Power Up Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Get where you're going faster, with more certainty and less risk.

Learn, explain, act, coordinate, and win - in a world increasingly populated by sophisticated Artificial Intelligence capabilities.

 

Epistemology provides the transformative power of intelligence to help you master the strategic challenges inherent in problems characterised by uncertainty, complexity, resource constraints and scale.

Such problems are routinely faced by executives and policy-makers in finance, ecology, medicine, science and in the governance of private and public resources.

Epistemology's unique methodology for strategic intelligence (Five Rings) and our powerful causal Artificial Intelligence platform (SKAI) reliably deliver superior performance relative to any existing real-world decision process. Our research and implementation capabilities in the area of Causal Science Artificial Intelligence are world class.

Working closely with your executive leadership team, together we formulate strategy, provide advice, deliver education, build and deploy Artificial Intelligence systems, solve problems, and deliver measurable results which are quantitatively superior.

Our methods have been proven in several high-profile domains including ecology, finance, asset management and strategic governance. Our clients include some of the largest global funds managers, financial institutions, global consulting companies, and international think tanks.

Epistemology is based in Sydney, Australia.

Lift Performance in Key Strategic Areas:

Investment Strategy - Asset Management

Epistemology is on the forefront of driving the adoption of a more scientific approach to investing and asset managment. Specifically, Epistemology is active in educating global asset managers in the principles and practice of Causal Factor Investing, in alignment with the work of Marcos Lopez De Prado of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (named quant of the year in 2023).

 

Ethics and Digital Governance

While many have pointed out the special challenges of developing Ethical AI, few have developed robust technical means of delivering the needed capabilities of transparency, explainability and fairness (non-discrimination). By leverating the logic of Five Rings, Epistemology is able to develop a robust AI Ethics framework which is world class in its ability to calculate the effects of proposed policies on affected stakeholders using the mathematics of causal science.

Climate Science - Sustainable Economy

Understanding the drivers of climate change is one of the most daunting systems dynamics problems scientists face. Epistemology has been able to supply world class AI software capable of robustly forecasting the effect of various governance strategies on environmental outcomes (specifically in the hazard reduction sphere of Bushfire Governance).

Products & Services:

Strategic Consulting

Epistemology has a sound track record of using insight and innovation to drive superior strategies to address complex problems in the areas of Finance, Ecology and Ethical Governance. Strategic results are reliable since each strategy is the direct product of applying the intelligence methodology Five Rings.

Strategy consulting is deliverd is several formats, including offsite strategy sessions, onsite presentations and workshops, or team embedding.

 

SKAI - Intelligence as a Service

SKAI is an Artificial Intelligence platform accessible in the cloud via API. Its calcualtion engine is based on the principles and mathematics of causal science. SKAI can be thought of as a digital twin of any system of interest - whether ecological, financial or political.

SKAI facilitates the computation of ideal interventions, drawing on the logic of conscilience, counterfactuals and prescriptive causal AI - including the Do-Calculus.

Methodology for Strategic Intelligence

Five Rings is a methodology for Intelligent Action - an algorithm for calculating optimal next-best-action given goals, knowledge, evidence and remaining uncertainties.

The rings comprise:

 

Axiology, Ontology, Semiology, Epistemology and Strategy.

 

Five Rings has been used to solve challenging problems in complex measurement and evaluation contexts, delivering "an order of magnitude improvement" (relative to competing best practice approaches) according to the Chief Scientist of Queensland, Professor Hugh Possingham.


Media & Downloads:

Microsoft Reactor Hub - Causal Inference Special Edition

"The Art of Intelligent Reasoning" - Reactor x DSAi Causal Inference Special Edition: Most presentations on "Artificial Intelligence" focus on the "Artificial" and forget the "Intelligence". We aim to rectify the imbalance by exploring the true nature of Intelligence, whether human or machine, as it is applied (or misapplied) to the most serious strategic challenges of our day. In so doing we will define the gold standard for intelligent reasoning, against which any prognostication (whether by heads of state, well meaning friends, or your boss) can and should be measured.

The Art of Intelligent Reasoning - Causal Inference Special Edition.

 

CSIS Global Dialogue - The Way Forward

2019 DIALOGUE (Jakarta, 2019) - Keynote Presentation - "The Way Forward" for governments of APAC in relation to their strategies for adopting artificial intelligence in the knowledge economy. Speaker - James Ward

Center for Strategic and International Studies - The Way Forward.

Director of Strategy, James Ward - LinkedIn

LinkedIn Activity - James Ward.