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The AI Revolution Nobody Can Switch Off

September 24, 2026

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Somewhat sooner than I thought here is the piece I referenced in ‘It’s Not the Model, Stupid … Standards Must Govern Authority, Not Intelligence‘. We may be approaching an infrastructure revolution in AI that makes today’s arguments about controlling frontier models look strangely temporary. Something that may also challenge the perception of frontier labs and […]

It’s Not the Model, Stupid … Standards Must Govern Authority, Not Intelligence

September 22, 2026

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This week has barely opened and OpenAI’s gambit to stay in the headlines is rolling in the form of a call for the United States to lead an international coalition on AI standards. The instinct is understandable, but there is a danger that we repeat a familiar mistake, creating principles after capability has already escaped […]

The New AI Era CISO Mandate, From Security to Authority

September 20, 2026

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I wrote about Cyber Security as the new business operating model back in 2017, ‘Cyber Security – The new Operating Model‘ and it has continued to reinforce itself ever since, growing into an economy grade question which I returned to last year in this piece ‘Is Cybersecurity the New Economic Policy?‘. I am back again, […]

The AI Nuremberg Hypothesis – What Did You Do After You Knew?

September 14, 2026

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Following on from my blog yesterday the comments on the Frontier AI Labs fear mongering by the US administration, particularly President Trump crystalised a thought that had been gnawing at me, there is something increasingly peculiar about this aspect of the AI debate. Some of the people building the most powerful technology humanity has created […]

The AI Risk Nobody Is Measuring – Authority

September 13, 2026

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I have already shared, from a different perspective, some thoughts on AI doom scenarios in my piece last month, ‘AI Won’t Take Over the World, It May Just Destabilise It.’ The news this weekend is stirring the pot again, rife with the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) being liberally thrown around by frontier AI labs, […]

Who Gave the Machine Permission?

September 11, 2026

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For decades, cybersecurity identity has revolved around a deceptively simple question, who are you? Passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA), certificates, identity and access/privileged management (IA/PM) and eventually Zero Trust were built around establishing identity before granting access, the digital economy is rapidly filling with identities that are not human. Service accounts, application programming interface (APIs), workloads […]

AI’s Hybrid Future – Frontier When Necessary, Private When Sufficient

September 10, 2026

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Following a great day with at BIG SASIG and having the pleasure of speaking (Trust, Control & Resilience in an Era of Exponential Change) I enjoyed some stimulating discussions on one of the themes I raised. That of lessons organisations should be learning from their Cloud adoption experiences as they are now confronted with AI. […]

AI Won’t Kill the OS, It Will Make You Forget It Exists.

September 8, 2026

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At the weekend I reached a milestone in a project that has taken me through at least two cognitive event horizons in how I now see the familiar compute landscape which I flet might be interesting to share. It has also left me convinced of something else; AI is now here for the masses. So […]

Digital Sovereignty is Being Designed for Borders, ‘The Fabric’ Has None

September 6, 2026

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Hard on the heels of my piece on the Fabric, I found myself thinking about discussions last week with clients on the impact of the EU’s regulatory focus on pinning down what is meant by Digital Sovereignty. If you had not noticed the regulatory world has been and remains somewhat infatuated with defining digital sovereignty […]

The Cloud Won, Now It’s Just Infrastructure … Welcome to ‘The Fabric’.

September 5, 2026

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For the better part of two decades, the technology industry has performed an impressive trick, convincing boards that moving computing from one building to somebody else’s building constituted a strategic revolution. yes, for those of you who know me I have been part of that bandwaggon. To be fair though cloud genuinely changed everything. Infrastructure […]