Too many to mention here but to focus on just one cognitive bias, confirmation bias is frequently featured in leadership development as the single greatest hindrance to good decision making.
Category: Industries
Our expertise and focus is within industries which benefit most from the use of Artificial Intelligence based technologies such as natural language processing (NLP) video analytics and deep learning, biometrics and automated facial recognition.
For the purpose of security and safety, process optimisation and convergence, AI is being applied ethically and effectively across a number of sectors from mobility/transportation, retail, manufacturing, critical infrastructure and smart cities.
Industry-First Ethical and Legal Guide to Automated Facial Recognition
The British Security Industry Association launches its Guide to the Legal and Ethical use of Automated Facial Recognition (AFR)...
Face your fear of technology
The unknowns around the application of technologies contained within the field of AI such as Automatic Facial Recognition can stimulate a sense of fear in some people. But although fear is not a tangible thing, rather a feeling, it can…
Welcome aboard the Star Ship Enterprise
The “Star Ship Enterprise” was the innovation hub at the heart of the iconic 60’s TV series. Long before space exploitation became a reality, futurists created images of society enhanced by invention to improve humanity.When both satellite-based technology and AI…
Automated Facial Recognition – is the AI or the human biased?
AI keeps us safe, working in the background in security operations centres. AI gets us through an airport quickly. AI and satellite technology get us to the right location faster AI saves time when it recommends our movies, AI makes…
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Real or Deep Fake?
Eliminating deep fakes from circulation must remain high on the ethical agenda. If you’re not familiar with the term, they are altered digital images or audio files which make you believe that a cleverly disguised falsehood is a fair representation…
Think you have the full picture?
All Anekanta Consulting's core values and philosophies are based around this parable. “Several blindfolded people are each given the task of identifying a large animal (an elephant) using their sense of touch alone. Each declares a different result; a wall,…
Beneficial AI based technology reveals systemic bias, leading to stronger laws and policies
It has always been our belief that the use of AI may challenge long standing practices and even help to remove bias whether it's overt or less so when based on societal anachronisms. Looking through the lens at the application…
The hack that could make face recognition think someone else is you
This is an interesting story for the security community. Mcafee proved that they could automatically alter the characteristics of a face beyond recognition, and using a generative adversarial neural network, a form of AI, fooled the AFR into identifying someone…
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AI transparency in the physical security domain
This article was first published in Fire and Security Matters Magazine July 2020: https://www.fsmatters.com/Artificial-Intelligence-The-Transparency-Challenge Why should we challenge the transparency of AI? A powerful new general purpose AI technology has emerged from the computer science community. GPT 3.0 contains over…