Welcome to The Agentic Insider! Our first episode provides valuable insights from two of Iridius’ Co-Founders: Phillip Swan and Alistair Lowe-Norris. Together, they discuss the opportunity of AI today. They address the significant gaps in the AI industry regarding safety, responsibility, and trustworthiness. They discuss the challenges of implementing AI systems, including the importance of selecting the right use cases, ensuring data quality, and leveraging autonomous intelligent agents. Emphasizing the need for ethical, safe, and compliant AI, the duo shares insights on how organizations can innovate confidently while adhering to privacy and data protection standards. They also hint at future episodes featuring industry experts and real-world AI applications - something you won’t want to miss!

Takeaways:

• Understand the AI Gap: Recognize the gap in how AI systems are implemented and whether they are safe and responsible. Companies need to ensure their AI systems are transparent, unbiased, and using data responsibly.
• Choosing the Right Use Case: Identify the correct business outcomes that align with AI capabilities. Ensure that AI is truly suited for the intended use case and that the ROI is tangible.
• Managing Data Quality: Ensure data is clean and structured properly before deploying AI systems. Poor data quality can significantly hinder the effectiveness of AI solutions.
• Importance of Governance: Emphasize the need for corporate culture alignment in AI implementations to avoid "rogue" AI behavior. Agents must be programmed to understand and adhere to the organization's code of conduct.
• Security and Compliance by Design: Implement AI with built-in compliance and security measures. This includes adherence to global standards like ISO, GDPR, and other privacy and security regulations.
• Ethics in AI: Develop AI that is fair, accountable, transparent, and interpretable. Companies should actively disclose how AI decisions are made and ensure ethical principles are embedded in AI systems.

Quote of the Show:

• “AI is built on data. If you've got garbage going in, you get garbage coming out.” - Alistair Lowe-Norris

Links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-swan/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistaln/ 
• Website: https://iridius.ai/ 

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