This summer I will take over as Vice Dean in charge of Wharton's MBA for Executives program (WEMBA) I agreed to the role because there's no better place to address the challenges - and opportunities - that AI and other developments pose for jobs, business broadly, and education.

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...

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

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!

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

Read "U.S.-China AI Cooperation Under Trump 2.0" by @kwerb.com: perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/news-and-ins...

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.

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.

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.

Reminder that Monday is the submission deadline for the Accountable AI Research Conference, at the Wharton School in Philadelphia on Feb. 6. For researchers on AI governance, responsibility, safety, ethics, or policy, don't miss this opportunity! ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...

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“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

Exceptional article by @kaiserkuo.bsky.social on how China's successful rise should force us to reconsider our assumptions about modernity. I'm frustrated how few Americans who aren't China specialists are willing to entertain such questions. www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr...

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The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…

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"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

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.

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.

🚨 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: ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...

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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. www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinw...

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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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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?

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. www.ft.com/content/50f9...

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Listed firms load up on ether, litecoin and $TRUMP as they bid to emulate Michael Saylor’s Strategy

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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.

The more the US becomes like China, the harder it is for China to become like the US. That should concern us deeply.

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."

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.

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.

Here's the Trump Administration's AI Action Plan. Three pillars: removing regulatory impediments, infrastructure, and diplomacy/security. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

So after all this time we find that Grok is just a wrapper on Microsoft Tay?

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!

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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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...