NJ’s lieutenant governor told PBS, AI says he didn’t commit sexual harassment
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A public official citing an unnamed AI system to dispute a sexual harassment finding is a preview of ‘AI said so’ being weaponized in reputational and legal fights. If your org uses AI for any kind of assessment, lock down provenance, logging, and disclaimers now—because you may have to prove in public what your systems did and did not say.
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