/2024

When I search for "Bluesky" in the IOS App Store, the first result is...Threads? Has to be a hidden paid placement, right?

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 01/12/2024

Whoa, this is actually true. There has to be a story about why ChatGPT breaks every time on "David Mayer". It seems far more pervasive than a common confabulation or guardrail issue. And yet so far no one seems to have given a convincing explanation.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 26/11/2024

The current posting prompt for X is really a perfect description of how I think about the site these days.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 23/11/2024

Any other mid-century modern Atomic Age fans out there? #MCM

Tom Corbett 1954 lunchbox and Royal Haeger candy dish

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 23/11/2024

Hornsea Tricorn. Rare late 1950s English pottery by John Clappison. Feels crazy modern for 65 years old. I love it. But no listings on eBay, Etsy, or Pinterest. How can I find more?

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 22/11/2024

You won't love me when you see how bad my Kelce costume was for Halloween. (Certainly worse than my wife's Raygun.)

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 21/11/2024

OK, tips for engagement on Bluesky? I gave up trying on Twitter long ago because of the algo, but I would love to have conversations. Yes I have hardly any followers here, but apparently I'm in the top 1% per this chart. Is that not enough to get likes or replies? Maybe I'm just not interesting.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 21/11/2024

My former Dean Geoff Garrett points out that just as the majority of federal spending is things like Social Security and Medicare that no one wants to cut, the vast majority of federal workers are military, law enforcement, and VA. Not easy headcount reductions. www.linkedin.com/posts/garret...

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 20/11/2024

Adrian Not thrilled I'm going to work rather than giving her more food. #catpics

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 19/11/2024

Fun LinkedIn Live conversation yesterday with my colleagues Kartik Hosanagar and Stefano Puntoni on AI regulation. (Although as I suggested, you can't be certain it wasn't a deepfake!) Recording should be available soon.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 18/11/2024

How does a global corporate culture impact AI ethics? In the latest episode of The Road to Accountable AI, I speak with Sony's Alice Xiang on leveraging diversity to strengthen AI fairness & ethics across global teams. Find it at apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform!

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 17/11/2024

Hawk Falls at Hickory Run State Park. Nice hike.

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 17/11/2024

It's a beautiful morning in the Poconos.

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