You are in control of AI. Great. Wait. You aren't?

Much like driving on ice. You think you are in control, until you realize you aren't.

Even though Cyber Crucible, Inc. spends a lot of its time in the cybersecurity world (not using AI to melt pig iron into steel), our buyers fit into two buckets:
1. They want preventative protection, and if AI is needed to do it, great.
2. They want their employees to use AI, but need the use to be managed appropriately.

Sometimes #2 is a bit out of a pragmatic acceptance that the employees will use it regardless (likely are...), and that its use might be a good thing eventually anyway.

The biggest challenge I see business owners have, and please share if you see differently, is that AI has really caused democratization of the availability of information. Barriers to communication flows and data sharing have really been broken down, when barriers were usually just focused on ease of access and consumption of the data.

That on itself sounds like a great thing, until you realize everyone now knows that you consume around $100 a month on Cheez Whiz.
Really Chad, with your blood pressure medicine?

Some of the folks we speak to of course are at the "can I control the darned thing" stage. Or they are at the "we're in complete control" stage, and they are about to have an "aha" moment and go back to the "can I control it?" phase.

Others have spent a lot of hard cash, blood, sweat, and tears to setup a private LLM.
Only to create a new human resources nightmare....
One company's leadership quietly disclosed that their private LLM had enough context to provide what the C-suite was very accurate guidance to employees asking questions like, "Is Deborah in accounting getting fired at the end of the year?" or, "Who is getting bonuses this quarter?"

I saw this rap battle cartoon (please check out the artist), and realized --> This is exactly that situation in a cartoon. Brilliant. Mom's spaghetti, indeed!

So our conversations right now with Get FortressAI always focus on:
1. data a particular AI tool should not have access to at all
2. data that there should be controlled access (more on that later)
3. data that we (the company) won't heavily regulate, maybe Desktops, I don't know. (there are valid reasons for this...for another conversation)

Oh yeah, and you get to protect your credentials and hacker stuff too.
Just like buying a car, grandma might not know what ABS breaks are, but since they are in the package along with the airbag and the turbo, that sounds really great.

Seriously - go ahead and search for Twonks. Brilliant comics. Possibly not all HR compliant.
In case the comic makes no sense:
Cell one: Man is telling his therapist his darkest most vulnerable moment.
Cell 3: Man’s therapist, who knows all the things to make fun of him, is his challenger for a rap battle.

For more rap battle information, please watch the movie, 8 Mile. Then rehearse Rap God until you can sing the entire thing from memory.