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The Great AI Enclosure, Are Organisations Giving Away Their Intelligence?
Truth be told despite the view that History has a habit of repeating itself, it does not. However this does not preclude us from drawing lessons from it. In the 18th and 19th centuries, landowners enclosed common land, transforming shared resources into private estates. Wealth accumulated to those who controlled the land. Everyone else paid […]
The Adaptation Gap – AI, Compressed Time & the End of Predictable Change
July 11, 2026
For most of modern history, organisations have operated in a world of largely linear change. Technology evolved in relatively predictable increments, threats emerged at a pace that allowed analysis and response, and strategic planning assumed that tomorrow would resemble today, only slightly different. Artificial intelligence is disrupting that assumption. The significance of AI is not […]
When a Digital Incident Becomes a Trust Event and a Resilience Reckoning
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 […]
AI & Financial Stability – The Industrialisation of Cyber Risk
July 8, 2026
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 […]
Posted in: ai, Cloud Computing, Computers and Internet, Cyber Security, Risk, Security, Skills, Sovereignty
While the Industry Counts CVEs, AI Is Reading the Rulebook
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 […]
Digital Sovereignty’s AI Conundrum – Who Conditions the Intelligence?
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, […]
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America’s AI Doctrine – Move Fast, Until the Pentagon Notices
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 […]
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AI Distillation, Competitive Shortcut or Strategic Dead End?
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 […]
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AI Has Not Changed the Rules … It Has Changed Whether Governance & Risk Management Can Keep Up
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 […]
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The EU’s New Sovereignty Test – Control Without Isolation
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 […]
Stop Calling It a Hallucination … the Myth that is AI
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 […]
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AI’s Tightrope Walk, When Capability Starts to Look Like a Weapon
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 […]
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When AI Control is lost, the Consequences Will be Systemic
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 […]
Strategy in an Exponential AI World
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 […]
Are You Transforming with AI or Just Optimising?
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 […]
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July 12, 2026
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