8A DAY IN THE FUTURE - Tomorrow's tasks and reality of a GRC Officerhile thinking about the future of Artificial Intelligence, I imagined what a day in the life of a Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) Officer might entail. Let's call her June. Here are my thoughts.As the scheduled audit by the Government's Department of Artificial Intelligence approached, June the company's GRC Officer recalled that 10 years ago, when she began her career, integrity was about humans and defined as "value-based behavior."PATRICK HENZ, HEAD OF GOVERNANCE AND COMPLIANCE, PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIESThe business environment back then was as complicated as today, so personal integrity had to guide employees in scenarios that had not yet beendefined by laws and guidelines.June liked different philosophies and had been familiar with Ayn Rand's work, especially her final and perhaps most important novel, "Atlas Shrugged." Here Rand wrote: "Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values." As head of GRC, June understood the interaction between processes and behavior, and wanted to support the employees to help them find happiness at work. To achieve this, she assessed tools and guidelines to ensure they were strong, but no more bureaucratic than necessary. She explained the company's values to the employees, and IN MY ViewW
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