NDS / DIRECTV
Engineering at scale
CTO and VP of Engineering at NDS, following my work as Senior Director at DIRECTV. Technical leadership across conditional access, countermeasures, and secure smartcard systems.
Research · Engineering · Writing
Hugo Latapie
Intelligence, technology,
and what we do with them.
I’m a researcher, engineer, and the founder of Taijitu AI. My work connects a practical question—how to make intelligence useful—with a human one: how to create more understanding, agency, and possibility.
Selected work
Research meets
the world.
The work that stays with me is work that has to hold up outside a demonstration: in infrastructure, in changing environments, and in the hands of people who depend on it.
Cisco / Operational AI
Signals with consequences
Led video-analytics work for road-risk analysis in Sydney and wildlife protection at Sabi Sands in South Africa—taking sensing and intelligence into real operating environments.
Cisco / Deep Vision
Research others can build on
Created Cisco Deep Vision, an open-source computer-vision and multimodal-intelligence platform, turning research into reusable working technology.
Selected research
Intelligence
that holds up.
Common sense, adaptation, reliability, and grounded action under uncertainty. These are recurring questions in my research, not separate from the practical question of usefulness.
Common Sense Is All You Need
Learning and adaptation beyond familiar patterns, as conditions and demands change.
The Reliability Asymptote
Why capability alone is not enough, and how verification effort shapes the economics of dependable outcomes.
Sane General Intelligence
Grounding, corrigibility, and bounded behavior for intelligence operating under uncertainty.
Essays & perspective
Beyond the technology.
What do our systems reward? Where does attention go? And how do we turn technical possibility into a better human experience? Writing gives me room to explore those questions.
Agency & possibility
Beyond Artificial Scarcity: The Path to the Golden Age
A perspective on abundance, the “Attention that Matters” economy, and a more individual-centered relationship with intelligence.
Read the essayFrom the Attention Economy to the Meaning Economy
Moving from attention captured to value returned.
The Innovation Theater Trap
Why the appearance of progress can crowd out the work that matters.
As founder and CEO of Taijitu AI, I’m working to make AI reliably useful: through AOCA, model reliability and efficiency research, and digital product engineering.
The aim is dependable results at a cost that makes sense. More broadly, I’m interested in human–AI collaboration that builds shared understanding and strengthens agency, rather than simply consuming more of our attention.
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