Solari Perspectives

England and Wales has produced, within a single year, both the first regulatory authorisation of an AI-driven law firm and the sharpest judicial warning yet issued about unverified AI output, and the space between those two decisions is where professional AI governance now lives.

Forced-labour enforcement has moved from disclosure statutes to border interdiction, and the EU Forced Labour Regulation's December 2027 application date sets the deadline for compliance architecture built in the reporting era.

When the chief executive of a public fintech announces that the company will rehire human customer-service agents after the AI deployment that replaced them did not meet quality standards, the institutional finding is not about artificial intelligence; it is about the architecture of the workforce decision that produced both the reduction and the reversal, and about the cost asymmetry that makes the wrong workforce decision one of the most expensive errors a P&L owner can make.

A decade after the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights established the corporate responsibility to respect, six jurisdictions now operate mandatory human rights due diligence regimes in parallel, and the institutional question that distinguishes compliance from exposure is no longer whether a company has a supply chain policy but which function inside the company owns each tier of the diligence, and whether that allocation survives contact with operations.

After Mata v. Avianca, AI hallucinations are now a sanctions risk. The documentation standard for law firms using generative AI in practice.

AI systems used in hiring are now a defined high-risk category under the EU AI Act and EEOC guidance. What employment AI compliance requires from HR, legal, and operations teams.

The EU Omnibus raised CSDDD application thresholds. What remains of European human rights due diligence obligations — and what the operational standard looks like for companies that remain in scope.

The operational architecture of human rights due diligence in mining and extractive industries — aligning the UN Guiding Principles, OECD Due Diligence Guidance, and Voluntary Principles with real operational requirements.

AI governance for regulated industries: what it means to govern AI deployment responsibly, and what the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001 actually require of mid-market organizations.