Ethika Group

21/12/2025

Your employees often know where AI can add the most value. Bottom-up adoption creates better ideas and stronger outcomes. With the right safeguards, AI becomes a practical tool in everyday work, because good governance isn’t about controlling AI. It’s about trust, transparency, and creating space for safe experimentation.

How is your business supporting people to use AI confidently?

20/12/2025

Let’s be honest, AI isn’t plug-and-play. Building safe and effective systems means understanding risk, governance, and the human side of adoption.

If your business is exploring AI, we can help you integrate it responsibly and with confidence.

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19/12/2025

CEOs everywhere are asking how to get started with AI. True readiness comes from culture. Digitally literate teams, supportive leadership and a willingness to learn together. When people feel confident, AI becomes far easier to adopt safely.

How prepared is your organisation?

18/12/2025

Australia’s new National AI Plan steps back from mandatory guardrails, focusing instead on existing laws and a new AI Safety Institute to monitor emerging risks.
For organisations, responsible AI use is still essential; transparency, governance and strong data practices matter more than ever.

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16/12/2025

Would you use an AI-powered tool to monitor your third-party providers?
With compliance pressures rising, oversight is now a core governance responsibility.
Static questionnaires and annual reviews can’t keep up with risks that shift every day.
Imagine a system that tracks suppliers, updates risk scores and alerts you when issues emerge.
That’s modern governance, giving you more insight, faster responses and stronger protection.

15/12/2025

AI regulation is becoming one of the biggest questions facing governments and organisations.

Too little oversight erodes trust. Too much slows innovation.

The challenge is building governance that can keep pace with fast-moving technology.
Most rules weren’t designed for this level of change, and it shows.

I’d love to hear your view. Should regulation tighten, or do we need more flexibility?

13/12/2025

More boards are still treating AI as an IT topic, and it is becoming clear that this no longer works.

AI is shaping decisions, workflows and customer experience, which puts it firmly in governance territory.

If a board cannot answer where AI is used, what data drives it and who is accountable, something is missing.

Good governance is what enables safe innovation and builds trust across the whole system.

11/12/2025

Small habits shape big results.

AI is becoming one of those habits in daily work, and the impact adds up quickly.

The only way it works safely is with clear rules and a straightforward framework.
What is approved.
What is not.
What good use looks like.

If you want AI to help, start with a strong framework and watch it grow.

03/12/2025

'People often say AI is powerful.
That is only true when it has context.

Give it nothing and it produces generic answers.
Give it your rules, your workflows and your language and it becomes a genuinely strategic tool.

Context is the multiplier.
It is what turns a prompt into something you can act on.

If you are thinking about AI, ask a simple question:
“Does this system understand our business?”

If the answer is no, the value will always be limited.

28/11/2025

AI is moving fast, faster than most expected. And with that comes a mix of excitement and unease as we balance possibility with responsibility. Many leaders are feeling both at once, and that tension is healthy. It means we’re paying attention. How we choose to approach AI today will shape our organisations and future generations.
Where are you sitting? Optimistic, cautious, or both?

09/11/2025

APRA's key priorities for the FS industry:

1. Cyber - 91% of banks, insurers and super funds rated cyber security as a Critical or High risk. Despite CPS 234 being in force since 2019 "the pace of improvement has been slower than expected or required".

2. Heavy reliance on Legacy systems - Digital transformation programs to replace business critical end of support systems pose operational and governance challenges that require strong risk oversight and robust technology roadmaps.

3. Cloud and concentration risk - There is an increasing reliance in the FS industry on the same 3rd or 4th party cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure) to deliver Critical Operations amplifying concentration risk. Robust contingency planning and scenario testing is even more essential under CPS 230.

APRA has published a speech by Member Suzanne Smith to the Financial Services & ASX Sector Assurance Forum in Sydney.

09/11/2025