Getting Your Company Ready For AI/Tech - What Boards Need to Know
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Getting Your Company Ready For AI/Tech - What Boards Need to Know

Guy Huntington Guy Huntington

Guy Huntington

Trailblazing Human and Entity Identity & Learning Visionary - Created a new legal identity architecture for humans/ AI systems/bots and leveraged this to create a new learning architecture

Published Jun 19, 2023
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Updated May 18, 2024

How Fast Will Disruption Happen?

Look at this diagram. It shows you can now no longer cognitively keep up with tech change. Note the slowest rate of change is political i.e., government.

This is a challenge for your board and company – why?

• How can you keep up with the massive rate of change?

• How can you quickly leverage it to gain competitive advantage?

• How can you also quickly mitigate risk of the Evil Inc.’s of the planet leveraging the curve to create new attack vectors against you?

• It requires out of the box thinking for our out of the box times

AI Agents

To see what's coming skim these articles:

Innovation & Enterprise Hives

I carefully choose the pic at the beginning to show you the incoming tech tsunami wave is much more than “AI”

  • Physical and digital bots are rapidly emerging leveraging different forms of AI
  • They’re also accompanied by likely hundreds or thousands of small, increasingly sophisticated IoT (internet of things) devices
  • All of the above will work with your AI personal assistants in “hives” , as well as likely thousands of more enterprise AI agents doing tasks faster, cheaper and better - skim this to do a deeper dive
  • Yet, all this comes with LOTS of new…

RISK

How can you, a board member, determine if an AI system, physical or digital bot, or an AI agent you're interacting with is friend or foe? Answer…

  • Today on the planet, this legal identity framework doesn’t exist
  • Thus, your company is going to have to rapidly create its own internal standards to do this - skim “Part I AI Systems, Bots, AI Agents, IoT Devices, & Identity Architecture”
  • Then consider the Evil Inc.’s of the planet leveraging an AI system to produce malicious bots, at speeds of thousands per second, to target each of you, your C-suite, employees and customers, almost instantly creating deep fakes and misinformation. Skim this for a deeper dive.
  • How will each of you and your company be able to instantly detect this and mitigate risk?
  • All the above requires a rethink of your company’s innovation and risk structures…

New Company Innovation & Risk Committee

At the 100,000-foot level create new innovation & risk committee

  • IT MUST HAVE MEMBERS FROM ALL YOUR COMPANY’S DEPARTMENTS – why?
  • The tech change curve drives changes from all sorts of different directions affecting all parts of your enterprise
  • Further, risk mitigation requires all parts of the enterprise to be involved including HR, Legal, Marketing, Finance, Manufacturing, Security, etc.
  • It MUST meet daily to keep abreast of new innovation and then begin to determine risk levels
  • 1-2 of your members should attend meetings at least every other week to stay abreast of changes and risk

Skim “Part IV Enterprise Risk & Innovation Governance”.

All which requires....

New Risk & Security Model

Hypothetically, risk changes now second by second. Skim to the section titled “So, An Entity Within Your Enterprise Requires Their Own Security Model" in this article.

  • It also applies to each of you board members and your C-suite
  • Depending on what you’re doing, entities nearby, or ones you’re interacting with, etc. your risk levels change

It’s Overwhelming For Most People

However, you, at the board level must stay abreast.

  • Over time, not overnight, I can easily see AI Board agents being created for each of you to assist you in keeping up with innovation and risk at the Board level
  • Your company will increasingly leverage different forms of AI to hourly monitor for new innovations which., together with your new committee...
  • Determines risk levels
  • With friendly AI systems, physical and digital bots doing friendly attacks against your company’s governance, business processes, tech infrastructure and end users be they human, AI systems or bots

This Is The Future Madly Coming At You

You and your C-suite must up your game. There's not one thing to do, not one policy to create, not one defense that will work. It requires all parts of your company to come together to create dynamically changing policies, architecture, security, legal, HR, marketing, purchasing, manufacturing processes.

  • So, you can be like the turtle slowly lumbering down the road, running your Board as per usual, potentially getting run over by your competition or successfully attacked by the Evil Inc.s. or …
  • You can be like the hare, ready to nimbly move, taking advantage of the tech change, while mitigating your risks.

Contact me if you'd like to chat.

About Guy Huntington

I'm an identity trailblazing problem solver. My past clients include Boeing, Capital One and the Government of Alberta's Digital Citizen Identity & Authentication project. Many of my past projects were leading edge at the time in the identity/security space. I've spent the last eight years working my way through creating a new legal identity architecture and leveraging this to then rethink learning.

I've also done a lot in education as a volunteer over my lifetime. This included chairing my school district's technology committee in the 90's - which resulted in wiring most of the schools with optic fiber, behind building a technology leveraged school, and past president of Skills Canada BC and Skills Canada.

I do short term consulting for Boards, C-suites and Governments, assisting them in readying themselves for the arrival of AI systems, bots and AI leveraged, smart digital identities of humans.

I've written LOTS about the change coming. Skim the over 100 LinkedIn articles I've written, or my webpage with lots of papers.

