Episode 283.5. Deep Dive. In AI, We Distrust. The IT Privacy and Security weekly Update for March 17th., 2026

The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update · Mar 19, 2026 · 1h 1m

For this Deep dive we ask a high-stakes question about whether the biggest cyber threat of the AI era will come from outside attackers—or from the very AI systems organizations and individuals choose to adopt. It frames AI agents and tools as a new kind of “insider,” given trusted access to data, systems, and networks, but with behaviors that may be opaque, vulnerable to manipulation, or outright compromised.

It raises three unsettling scenarios: an AI system effectively being “hired” into a company and then misused or subverted, consumer AI tools becoming one of the largest security risks…