Grounding AI in trustworthy knowledge foundations
Katya Linossi, Founder & CEO, Atlas by ClearPeople, began her talk at KMWorld Europe on “Grounding AI assistants in authoritative knowledge” by stating that, in the AI era, knowledge must be treated as strategic infrastructure. She identified the three non-negotiables for AI grounding as consistency, content, and authority. Her view of the modern knowledge lifecycle includes the notion that we are now creating knowledge for AI and that knowledge is continual not linear. Governance is at the center surrounded by create, capture, organize, share, apply, and improve. Governance checkpoints encompass both AI and human, while automation is integral to knowledge creation and to enriching existing metadata. Knowledge reuse, personalized and relevant knowledge in the workflow, and knowledge audits are also part of the modern knowledge life cycle.
Safely centralizing and deploying AI on sensitive knowledge was top of mind for Wesley Blackhurst, Co-Founder and CEO, Knovari. In some industries, it seems that every piece of knowledge is highly confidential, not shareable for anyone other than the team that built it. If a human were to decide to reuse a slide from a confidential deck, they would know the document-level permissions and extract the non-sensitive portions. AI removes the human safety net. Sensitivity lies in context, not keywords, which is why keyword-based redaction tools don’t work. Blackhurst identifies four requirements for automated redaction that do work: Content awareness, surgical manipulation, transparency & auditability, and code/metadata cleansing.
The KMWorld Europe and Taxonomy Boot Camp London held 14-15 April 2026 in London UK, brings KMWorld to London for the first time and returns the in-person Taxonomy Boot Camp to the city.
The KMWorld conference returns to the JW Marriott in Washington D.C. on November 17-20, 2026 https://www.kmworld.com/Conference/2026.
KMWorld 2026 is a part of a unique program of five co-located conferences, which also includes Enterprise Search & Discovery, Enterprise AI World, Taxonomy Boot Camp, and Text Analytics Forum.