Partners with Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) on First Pre-Commercial Deployment
Media Release – NuEnergy Announces MTP and ISC ProjectOttawa, ON, November 4, 2021: Today, NuEnergy.ai announces the launch of their hosted Machine Trust Platform™ (MTP) software designed to support the ethical and transparent governance and measurement of artificial intelligence (AI) deployments. The software platform will launch through a pilot with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), who are the first testing department approved through Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) and the Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) program to test the R&D innovation. After delivering an executive education program, NuEnergy.ai will work with the RCMP to develop a framework for responsible AI governance and to test the initial MTP software.
Niraj Bhargava, CEO of NuEnergy.ai, explains, “The public sector has been utilizing many checks and balances for human trust – it is now more critical than ever to develop guardrails to ensure trust of AI machines. We are pleased to be partnering with the Government of Canada to deliver a combination of custom framework design and assessment technology that draws on global experience and expertise in AI Governance and the measurement of AI Trust.”
Bhargava continues, “The new Machine Trust Platform is a Canadian tech breakthrough that gives organizations configurable one-stop access to qualified, globally-sourced AI governance measurements and assessments.”
The Machine Trust Platform™ measures essential trust parameters including privacy, ethics, transparency, and bias and protects against the risks of AI drift. Global standards, including the Government of Canada Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA), are integrated into the platform, which can be customized to include other relevant governance standards.
Modules of the subscription-based AI Governance software allow NuEnergy.ai clients to:
- Create and monitor self-assessment scorecards for AI Governance
- Benchmark and measure AI trustworthiness to a predefined index
- Measure the trustworthiness of machine learning algorithms on dimensions including privacy, bias, and explainability
- Integrate qualified governance tools and standards from global providers
- Build and share dashboards reporting against AI Governance standards and identifying areas requiring improvement
“Like any other technology, AI has sunny sides and dark sides. AI has successfully delivered many commercial products that touch everybody’s life every day. However, irresponsible AI can cause risks at scale, at speed and with no clear accountability or liability for the consequences of failure,” explains Dr Alaa Khamis, AI and Smart Mobility Lead at General Motors. He adds, “This raises the need for a responsible AI governance framework to smartly direct this technology toward the benefit of humanity. NuEnergy’s Machine Trust Platform is leading the way in providing an independent and configurable third-party platform for governing principled and ethical AI solutions.”
Under the ISC initiative, which supports the scale up and growth of Canada’s innovators, NuEnergy.ai’s MTP can now be deployed in Government of Canada departments to test and commercialize the software which monitors the trustworthiness of an organization’s AI data, development and implementation. The implementation of a configured platform follows an executive education program on AI Governance, and an AI Governance Framework co-creation process.
With a distributed team based in Ottawa, Waterloo, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, NuEnergy.ai focuses exclusively on providing the education, frameworks, and tools that companies and governments need to properly govern, manage, and mitigate the risks of their growing deployments of AI.
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About NuEnergy.ai
NuEnergy.ai is a Canadian Artificial Intelligence management software and professional services firm that helps build guardrails for organizations that develop or deploy AI to mitigate risk and maintain trust. The team co-creates AI Governance frameworks with clients based on leading international principles and standards, then openly and transparently integrates its ‘machine trust’ measurement and qualified software techniques built on a patent-pending methodology. An independent AI Governance company, NuEnergy.ai is pre-qualified for the Government of Canada’s ISC Program and the TBS/PSPC AI Source List, and integrates the Treasury Board directive – Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA) – into its platform for clients. Learn more at www.nuenergy.ai.
About ISED and ISC
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) works with Canadians in all areas of the economy and in all parts of the country to improve conditions for investment, enhance Canada’s innovation performance, increase Canada’s share of global trade and build a fair, efficient and competitive marketplace. Innovative Solutions Canada is a new program with over $100 million dedicated to supporting the scale up and growth of Canada’s innovators and entrepreneurs by having the federal government act as a first customer. Learn more at https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/icgc.nsf/eng/h_07654.html
About the RCMP
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been Canada’s national police service for nearly 150 years, with national, federal, provincial, and municipal policing mandates. From coast to coast to coast, at the community, provincial/territorial and federal levels, the RCMP strives to prevent and investigate crimes, to enforce federal, provincial/territorial, and municipal law, and to keep Canadians safe. We offer our renowned expertise at the international level as well. We are more than 19,000 police officers, supported by nearly 11,000 civilian employees in over 700 detachments in 150 communities across the country and in more than 600 Indigenous communities. Our strength is in delivering high-quality police work that keeps our communities safe. Learn more at https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/about-rcmp
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