Practical AI GenAI risks and global adoption
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Aug 27, 2025 Rick Kobayashi, Co-founder and CEO of Citadel AI, and Kenny Song, Co-founder and CTO, previously with Google Brain, dive into the world of generative AI. They discuss Japan's unique approach to AI adoption, contrasting it with Western regulatory frameworks. The conversation addresses the security challenges of AI systems, including hallucinations and prompt injections, while exploring risk management in finance. They also consider the implications of rapid advancements like ChatGPT-5 and the exciting opportunities that AI brings to society.
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Match Controls To Risk Appetite
- Tailor risk controls to company size and risk appetite when deploying LLMs.
- Enterprises should require robust testing, monitoring, and real-time guardrails before launch.
Citadel's Origin And Name
- Citadel started before LLM boom, pivoting from adversarial attacks to observability.
- The company name reflects their focus: protecting organizations from AI risk like a citadel.
Google Experience Shaped Citadel
- Kenny built production ML infrastructure at Google and saw a gap for enterprise tooling.
- That experience motivated Citadel to offer monitoring and validation tools smaller orgs can't build in-house.