By Joe McKendrick – While artificial intelligence is the trend du jour across enterprises of all types, there’s still scant attention being paid to its ethical ramifications. Perhaps it’s time for people to step up and ask the hard questions. For enterprises, it’s time to bring together — or recruit — people who can ask the hard questions.

In one recent survey by Genesys, 54% of employers questioned say they are not troubled that AI could be used unethically by their companies as a whole or by individual employees. “Employees appear more relaxed than their bosses, with only 17% expressing concern about their companies,” the survey’s authors add.

Despite heightened awareness about the potential risks of AI and highly publicized incidents of privacy violations, unintended bias, and other negative outcomes, AI ethics is still an afterthought, a recent McKinsey survey of 2,360 executives shows. While 39% say their companies recognize risk associated with “explainability,” only 21% say they are actively addressing this risk. “At the companies that reportedly do mitigate AI risks, the most frequently reported tactic is conducting internal reviews of AI models.” Read On: