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At an AI conference in New Zealand recently, about fifty people in the room, nobody raised ethics, governance, indigenou...
28/08/2026

At an AI conference in New Zealand recently, about fifty people in the room, nobody raised ethics, governance, indigenous data or diversity. Not one. Amanda was the only person who did.

Over the last few month's we've been on multiple calls with groups of people of all levels, same thing.

We discuss ethics and governance and human led AI. Nobody else does.

Is that an education gap? Priority gap? Awareness gap?

Everyone is in an arms race to adopt the tools at the expense of everything else. Hype over ethics. (Money over people)

Here is what it looks like in numbers.

88% of organisations are using AI in some form.
6% report real financial impact.

75% have an AI usage policy.
36% have anything that qualifies as a governance framework.

A policy is a one-page document. A framework is roles, controls, monitoring, enforcement, and a name next to each one. The distance between the 75% and 36% is where the harm lives.

We do not think this is a technology failure. Every failed pilot we have seen and heard of was called a tech problem and turned out to be a ethics, governance, leadership, basically education problem.

Nobody decided what the tool was allowed to touch.
Nobody decided who was accountable when it was wrong.
Nobody decided how it gets fixed when it breaks.

AI is a mirror with a motor. It shows an organisation what it already is, then does more of it, faster.

The uncomfortable part for business is this work is the unsexy part; slower than tool training and less glamorous.

An ethics session does not fill a room the way an agentic workshop does.

But businesses that skip this are the ones calling for help months later.

Amanda joined Dr. Summer D. Watson, MHS, PhD in The Human Room this morning to talk about the human layer of AI with a global lens. Why diversity matters. Why human in the loop matters. Why we should care about ethics and diversity. And why AI adoption is an education game and human readiness comes first. Check out Summer's Human Room.

Comment Governance if you want to know more.

Ambassador Highlight: Meet Uswa Ashfaque - Asia/APEC chapter Uswa is a Principal AI Engineer and Creative Lead at RareSe...
28/08/2026

Ambassador Highlight: Meet Uswa Ashfaque - Asia/APEC chapter

Uswa is a Principal AI Engineer and Creative Lead at RareSense Inc., a New York-based applied AI research lab, working across generative AI, engineering, product, and creative technology.

Coming from a physics background, Uswa has worked across many of the layers that make AI systems actually work, from AI training, annotation, and data engineering to AI architecture, frontend products, and production generative AI. Her experience has crossed apparel, accessories, and jewelry.

Much of her current work centers on FormaNova, an AI platform built specifically for the jewelry industry. Jewelry is one of the harder products to get right with generative AI. Change a prong, alter a gemstone, shift the scale by a few millimeters, or modify a setting, and an image can look beautiful while no longer representing the product a customer is actually buying.

Her work goes beyond AI image generation. She works across applied AI for photography, virtual try-on, jewelry ideation, and AI-assisted CAD, while also exploring practical AI applications across customer experience, sales, marketing, inventory, pricing, operations, and demand forecasting. Her physics background has also carried directly into the technology, where she has developed physics-informed mathematical methods to measure and verify jewelry fidelity.

There is also another side to her work. Uswa is a traditional painter and sketch artist with years of experience in visual creation. Before generative AI became part of her professional work, she created artboards and visual concepts for international creative teams. Today, she brings those creative instincts together with scientific and engineering thinking.

Her philosophy is simple: humans are in charge of AI. AI can accelerate work, make new capabilities accessible, and open creative possibilities, but taste, responsibility, direction, and final judgment remain human. For Uswa, the goal is not to use AI simply because it is available, but to turn it into something responsible and useful enough to solve real problems in production.

As a SHE IS AI Ambassador, Uswa hopes to encourage more young women and young people to learn how AI actually works, use it responsibly, and see themselves not only as consumers of this technology, but as people who can build it, question it, improve it, and help shape where it goes next.

Ambassador Highlight: Deepika Grover - Asia/APAC chapter 🌏 Meet Deepika, a creative technologist and AI consultant based...
27/08/2026

Ambassador Highlight: Deepika Grover - Asia/APAC chapter 🌏

Meet Deepika, a creative technologist and AI consultant based in India who creates anime-style visuals, e-learning content and multimedia storytelling with AI.

She has given a lot of value, including workflow tutorials and prompt engineering guides for creatives and students who were struggling to find a way in.

