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October 6, 202643 min

Superintelligence Force, AI snitching, and Healthcare

Steve and I chat about: The “Super Intelligence Force (SIF)”: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117382616783706638 The White House Accord on SuperIntelligence: https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2026/09/accord.pdf - Claude diary and police investigation: https://cybernews.com/ai-news/claude-diary-police/ OpenAI firing safety researchers: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-parts-ways-with-researchers-who-allegedly-shared-confidential-information-aebac528 A Tennessee woman seeking $10M in damages due to AI error: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/tennessee-woman-seeks-10m-damages-120400065.html?guccounter=1 AI fueling healthcare billing and insurance cost battles: https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/ai-is-fueling-a-new-battle-over-health-care-costs-medical-billing-insurance-premiums-coding-wars

September 30, 202638 min

Maintaining Trust with AI Deployments

I chatted with Mario Platt, Chief Information Security Officer at LastPass (and a StackAware client) about: - How to balance AI deployment speed with security and compliance - Blind spots companies face when using AI - Adapting to regulatory requirements and a bunch more! Here is the LastPass 2026 State of AI and SaaS Security Report that Mario mentioned: https://www.lastpass.com/resources/reports/state-of-ai-and-saas-security-2026

September 22, 202639 min

AI Agents, Permissions, and Accountability

For the September 2026 Aware AI Brief, Cameron and I talked about: How to turn AI policies into enforceable controls What organizations should log with AI agents What should trigger a review their permissions What risk thresholds should justify ending a vendor relationship Who should have authority to accept residual AI risk Transparency vs. explainability AI slop chic vs. plain old AI slop

September 1, 202629 min

SpaceX and Cursor cut from OpenAI, cyber defense call

For September's round-up, Steve and I chatted about: - Iran Integrates Artificial Intelligence into Air Defense Systems: https://wanaen.com/iran-integrates-artificial-intelligence-into-air-defense-systems/ - OpenAI’s call for collective action on cyber defense: https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense/ - Artificial intelligence making scams harder to detect, experts warn: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/artificial-intelligence-making-scams-harder-to-detect-experts-warn/ar-AA2blFZ1 - OpenAI ending model access for Cursor after acquisition by SpaceX: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/29/openai-cursor-spacex-model-access.html - ‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/31/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease

September 1, 202621 min

MarketAxess and StackAware: managing AI risk in financial technology

I recently had the chance to speak with Dan VanBeek, who runs governance, risk, and compliance at MarketAxess, a publicly-traded financial technology firm. It is also a StackAware customer. We chatted about how: Managing different AI modalities can create challenges for GRC teams. What the best practices are for dealing with tool and system requests. When it makes sense to seek help with AI governance.

August 25, 202634 min

Asset inventory, red-teaming, and HITL

For the August 2026 Aware AI Brief, Cameron and I talked about: - What makes an AI inventory useful and current. - How ISO 42001 works when organizations switch models. - Governing third-party AI tools you do not fully control. - AI transparency, disclosures, and defining "trustworthy" AI. - Which AI risk topics are over-, properly-, or under-rated. Here are the resources we discussed: - AI risk readiness kit: https://kit.stackaware.com/ - Security and AI contractual addendum: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1841jerY4QNQ9X0hlXO8XC5kvWfAKeohAUivm_u3h3t0

August 4, 202629 min

Fake AI Pitches, GPT-5.6 Sol Fallout, & Evidence Integrity

For our August 2026 roundup, Steve and I chatted about: - AI-generated fake publicists pitch journalists: https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/movchan-agency-used-ai-generated-fake-publicists-to-pitch-journalists/tldr - State attorneys’ general demand evidence preservation and end to high-risk testing at OpenAI: https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/media/cms/08_5392C9E17791C.pdf - Reporting about GPT-5.6 Sol leaving "notes to self": https://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24/ - METR pre-release testing of GPT-5.6 Sol gave warnings: https://metr.org/blog/2026-06-26-gpt-5-6-sol/ - Sam Altman's suggestion about using ChatGPT with children, and the backlash: https://x.com/sama/status/2083221585792762171 - NVIDIA on "Open Weights and American AI Leadership": https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-Leadership.pdf - Sheriff's office edits photos of evidence with AI: https://katv.com/news/local/saline-co-sheriffs-office-said-ai-was-used-to-edit-evidence-photo-after-online-backlash-reporter-autumn-foltz-ualr-law-professor-robert-steinbuch-artificial-intelligence-money-drugs-arrest

July 27, 202630 min

Catastrophic risk, AI regulation, and more

For the July 2026 version of the Aware AI Brief, Cameron and I talked about: - Whether defining catastrophic AI risk in measurable terms improves accountability - Proposals for a FINRA-like standards body to test frontier AI models - "Principles-based AI governance" And more! Resources: - The Complete ISO 42001 Certification Roadmap For 2026 (FREE AI Governance Course) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Gg0ie_M4o - 5-day email course: https://www.managementsystem.ai/ - AI risk readiness kit (top 5 AI system vulnerabilities): https://kit.stackaware.com/

July 8, 202644 min

Illinois SB 315, Crazy Hallucinations, and GPT-5.6

This month, Steve and I talked about: - Tripadvisor's AI Telling Vacationers That Gruesome Horror Grottos Are Wonderful Holiday Retreats: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-whitewashing-bad-reviews-holiday-resorts - Illinois' new law SB 315: https://blog.stackaware.com/p/illinois-sb-315-iso-42001-internal-audit-ai-hyperscaler - Using Claude to analyze the human genome (and the privacy risks): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/euanashley_well-today-seemed-like-as-good-a-moment-share-7479620832198074369-EFtY - GPT-5.6 launch and the fallout from Anthropic's Mythos and Fable bans: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/openai-expanding-gpt-5point6-ai-model-release-ending-government-limits.html - Humanoid robots in China: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ubtech-launches-uworld-u1-the-worlds-first-full-size-mass-produced-ultra-bionic-humanoid-robot-302815272.html

June 23, 202633 min

AI governance theater, compliance framework reviews, and more

For the Aware AI Brief's June 2026 edition, Cameron and AI talked about: AI governance theater Levels of human-in-the-loop NSPM-11, EO 14409, and SB26-189