AI Governance: A Necessity and Imperative

About Book

The potentially transformative impact of AI on humans and society underscores the need for this book, to contextualize and address public concerns about its potential risks and benefits. The book delves into:

1. The history of AI from automatons like Talos, the bronze giant killer-robot in Greek mythology, to the ingenious inventions of the Alexandrian Engineers, and Leonardo da Vinci’s robot knight, to Turing’s WWII code breaking machines and Weizenbaum’s ELIZA in the 1960s;

2. Global and regional strategies and frameworks for AI governance, which include: the OECD AI Principles; UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI; NIST AI RMF; ISO 42001; and the EU AI Act;

3. National efforts (laws, policies and AI readiness rating) of the US, UK, Canada, China, India, Japan, Singapore, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Australia, and New Zealand;

4. AI challenges and emerging trends, like: Agentic AI, AI Hallucinations, Algorithmic bias, Black box problem, Data problem, AI in Healthcare, AI and Law Practice, AI Literacy, AI Red Teaming, and TESCREALism; and

5. AI adoption/readiness strategies, governance framework and tips for organizations.

The book is intended to deepen understanding of AI actors and AI stakeholders, including policymakers, AI consumers and general readers.

About Author

Alex Wodi is a lawyer and a certified AI governance, cybersecurity and data privacy professional. He has a background in banking and commercial law, regulatory compliance, international law, and comparative law. He is also a chartered arbitrator, mediator, and conciliator. He has written many scholarly articles and is the author of Garnishment Law and Practice in Nigeria, UK, and US (Amazon, and Barnes & Noble, 2023) ISBN 9798987288306 and The Most Expensive Real Estate and Other Works: An Anthology of Essays, Poems and Artworks on the Cusp of a Pandemic (Amazon, 2021) ISBN 9798706781880.