Move Fast And Don't Break Things: Secure AI Adoption with Samantha Mehta // REPOST

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Dietmar Fischer discusses secure AI adoption with Samantha Mehta, focusing on governance and practical workflows.

🎙️ In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with Samantha Mehta, solutions engineering leader at AIRIA , about how companies can adopt AI without losing control. If your teams are already experimenting with ChatGPT and AI tools, the real question is not “Should we use AI?” but “How do we use it safely, visibly, and profitably?” Samantha explains what enterprise AI security looks like in real life, including AI guardrails that can audit, block, redact, and replace sensitive data. She also unpacks AI governance and AI observability, because you cannot manage what you cannot see. A key theme is shadow AI and AI sprawl: people will use AI anyway, so organizations need sanctioned paths that reduce risk while accelerating adoption. On the practical side, this conversation goes deep on agentic workflows. Samantha describes how agents become more than prompts through routing, actions, approvals, looping over documents like CSVs, and scheduled runs that create repeatable outcomes. From internal GPT alternatives to workflows that touch expenses, supply chain planning, and customer support, the episode is packed with grounded examples and a clear starting path…

People in this episode

Host: Dietmar Fischer

Guest: Samantha Mehta

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• AI security
• AI governance
• shadow AI
• agentic workflows

Keywords

• AI
• security
• governance
• ChatGPT
• enterprise AI
• shadow AI
• workflows

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AIRIA

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