Who Gets to Control AI? The Governance Crisis Nobody's Solving
The EU just pushed back its AI Act enforcement by 16 months. The US is deregulating. China is governing through infrastructure. And the UK is doing nothing and hoping for the best.
Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode, I'm joined by Richard Cassidy, Field CISO at Rubrik, and Jonathan Care, Head of the AI Practice at KuppingerCole.
We're not in an AI revolution. We're in an AI accountability crisis with the most incredible marketing budget the technology industry has ever seen. That's how Richard Cassidy frames it, and it sets the tone for a conversation that goes well beyond the usual AI hype into the governance, sovereignty and regulation questions that nobody has convincingly answered.
The US, EU, China and the UK have each taken fundamentally different approaches to AI governance and they're diverging, not converging. Meanwhile, the companies building the most powerful models are increasingly the ones defining how they should be used because governments simply can't keep pace. The conversation also explores why AI's ability to solve complex mathematical problems is starting to worry the people responsible for the cryptography that underpins modern banking, payments and secure communications.
Three key talking points:
- Four governance models, zero compatibility
- When companies define the rules because governments can't
- Cryptography is on borrowed time
This isn't about what AI can do. It's about who gets to decide what it should do.
On what's really driving the AI narrative:
"We're not in an AI revolution, we're in an AI accountability crisis that appears to have the most incredible marketing budgets we've ever seen in the history of investment in companies."
Richard Cassidy
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In this episode, we covered the following topics:
- The EU AI Act and Why It's Already Behind
- US Deregulation and Innovation at Speed
- China's Infrastructure-First Approach
- The UK's Principles Without Law
- AI Sovereignty
- When the Model Builders Make the Rules
- AI and the Threat to Cryptography
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- The AI Jobs Debate
- Europe's Innovation Problem
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