<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>David R. Hardoon — Writing</title><description>Essays and dated LinkedIn posts by David R. Hardoon.</description><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/</link><language>en-gb</language><item><title>80% of firms say they use AI agents.</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/writing/li-7525734446147502080/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/writing/li-7525734446147502080/</guid><description>2% give them broad autonomy. That is not a technology gap. It is a trust and accountability gap. The hard part is which autonomy you can defend when something goes sideways.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Most people still treat agent “misbehavior” as a bug to fix.</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/writing/li-7523592235137802240/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/writing/li-7523592235137802240/</guid><description>Most people still treat agent “misbehavior” as a bug to fix.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI&apos;s Silent Fracture: Reconciling Ambition with Execution</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/ais-silent-fracture-reconciling-ambition-with-execution/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/ais-silent-fracture-reconciling-ambition-with-execution/</guid><description>Executive Summary In an era where AI investments surpass $30-40 billion annually across enterprises, the gap between ambition and execution remains…</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Podcast on Trustworthy AI</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/podcast-on-trustworthy-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/podcast-on-trustworthy-ai/</guid><description>What is trustworthy AI? It’s human-centered, it’s ethical. And it drives results. I had the pleasure of discussing the topic and sharing my personal…</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Podcast on &apos;Algorithmic Decisions &amp; the Financial Industry&apos;</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/podcast-on-algorithmic-decisions-the-financial-industry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/podcast-on-algorithmic-decisions-the-financial-industry/</guid><description>With Hardeep Arora and Kelly Forbes</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Estimating The Value of Data</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/estimating-the-value-of-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/estimating-the-value-of-data/</guid><description>coauthored with Shubhangi Agawal and Sri Siva Shankar</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Moral AI</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-moral-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-moral-ai/</guid><description>Can AI be moral? In my opinion, no. Should this prevent us from establishing how to morally use AI? Absolutely not. In fact, the absence of AI moral…</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Data for Well-being - A Paradigm of Awareness?</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/data-for-well-being---a-paradigm-of-awareness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/data-for-well-being---a-paradigm-of-awareness/</guid><description>Co-authored with Kwang Lin Wong and Dr. Yvonne Loh</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Digital Opportunity to Transform Financial Reporting</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/a-digital-opportunity-to-transform-financial-reporting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/a-digital-opportunity-to-transform-financial-reporting/</guid><description>Co-authored with Viswanathan (Vishu) Namasivayam</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Digital Currencies: The Time is Now</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/digital-currencies-the-time-is-now/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/digital-currencies-the-time-is-now/</guid><description>Exponential progress in efficiency, productivity, governance, and customer experience is making more apparent the advantages of digital currencies. As we…</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI is not the enemy here</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/ai-is-not-the-enemy-here/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/ai-is-not-the-enemy-here/</guid><description>by Crystal Wu Interviewing Theodoros Evgeniou, David R. Hardoon and Anton Ovchinnikov</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Digital Identity Solved?</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/is-digital-identity-solved/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/is-digital-identity-solved/</guid><description>Co-authored with Maria Francesca Montes</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Happens When AI is Used to Set Grades?</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/what-happens-when-ai-is-used-to-set-grades/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/what-happens-when-ai-is-used-to-set-grades/</guid><description>co-authored with Theodoros Evgeniou and Anton Ovchinnikov</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Leveraging AI to Battle This Pandemic — And The Next One</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/leveraging-ai-to-battle-this-pandemic-%E2%80%94-and-the-next-one/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/leveraging-ai-to-battle-this-pandemic-%E2%80%94-and-the-next-one/</guid><description>co-authored with Theodoros Evgeniou and Anton Ovchinnikov</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oversight AI: AI to Control AI</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/oversight-ai-ai-to-control-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/oversight-ai-ai-to-control-ai/</guid><description>Co-authored with Karthik Bharadwaj, cross-posted blog</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Consumer Protection: Toward a Smart Disclosure Regime?