What is the AIR-SPJ Project?

Jameson Ritter is the Founder and Principal of Threatwise Global LLC and serves as Director of Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management for the Center for Personal Protection and Safety. He is a Certified Threat Manager through the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, one of fewer than 300 worldwide, and holds multiple security and protection credentials, including Certified Protection Professional, Physical Security Professional, and Professional Certified Investigator.

Jameson's work focuses on behavioral threat assessment and management, workplace violence prevention, enterprise threat management, crisis response, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence in violence prevention. He has advised Fortune 100 companies, healthcare systems, educational institutions, public-sector agencies, and faith-based organizations on threat management governance, high-risk case consultation, policy development, training, and program design.

Before founding Threatwise Global, Jameson held senior security and threat management roles in corporate, nonprofit, and educational settings, including Director of Workplace Security and Violence Prevention for US Foods and global threat management leadership work with UnitedHealth Group. His earlier public safety experience includes 11 years in law enforcement, with various assignments, including as a Task Force Officer with the FBI Minneapolis Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Jameson is also the creator of ADVISOR by Threatwise™, an AI-assisted decision-support platform designed to support human-led behavioral threat assessment, documentation, and triage. Through AIR-SPJ, he is focused on helping develop a transparent, evidence-informed structured professional judgment framework for assessing AI interaction risk, including violence, self-harm, grievance, fixation, dependency, and other emerging behavioral concerns involving human interaction with artificial intelligence systems.

Totti Karpela is a globally experienced law enforcement and threat management specialist with more than 35 years of professional experience across government, military, and corporate environments.

A graduate of Finland's Police University College, Totti served in the National Police of Finland as a unit supervisor and subject matter expert focused on violent crime risk mitigation. He was part of a multidisciplinary team responsible for managing threats directed toward law enforcement and judicial officials, where he led operations in high-risk threat mitigation cases. He also founded the first stalking management unit within the Finnish police.

Totti has specialized training in the psychological assessment of offending behavior and has extensive experience working with high-risk and high-harm offenders. He served for nine years as a hostage negotiator with the National SWAT team and later taught management of aggressive behavior and conflict resolution at the National Police University.

In the private sector, Totti has advised government agencies, corporations, presidential candidates, high-profile individuals, media companies, financial institutions, aviation organizations, educational facilities, and multinational companies across five continents. His work focuses on threat assessment, case management, violence prevention, conflict resolution, and security risk mitigation.

He holds the Certified Threat Manager designation and is accredited to provide consultation and training related to CETAP, the European threat assessment credential. Before joining the National Police of Finland, Totti served in the Military Police SRT team. He continues to serve in the Finnish Army Military Police Reserve.

Steve Crimando is the founder and principal of Behavioral Science Applications LLC. An emergency behavioral health clinician, educator, and crisis responder, he brings nearly four decades of experience to the fields of behavioral threat assessment and violence prevention.

Steve is a Certified Threat Manager (CTM) through the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP) and a Certified Master Trainer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Threat Evaluation and Reporting (NTER) program. He serves as a cleared mental health partner to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) and an advisor/instructor for the FBI's Community Anti-Threats Officer (CATO) program. Deeply engaged in professional leadership, Steve chairs the Extremism & Political Instability Community (EPIC) Steering Committee and is a member of the Human Threat Management Community Steering Committee for ASIS International.

A published author and recognized subject matter expert, Steve is frequently sought after by the media and the courts regarding violence prevention and crisis response. He holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Human Development and Public Communications from Syracuse University, and a Master of Arts with a forensic specialization from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Steve has developed several behavioral-based violence prevention technologies including the TeleCrisis Solutions™ desktop crisis management tool used by many government call centers and the Active Shooter Action Plan (ASAP)™ app for iPhone and Android devices. He is also the developer of the AI-Influence & Violence Risk Screening Questionnaire (AI-VR-SQ) and part of the team developing the AIR-SPJ as part of his commitment to the development of the threat assessment field and its nexus with Artificial Intelligence.