AI With Ellen - The Hidden Cost of Retrofitting AI Compliance
Next Wednesday at AI With Ellen, join Ellen Blackwell and Dr. Sebastian Brickel for a timely conversation about one of the most overlooked risks in AI deployment: accountability.
Most AI agents are released without a clearly named owner.
Not because teams are careless, but because ownership can feel like administrative paperwork compared with the urgency of building, testing, and launching. It gets postponed—and often forgotten.
The system continues to run. The agent produces recommendations. Decisions are made. Everything appears to be working.
Then an auditor, regulator, customer, or plaintiff asks a simple question:
Who was accountable for this decision?
A review process is not the same as a named owner. Human oversight is not meaningful when no one has the authority and responsibility to act. Assigning accountability after something goes wrong is far more expensive—and far more difficult—than designing it into the system from the beginning.
In this session, Dr. Sebastian Brickel and Ellen Blackwell will explore:
Why accountability gaps in AI systems are structural, not accidental
Why human review alone does not establish ownership
How unclear decision authority creates compliance, audit, and litigation risk
What organizations should put in place before an AI agent is deployed
How to build governance that protects the business without slowing innovation
This is an essential conversation for executives, AI leaders, consultants, compliance professionals, and anyone responsible for deploying AI in regulated or high-risk environments.
Come prepared for practical insights, thoughtful discussion, and a clearer understanding of how to make AI innovation defensible, accountable, and audit-ready.
About Dr. Sebastian Brickel
Sebastian Brickel is an AI governance and automation consultant with a PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Basel. Through The Remote Consultant and his writing on LinkedIn, he helps leadership teams prepare for the EU AI Act and deploy AI without losing accountability or audit readiness.
Based in Spain, Sebastian works with organizations across Europe, with particular expertise in regulated industries, life sciences, medtech, and pharma.
Hosted by Ellen Blackwell
Ellen Blackwell is the Founder and Managing Partner of Falcon AI Solutions, where she helps organizations turn AI strategy into responsible, practical, and measurable business execution.
Join us next Wednesday for a conversation that could save your organization from having to answer the accountability question too late.