</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/consumer-protection-toward-a-smart-disclosure-regime/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/consumer-protection-toward-a-smart-disclosure-regime/</guid><description>Co authored with Nydia Remolina, Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez, and Yvonne, Ai-Chi Loh</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>[Podcast] A New Paradigm or History Repeating Itself</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/podcast-a-new-paradigm-or-history-repeating-itself/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/podcast-a-new-paradigm-or-history-repeating-itself/</guid><description>I have had the pleasure to discuss with Chloe Cho, international journalist and moderator, on her Brilliant Media podcast on the new normal that we may…</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Balancing Data Policies: What COVID-19 Taught Us</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/balancing-data-policies-what-covid-19-taught-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/balancing-data-policies-what-covid-19-taught-us/</guid><description>co-authored with Theodoros Evgeniou and Anton Ovchinnikov</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Seeking Trust in AI</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/seeking-trust-in-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/seeking-trust-in-ai/</guid><description>We want fairness in our lives. Driven largely by model behaviour that has touched an exposed nerve in our collective cultures and the growing awareness…</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Supervision - A 101 Guideline</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/ai-supervision---a-101-guideline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/ai-supervision---a-101-guideline/</guid><description>The increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has seen an anticipated parallel rise in calls for AI control, governance and supervision. As a…</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>[Podcast] AI Explainability and what it means to be a Data Artist</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/podcast-ai-explanability-and-what-it-means-to-be-a-data-artist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/podcast-ai-explanability-and-what-it-means-to-be-a-data-artist/</guid><description>In conversation with Dr Vishnu Nanduri - Listen to the Podcast.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>[Podcast] FRT Episode 66: COVID-19 and Data Policy</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/frt-episode-66-covid-19-and-data-policy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/frt-episode-66-covid-19-and-data-policy/</guid><description>What are the key issues in data policy, and how these will be shaped by the current COVID-19 experience. Furthermore what are other key issues in data…</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The real value of using Machine Learning in Financial Markets</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-real-value-of-using-machine-learning-in-financial-markets/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-real-value-of-using-machine-learning-in-financial-markets/</guid><description>Co-authored with Dan Liebau</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Regulating Digital Technology</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/regulating-digital-technology/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/regulating-digital-technology/</guid><description>David Hardoon from MAS and StanChart’s Shameek Kundu offer perspectives on the implications of emerging innovations, on and beyond the financial…</description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Impact of Telematics Data on Motor Insurance</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-impact-of-telematics-data-on-motor-insurance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-impact-of-telematics-data-on-motor-insurance/</guid><description>Co-authored with Dr. Vishnu Nanduri and cross-posted on vishnunanduri.com</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Contextual Explainability</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/contextual-explainability/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/contextual-explainability/</guid><description>Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been steadily moving to the forefront of technological innovation, firmly embedding itself as the main differentiator…</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Real Minority Report</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-real-minority-report/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-real-minority-report/</guid><description>Advancements in AI combined with increasing availability of behavioural data has made pre-crime a possibility. This is the ability to predict a future…</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Welcome Remarks for Address by Under Secretary McIntosh</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/welcome-remarks-for-address-by-under-secretary-mcintosh/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/welcome-remarks-for-address-by-under-secretary-mcintosh/</guid><description>Event at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at Singapore Management University on 6th of February 2020.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Accountability of AI</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-accountability-of-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-accountability-of-ai/</guid><description>Co-authored with Dr. Yvonne, Ai-Chi Loh</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Asymmetry of Open Banking</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/asymmetry-of-open-banking/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/asymmetry-of-open-banking/</guid><description>Open banking, as defined by openbanking.org.uk, is the secure way to give providers access to your financial information. The site states that &quot;[open…</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Analogue Choice in the Digital Age</title><link>https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-analogue-choice-in-the-digital-age/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://davidroihardoon.com/blog/f/the-analogue-choice-in-the-digital-age/</guid><description>In early 2018, a fitness tracking app that uses GPS to track a subscriber’s exercise activity published a “heatmap” showing the exercise paths its users…</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>