by iqentity | Jul 25, 2024 | Development, Tessera
Tessera has been in active use for six months. The architecture is stable. The data is growing. The capabilities are expanding. It is time for an honest accounting of where things stand. What Works Trimodal retrieval delivers. The combination of vector, graph, and...
by iqentity | Jul 24, 2024 | AI Ethics
When we talk about AI ethics, we are really talking about power: who has it, how it is exercised, and what accountability exists when it is exercised poorly. AI concentrates decision-making power in systems and the people who build them. Ethics is the discipline of...
by iqentity | Jul 22, 2024 | Shadow AI
The velocity of new AI tool releases exceeds the capacity of any IT governance process to evaluate them. A new AI capability appears weekly. The evaluation backlog grows. Employees, facing no sanctioned alternative, use the unsanctioned option. The cycle accelerates....
by iqentity | Jul 20, 2024 | Development, Tessera
People hear “AI trained on twenty-three years of personal data” and their first reaction is discomfort. That reaction is healthy, and it deserves a serious answer. What Makes Personal AI Creepy Most personal AI attempts are creepy because they simulate...
by iqentity | Jul 19, 2024 | AI Ethics
The fundamental challenge of AI ethics is not knowing what is right. It is building organizations that consistently do what is right when doing so is inconvenient, expensive, or slow. Ethics is easy in the abstract. It is difficult in the quarterly planning meeting....
by iqentity | Jul 18, 2024 | Development, Tessera
The most valuable thing Tessera does is something I did not design explicitly. It surfaces connections across domains that I would not have made on my own, or would have made too late. A client’s recurring network instability turned out to correlate with a...
by iqentity | Jul 17, 2024 | AI Misuse
The liability exposure from AI misuse is poorly understood by most organizations. When an employee uses AI to fabricate a deliverable, misrepresent data, or create misleading communications, the organization may bear legal responsibility regardless of whether it...
by iqentity | Jul 15, 2024 | Business Strategy
The data quality problem is perennial and under-addressed. Organizations that would never make a strategic decision based on a bad spreadsheet routinely feed bad data into AI systems and expect good outputs. The principle is the same. The scale is different. The...
by iqentity | Jul 12, 2024 | Business Strategy
The ROI conversation for AI is fundamentally different from traditional technology ROI because the value creation mechanism is different. Traditional software automates tasks. AI augments judgment. You can measure task automation in hours saved. Measuring judgment...
by iqentity | Jul 10, 2024 | Business Strategy
Most organizations overestimate their AI readiness. They have data, but not the right data. They have technical talent, but not enough of it. They have executive sponsorship, but not sustained executive attention. The gap between readiness assessment and readiness...
