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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 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 21, 2026
Further to my earlier piece on AI transparency The Great AI Labelling Illusion; When Compliance Becomes More Important Than Trust, AI watermarking sounds like the answer to a defining problem of generative AI, how do we know whether something was created by a machine? These new transparency regulations come as part of the European Unions […]
August 14, 2026
My earlier argument on the accountability gap at the heart of AI postulated that delegating authority to AI should never allow humans or corporations to delegate responsibility with it. A recent US court ruling in Amazon.com Services v Perplexity AI shows just how quickly that principle is going to be tested. The Ninth Circuit considered […]
August 10, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest essay on Meta’s AI strategy deserves more attention than a typical technology announcement. His argument is not simply that AI should become cheaper, more capable and more widely available. It is that powerful AI should be distributed to billions of individuals as a deliberate counterweight to the power of governments, corporations and […]
August 1, 2026
News is abound that from 2 August, organisations across Europe will proudly inform us that we’re chatting to AI. Websites will politely disclose that the smiling customer service agent is, in fact, a large language model, and marketing images will carry reassuring labels declaring they were generated by artificial intelligence. Progress? Certainly. Protection? That’s another […]
July 26, 2026
For decades, software assurance has been built on a relatively stable premise. If engineers correctly implement a well defined specification and that implementation can be tested, reviewed and verified, confidence follows. The question stakeholders and particularly regulators have traditionally sought to answer is straightforward ‘Did the engineers implement the specification correctly?’ That model served us […]
July 25, 2026
Listening to the narratives from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman following the recent headlining incident (or canny marketing ploy!) I get a sense that like Pygmalion, the mythical sculptor who fell in love with the statue he had carved, today’s AI pioneers risk becoming captivated by their own creation. It begs the question why do we […]
July 22, 2026
Before a nation deploys a new weapon, Article 36 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions requires it to determine whether that weapon would be lawful under international law. Should AI face its own Article 36 moment? It is a simple but powerful principle, before delegating the ability to cause significant harm, independent scrutiny […]
July 20, 2026
Following an article on Cyber Insurance in the Financial Times today ‘Growing threats prompt rethink over cyber insurance’ I felt a moment of déjà vu, as I reflected on a piece I wrote just over 10 years ago to the day Cyber Insurance – Let the dance begin. In which I predicted the disruption to […]
July 18, 2026
A rather novel line in a recent policy review leapt out at me. It mandated that users of corporate mobile devices DID NOT customise their voicemail welcome message but leave the default carrier welcome. Why? The creative nature of threat actors are harvesting these custom voice clips to use in AI deepfake autodial human engineering […]
July 9, 2026
The recent reports surrounding an alleged compromise of Accenture are noteworthy not because a major consultancy may have suffered a cyber incident but because of the nature of the assets reportedly involved; source code, encryption keys, SSH/RSA keys, cloud access tokens and configuration data. If verified, this moves the discussion well beyond traditional notions of […]
June 28, 2026
Recent news reports Anthropic alleges that operators linked to Alibaba used nearly 25,000 accounts and 28.8 million interactions with Claude to accelerate competing models towards ‘Mythos-class’ capabilities. The allegation remains contested and has not been independently proven but it illustrates both the appeal and the limitations of large scale model distillation. (Reuters) Large scale illicit […]
June 26, 2026
Historically organisations had years to adapt governance and risk management to technological change, AI is compressing those cycles into months. For me the blind spot for C-Levels I speak to is understanding the most important impact of AI, is not intelligence, it is speed. The challenge for leadership teams is that governance, procurement, compliance and […]
June 21, 2026
Further to extensive and growing debate on the digital sovereignty theme, I get the sense the powers that be are finally beginning to define technology sovereignty in terms that match the reality of the AI age. For several years, European technology sovereignty was often discussed as an aspiration Europe should control its data, reduce reliance […]
August 30, 2026
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