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What AI can find, and who answers for it.

Wilson Elser brought privacy, security and AI governance together in New York City on 30 Sep. 2026. Matthew McQueeney joined the panel for AAAnow, on what AI can find about an organisation and who is responsible for it.

ARTICLE ID ART/2026/AI/0044
PUBLISHED 1 Oct. 2026
AUTHOR Matthew McQueeney
READ TIME 2 min

“Convergence” was exactly the right name for Wilson Elser’s event in New York City on 30 Sep. 2026, co-sponsored by Ankura and Privado AI.

It brought general counsel, cybersecurity leaders, insurers and other risk professionals together to examine where privacy, security and AI governance now meet. AI runs through the work of each of those groups, and it amplifies the decisions and risks they already share.

01The panel.

Matthew McQueeney joined the panel on how companies use AI, including in employment. For AAAnow, he set out an outside-in question.

What can AI actually find about your organization, and who is responsible when that information is inaccessible, inconsistent, or wrong?
Matthew McQueeney, AAAnow, at Convergence.
The Convergence panel seated at a long table, with the panellists listed on the screens behind them. Wilson Elser, New York City.
The panel at Convergence. Wilson Elser, New York City, 30 Sep. 2026.

02Why audit comes first.

The question goes to the 2 questions at the centre of AAAnow’s work. Is the organisation fit for AI visibility: found, read correctly, and represented in terms it would stand behind? And are its directors and officers becoming increasingly, and unnecessarily, exposed as AI grows?

As organisations move further into AI, audit is key. What AI repeats becomes the organisation’s answer, and the people accountable answer for it, so the liabilities and responsibilities of directors and officers now reach the information AI can find. An outside-in audit gives them an evidenced position: what AI can reach, how it reads it, and where the published record no longer reflects the organisation.

Monitoring governance from that position helps minimise the risks as the organisation advances and grows. For lawyers advising clients who are embracing AI, the same audit gives a factual starting point for that advice.

03With thanks.

The discussions were excellent onstage and off, and carried on into the evening at a well-curated midtown location. AAAnow thanks Jana Farmer, AIGP, CIPP/US, FIP, Partner at Wilson Elser, the fellow panellists, and the Wilson Elser team for a thoughtful event.

The Convergence panellists standing together in front of a Wilson Elser banner, New York City.
The panel together at Convergence, New York City.

The photographs from the day hang in the Gallery. Read more at convergence.aaanow.aiAAAnow, ConvergenceWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened.

Sources.

The event details in this article. Addresses are shown for reference.

  1. Wilson Elser · Convergence: The Intersection of Privacy, Security & AI Governance
    Event page · 30 Sep. 2026, New York City. Hosts, sponsors, audience and format. https://www.wilsonelser.com/events/convergence-the-intersection-of-privacy-security-ai-governanceWilson ElserWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  2. AAAnow · Convergence
    Further reading from the day. https://convergence.aaanow.ai/AAAnow, ConvergenceWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  3. AAAnow · Attending Convergence? Join us in New York.
    The article ahead of the event, 18 Sep. 2026. https://aaanow.ai/articles/convergence-wilson-elser/
  4. AAAnow · AI Governance
    How AAAnow approaches AI Governance, from the outside in. https://aaanow.ai/service/ai-governance/
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