Everybody’s Using AI. Nobody’s Owning It.

Frantz Ward Partner Jim Ickes brings in two AI practitioners to explore three questions most organizations cannot answer: what AI is running, what data touches it, and who owns it.

Jim hosts Chris McCarthy, Founder & Chief AI Architect of OB.1 AI Solutions, and Anthony Catalano, who leads risk consulting for RSM US LLP’s private equity channel, for a conversation about how:

• widespread shadow AI use has become, including employees paying for their own subscriptions and feeding company data into models with no retention protections;
• attorney-client privilege can be waived the moment an executive pastes legal strategy into a public chatbot;
• to set rules before adopting AI tools, including who owns AI use internally and which company systems it can reach; and
• an AI risk assessment can catch things that a security audit misses.

Listen to the episode here.

Jim has spent more than a decade advising clients on data privacy and cybersecurity. He holds HCISPP emeritus certification and counsels health care and cannabis clients in heavily regulated environments, where he helps organizations build compliant, defensible operations while the rules are still being written.

Chris is the Founder & Chief AI Architect of OB.1 AI Solutions in Hudson, Ohio, where he helps small and mid-market businesses put AI to practical use. His diagnostic work starts with the people and processes inside a business before any tool gets selected.

Anthony leads risk consulting for RSM US LLP’s private equity channel and works with the firm’s AI enablement and innovation team. His work spans cybersecurity and AI risk assessment, M&A due diligence, and governance frameworks.