EthikAI Institute · Independent AI governance verification
From policy to evidence.
We show what your organization can prove about the artificial intelligence it uses.
Independent verification of artificial intelligence governance, with methodological and scientific rigor. Diagnostics, training, and executive sessions in which every conclusion states the evidence that supports it.
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If tomorrow the board, a regulator, or a judge asks how your organization governs AI, what can it show?
AI systems already take part in decisions about people in credit, selection, customer service, health, education, security, and the administration of justice. It is no longer enough to state that the organization has principles, committees, or policies; it is necessary to demonstrate that controls exist, that they work, and that someone is accountable for them. Between what is declared and what can be proven opens up the space of cosmetic compliance, in which documents replace controls and the formal presence of a human reviewer stands in for supervision. It is in this space that the Institute works.
of the senior AI executives surveyed at US public companies with revenue above US$ 1 billion say they have a formal AI governance policy; 47% say the organization has already failed to apply it in urgent deployments (EY, September 2026)
of organizations that suffered AI-related incidents did not have adequate access controls for their AI systems (IBM and Ponemon Institute, 2026)
of non-conformity in automatic denials by the INSS, and 13.20% in manual ones: the harm does not arise from regulation, but from the absence of documentation and demonstrable controls (Federal Court of Accounts, Ruling 634/2025) See the source (TCU)
WHO LEADS
Paola Cantarini Guerra
Founder and president of Instituto EthikAI
A legal scholar and philosopher with three doctorates, in Law and Philosophy (PUC-SP) and in Philosophy of Law (Università del Salento), and ten postdoctoral programs. She coordinates the AI Governance Group of the Understanding AI project at the Institute of Advanced Studies of USP. In 2026, she is a guest researcher at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin, and a visiting researcher at Université Paris Cité. She personally leads and signs the Institute's work.
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Quem verifica? no. 1 · November 2026
Human presence is not human control. What changed, what can be proven, and what to ask at the next meeting.