Where AI-Enabled Compliance Training Can and Can’t Help

AI-enabled compliance training is reshaping how organizations develop and deliver training—especially for high-stakes topics, like harassment prevention or data privacy. Generative tools such as ChatGPT, HeyGen, and Synthesia (even inside your LMS) are enabling teams to create quick, DIY AI-driven compliance training courses, though these rapid builds often lack nuance.

The short answer: use AI but don’t go it alone.

Here’s what innovative compliance teams are doing to move quickly with AI content generation, without wasting unnecessary time.

AI-Enabled Compliance Training Is Fast, But Needs a Legal Foundation

AI is excellent at adapting and customizing content, but it needs a solid foundation to work from, especially when it comes to legally sensitive topics.

Training on issues like Harassment Prevention, Cybersecurity, or Code of Conduct must be aligned with legal requirements and regulatory standards. That’s not something you want to leave to chance or unverified prompts. If you start from scratch with AI, the risk of inaccuracies (or worse, non-compliance) goes up fast.

That’s why Ethena starts with legally vetted, expert-authored content—then layers in AI customization to tailor compliance training to your organization’s needs. Ethena works with law firms like Baker McKenzie, McGuireWoods, and Fieldfisher to ensure we stay on top of the most important legal changes to the compliance landscape.

The result? Training that’s both foundationally accurate and yet fast to edit and customize.

DIY AI-Enabled Compliance Training Sounds Simple—Until It’s Not

Creating compliance training might sound straightforward: write a few lessons, add a quiz, and you’re done. But the reality is more nuanced.

You need to account for evolving regulations, local laws, company culture, internal policies, tone, accessibility, and instructional design best practices. And doing that with AI alone without deep expertise can lead to oversights or inconsistencies that undermine both the learning experience and legal protection.

AI goes off the rails fast as hallucinations happen. You might start by prompting for something very specific, yet get something completely different.

This only gets worse with video. For example, take the prompt of a scenario where one actor mocks the appearance of another. All too often new ideas can be added to the picture such as both actors having that same appearance or something as nuanced as a grin at the wrong time. At Ethena we've seen AI make many of these fundamental mistakes.

The result is entire scenarios fall apart and countless hours need to be wasted re-prompting (all too often in frustration without making progress).

While AI-Gen video is impressive in its realism, all too often it’s subject to pitfalls including:

• Difficulty maintaining consistency of actors
• Producing content that is difficult to edit and incorporate into existing courses
• Hallucinations that introduce unintended or inappropriate content

The bottom line: you can waste a lot of time creating videos that just aren’t quite right.

How Ethena Enables Smart AI-Enabled Compliance Training

We believe in using AI in compliance training where it shines—like personalizing examples, translating content, and adapting scenarios to your company’s culture. We have the team and tools that make it easy and intuitive, whether you're a startup adding problem scenarios to Harassment Prevention or an enterprise tailoring your global Code of Conduct training.

The difference? With Ethena, AI works with experts, not instead of experts. You get to harness its power while maintaining speed and reducing risks.

The Future of Compliance Training Is AI-Enabled and Human-Led

We all know AI’s power is not a substitute for expertise, accountability, or sound judgment. That’s especially true in compliance, where clarity, inclusion, and credibility matter deeply.

Rather than trying to figure it out using someone else’s tools, work with a partner who understands the space and has built AI-powered solutions for it. That’s how you get compliance training that’s legally sound, culturally relevant, and actually enjoyable to take (because it’s human-led, after all).

Ready to see how AI in compliance training can improve speed, personalization, and legal soundness?

Let’s talk or book a demo, and we’ll show how Ethena fuses best-in-class content with AI innovation—no compromise on quality or compliance.