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## Segment 7 — governance

## Article 82 — a082

# Reid Blackman

**Role in this source:** Author of the article and the originating voice for its entire argument.

**Profile:** A philosopher turned AI-ethics-and-digital-risk consultant. Founder and CEO of **Virtue** ([[entity-virtue]]), an AI governance consultancy. Author of *The Ethical Nightmare Challenge* and *Ethical Machines* (both published by [[entity-harvard-business-review-press]]), and creator of the trademarked **Ethical Nightmare Challenge™** framework. He has nearly a decade of experience designing AI ethical-risk programs for Fortune 500 companies.

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- Originator of [[concept-ethical-nightmare-challenge]] and its [[framework-enc-questions]].
- Designer of [[concept-enc-teams]] and the [[concept-first-line-defense-shift]] restructuring.
- Critic of [[concept-standard-rai-approach]] / [[framework-standard-rai-model]] and diagnostician of [[concept-agentic-ai-governance-gap]].
- Advances all four core claims: [[claim-standard-rai-too-slow]], [[claim-values-wrong-start]], [[claim-nightmares-create-alignment]], [[claim-cross-functional-necessity]].
- Source of the contrarian insights [[contrarian-values-vs-nightmares]] and [[contrarian-corporate-optimism-liability]].
- Speaker of quotes [[quote-standard-approach-broken]], [[quote-tower-of-babel]], and [[quote-lip-service-to-fairness]].

**Enrichment note:** His canonical references are his personal site / author profile and Virtue Consultants. He also appears in the DataCamp podcast episode "What's Your Biggest AI Ethical Nightmare?" and publishes an AI-ethics Substack and LinkedIn commentary that echo this article's arguments.