Floridi Curves

An Approach for Taming AI Problems in Industry

In 2019 Dr. Luciano Floridi published his article entitled “What the Near Future of AI Could Be.” He presented a method for turning challenging AI business problems into “merely” complex ones by creating “envelopes” around them to make them feasible for business use. These groundbreaking concepts developed by Luciano are so helpful that FTI Consulting has integrated them into our methodology for designing and implementing AI-powered solutions for our clients.

I was lucky enough to be introduced to Luciano when he and his wife moved from Oxford to New Haven, Connecticut, where I also live, to head Yale’s new Digital Ethics Center. After a succession of coffees and lunches, he agreed to support my work on this paper, which marries his theory with a practical methodology to help businesses solve real-world AI Problems.

The first section of this paper addresses the core concepts of complexity versus difficulty. The second section describes the concept of envelopes and their utility. The final section demonstrates how FTI Consulting’s AI methodology employs these concepts to solve business problems using an example from textbook publishing.

Click here to download the full article