Articles
Writing from the founder of synthetic cfo on synthetic financial data, forensic accounting and how to evaluate a generator.
2026
Six incidents, chosen by the company that had them
A few days ago I wrote that OpenAI had conceded it has no standard for when to disclose misalignment. That same day it published one. It builds two of the four things a disclosure regime needs, and the two it cannot build for itself are the two that do the work.
AI safety has discovered auditing, and auditing has notes
A researcher's resignation set off a week in which the frontier labs asked for embedded evaluators, tests a model cannot see coming, and a licensed profession to run them. Audit has done all of it for a century, and the hard lessons are the ones being skipped.
Label Provenance and Innocent Populations in Synthetic ERP Fraud Benchmarks
Labelled occupational fraud data is scarce, because identifying fraud inside real enterprise ledgers requires both known cases and expensive expert annotation.
The Death of Anonymization: Why Masking ERP Data is Poisoning your AI
The Cost of Hallucinations: Why South Africa’s AI Policy Collapse is a Warning for Enterprise Finance
