Thales Leads the Way in Trusted, Ethical AI for Critical Systems and Global Security

Thales Leads the Way in Trusted, Ethical AI for Critical Systems and Global Security

(IN BRIEF) Thales, a global leader in defence, aerospace, and cybersecurity, continues to lead AI innovation for critical systems. The company is committed to developing trusted, ethical AI that emphasizes transparency, energy efficiency, and cybersecurity. With cutting-edge AI solutions applied across event security, maritime security, air transport decarbonisation, and passenger safety, Thales is at the forefront of leveraging AI for global impact. Through initiatives like its cortAIx accelerator and collaborations with Confiance.ai, Thales integrates AI into more than 100 products while ensuring ethical AI development through its TRuE AI framework.

(PRESS RELEASE) LA DÉFENSE, 22-Jan-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — Thales, a global leader in the defence, aerospace, cybersecurity, and digital solutions sectors, is widely recognized for its pioneering advancements in AI technology for critical systems. With a strong emphasis on research and development, Thales files more patents than any other company in Europe in the AI space. The company’s deep understanding of the operational challenges faced by armed forces and other high-stakes industries allows it to provide reliable and advanced systems that ensure technological superiority in constrained environments.

Thales is particularly focused on developing trusted AI, which integrates the latest artificial intelligence breakthroughs while addressing vital concerns like cybersecurity, explainability, frugality, and ethics. Its solutions aim to minimize environmental impact while enhancing the performance of defence systems and safeguarding critical infrastructure.

Patrice Caine, Chairman & CEO of Thales, highlighted the company’s AI expertise: “Thales is at the forefront of trusted AI. Our hybrid AI approach offers transparency, cybersecurity, energy efficiency, and ethical assurance—key elements often lacking in traditional AI systems that rely on massive data processing and high energy consumption. Our AI systems are designed to protect individuals, augment defence capabilities, and contribute to a safer and more sustainable world.”

Thales applies AI in a range of critical applications, including:

  • Event Security and Crisis Management: AI-powered solutions like drones and control systems enable real-time monitoring of crowd movements and suspicious behaviour, allowing for proactive incident management.
  • Maritime Security: AI-enhanced sensors improve the detection of maritime threats, such as unmanned naval systems and underwater mines, safeguarding crucial communication networks and global shipping routes.
  • Decarbonisation of Air Transport: AI optimizes flight paths, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by preventing contrails that contribute to global warming. It also optimizes air traffic sequencing to reduce fuel consumption and enhance the aviation industry’s carbon footprint.
  • Passenger Experience and Fraud Prevention: AI algorithms ensure secure, seamless identity verification at airports, protecting infrastructure and enhancing traveller safety.

In alignment with its commitment to sustainability, Thales promotes frugal AI—a technology that consumes significantly less energy.

This approach is underpinned by three major innovations:

  1. Data Optimisation: By focusing on only the necessary information, Thales reduces energy consumption associated with processing vast datasets.
  2. Neuromorphic Technologies: Thales uses neuromorphic processors that mimic brain functions and employ cutting-edge components that consume up to 1,000 times less energy than traditional systems.
  3. AI in Critical Systems: From satellites to air traffic control systems, Thales incorporates AI into infrastructure that aids global efforts to combat climate change.

Thales continues to be a key player in the AI field, specializing in trusted, cyber-secure, and ethical solutions for sectors such as defence and critical infrastructure. The company’s cortAIx research accelerator, which houses over 600 AI engineers and 100 doctoral candidates, is responsible for integrating AI into more than 100 of Thales’s products. The company’s AI innovations increase operational efficiency, speed up data analysis, and optimize decision-making, all while addressing key challenges like cybersecurity and resource constraints in high-demand environments.

Thales is also actively engaged in the AI ecosystem, forming strategic partnerships with academic institutions and other industry leaders, particularly through the Confiance.ai initiative. In 2023, the company’s Friendly Hacker Unit demonstrated its prowess in AI security by uncovering deleted training data during the CAID challenge. In 2024, the unit developed a model to detect AI-generated deepfake images, further showcasing Thales’s leadership in the ethical development of AI technologies.

Thales’s AI strategy is guided by its TRuE AI framework, which emphasizes transparency, reliability, understandability, and ethics, ensuring that AI technologies meet the highest standards of security, responsibility, and explainability.

About Thales

Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced technologies specialized in three business domains: Defence & Security, Aerospace, and Cyber & Digital.

It develops products and solutions that help make the world safer, greener and more inclusive.

The Group invests close to €4 billion a year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum technologies, cloud technologies and 6G.

Thales has close to 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In 2023, the Group generated sales of €18.4 billion.

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