A Cisco executive draws on three decades of internet security experience to argue that AI should be treated as powerful software—not an alien force—and that the right combination of engineering, independent oversight, and institutional discipline can make AI safer while letting innovation proceed.
Adopt aviation-style practices for AI: independent monitoring, controlled operational trials, transparent investigations, and rules that apply across companies.
Security culture must accept humility: design systems that fail-safe, avoid relying on individual expertise, and treat investigation and shared learning as routine.
Nobody knew it then, but he was fielding what would become one of the first cybersecurity service calls in the history of the commercial internet. We couldn't have predicted the scale or sophistication of the attacks that are now routine. We were focused on building something the world had never seen, and the people trying to break it hadn't caught up yet.
Not because it will be easy, but because we have thirty years of hard-won muscle memory as an industry for exactly this kind of problem. That said, I want to be careful not to sound cavalier, because there are no victory laps in security. A system that is secure today can be vulnerable tomorrow, not because anyone made a mistake, but because the people on the other side are also innovating.
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I’m not going to lie — I don’t typically jump or get riled up by claims that AI is going to take over the world or threaten humanity, beyond the insane energy use and emissions issue, that is. I first heard such warnings 23 years ago. Yes, 23 years ago. ... [continued] The post AI May Be on Verge of Causing Internet Ch
AI safety deserves urgent leadership, serious investment and a place among our highest strategic priorities. Recent incidents justify growing concern I also believe in our capacity to investigate, invent and adapt. Meaningful human control must cover both the technology and the institutions deciding how it is developed
I was profoundly struck by the Wall Street Journal’s reporting from Amrith Ramkumar , Angel Au-Yeung and Lindsay Ellis on the week AI anxiety went mainstream. Without downplaying legitimate concerns about the havoc that new technologies such as AI can cause, history offers some interesting analogies. Historically, new
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I read a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/cisco-gave-all-90-000-employees-their-own-ai-agent-1a4ad8bc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wall Street Journal story</a> a few days ago that made me laugh out loud at my desk.</p>
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