The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 126 - AI Security vs AI Safety: Redefining Risk in the Age of AI Agents

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Rolf Schulz, who is the Founder and Principal of Quantropic.ai company. He is based out of Singapore.a) Mentions about the difference between AI safety and AI security and, also explains about why business leaders should care since many people talk about AI safety and often distinguish the notions of AI safety from AI security.b) Going by the hot topic - AI Agents either act as a productivity revolution or security nightmare, from a security perspective mentions about the changes when an AI can take action and not just answer questions.c) Talks about the areas the AI safety sits under - CIO, CISO, or its own function?d) Mentions about the things the companies should do before deploying AI and also if a company wants to adopt generative AI or AI agents, talks about first security steps before going live or the first steps into the transformation.e) Having been in this line for more than 8 years or so looks at the possibility of AI attacking, defending and governing. Going by his opinion, clarifies on the direction the world is moving towards to and talks about his vision on AI security evolving over the next two to three years.f) Mentions about the cost of ignoring AI safety and shares a real-world example pertaining to it.g) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his entire tenure.