RSAC 2025: 'If Everything Is AI, Then Nothing is AI'
SC Media, Monday, May 5th, 2025
Much of the thinking around artificial intelligence (AI) doesn't truly reflect what AI is or what it does, two researchers said in different presentations at the BSides SF and RSAC cybersecurity conferences in San Francisco last week.
"The people who are talking about AI are making it up," said Ira Winkler, Field CISO of CYE Security, during a talk at RSAC. "They often don't know what they're talking about, like AI is some magical entity. You're not giving people any advice on how to deal with AI."
Both Winkler and Ian Amit, CEO of Gomboc.ai, stressed that AI is not one single monolithic thing that's going to take over the world. Instead, it's an application of data and processing power to different mathematical algorithms, some of them decades old, that are designed for discrete purposes.