Thinking ahead on cyber
Speaking at the Society of Information Managers conference in Arizona in November
Giving my presentation, slanted toward cyber, and then leading a session with a hundred-plus attendees (estimated).
I am thinking about putting them through a scenario-building drill via some online platform (like I did with Wisconsin dairy farmers back in January in Green Bay).
So, I am toying with an X-Y in anticipation: two questions, four outcomes:
Level of AI integration across society/economy/government (modest v pervasive)
Nature of cybersecurity landscape (pacing/controlled v. lapsing/chaotic)
Those seem like the obvious big questions.
That get us four pathways:
Modest AI integration + chaotic cybersec: lower left/worst case
Pervasive AI integration + chaotic cybersec: lower right/mixed “downer”
Modest AI integration + controlled cybersec: upper left/mixed “upper”
Pervasive AI integration + controlled cybersec: upper right/best case
You don’t want to be left behind on AI, so modest integration worse, but that does leave you with the pervasive/chaotic mix as a potential “mixed” pathway when that might scare the average person the most. Still, if you, in Country A, are in the lower left while others are in the lower right, you’d still feel worse because at least they’d be learning in the lower right while you’d be going nowhere chaotically.
That way you’re two paths from worst to best offer a real choice: wait on cybersecurity to keep pace before going pervasive VERSUS dive in on AI, suffer the growth trajectory, and get to the promised land the hard way but also the fast way. And speed matters, does it not?
Should be a fun brainstorming/voting session.
I am open to feedback regarding potentially stronger question pairs.
