QiD is a new kind of identity technology primitive that is • neuromorphically able to determine who someone is without having to know anything about the someone • heuristically check if the someone is a real human • neuromorphically estimate the age of the someone
QiD: Briefly…
Using the power of Neuromorphic Computing - an advanced AI which accurately simulates human cognition (how the human mind/brain naturally and instinctively recognises things) research scientists from aiQ Cognitive Technologies (ex University of Johannesburg - South Africa) developed a technology (code-named ‘QiD’) that is able to interpret ‘personal identity’ - that innate, immutable essence which uniquely defines who we each are, independently of the name we answer to or who some identity artefact (ID card, passport, driver’s licence…) says we are
QiD does what we as humans do very well each time we for example unexpectedly bump into someone we recognise but who we don’t actually know…
“I know you - I just don’t know your name!”
Similarly, QiD is able to ‘know’ someone without knowing anything about the someone
The only way to know who someone actually is, is not to rely on any form of user attestation or feature vector or derived biometric representation, but to ground identity in the unique distinctiveness of the human being behind the interaction instead
QiD: The Underlying Premises…
QiD is predicated on certain fundamental premises which state that, as humans:
we are each so much more than a few minutiae at the end of our fingertips or a few landmark features on a face;
we are each distinct from each other;
we are each uniquely different from each other;
we are who we each are
What distinguishes us from each other, is not the name we answer to or who some identity artefact (ID card/passport/driver’s license…) says we are, but ‘personal identity’ - that immutable, unique attribution which innately defines who we each are for life
QiD: What It Does…
QiD is a new identity primitive that is able to:
neuromorphically identify someone without having to know anything about the someone (IDCheck);
heuristically check if the someone is a real human (LiveCheck);
neuromorphically estimate the age of the someone (AgeCheck)
QiD generates a persistent, anonymous identity token (‘QiD ID’) without requiring onboarding or user registration or identity checks and without relying of identity credentials, documents, stored biometrics or personal data exposure
QiD: The Three Questions It Answers…
QiD answers three of the most urgent (and most difficult) questions of our time:

Who?
“Who is someone?” - the ability to identify someone without having to know anything about the someone

Real Human?
“Is the someone a real human?” and not a high resolution/photorealistic image or 4K video or deep fake representation of the someone…

