by iqentity | Feb 21, 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 19, 2024 | AI Ethics
The gap between ethical intention and ethical outcome is bridged by process, not aspiration. Organizations that have ethical AI principles but no ethical AI processes have principles in name only. Every AI deployment makes implicit ethical choices. The training data...
by iqentity | Feb 16, 2024 | AI Ethics
AI ethics is not a constraint on innovation. It is a quality standard for innovation. An AI system that produces biased outcomes, violates privacy, or makes unexplainable decisions is not a good system that happens to be unethical. It is a bad system. The gap between...
by iqentity | Feb 15, 2024 | Development, Tessera
I have been the person who gets called when things are broken for over two decades. Server failures, security breaches, botched migrations, ransomware incidents, infrastructure collapses. The pattern is always the same: something is on fire, the client is panicking,...
by iqentity | Feb 14, 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 | Feb 12, 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 9, 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...
by iqentity | Feb 8, 2024 | Development, Tessera
Early in the design process, I considered building two separate systems: one for professional artifacts and one for personal. The professional system would handle technical remediation, client management, and business operations. The personal system would handle life...
by iqentity | Feb 7, 2024 | Development, Tessera
Every serious project starts with a language decision, and most teams make it by defaulting to whatever they already know. I am making this one deliberately because the choice has downstream consequences that compound. What Tessera Needs Tessera’s core function...
by iqentity | Feb 5, 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....