by iqentity | Mar 8, 2024 | AI Misuse
Most organizational controls were designed for a world where creating convincing fakes required skill and effort. AI has democratized fabrication. An employee with no special expertise can now produce convincing false documents, synthetic communications, or fabricated...
by iqentity | Mar 6, 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 | Mar 5, 2024 | Development, Tessera
The knowledge graph is Tessera’s nervous system. Vector embeddings capture what things mean. The lexical index captures what things say. The graph captures how things relate. And relationships, not content, are what make a life assistant possible. I spent three...
by iqentity | Mar 4, 2024 | AI Misuse
AI misuse in organizational settings is increasing in both frequency and sophistication. The same capabilities that make generative AI valuable for productivity make it valuable for deception, fabrication, and circumvention of controls. Most organizational controls...
by iqentity | Mar 1, 2024 | AI Ethics
Every AI deployment makes implicit ethical choices. The training data encodes values. The objective function prioritizes outcomes. The deployment context determines who is affected. Pretending these choices are purely technical is itself an ethical position, and not a...
by iqentity | Feb 28, 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 | Feb 27, 2024 | Development, Tessera
The AI industry’s default assumption is cloud. Need language understanding? Call OpenAI. Need embeddings? Hit the API. Need synthesis? Send your text to someone else’s server and trust their terms of service. Tessera will never do this. Not as a...
by iqentity | Feb 26, 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 | Feb 23, 2024 | Development, Tessera
I made the architecture decision that will define Tessera’s deployment model. The system will be designed from the ground up for air-gapped operation. No external network dependencies. No telemetry. No cloud services. Everything runs locally, on hardware I...
by iqentity | Feb 22, 2024 | Development, Tessera
Human memory is not a database. It is a lossy, reconstructive, emotionally weighted system that prioritizes differently depending on context. The best moments of engineering Tessera have been the moments where I stopped trying to build a perfect recall system and...
