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AI’s Jurassic Park Period — Aaron Stanley, dbt Labs

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AI Engineer· published 2026-07-20· 0:21:41· en-US· indexed 2026-08-10 19:43

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Transcript

217 cues· 2,831 words· 15,101 chars

chunk 0 · 0:15–0:57 · 98 words · 485 chars
0:15 So I am a CISO.
0:19 I'm also a law school graduate.
0:21 I'm also a member of the California Bar.
0:23 And so my contention is that if we replaced the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, the first one, not the additional ones, with AI agents, I would not survive the first half of the movie.
0:37 So I'm here to ask you, brilliant people in the audience, to please help me avoid that fate.
chunk 1 · 0:47–1:30 · 109 words · 545 chars
0:47 So I'm going to set this up.
0:48 About 20 years ago, I got out of bed.
0:53 I hadn't slept.
0:55 I kind of tried to put myself together.
0:57 I stumbled into the downtown Manhattan offices of a small digital forensics firm called Strauss Friedberg.
1:05 I knew that I was going to get fired.
1:09 Because the day before had been a really busy day.
1:14 And I was one of the only people in the office when a call came in from one of our clients saying, we need an emergency data collection from some systems in Midtown.
chunk 2 · 1:25–2:05 · 116 words · 572 chars
1:25 So I packed my bag, I got in a car, I waded through traffic.
1:32 When I was unpacking everything and getting set up on site, I realized I forgot my dongle.
1:41 You see, back in these days, we had these little USB drives that had cryptographic keys on them.
1:47 They were the license files for the software that we used to do forensic acquisition.
1:53 And I mean, I could have gotten back in a car.
chunk 3 · 1:56–2:41 · 131 words · 675 chars
1:56 I could have gone back to the office.
1:57 I could have gotten the dongle and come back and done this the right way, but I was a good consultant.
2:03 I had a backup, and I had a backup to the backup.
2:06 And so I decided, yeah, you know what, I've hit this constraint, I've hit this wall, I'm just gonna route around it, and I'm gonna get the job done.
2:15 So as things are going, I start to validate the evidence that I'm collecting, and I realize the timestamps are changing, they're now.
2:26 Well, this was an SEC investigation, and a lot of the times in these investigations, one of the questions that matters a lot is who knew what, when?
chunk 4 · 2:35–3:15 · 93 words · 521 chars
2:35 So I panicked.
2:38 Long story short, I didn't get fired.
2:41 I got yelled at pretty bad.
2:44 But we realized that there were problems, structural problems with our systems that let this thing happen and let me fail in this spectacular way.
2:53 So we fixed those things and everybody lived to fight another day.
2:58 Now, fast forward 20 years or so, February of this year, I'm in a very different role.
chunk 5 · 3:06–3:49 · 100 words · 543 chars
3:06 I'm a CISO.
3:07 I've hired consultants.
3:09 I have a vendor system that I'm trying to acquire data for in another federal government investigation.
3:17 And as we're working together and talking around, we realize there is no way to do what we wanna do.
3:22 There's no way to copy the data in a way that gets us the answers we need in the format that the government wants without changing the metadata.
3:34 Very quickly, the consultant, the vendor say, not it.
chunk 6 · 3:39–4:19 · 100 words · 521 chars
3:39 And I'm left holding the bag.
3:42 But there are some differences in the system now than what we had before.
3:49 I realized that who knew what when wasn't the question I wanted to answer.
3:54 I realized the issue is, does the data exist?
3:57 I also realized that the system itself would log the changes that I needed to make in order to collect the data.
4:05 And I also realized that I could write a tool with my good agent friend and we could build another log that made this all forensically defensible.
chunk 7 · 4:15–4:54 · 107 words · 514 chars
4:15 I had a nice way around the problem.
4:20 So in both cases, I hit a very similar constraint.
4:24 I can't do the thing I wanna do.
4:26 I can't get it done.
4:28 But in one case, I mess up.
4:30 In the other case, I do it the right way.
4:33 And my contention is that the agents that we are working with today are like 2006 naive Aaron who just needs to get the job done.
4:42 And what we need and what I am begging you all to build

Chapters

0:00 Introduction: a CISO in Jurassic Park
0:53 The forgotten dongle and the changing timestamps
2:58 Twenty years later: the same wall, done safely
4:29 Agents are naive 2006 Aaron
5:09 What Jurassic Park is really about
6:41 When an agent sends the message it was told to hold
8:26 The agent that asked to install a Chrome extension
9:42 Necessary but not sufficient: the pernicious problem
11:14 Corrigibility and outcome driven constraint violations
12:08 Three rules for load bearing constraints
13:01 The intelligent adversary and human escalation
16:10 The EU AI Act and the four layer answer
17:34 Q&A: what to prioritize and where to instrument it