#QualityMatters Podcast | Simplifying Quality Management, Risk & Compliance – One Episode at a Time

#QualityMatters Podcast | Simplifying Quality Management, Risk & Compliance – One Episode at a Time


Lessons from the Autopen Controversy: What Businesses Need to Know | Ep 211

March 18, 2025

The Autopen controversy isn’t just a political debate—it raises real concerns about document control, compliance, and security that affect businesses just as much as governments. In this episode, Kyle Chambers and Caleb Adcock examined the risks of automated signatures, using the presidential pardon debate as a case study to highlight issues in business document approval processes.

Here’s what we discussed and the key lessons businesses should take away from it.

1. A Signature is More Than Just a Mark—It’s Accountability

One of the biggest concerns with Autopen is that it allows a document to be signed without the direct action of the signatory. That raises a simple but important question: Who is truly responsible for a document signed this way?