GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech The Rush to Adopt AI: How to Get it Right & Business Risks • Nick Selby & Sarah Wells
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Mar 24, 2026 Nick Selby, Managing Partner at EPSD and strategic IT risk advisor, and Sarah Wells, independent consultant and author, dig into the rush to adopt AI and its business dangers. They discuss misleading security jargon from vendors, AI tools needing deep access to sensitive data, sprawling integrations that magnify breach impact, and practical defenses like least-permission, threat modeling, and incident readiness.
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Executive Pressure Drives Premature AI Adoption
- CEOs push AI adoption for competitive optics, creating pressure to deploy tools before teams assess risks.
- That pressure widens the strategic-technical communication gap Nick Selby observed between executives and engineering teams.
Vendors Blur Security Terminology
- AI vendors reuse familiar security-sounding terms like safety and red teaming but mean different things.
- This deliberate terminology shift confuses legal and risk teams who interpret terms as traditional product liability language.
Drift Breach Shows Chatbot Blast Radius
- Nick recounted the Drift chatbot breach to show how revenue teams see chatbots as top acquisition channels.
- The chatbot needed Salesforce, Google Workspace, and HRIT access just to schedule appointments, massively expanding blast radius.
