Dr. John Licato on the Trust Problem in AI

Dr. John Licato on the Trust Problem in AI

May 19, 2026 · 41 min · Season 2 · Episode 12

About this episode

The episode explores the challenges of trust in AI with Dr. John Licato, focusing on hallucination-resistant AI and its implications in high-stakes environments.

In this episode of Leap to Scale, Justin Davis and Greg Ross-Munro sit down with Dr. John Licato, CEO of SquarePak and Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, to explore one of AI’s biggest unsolved challenges: trust. They discuss why hallucination-resistant AI matters in high-stakes environments like contracts and legal reasoning, how adversarial systems can improve AI decision-making, and why “I don’t know” may be one of the hardest capabilities for AI to develop. The conver...

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