Quotes I REALLY LIKE!!!!!!:

  • We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein
  • “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” – Robin Sharma
  • “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future” – John F. Kennedy

Reference Links:

An Identity Day in The Life:

My Message To Government & Industry Leaders:

National Security:

Rethinking Legal Identity, Credentials & Learning:

Learning Vision:

Creativity:

AI Agents:

Architecture:

AI/Human Legal Identity/Learning Cost References

AI Leveraged, Smart Digital Identities of Humans:

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A 100,000-Foot Level Summary Of Legal Human Identity

  • Each person when they’re born has their legal identity data plus their forensic biometrics (fingerprints, and later when they can keep their eyes open – their iris) entered into a new age CRVS system (Civil Registration Vital Statistics - birth, name/gender change, marriage/divorce and death registry) with data standards
  • The CRVS writes to an external database, per single person, the identity data plus their forensic biometrics called a SOLICT “Source of Legal Identity & Credential Truth). The person now controls this
  • As well, the CRVS also writes to the SOLICT legal identity relationships e.g. child/parent, cryptographically linking the SOLICTs. So Jane Doe and her son John will have cryptographic digitally signed links showing their parent/child. The same methodology can be used for power of attorney/person, executor of estate/deceased, etc.
  • The SOLICT in turn then pushes out the information to four different types of LSSI Devices “Legal Self-Sovereign Identity”; physical ID card, digital legal identity app, biometrically tied physical wristband containing identity information or a chip inserted into each person
  • The person is now able, with their consent, to release legal identity information about themselves. This ranges from being able to legally, anonymously prove they’re a human (and not a bot), above or below age of consent, Covid vaccinated, etc. It also means they can, at their discretion, release portions of their identity like gender, first name, legal name, address, etc.
  • NOTE: All consents granted by the person are stored in their SOLICT
  • Consent management for each person will be managed by their PIAM “Personal Identity Access Management) system. This is AI leveraged, allowing the person, at their discretion, to automatically create consent legal agreements on the fly
  • It works both locally and globally, physically and digitally anywhere on the planet
  • AI systems/bots are also registered, where risk requires it, in the new age CRVS system
  • Governance and continual threat assessment, is done by a new, global, independent, non-profit funded by a very small charge per CRVS event to a jurisdiction to a maximum yearly amount.

A 100,000-Foot Level Summary Of The Learning Vision:

  • When the learner is a toddler, with their parents’ consent, they’ll be assessed by a physical bot for their learning abilities. This will include sight, sound, hearing and smell, as well as hand-eye coordination, how they work or don’t work with others, learning abilities, all leveraging biometric and behavioral data
  • All consents given on behalf of the learner or, later in the learner’s life by the learner themselves, are stored in the learner’s SOLICT “Source of Legal Identity & Credential Truth”
  • This is fed into a DLT “Digital Learning Twin”, which is created and legally bound to the learner
  • The DLT the produces its first IEP “Individualized Education Plan”, for the learner
  • The parents take home with them a learning assistant bot to assist the learner, each day, in learning. The bot updates the DLT, which in turn continually refines the learner’s IEP
  • All learning data from the learner is stored in their LDV “Learner Data Vault”
  • When the learner’s first day of school comes, the parents prove the learner and their identities and legal relationship with the learner, via their LSSI devices (Legal Self-Sovereign Identity)
  • With their consent, they approve how the learner’s identity information will be used not only within the school, but also in AI/AR/VR learning environments
  • As well, the parents give their consent for the learner’s DLT, IEP and learning assistant bot to be used, via their PIAM (Personal Identity Access Management) and the learner’s PIAM
  • The schools LMS “Learning Management System” instantly takes the legal consent agreements, plus the learner’s identity and learning information, and integrates this with the school’s learning systems
  • From the first day, each learner is delivered a customized learning program, continually updated by both human and AI system/bot learning specialists, as well as sensors, learning assessments, etc.
  • All learner data collected in the school, is stored in the learner’s LDV
  • If the learner enters any AI/AR/VR type learning environment, consent agreements are created instantly on the fly with the learner, school, school districts, learning specialists, etc. 
  • These specify how the learner will be identified, learning data use, storage, deletion, etc.
  • When the learner acquires learning credentials, these are digitally signed by the authoritative learning authority, and written to the learner’s SOLICT.
  • The SOLICT in turn pushes these out to the learner’s LSSI devices
  • The learner is now in control of their learning credentials
  • When the learner graduates, they’ll be able, with their consent, to offer use of their DLT, IEP and LDV to employers, post-secondary, etc. This significantly reduces time and costs to train or help the learner learn
  • The learner continually leverages their DLT/IEP/LDV until their die i.e., it’s a lifelong learning system
  • IT’S TRANSFORMATIONAL OVER TIME, NOT OVERNIGHT



Kirsten Alice Smith

CGP, FCG, AICD Chartered Governance Professional | NFP Board Specialist | AGIA | Director

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Excellent in-depth article. I have saved it as I will be referencing specific pieces continually. Thank you for sharing.

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