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Dr. Janet Bastiman has been making convincing deepfakes since 2017, long before most people knew the word. Now the Chief Data Scientist at Napier AI, she joins Mo to get into why fraud is actually easier to catch than money laundering, how a deepfake already talked a finance team out of millions, and why the human analysts checking AI matter more than ever.
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Dr. Janet Bastiman
Chair of the Royal Statistical Society’s Data Science and AI Section, Vice Chair of the Royal Statistical Society’s AI Task Force and member of FCA’s Synthetic Data Expert Group, Janet started coding in 1984 and discovered a passion for technology and complex problem solving. She holds multiple degrees and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience. Janet has helped both start-ups and established businesses implement and improve their AI offering prior to applying her expertise as Chief Data Scientist at Napier.
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