This week’s guest is Isabel Barberá, Co-founder, AI Advisor, and Privacy Engineer at Rhite , a consulting firm specializing in responsible and trustworthy AI and privacy engineering, and creator of The Privacy Library Of Threats 4 Artificial Intelligence Framework and card game. In our conversation, we discuss: Isabel’s work with privacy-by-design, privacy engineering, privacy threat modeling, and building trustworthy AI; and info about Rhite’s forthcoming Self-Assessment Open-Source framework for AI maturity, SARAI®. As we wrap up the episode, Isabel shares details about PLOT4ai, her AI threat modeling framework and card game created based on a library of threats for artificial intelligence.

Topics Covered:

How Isabel became interested in privacy engineering, data protection, privacy by design, threat modeling, and trustworthy AI
How companies are thinking (or not) about incorporating privacy-by-design strategies & tactics and privacy engineering approaches within their orgs today
What steps can be taken so companies start investing in privacy engineering approaches; and whether AI has become a driver for such approaches.
Background on Isabel’s company, Rhite, and its mission to build responsible solutions for society and its individuals using a technical mindset.
What “Responsible & Trustworthy AI” means to Isabel
The 5 core values that make up the acronym, R-H-I-T-E, and why they’re important for designing and building products & services.
Isabel's advice for organizations as they approach AI risk assessments, analysis, & remediation
The steps orgs can take in order to build responsible AI products & services
What Isabel hopes to accomplish through Rhite's new framework: SARAI® (for AI maturity), an open source AI Self-Assessment Tool and Framework, and an extension the Privacy Library Of Threats 4 Artificial Intelligence (PLOT4ai) Framework (i.e., a library of AI risks)
What motivated Isabel to focus on threat modeling for privacy
How PLOT4ai builds on LINDDUN (which focuses on software development) and extends threat modeling to the AI lifecycle stages: Design, Input, Modeling, & Output
How Isabel’s experience with the LINDDUN Go card game inspired her to develop of a PLOT4ai card game to make it more accessible to teams.
Isabel calls for collaborators to contribute to the PLOT4ai open source database of AI threats as the community grows.

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