Can We Trust AI Without Trusting What Sits Beneath It?

AI is becoming part of how money moves, services are delivered and decisions are made. But AI is only as trustworthy as the systems beneath it: the data it draws on, the identities it verifies, the payment rails it touches and the governance that sets the boundaries.

This session brings those two questions together. What does responsible AI look like when it is used in financial services? And what must sit beneath it - trusted data, secure identity, resilient payment infrastructure, cloud and compute capacity - for people and institutions to use it with confidence?

For Central Asia, the practical challenge is to remain open to global technology while retaining control over the systems that matter most. What should be locally governed? What can be sourced globally? And how can public and private actors build intelligent financial services without compromising trust, resilience or sovereignty?