Innovation In Compliance With Tom Fox

Tom Fox welcomes Simon Moss to this week’s show. Simon - who describes his background as “eclectic”, having worked in and led many companies over his career, including IBM -  is now the CEO of Ayasdi, one of the most innovative companies in the artificial intelligence space. Simon and Tom discuss the important work Ayasdi is doing for its clients. The Data Problem Tom asks why AI can’t seem to keep up with the volume of data that needs to be reviewed for AML, ABC and trade sanctions. Simon disagrees that it’s an issue of volume. The problem is diversity and distribution. He says, “The problem with data now is that it is so diverse, so distributed, and we’re still trying to deploy products of extraordinary innovation - including AI products -  in the same ways as we did in the 1970s.” He laments that we try to homogenize data into a construct, which uses 80% of our data management resources. “We have institutionalized redundancy in data management, and it is getting worse because of the proliferation of data