Companies are at increased risk of violating Europe’s tough privacy laws because boards have little awareness of the different types of AI or their inherent risks. While many organizations are more familiar with predictive and conversational AI tools, such as chatbots that carry little or no discernible risk, they have not grasped that generative AI—and especially agentic AI—are different animals.

Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal…
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