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Recent disclosures from OpenAI should concern enterprise leaders, but not because they prove frontier AI is inherently unsafe. The more important lesson is architectural. As frontier AI moves from generating answers to operating tools, navigating systems and pursuing objectives, organisations are no longer simply consuming intelligence. They are potentially importing part of a frontier lab’s […]
September 24, 2026
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 […]
September 22, 2026
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 […]
September 20, 2026
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, […]
September 14, 2026
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 […]
September 13, 2026
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, […]
September 11, 2026
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 […]
September 10, 2026
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. […]
September 8, 2026
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 […]
September 6, 2026
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 […]
September 5, 2026
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 […]
August 30, 2026
Following a comment I made and subsequent discussion on a recent FT.com article (Could AI revive the socialist dream?), I felt the need to extrapolate, if only as a release valve to my own cognitive expression on the theme. My view being that for decades, the strongest argument against central economic planning was not ideological […]
August 29, 2026
A recurring problem in client discussions about AI is that organisations are still comparing models using headline specifications that sound important but often tell them very little about whether the model is actually right for the job. More parameters. Bigger context windows. More tokens. More compute. All great ‘headology’ if your selling your latest Frontier […]
August 23, 2026
Enterprises (and individuals for that matter) are understandably becoming interested in a new generation of AI brokerage services; platforms that allow users to move between models while maintaining a common memory of previous conversations, preferences and context. It sounds compelling, one memory, any AI. It should also set security architects’ alarm bells ringing. The problem […]
August 16, 2026
AI doom scenarios often assume that sufficiently advanced intelligence will eventually understand, predict and manipulate the world better than humans can. The kicker here is that civilisation is not a bounded game. It is a complex adaptive system in which participants respond to one another, interventions change behaviour and genuinely novel events continually alter the […]
September 26, 2026
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