Lubna Alli · AI strategy, digital identity & trust
The group is more than
the sum of its parts.
A murmuration is thousands of starlings moving as one, each bird reading and responding to the signals of those around it. It is coordination at scale, built on signals every member can trust. That is what I write about: AI, identity, and the systems that hold us together.
Hi, I’m Lubna.
I work where AI, digital identity and trust meet: how organizations decide who, and what, to trust when software starts acting on our behalf.
Most recently I worked in product at Interac, helping take a 0-to-1 identity verification product to market. Before that, I advised CIOs and CTOs on IT strategy at Info-Tech Research Group. I’m a graduate of the Schulich Tech MBA (MBA in Technology Leadership), Canada’s first MBA built for leading technology-driven organizations.
This site is where I think in public: essays on technology and power, the places we share, and being human inside both.
Latest essay · October 2026
Whose Agent Is This? The Identity Problem at the Centre of Agentic AI
The industry is building agent IDs, AI conformity standards and agentic payment tokens. The missing piece is binding an agent to an accountable party, and that is an identity verification problem.
Selected reading on AI, data & trust
Essay · Oct 2025
Digital Sovereignty & Data Dependency
What Canada gets wrong about owning its digital future, and why sovereignty is about more than where the servers sit.
Essay · Dec 2024
Surveillance in Augmented Reality
Biometric data, consent and Snapchat’s AR lenses: when the experience of creativity is the product being sold.
Essay · Oct 2024
The Ethics of AI in Food Delivery
Personalization or discrimination? How algorithmic pricing decides who pays more, and what fair AI would require.