Her belief is plain: we rise together, and nobody needs to be the expert on a pedestal. What she wants to build is a room where women can experiment without judgement.

Deepika shows you practical creative workflows and the kind of tutorials that make the tools finally click.

If you are in the Asia-Pacific region and you want to make things rather than read about making things, she is your person.

Drop a comment for Deepika below and tell her what you'd want from an Asia/APAC chapter.

"I don't actually know what AI ethics or governance means."We hear this more than any other question, usually from peopl...
26/08/2026

"I don't actually know what AI ethics or governance means."

We hear this more than any other question, usually from people already using AI. Professors. Students. Professionals.

It's like asking what's an employee handbook. What's a social media policy. What's a bullying and harassment policy.

We have had those for decades and nobody asks what they are for.

We are adopting AI at pace, with no guardrails and no guidance. (I just made a whole guidebook and infographic about it, DM me)

Ethics is a set of decisions you are already making, mostly without knowing it. It's mostly common sense; just in an AI context.

Whether you paste patient notes or student records into a public model. (Don't)

Whether you checked how your software was built, and on whose work. (Do)

Whether your AI policy was written for your context or copied from someone else's. (Write it for your context)

Whether the people affected were in the room. (They're usually not)

African languages (And indigenous and Maori data too) make up less than 1% of AI training data.

90% of AI data has come from white, male biased USA focused lens; that does NOT reflect the world as far as I'm concerned; I care that I want the 'machine' to reflect everyone and I care that we are guided to use this 'machine' for good, and to do so ethically.

This is why we will not package one country's ideas and ship them everywhere. Who wants to use something that wasn't built in your image that doesn't understand you?

Adoption is running.
Governance is still walking.

And in that gap, a lot of people are using, and teaching AI confidently and badly.

Comment GOVERNANCE and I will send you the guide.



Applications for the Applied Intelligence Pathway are open here; join us and be a steward of Ethical AI helping others do this well. Maybe be the Ethical AI steward for your workplace or your business.

https://sheisai.ai/applied-intelligence-pathway

Ambassador Highlight: Mohamad Dadmand, MENA chapter 🌍 Meet Mohamad, a creative designer based in Turkey, who believes cr...
25/08/2026

Ambassador Highlight: Mohamad Dadmand, MENA chapter 🌍

Meet Mohamad, a creative designer based in Turkey, who believes creativity can make a difference. He shares AI workflows, creative processes and prompt engineering openly because he remembers what it is like to learn independently and find your own way in a field that will not sit still.

He cares about access, and about the people who keep learning and progressing despite real limitations. In a room he brings encouragement, curiosity and a habit of listening carefully.

Mohamad simplifies complicated creative AI workflows and helps you build with the tools responsibly, especially if you are trying to turn them into a portfolio or a business.

If you are in MENA region or near Turkey, and you are early in this, or want help with creative applications, he is your person. Drop a comment for Mohamad below and tell him what you'd want support with!

Ambassador Highlight: Jamie Johnson, USA chapterMeet Jamie! For 25 years she has been an educator, coach and creative en...
19/08/2026

Ambassador Highlight: Jamie Johnson, USA chapter

Meet Jamie! For 25 years she has been an educator, coach and creative entrepreneur, and she now works as an AI brand and web designer helping overwhelmed creatives use AI to ease burnout rather than add to it.

She leads Decision Detox in our community, using Essentialism as a framework to help members cut the trivial many and focus on the vital few.

She gave a significant chunk of her time to our AI Advisory Council, and our Applied Intelligence Pathway, and teaching our Uganda cohorts, developing assessments and giving feedback to teachers navigating AI in their classrooms because educators are her people and she is a caring, passionate teacher herself.

Jamie helps you move from overwhelm to clarity without shame or panic, with a gentle, creative approach, and encouragement is her superpower and you feel it in the room.

If you are in the US and you want mentoring or a calmer relationship with AI, she is your person.

Drop a comment for Jamie below and tell her what you'd want from a USA chapter.

Ambassador Highlight - Daniel Romano, MENA chapter 🌍Meet Daniel, a human-centred AI visual storyteller and the creator b...
18/08/2026

Ambassador Highlight - Daniel Romano, MENA chapter 🌍

Meet Daniel, a human-centred AI visual storyteller and the creator behind UNCHARTED. His work sits where AI meets emotional intelligence, empathy and human-centred leadership, and his position is that technology should strengthen human understanding rather than replace it. He listens before he leads.

