Sidra Ijaz

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"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns: the ones we don't know we don't know." I recall reading this quote from former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, almost a decade ago, when I was pursuing my Master’s in Information Security.

Trigger warning: This story mentions suicide. Last Friday night, during our virtual team meeting, one of our AI note-takers left the Zoom meeting room abruptly while the team casually caught up with each other about our week. I joked that the AI didn’t like what we were saying. Before continuing with this story, I want you - the reader, to go back a few decades. Imagine that you were a grown adult living at that time and read the first couple of sentences of this article again.