For the finale of Model Citizens, we ditch the easy takes and stare straight at the hard stuff: what does financial regulation look like when AI moves faster than institutions? Kareem Saleh joins Alex Johnson with guests PR Stark (FinRegLab) and Tom Brown (Paul Hastings) to unpack deepfakes, agentic AI, and the comeback of model risk management.
They lay out how a realistic deepfake could trigger a bank run, why attribution and fairness get messy when agents make decisions, and how model governance—testing, monitoring, explainability—becomes the regulatory export that actually works. The thread through it all: protecting consumers and market stability when the information environment is volatile.
If you care about the future of fair lending and financial safety, this episode is the blueprint and the warning label.
