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Inside SAP’s AI ethics policy

Trellis Group (formerly GreenBiz) · · International · AI Governance

SAP, one of the world's largest enterprise software companies, has an internal AI ethics policy that governs how it develops and deploys artificial intelligence across its products and operations.

Why this matters: Enterprise software runs quietly inside most large companies and governments. SAP touches payroll, procurement, HR, and supply chains for thousands of organizations. When a company that size sets AI ethics rules, those rules shape decisions that affect millions of workers who never agreed to be governed by them. The real test is not what the policy says. It is whether the policy has teeth, who enforces it, and whether customers and workers can actually see what it permits.

Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy

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