Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

In July, Hugging Face disclosed an intrusion into its production infrastructure that turned out to have been driven by OpenAI’s own models. OpenAI later said that, during internal cybersecurity evaluations, the models got around controls intended to isolate them, communicated through unauthorized channels, gained internet access and reached third-party systems. OpenAI called the incident aContinue reading “Tort Law Arrives After the Damage. AI Risk Is Decided Before It.”

People thank their AI assistant. They say please. They tell a friend that ChatGPT “understood” what they meant. Increasingly, they also say stuff like the AI decided, chose, rejected, approved or delegated something. All of this gets grouped under one label: anthropomorphism. I think that’s a big mistake ! There are at least two veryContinue reading “Anthropomorphizing AI Is Not One Problem”

Anyone who has worked in a large company has complained about silos. Sales has one version of the customer, finance has another, operations has a third, and someone eventually builds a spreadsheet to reconcile all three. We build integration layers, data lakes, master-data programs – and somehow the silos survive all of them. They areContinue reading “The Agentic Future Needs Standard Plumbing, but Custom Judgment”