Developing AI systems we can all trust

Patricia Besson is Head of Thales's Reasoning and Analysis in Complex Systems Lab. "How can AI help us make better decisions at critical moments? How do we build AI systems we can rely on? Questions like these guide much of our AI work at Thales, and most of our products and systems already incorporate AI in one form or another. And because we operate in strategic industries such as aerospace, space, ground transportation and defence, we naturally set a high bar for ourselves. Our approach to AI is based on the principles of validity, explainability, security and responsibility, which we consider the defining properties of trusted artificial intelligence. Our R&D teams are using innovate approaches to overcome the obstacles inherent in these four criteria so we can develop trusted AI applications for critical systems. More broadly, we're working to make human-machine dialogue more intuitive, and to make our systems more energy-efficient. AI is an exciting and challenging field that is not only driving growth and job creation at Thales, but unleashing a whole new wave of creative thinking."