Analysis

January 17, 2024

AI has a trust problem — meet the startups trying to fix it

Young companies are trying to build new AI architectures that fix a lot of the big problems around trust and reliability of today’s latest models


Tim Smith

6 min read

While the investment world went doolally over AI in 2023, there’s an uncomfortable truth for any organisation trying to implement the technology into their workflow: it has a trust problem.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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