AI, Compliance & Community - The Future of Social Impact

Episode summary

Andrea Kanaris and Ildiko Simsic look at where AI genuinely raises the bar in environmental and social risk work - and where it quietly makes practice worse. They cover MyESRA and what a good AI tool actually does for a practitioner, compliance versus lived-experience impact, why emotional intelligence still wins on site, and how supply-chain due diligence is reshaping ENS work.

Key takeaways

• AI raises the floor on ENS practice but does not raise the ceiling.
• Compliance and impact are not the same target - do not conflate them.
• Emotional intelligence beats technology on any real site visit.
• Supply-chain due diligence is quietly the biggest growth area in ENS.