The Rush to Adopt AI: How to Get it Right & Business Risks • Nick Selby & Sarah Wells • GOTO 2026

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted
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Nick Selby - Managing Partner at EPSD @NickSelby 
Sarah Wells - Independent Consultant & Author of "Enabling Microservice Success"

RESOURCES
Nick
https://infosec.exchange/@fuzztech
https://bsky.app/profile/nickselby.com
https://github.com/nickselby
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickselby
https://nickselby.com

Sarah
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahjwells.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/sarahjwells1
https://www.sarahwells.dev

Links
https://ainowinstitute.org/contributor/heidy
https://www.heidyk.com
https://youtu.be/MNUlTHIPLEw
https://youtu.be/lz0L0rRV7RE
https://youtu.be/UfWo0XZB9IQ
https://youtu.be/ul5vjXTNSsE
https://youtu.be/tRL2sRDg_DA
https://youtu.be/0GpN_vEUGLk
https://youtu.be/3jjlEo-ZoPQ

DESCRIPTION
In this conversation, Sarah Wells and Nick Selby explore why the current rush to adopt AI tools introduces significant business risks. They discuss how AI vendors deliberately blur security terminology to confuse buyers, how AI tools' insatiable appetite for data creates enormous blast radii when breaches occur, and what organizations can do to adopt AI responsibly - from threat modeling and cross-disciplinary governance to minimum-permission principles and incident readiness.

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
02:06 The problem nobody Is talking about
03:18 How AI vendors are blurring the language of risk
04:38 The data access problem
11:24 Defining the blast radius before something goes wrong
13:40 What good AI governance actually looks like
19:34 Threat modeling as starting point for executive conversations
22:18 Conclusions
24:34 Outro

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success • https://amzn.to/4aa8xrv
Katharine Jarmul • Practical Data Privacy • https://amzn.to/3OafC3m
Katharine Jarmul & Jacqueline Kazil • Data Wrangling with Python • https://amzn.to/3Ue5BV5

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