The Laundry

E173: Can we train AI to THINK like a fincrime investigator?

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Show Notes

70% of us have already let AI loose on our day-to-day tasks — summarising documents, knocking out images, the usual.

Turning it loose on a financial crime investigation is a different question entirely.

Our expert host, Robin Lycka, is joined by Asia Holt, Fincrime Domain Lead at Strise, to put it to the test: can we train AI to think like a fincrime investigator?

They build an AI investigator from scratch, run it against a real case, and find out exactly where the limit of its effectiveness lies!

Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in the podcast comes from public company records and reporting already published by reputable news sources. Nothing here is a new allegation — we're pointing to documented discrepancies, not proof of anything. No one named on this podcast is being accused of wrongdoing.

Producer: Matthew Dunne-Miles Editor: Dominic Delargy Video: Loïs Dunford

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