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Emerging Reality

Emerging Reality

By: Jonathan Steel
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For business leaders: The realities of AI adoption - the benefits, pitfalls, opportunities, and threats. Learn how to leverage AI in the real world - and how not to.

Guests include technology specialists, startup founders, practitioners (CIOs, CTOs), business leaders, industry analysts, academics, and public sector leaders.

2026 Jonathan Steel
Economics
Episodes
  • Ep2: Chris Surdak | The massive potential gains, and pitfalls, that AI offers
    Jun 29 2026

    Are you ready to harness the massive benefits of AI? Or will you make the same mistakes as so many others are making today?

    Chris Surdak talks about the dangers of LLMs, the extraordinary potential for AI-driven fraud, and how businesses can win over the next few years, BUT only if they do the right things.

    Chris Surdak is an actual rocket scientist - and an expert in AI, big data, and compliance. He’s the author of four books, and is the President and CEO of ReLeaf Financial, providing Proof of Intent for digital transactions.

    00:30 Introduction

    01:46 Opportunities and threats in AI

    05:04 Agentic AI is a raft of gotchas waiting to happen

    06:59 ReLeaf Financial’s innovative approach

    11:42 Data as the source of wealth creation

    14:52 Human agency as the next source of value creation

    16:47 Replacing people with AI - playing Russian roulette

    18:24 AI will radically expose who adds value in your company, and who doesn’t

    21:17 Task graphing, digital transformation, and the importance of building in resilience

    25:57 AI means you will have to finally fix your processes

    29:06 You’re not going to save the money you think

    30:01 Circular financing in the AI sector

    31:17 The future if you do AI properly: more efficient AND more effective

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    35 mins
  • Ep1: Shoshana Cox | AI cybersecurity is critically different
    Jun 29 2026

    Can you secure your AI systems?

    Learn from AI cybersecurity expert Shoshana Cox why AI security is fundamentally different from traditional systems, why it’s difficult to do, and why most AI security solutions and consultancy sold today is worthless.

    Shoshana is a mathematician, engineer, and former hacker working in AI cybersecurity in the national security sphere. She has written pioneering papers laying out why AI systems are so difficult to secure (her mathematical proof was recently confirmed by NIST in the US) and was part of the team that wrote the EU AI Act’s technical standards. She is a strong believer in AI and a fierce critic of companies selling security services which deliver no value!

    Timestamps

    00:30 Introduction

    03:02 How is AI cybersecurity different from traditional cybersecurity?

    05:28 In AI, data is the attack vector

    08:07 Threat modelling in AI security

    10:59 The challenges of implementing AI in organisations

    14:41 Is current AI hype dangerous?

    18:50 How should large organisations approach AI?

    21:52 Internal vs external AI models

    24:28 Data, process quality and AI reliability

    27:23 The importance of real engineering in AI deployment

    30:11 AI red teaming - as it’s being sold - doesn’t work

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    33 mins
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