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A second part is a five-layer checking system that examines an algorithm's outputs rather than the algorithm itself, to catch biases that develop unnoticed. Chief Executive Warren East and Caroline Gorski, Global Director of R2 Data Labs (BIZ-EST-075), were quoted. The site's menu lists \"The Aletheia Framework®\", but the release opened does not name the framework, so the name is not confirmed here.", "uk_status": "uk", "company": { "ch_number": "07524813", "registered_office": "Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, United Kingdom, N1 9FX", "incorporated": "2011-02-10", "legal_form": "plc", "owner_or_acquirer": "Rolls-Royce Holdings plc", "headcount": null, "ch_number_clean": "07524813", "companies_house_url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07524813", "ch_note": null }, "place": { "text": null, "postcode": null, "lat": null, "lng": null, "region": null }, "people": [ { "name": "Warren East", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce", "from": "as of 2020-09-02", "source": "https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/press-releases/2020/02-09-2020-rr-announces-breakthroughs-in-artificial-intelligence-ethics-and-trustworthiness.aspx" } ], "money": [], "site": null, "product": { "maker": "Rolls-Royce (R2 Data Labs)", "launched": "2020-09-02", "what_it_does": "framework for checking AI use decisions are ethical, with a five-layer check on AI outputs" }, "dsit_domains": [ "AI security and assurance" ], "sectors": [ "aerospace", "AI ethics" ], "confidence": "single_source", "checked": "2026-10-29", "as_of": "2026-10-29", "applied": null, "held": [], "same_as": null, "package1_id": null, "type": "Chips, models and products", "category": "defence and aerospace", "function": "A published method from Rolls-Royce for checking that a decision to use AI is ethical, plus a five-layer check on what AI systems output.", "affiliation": "Established firms", "sources": [ "https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/press-releases/2020/02-09-2020-rr-announces-breakthroughs-in-artificial-intelligence-ethics-and-trustworthiness.aspx" ], "source_quotes": [ { "url": "https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/press-releases/2020/02-09-2020-rr-announces-breakthroughs-in-artificial-intelligence-ethics-and-trustworthiness.aspx", "quotes": [ "There is no practical reason why trust in AI cannot be created now.", "We haven’t solved all of AI’s challenges\" (02 September 2020)" ], "accessed": "2026-10-29", "trade": false, "amendment": false } ], "website": [], "colleges": [], "topics": [ "AI security and assurance" ], "one_source": true, "confidence_raw": "single_source", "depts": [ { "dept": "aerospace", "div": "defence-and-aerospace" } ], "div_label": "Defence and aerospace", "location": null, "status_group": "active", "ext_links": [], "label_links": [], "degree": 1, "related_ids": [ "BIZ-EST-075" ] }, { "id": "BIZ-EST-077", "name": "bp AI in operations (Palantir, Microsoft, Databricks)", "bucket": "part", "status": "active", "status_date": "2025-10-15", "status_detail": "Described in a bp article of 15 October 2025; no separate partnership release opened.", "one_line": "bp uses Palantir's Foundry, Microsoft Copilot and a data platform built with Databricks and Palantir to apply AI to well design and operations.", "description": "A bp article of 15 October 2025 quotes Emeka Emembolu, executive vice president, technology. It says teams use \"Palantir's Foundry\" and \"Microsoft copilot\" for generative AI, and that Databricks and Palantir are partners in a unified data platform. It says well-trajectory design that took \"weeks or even months\" now takes \"less than a day\", that over 95% of bp's data is on the cloud and that bp is quadrupling the capacity of its high-performance computing centre. 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