Ep 850: Agent Risk, Security, and AI Sprawl in 2026: Why AI That Acts Changes Everything (Start Here Series Vol 9)
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What is the perfect AI storm and why is it going unnoticed?
Welcome to the Everyday AI podcast. My name is Jordan Wilson, and for the past three and a half years, we put out more than 800 episodes. Yet, one of the most common questions I get, I didn't really have an answer for. Where do I start on the Everyday AI podcast? And that's why we started the Start Here series. And with Fall now back in full swing, the Everyday AI podcast is Is going back to school and playing back the entire Start Here series from front to back. We've hit pause on our normal Monday to Friday programming to run back our most popular series ever for the next 30 days. We made the Start Here series for beginners and AI champions alike. So whether you're just trying to get a grasp on large language models or grappling with the best coding harness for multi-agentic.
Workflows, the Start Here series covers it all. Plain language, no jargon, and easy to follow along each day. So make sure to subscribe to the podcast and check back each day for new insights day by day. The series is a culmination of spending more than 10,000 hours covering generative AI over the past three and a half years. So you don't want to miss a single episode of the Start Here series. Let's get into it. There's always been AI risk. But in the early days of large language models and chatbots, that risk was like Bill getting something wrong in the blog post or Deborah putting up a hallucinated stat in the onboarding guide that was littered with M-dashes and delves. But AI Risk today is a legit different ball game than Risk was three and a half years ago.
I mean, heck. AI risk today is unrecognizable from what it was three and a half months ago. And that's not an exaggeration. Because after hearing for like five years that we're six months away from real AI agents, well, it finally happened. And it was actually this perfect storm of multiple events that led to an unexpected business scenario scenarios that the corporate world now faces today. You either get on board with AI agents quickly or get left behind. But do it too quickly. And you could go under. The risk, the security, and the sprawl are real. And so we're gonna tackle it all today on Everyday AI. The start here, series edition. All right. Well, welcome to Everyday AI. My name's Jordan Wilson. And uh, if you're new here, this thing's for you.
It's your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday business leaders like you and me keep up with all the news, like a thousand new agents a day. What do we do? What do we try? Well, tune in. I tell you, and uh help you make the right decisions to grow your company and your career. So after 700 plus episodes, I realized I couldn't answer the most common question that people had for me. Like Jordan, you have a lot of episodes. Where do I start? Well, that's why I created the Start Here series. So the Start Here series is the essential podcast series to both learn the AI basics and to double down on your knowledge. Uh so this is volume nine, and you can go listen to all of the uh episodes in our Start Here series if you just go to starthearseries.com.
So that will give you uh free access to our inner circle community, and it'll put you right in the Start Here series space. So you can go uh listen to all of them, watch them, read about them all in one place, interact with others who are doing Uh one other thing that you need to do before we get started. My gosh, y'all. You you have to go listen to these. Uh episode seven, twelve, and seven thirteen. That is our twenty twenty six AI prediction and roadmap series. That's like a culmination of a thousand hours of work over the years, uh, or over the past year, uh, to give you guys the blueprint for 2026. So make sure you go listen to those. All right. Uh, if this sounds kind of like our last episode in the start here series, not exactly.
Uh so make sure you go listen to that one if you didn't already. So this is more of just the state of AI agents, where they are. what they are, how we should use them, should we use them. So make sure you go listen to uh volume eight from yesterday.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the perfect AI storm and why is it going unnoticed?
0:00β9:27
2
How did AI evolve from a dumb stationary brain to proactive agents (2022β2025)?
9:27β20:33
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Why does agent risk differ fundamentally from traditional chatbot risk?
20:33β34:46
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What are the three surfaces of agent risk (input, tools, actions) and how do they create new threats?
34:46β42:16
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Everyday AI Podcast β An AI and ChatGPT Podcast
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