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Alex Lintner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
616 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

That's at the top of my list.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And it's not always the most economic decision.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And therefore, my CTOs might suggest something that makes more sense from an economic perspective.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

maybe isn't as tight from a security perspective.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And then I veto it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And I say, well, we're going to pay the extra money.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

We're going to do it anyway.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

But it happens very, very rarely because people know the principles that we work by.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So if you have clear principles, you listen to people, you surround yourself with strong people, you make the room for a debate that is open, transparent, very inclusive.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Everybody can speak.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

There is no hierarchy in the room.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

You take your time for it, and then you make the best call you can with the information available.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Yeah, Nilay, a great question and really perfectly articulated.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Let me give you two answers to that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

One is just explaining how we think about the credit score.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

You called it a relatively recent from the 80s.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So if it's OK, I'm going to provide a different perspective to that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And then I'm going to talk about just how we apply AI.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Let me start first with the history of our company.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

We have a guy now in our history.