About this episode
The episode discusses the risks and governance challenges associated with AI agents in enterprises.
AI agents sound exciting. But my conversation with A. Ravi M., CIO at Box at Google Cloud Next '26 on The Ravit Show was not about excitement.It was about risk. We are moving from AI that answers to AI that acts. And that shift introduces a completely new set of challenges. Not just accuracy, but control, access, and accountability. Ravi pointed out that most enterprises are not struggling with AI capability. They are struggling with governance. Who has access to what data, what an agent is allowed to do, and how you track those actions. Those gaps become very real once agents start operating on sensitive enterprise content. And that is where security needs to evolve. It is no longer enough to protect data at rest. You have to think about how AI agents interact with that data in real time, and what guardrails are in place when they take action. The partnership with Google Cloud plays a big role here. With platforms like Vertex AI and BigQuery, the focus is not just on building agents, but on building them with the right controls and visibility from day one. The biggest takeaway for me was simple. If you are a CIO thinking about AI agents, do not start with deployment. Start with…
People in this episode
Host: Ravit Jain
Guest: A. Ravi M.
Topics covered
- AI governance
- security
- AI agents
- enterprise data
- trust in AI
Keywords
- AI
- governance
- security
- data access
- enterprise content
- trust
- Google Cloud
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Box, Google Cloud, Vertex AI, BigQuery, Google
Books & works: The Ravit Show
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