Kafico Ltd

Don't use the word consent, it's misleading AI in healthcare is powerful—and different. It’s new to many patients, and care settings come with an inherent power imbalance: people are unwell, worried, time-pressed, and reliant on clinicians. Because are not permitted to consent (the Information Commissioner has confirmed this to use), the ethical—and practical—answer is more transparency, earlier, and in layers. Putting it bluntly: it is not acceptable to spring a one-line disclosure at the...

Opacity in your supply chain isn’t always about them having something to hide. Opacity has many faces; some calculated, some careless, and some very ordinary. When we buy or inherit algorithmic systems, we may find that AI vendors speak the language of the sales deck and that algorithmic snake oil. Yet when DPOs ask how the model actually works, that models are in the pipeline and their source, the conversation often stops at “commercial sensitivity" or worse, confused silence. IP protection...

I find that, when small organisations start exploring AI, whether to automate recruitment, triage enquiries, or analyse customer data, the conversation usually begins with excitement. New efficiencies, lower costs, smarter insights are all on the table. But the more important conversation, the one that rarely takes place early enough, is about safety. Not safety in the technical sense of cybersecurity, but in the broader human sense: is this system safe to use on the people you serve? From...