Foundational Thinking in the Age of AI—with Doug Merritt (Aviatrix)

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Prakash Chandran discusses the challenges of understanding AI with Doug Merritt, focusing on the rapid adoption of AI and its implications for foundational knowledge.

If AI is making us faster, why does it feel like we're understanding less? In this episode of Futureproof, Prakash Chandran sits down with Doug Merritt, CEO of Aviatrix. Doug is one of the most accomplished enterprise technology leaders of the last two decades—after serving as CEO of Splunk for years, he's now leading Aviatrix to tackle cloud-native security. Together, they unpack why the speed of AI adoption is outrunning foundational understanding, how a recent supply chain attack on the po...

People in this episode

Host: Prakash Chandran

Guest: Doug Merritt

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• cloud-native security
• enterprise technology
• foundational understanding
• supply chain attack

Keywords

• AI
• cloud security
• enterprise technology
• Doug Merritt
• Prakash Chandran

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Aviatrix, Splunk

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