AI on Trial: Professor Kai London on Whether You Could Defend Your Algorithm's Decision in Court
By the Daneborg Times Technology Desk Professor Kai London — board advisor & interim CISO/CIO/CTO. Credit: professorkailondon.com An algorithm approves a loan, screens a job applicant, flags a transaction as fraud, or shapes a decision that changes someone's life. Then it is challenged — by a regulator, a claimant, an insurer or a judge — and the question becomes brutally simple. Could you prove the decision was fair? “That is the question most organisations cannot answer,” says Professor Kai London , a senior technology and governance executive. “And it is the question that will decide who wins and who loses in the age of enterprise AI.” “AI now decides outcomes that matter. When one of those outcomes is contested, the winner is not the organisation with the cleverest model. It is the one that can produce the evidence.” Capability is loud; accountability is quiet London's argument is that the market has been dazzled by what AI can do and inattentive to what organisations...