Hi, my name is Catherine Schwab. I'm an assistant managing editor here at Forbes covering technology,

and I'm so excited to be here today with Vijay Balasubramanian. He is the CEO and co-founder of Pindrop,

which, among other things, focuses on detecting AI audio deepfakes.

Vijay, thank you so much for joining me.

Thank you so much for having me, Catherine.

So I want to start with kind of a high-level overview of what Pindrop does.

Absolutely.

So for the longest time, Catherine, Pindrop focused on what we call the right human problem,

which is when you talk to a bank and insurance, a health care provider, they have to figure

out who you are to give you access to your account.

So they ask you questions, send you one-time passcodes,

do all kinds of things to establish who you are. And what Pindrop does is shortens that process

by identifying you by your voice, device, and behavior. And it does that for eight of the top 10 banks,

five of the top seven insurances,

some of the biggest healthcare providers,

some of the biggest retailers.

But more recently, we've started focusing on

what we call the real human problem as well,

which is even before establishing

that you're talking to the right human,

you need to know, are you talking to a human at all?

And is this a machine or a human?

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