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Yet again the news is awash with AI, Cyber Risk and Financial Stability FUD (fear, uncertainty doubt) but to cut through the verbiage, the attack path really has not changed. Whilst it is fair to say regulators are right to be worried about AI enabled cyber risk in financial services, the concern needs to be […]
July 7, 2026
Like a magician performing a sleight of hand, the cybersecurity industry may be becoming fixated on the hand it can see while missing what is happening elsewhere on the stage. I call it the Great AI Source Code Vulnerability Distraction. Today, that visible hand is source code vulnerability discovery. Frontier AI models are astonishingly effective […]
July 5, 2026
A follow on thought stimulated by my missive of yesterday on America’s AI Doctrine has me considering the connection and implications on digital sovereignty. For organisations concerned with digital sovereignty, I feel the most challenging growing question is no longer simply one of residency, control or jurisdiction. It is who conditions the intelligence that thinks, […]
July 4, 2026
Following recent announcements from the US government, the US approach to AI is beginning to resemble a constitutional magic trick. Domestically, Washington wants to sweep away onerous state level safeguards in the name of innovation and competative advantage. The message to Silicon Valley is reassuringly simple; build, scale, dominate and try not to let individual […]
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 sesne 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 […]
June 20, 2026
Are you getting tired of the language used to describe artificial intelligence (AI) that is subliminally softening the reality of what these systems are actually doing? I certainly am … We are told that models are not perfect, as though they are accurate mirrors of reality with a few defects. In truth, an AI model […]
June 15, 2026
Further to my blog at the weekend on the compound systemic risk from an AI runaway event, something further to consider following initial comments I have received, concerns the threshold for offensive use classes of AI falling under Article 36, Additional Protocol-1 and Weapons Review of Lethal Autonomous Weapons System . Noting also that whilst […]
June 13, 2026
The United States’ decision to restrict foreign access to Anthropic’s most advanced models, such as Anthropics Fable 5, marks an important recognition of AI as a strategic and potentially destabilising capability. Although framed as an export-control and national-security measure, it also signals that frontier AI can no longer be treated as ordinary commercial software. The […]
June 10, 2026
Following on from my last piece, which explored the difference between transformation and optimisation, I have found myself reflecting on another word that appears repeatedly in discussions about change, notably ‘strategy‘. It is a word used with confidence and frequency, often as the organising discipline for transformation. Yet in an environment shaped by exponential AI […]
June 7, 2026
And so as promised, here is my piece on AI and transformation … Back in 2018, I wrote an article titled ‘Are You Digitally Transforming or Just Optimising?‘ The central argument was simple, many organisations claim transformation when they are really just making incremental improvements to existing ways of working. Eight years later, as organisations […]
June 6, 2026
We are starting to see in research coming out indicators of the truth of where the value proposition in AI is likely to sit. For much of the AI revolution, success appeared to be a race towards ever larger and more expensive models. However, recent research demonstrates that the greatest economic value may not lie […]
June 2, 2026
Cybersecurity was built around a fundamental assumption, humans remained at the centre of decision making. Humans interpreted alerts, approved actions and constrained the speed at which systems operated. That assumption is collapsing. We are entering an unmanned era where AI collides with multiple exponential forces simultaneously, hyperscale compute, autonomous systems, robotics, satellite networks, edge sensors, […]
May 30, 2026
For decades, cybersecurity has drawn a distinction between Information Technology (IT), which processes information and Operational Technology (OT), which directly influences physical or business operations. The rise of AI agents is beginning to blur that boundary. Unlike traditional software, AI agents do not simply execute predefined instructions. They observe environments, analyse information, make decisions and […]
July 8, 2026
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