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Is Your AI Finished When It Works, or Only When It Can't Be Broken? with Qing Zhang

Is Your AI Finished When It Works, or Only When It Can't Be Broken? with Qing Zhang

Episode 413 Published 2 days, 8 hours ago
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Most teams call an AI project done the moment it works. Qing Zhang, Managing Director at LDV Partners, sees the deals before the rest of us do — and she thinks the finish line is somewhere else entirely. Jonathan Green talks with her about why AI is quietly redefining security, identity and the perimeter all at once, what happens when one person is running thousands of agents that talk to each other without anybody watching, why the honest answer to "is our AI secure?" is uncomfortable at board level, and which human skills survive when the tools keep changing names. Key Takeaways: • AI redefines security, identity and the perimeter simultaneously. Agents are digital companions that can do anything a person can, and they talk to each other without you knowing — so one person running thousands of agents is effectively running a small army you have to track. • Chips are the headline bottleneck but only one link in a long value chain that starts at power and ends at deployment. The measure that matters is intelligence per watt. • Price per token is commoditizing, so stop pricing on tokens and start benchmarking to value. Enterprises are paying for consumption; they need it tied to their own return. • Security at board level is a balance, not a guarantee. Total security means doing nothing. The real shift is AI converging into cyber, which needs AI-native tooling rather than traditional firewalls and cloud security. • When something breaks it is never just one thing — data loss, disrupted workflow, or an architecture you have to shut down and patch. The industrial parallel is thousands of robots on a factory floor: you need containment before you need scale. Notable Quotes: "It's redefining security, redefining perimeters, redefining identity in every single way." — Qing Zhang "If you want to be a hundred percent secure, then you do nothing." — Qing Zhang Connect with Qing Zhang: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qing-zhang Company: LDV Partners — https://ldvp.com Enjoyed this? Follow The Artificial Intelligence Podcast and share it with whoever signs off on your AI rollout.

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