Govern AI by Use: A Risk-Based Framework for Sustainability Teams
Sustainability has shifted from a voluntary commitment to a legal obligation for companies. At the same time, sustainability teams are adopting AI to speed up calculations, data work, drafting, and horizon scanning. AI can be a useful tool that saves meaningful time and enhances programs when used carefully, but it can introduce fabricated data, misread regulations, and overstated claims when used without guardrails.
This webinar looks at how sustainability teams can capture the benefits of AI while protecting the integrity of their programs and what they disclose. We will walk through examples of risks in the use of AI in sustainability and offer a practical, risk-based approach to governing AI by how it's used.
What the audience will take away
- A view of the key AI risks most relevant to corporate sustainability work.
- A method for rating AI use cases so attention and controls go where the exposure is highest.
- An understanding of how to match controls to risk levels, covering things like approved tools, primary-source grounding, human review, and documentation.
About the Speaker
Cheryl Baldwin, Ph.D., is a Vice President of Sustainability Consulting for Pure Strategies where she partners with corporate clients to develop and execute sustainability strategies to improve performance across retail, food and agriculture, home and personal care, and cosmetics industries. She also leads the firms’ global market research to generate new insights to accelerate business transformation.
Cheryl’s recent projects include helping build a leading nature strategy for Toyota Motor North America, developing sustainability goals for TAZO, creating a sustainable packaging strategy and implementation tools for Walmart, and advancing a sustainable chemistry program for Sephora. Cheryl also worked with industry groups to support broader impact including, FMI, the food industry association, and the National Retail Federation (NRF).
Cheryl authored Pure Strategies’ market research reports: Realizing Sustainable Packaging, Planet-Forward Strategies, Connecting to the Farm, Reaching the New Corporate Frontier, Advancing on the Path to Product Sustainability, and other reports. She wrote the book, The 10 Principles of Food Industry Sustainability and is the lead author/editor for two additional books on sustainability, Greening Food and Beverage Services and Sustainability in the Food Industry. Cheryl holds U.S. and international patents.
Registration
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