Mission Log

Podcast Episode Our guest for this episode (and co-author of this article), Alice Liu, responsible AI and digital health consultant, joined us to answer a question that sounds simple and isn't: does AI governance have to start from scratch? Her answer draws on 2,500 years of medical ethics infrastructure that is already built, already tested, and offers potential approaches for the people designing AI systems today. Clinical AI is already embedded in everyday care: flagging p

ISM Interprétariat came to us with a problem that many mission-driven organisations recognise: their clients were finding workarounds. And those workarounds were creating risk. ISM is one of France's leading professional interpretation services, with around 200 highly trained interpreters working across healthcare, social services, and humanitarian contexts. Their work is excellent. But the need in the market is vast — and when clients couldn't get an interpreter quickly enou

A response to the CAIDP Index 2026, and the question every major framework has left unasked. The Center for AI and Digital Policy released its 2026 Index this week. The findings are worth taking seriously. Forty-five countries now support the international AI Treaty. New AI laws passed in China, Japan, South Korea, Peru, and Vietnam. The UN established a scientific panel on AI with global participation. European countries are moving forward with the EU AI Act. The CAIDP's co

AI companion apps are scaling into the communities you already serve: LGBTQ youth, refugees, people with disabilities, migrants, and young people navigating identity in contexts of stigma, exclusion, and sometimes violence. The organizations best positioned to shape how this technology evolves are the ones serving these communities and who have earned their trust. What Your Organization Already Brings Humanitarian and development organizations have spent decades building exac

Africa's AI policy corpus is one of the most ambitious on earth — and it has a blind spot. It frames sovereignty as a question of who controls AI at the state or continental level. Win that contest, and sovereignty is achieved. But power can sit in Addis Ababa instead of Silicon Valley and citizens can still be outside the room where decisions are made.

We recorded this episode while wars were being fought and AI was already part of the story. It shapes how conflict is waged, how it's reported, and how displaced people try to survive it. A recent report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that AI systems used in foreign policy simulations show systematic bias toward escalation and conflict scenarios. These systems don't just reflect decisions. They shape how threats are understood and how force is j

PwC and half the consulting world are promising that AI will unlock value in workforce planning, learning, and internal mobility. Maybe. But that framing assumes the underlying system is worth optimizing. Increasingly, it isn't. That's where Nico Decock starts. Author of Rewiring the Human Delta , organizational thinker, and one of the sharper diagnosticians of why institutions keep failing at transformation, Nico doesn't argue that organizations are moving too slowly on AI.

A recent Devex article raises a question that deserves a serious answer: when a frontier AI company partners with a developing nation, what does genuine capacity building actually require? Anthropic's engagement in Rwanda has been framed as an investment in AI talent and infrastructure. Rwanda has positioned itself as a continental tech leader, with strong digital governance ambitions and a track record of coordinated, state-led development. On the surface, this looks like s