He shares his creative workflows and storytelling frameworks openly across communities without expecting recognition, and what he notices changing is confidence: people who were intimidated by AI start making things with it.

Here's why this matters for you: Daniel helps you tell stories that move people, and use AI creatively without losing the human heart of the work. If you are building in the MENA region and you want the emotional craft as well as the tools, he is your person.

Drop a comment for Daniel below and tell him what you'd want from a MENA chapter. He's reading.

Nobody hands a new team member the keys on day one and hopes for the best.You write a job description. You give them an ...
17/08/2026

Nobody hands a new team member the keys on day one and hopes for the best.

You write a job description. You give them an induction. You point at the parts of the business they can touch and the parts they can't. You tell them who to ask when they're not sure.

That is governance. Same thing, different worker.

Most of us have skipped all of it with AI, because a chatbot doesn't feel like a hire. It feels like a website. So it gets access to client data, drafts things that go out under our name, and answers questions we've never checked, without a single line written down about what it's allowed to do.

Three things to write down this week, in your own words. Not a policy document. A page in your notes app.

The job description. What is it allowed to do, what is it not, and what makes it stop and come back to you?

The record. Where does the output come from, who checks it, and could you reconstruct what happened later?

The manager. Who can overrule it, and whose name is on the result? Not the vendor. Not the tool. A person.

Most people find the gaps inside ten minutes. They're usually in the second one.

Which of the three could you not answer?

Comment GUIDE and I'll send you our new AI Reality Check Governance Guide!

Ambassador Highlight - Ulrike Kerber, Europe chapter 🌍Meet Ulrike, an AI designer, researcher and professor based in Ger...
17/08/2026

Ambassador Highlight - Ulrike Kerber, Europe chapter 🌍

Meet Ulrike, an AI designer, researcher and professor based in Germany, with a PhD focused on conscious, reflective AI adoption. She counts the room at every tech conference she attends and it is still roughly 90% men, which is exactly why she keeps designing workshops that make women feel they belong in emerging technology. She runs AI ethics salons, teaches at international universities, and is developing a framework called FLUXUS along with a mindset she calls The Awkward Collaborator, which treats AI as an unpredictable creative partner rather than an answer machine. She was raising conscious AI use in her workshops long before any client asked her to.

Here's why this matters for you: walk into one of Ulrike's sessions and you will be asked to slow down, think critically and build real creative confidence. She wants to run peer-learning gatherings for women here, because AI moves too fast for one teacher at the front of the room. If you are in Europe and you want a thinking space rather than a tool list, she is your person.

Drop a comment for Ulrike below and tell her what you'd want from a Europe chapter.

14/08/2026

Most organisations that say they have AI governance have a document, not a system.

A policy. An ethics statement. A committee that meets quarterly. And almost nothing that would tell you what the AI actually did.

Pacific AI's 2025 governance survey found 75% of organisations have an AI usage policy, and only 36% have a formal governance framework.

That 39 point gap is where the risk sits.

Here are some action steps that take about ten minutes.

Pick one AI tool already running in your business. Answer three questions out loud, for what is true today rather than what you intend.

What is it allowed to do, and what is it not allowed to do?

What makes it stop?

Who answers for it when it gets something wrong?

Most teams get through the first question and stall on the second. If nobody can tell you what makes the system stop, there is no boundary in place.

This matters more this month than last, because AI has started doing things rather than just answering things.

An assistant asked to book a gym class took a stranger's spot to do it, and could not undo it. A UK government test logged 19 actions from agents nobody had authorised. Neither was an attack. They were simple errands.

So before you let AI act on your behalf, ask what happens when it is wrong and whether you can reverse it. Booking, sending, paying and posting are hard to undo. Give it read access before you give it write access. Always test your agents, trial them, before letting them loose in the world.

Every question above is an accountability question. If you have ever run a team or signed off on a process, you already know how to ask staff, and build governance processes for staff; now just do it for AI.

Comment CONTROLS and I will send you our new reference pack, sourced statistics on AI governance and global adoption, with the loosely attributed ones flagged so you never quote something you cannot defend.

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