AI is growing in use within information security, but are we ready to trust it to do all the things we hope it can, and do so automatically without doing harm? Context is king, and training to that level is only possible when you give all your experience to the AI. What are the tradeoffs to doing so? What happens when we depend on AI and forget (or worse, never learn) the underpinnings of what makes the AI system work (remember the calculator debates of the 1980s?). And does the end justify the means when it comes to AI use? And what is that “ends” anyway? Efficiency, automation, knowledge? Erik, Dan, and Brian discuss it all in this week’s Great Security Debate!

Show Notes

Report on reasons Israel didn’t catch oct 7 attacks - https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318591/israel-shin-bet-security-failure-october-7-attack
Shin Bet Report - Source Doc (Hebrew) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25551448-yqry-tkhqyr-shyrvt-hbytkhvn-hklly-710/#document/p1
Waymo hits student on bicycle - https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/7/24065063/waymo-driverless-car-strikes-bicyclist-san-francisco-injuries
Waymo violates school bus rules - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/waymo-recall-3000-vehicles-software-school-bus/
Podcast Recommendation - Agentic Dan - https://distillingsecurity.com/episode-64-agentic-dan/
TV Recommendation - Pluribus - https://tv.apple.com/us/show/pluribus/umc.cmc.37axgovs2yozlyh3c2cmwzlza
Trust Issues in AI -
“I bought this Tesla before Elon went crazy” magnet - https://geni.us/DXQYk
OpenAI adds ads - https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-ads-openai-advertising-83812a066375a805fa2e29b28fc77da1
Satya Nadella AI Internal Memo - https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/nadellas-message-to-microsoft-execs-get-on-board-with-the-ai-grind-or-get-out/sq0fe52
FDA AI Rules - https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/considerations-use-artificial-intelligence-support-regulatory-decision-making-drug-and-biological
Utah AI Prescriptions - https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/artificial-intelligence-prescribing-medications-utah-00709122
Movie Recommendation: Terminator - https://geni.us/59025
Book Recommendation: The Cuckoos Egg - https://geni.us/hYE9
Book Recommendation: AI 2041 - https://geni.us/5dtV54h
Anthropic Super Bowl Ad - Scott Galloway on why Anthropic's Super Bowl ad got to Sam ... - Fortune
China facial recognition payments - https://www.chowhound.com/2073279/grocery-store-facial-recognition-china-smile-to-pay/
Movie Recommendation: Sneakers - https://geni.us/P7SB
The Dawn of the Post Literate Society - https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
Leading Causes of Death in the US, 2023 - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
Automated car sex in backseat - https://dailydot.com/driverless-car-sex-autonomous
Podcast Recommendation: The Final Act - https://distillingsecurity.com/new-podcast-coming-soon-the-final-act/
Calculators and Children - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/crunching-numbers-debate-over-calculator-use-math-education-church-sg6te/
Podcast Recommendation: Mentorcore - https://distillingsecurity.com/tag/mentorcore/

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