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AI Should Guide, Not Decide

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By Shannon Davis
| splk.it
A funny thing happens the moment you add the letters “AI” to a problem: perfectly sensible people start treating it like the universal solvent. I’m not anti-AI. I build in this space. I’m excited about what’s possible. I’m also old enough (and have the scars) to know that enthusiasm is not a strategy. Here’s the line I keep coming back to: AI should guide, not decide. Early in my career as a Windows NT administrator, I tried to “harden” security and accidently locked every user out of the system.
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Separating AI Hype from Reality for Defenders and Adversaries

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By Shannon Davis
| splk.it
Yes, threat actors can wield language models to bypass defenses, write perfect phishing emails, or generate undetectable malware — but defenders have access to the same arsenal of tools, the same public models, the same APIs, etc. The difference isn’t about what they’re using. It’s about how they apply it.
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My Dream from 1.12.2026, the Vision of Maj Tom Baird and Warning to the USA from Dumitru Duduman.

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By Shannon Davis
| Substack
Woke up from a dream today at about 1:50 pm on Mon 1.12.2026. (Tues 1:50am in Bali) Was in a High Rise Hotel when disaster sturuck and what I perceive was a Volcano Erupted in the area and lava began to come up out of the ground and then the Power went out. Elevators were not working but got down to the ground level through Emergency stairwells and into a parking lot only to notice large ocean waves beginning to roll into the city.
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