Age?
“What is the estimated age of the someone?” without relying on any artefact (eg birth certificate) or the someone’s own declaration
QiD: What It Introduces…
QiD is effectively able to:
identify a person without requiring any input from the person;
do away with all onboarding, registration and identity check protocols and procedures;
render redundant all identity artefacts (ID cards, passports, driver’s licenses…) that are easily counterfeited, as ‘proof’ of identity;
dispense with the need for login names, passwords, OTPs, One Time Codes, 2FAs, CAPTCHAs, SSOs… to confirm the identity of a person;
obviate the need for any self-attesting biometric measures
Being able to uniquely identify someone without having to know anything about the someone, sets QiD apart from and well ahead of conventional identity solutions…
QiD: How It Works…
Using an advanced proprietary algorithm, QiD neuromorphically interprets and expresses ‘personal identity’ as a large, complex, irreversible, de-identifiable ‘identity checksum’ (‘QiD Hash’) which immutably persists for life - a person’s own, unique QiD Hash is represented by a compact UUID (‘QiD ID’) - an innominate identifier that can be used as the key to identify a customer or an employee or a student or a patient or a citizen…
And it does it all in 3D space from a simple ‘selfie’ captured on any computing device - desktop computer, notebook, tablet or mobile phone (even low-end phones) equipped with a ~2MP camera in less than 3 seconds inside a browser at very low bandwidth overhead
As a representation of ‘personal identity’ - a person’s own/unique QiD Hash/QiD ID:
persists for life;
does not need to be recorded or remembered;
relieves a person from ever having to appeal to anything apart from himself/herself to prove who he/she is
Paradox Of Identity…
Regulatory requirements increasingly demand that services providers know exactly who their services users (customers/employees/students/patients/ citizens…) are, and if their users have been properly authorised to use their services
To establish identity and to determine use entitlements, services providers require that users disclose private information about themselves, all of which only tends to • impugn privacy sensibilities • create opportunities for identity theft and fraud • load users with the burden of having prove identity every time they use the provider’s service
This tension between assurance, privacy, trust and user convenience gives rise to the ‘paradox of identity’…
QiD resolves this paradox by separating identity from identification…
QiD enables services providers to • anonymously identify their users • determine if their users are real humans • tell if their users are age-authorised to use the service, all without requiring users to surrender private information and also while relieving users of all burden of proof
In this way, QiD enables effective enforcement without over-identification, reducing the risk of fr
Identity Theft/Fraud...
The problem of identity theft is a global phenomenon which, in spite of every countermeasure employed by private and public organisations to contain it, has nevertheless continued to escalate unchecked in the world…
QiD introduces several unique/special features which sets it apart from and well ahead of conventional identity solutions:
QiD: Measured Performance…
Registered subscribers are given access to a special QiD Dashboard that allows performance of the technology to be tracked in real time inside a desktop/mobile browser
Under the rigour of extensive synthetic as well as analytic stress testing over a trial period of +24 months, QiD identified individual subjects to these overall levels of confidence:
The User Experience (UX)…
While QiD employs an advanced (proprietary) neuromorphic algorithm in the back-end to interpret personal identity from a simple ‘selfie’ to compute a subject’s own, unique QiD Hash/QiD ID in 3D space, QiD nevertheless recognises that it is the user experience (UX) which ultimately determines the success of a technology
To that end, user interface (UI) designers and consumer behaviourists collaborated to craft a user experience (uX) that is easy to the touch and intuitive to the senses…
QiD & ‘KYC Friction Cost’…
Every identity check insisted upon by services providers increases user friction, and KYC friction ineluctably induces a loss of customers who abandon the onboarding or authentication or purchase process out of frustration because of ‘KYC load’
Research has shown that the loss of customers during the onboarding and authentication processes is directly proportionate to KYC load:
Globally, the unaccounted loss of revenue from customers who abandon the enrolment or authentication or purchase process due to identity friction, is conservatively estimated to amount to a staggering $500 billion to $1 trillion annually
QiD eliminates ‘KYC cost’ by collapsing enrolment, authentication, liveness, and age assurance into a single, anonymous, near-zero-friction interaction - preserving conversion without sacrificing trust
FAQs…
Here is a comprehensive list of answers to the most common questions re QiD…
QiD-as-a-Service…
QiD can easily be integrated into an organisation’s own web/desktop/mobile app to issue a QiDaaS service request on demand through the ‘no code’ QiD API - the API workflow can briefly be illustrated like this:
• A: A Subscriber client app initiates a QiD service request to the Subscriber’s own server • B: From a static IP address, the Subscriber server launches a secure QiD service request to the QiD API • C: The QiD API initiates a QID process • D: QiD seamlessly captures a ‘selfie’ of the subject inside the Subscriber’s own client web/desktop/mobile app • E: QiD neuromorphically computes the subject’s own unique ‘QiD Hash’/‘QiD ID’, heuristically determines if the subject is a real human (if requested) and neuromorphically estimates the age of the subject (if requested) • F: The QiD API securely returns the IDCheck, LiveCheck and AgeCheck results (if requested) to the Subscriber server via a Webhook • G: The Subscriber server notifies the Subscriber client app which takes the appropriate action (eg grants or denies the subject access to a web/app service)
All virtually instantly…
QiD Checks…
The QiDaaS makes it easy for a Subscriber web/desktop/mobile app to answer these identity questions: • “What is the user’s unique identifier (QiD ID)?” • “Is the user a real human?” • “What is the estimated age of the user?” by launching any one of these three checks:

QiD IDCheck
Anonymously identify someone

QiD LiveCheck
Anonymously identify someone
Check if the someone is an real human

QiD AgeCheck
Anonymously identify someone
Estimate the age of the someone
QiD: Live Demo App…
The following example of a mock Subscriber app launches a QiD AgeCheck to help the app decide decide whether or not to grant the user access to an age restricted service…
Touch the ‘QiD Demo’ button to launch the demo app inside a browser…


























