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Virginia Blaser

Virginia Blaser

Retired U.S. diplomat (34-year Foreign Service career, acting ambassador to five countries) and CEO/founder of Blaser Global; co-author of "AI Use Cases for Consular Affairs."

Oct 6, 2026

4:34
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4:37
The kinds of things that I am already seeing happening, not just in the United States, but in many countries that are trying to figure out how to leverage AI and AI-type technologies in this space cover a wide gamut.
4:49
As Don said, different countries are l- are leveraging it in different ways for different reasons.
4:55
But let's just get to it, which is things like, you know, photo and document quality checks.
5:00
That's really important.
5:01
It can be often hard for a human to do at scale, you know, and at a rapid pace.
5:05
And, uh, biometrics, m- matching identities, uh, much faster with AI than trying to do this the analog or manual way.
9:09
So how do you ensure that biases, the, about immigration border data, um, that might be within these large language models, that they then don't influence some of these consular decisions?

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