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In this 45‑minute webinar, Fionn Lee‑Madan, co‑founder of FairlyAI, walks startup founders through the emerging landscape of AI safety, risk, and compliance. He begins with his personal journey—from early AI work on cyber‑bullying detection to building FairlyAI’s governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform that monitors performance, risk, and regulatory adherence. Lee‑Madan outlines the unique challenges of AI versus traditional software, categorising risk into operational, technology, compliance, security, privacy, financial, hallucination, environmental, IP, ethical, and reputational dimensions. He illustrates each risk with real‑world case studies (Amazon hiring bias, Google photo misclassification, Gemini historical‑facts error, lawyer hallucination, Air Canada chatbot misinformation, Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI). The talk then surveys the global regulatory environment, emphasizing the EU AI Act as a de‑facto gold standard, and mentions other frameworks (NIST RMF, ISO 42001, Microsoft Responsible AI, BCG, EY partnerships). Lee‑Madan proposes an integrated testing methodology—stress, scenario, regression, and back‑testing—applied simultaneously across performance, risk, and compliance, rather than a serial QA pipeline. He describes practical mitigations: code‑level and policy guardrails, AI insurance (e.g., Munich Re), certifications, and the need for a GRC system like FairlyAI. The latter part of the session is a curated list of free tools for startups: AI incident database (World Economic Forum/Partnership on AI), global AI regulation map, responsible AI framework libraries, Microsoft for Startups Azure credits, open‑source model risk resources, and community groups (Montreal AI Ethics Institute, ML Commons). The Q&A covers licensing of open‑weight models, legal resources via accelerators, AI insurance recommendations, hallucination mitigation with Retrieval‑Augmented Generation, and step‑by‑step guidance for incorporating AI in a startup. The presentation ends with a call to join FairlyAI’s waitlist and follow their LinkedIn.

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