The Signal Room | AI in Healthcare: Strategy, Governance & Ethical Leadership

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Ex-Intelligence Officer: 80% Of Legal Work Could Be Done By AI | Bennett B. Borden

June 17
49 mins

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Before he was advising boards on AI strategy, Bennett Bordon spent eight years as a U.S. intelligence analyst, then went to law school, then earned a graduate degree in data analytics. That cross-disciplinary background eventually led him to analyze a decade of billing data from 14,000 attorneys, and conclude that roughly 80% of what lawyers do today is better done by AI.

Bordon is now the founder and CEO of Clarion AI Partners, a boutique firm that advises companies on AI governance, risk, and strategy while also building the AI systems themselves. In this conversation with host Chris, he breaks down:

  • Why he left a top-10 law firm to build Clarion instead of trying to "turn the Titanic" on the billable hour
  •  The "Iron Man, not Terminator" framework for thinking about AI and human work
  • How the legal concept of reasonableness — what did you identify, what did you do about it, can you prove it — keeps companies defensible in an unsettled regulatory landscape
  • Why 80% of AI adoption is a psychological and change-management problem, not a technology problem
  • How AI governance committees go wrong when they're owned entirely by tech, compliance, or the business alone
  • The work Clarion does on child safety, access to justice, and public policy as AI scales globally

A wide-ranging look at what it actually takes to deploy AI responsibly, from the boardroom down to the workflow level.

Find Bennett Bordon at clarionaipartners.com or on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennett-borden/
Website: https://clarionai.com/

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