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Sotiris Spyrou

Founder, VerityAI

Sotiris Spyrou is the founder of VerityAI, a Responsible AI advisory for boards and AI-deploying businesses. With 27 years across agencies, global in-house roles, and the C-suite, he advises leaders on AI governance and risk, and on answer-engine visibility engineered without the dark patterns the rest of the industry is getting penalised for. He is the author of TRANSFORM, AI Moats, and Ethical AI.

Articles by Sotiris Spyrou (621)

Child-Safe AI Design: The Technical Requirements, Explained

Child-safe by design means protective settings on by default, the least data collected, age established with proportionate confidence, and an honest explanation a child can read. The technical requirements, mapped to the ICO Children's Code, the Online Safety Act and the EU AI Act, for boards and the engineers who implement them.

AI Privacy

Cross-Border AI Data Transfers: GDPR Rules for Banks

To train or run AI on data that crosses borders, a bank or fintech needs a lawful GDPR Chapter V route: adequacy, SCCs, or a narrow derogation. How to map the transfers an AI deployment hides, pass the transfer risk assessment, and handle the UK's 2026 divergence on top.

AI Compliance

AI Underwriting Compliance: What Insurers Must Prove First

Life and health underwriting AI is high-risk under the EU AI Act. The NAIC bulletin, Colorado SB21-169 and FCA Consumer Duty put the burden of proof on insurers: test for bias, document it, keep human oversight, or don't deploy. The exposure isn't just a fine, it's a regulator switching off a model already pricing live business.

Red Teaming

Technical Exploitation

Dive deep into the technical vulnerabilities hiding in AI systems' foundations. From tokenization tricks to character encoding exploits, learn how attackers target the infrastructure itself.