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Your Agent Is an Insider Threat With Excellent Manners

Your Agent Is an Insider Threat With Excellent Manners

by | Nov 15, 2026 | Blog, FDE

8 Nov 2026 · DATAFORT Last time I argued that most workflows don’t need an agent. This one is for when they do. Because at some point one of them will, someone will build it, and the security review will consist of a man called Dave asking whether the API key is...
The New Luddites Have Shareholders

The New Luddites Have Shareholders

by | Nov 2, 2026 | Blog, FDE

Nov 2, 2026 · @Gavin Something odd has happened over the last couple of months. The people building AI have started asking for it to slow down. Not the usual suspects, either. In September, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei published an essay called “We Must Pace...
Your Workflow Doesn’t Need an Agent. Probably.

Your Workflow Doesn’t Need an Agent. Probably.

by | Oct 29, 2026 | Blog, FDE

By Gavin Smith | DATAFORT FDE  | 28 October 2026 There’s a moment in almost every client workshop. Somebody senior leans back, nods slowly, and says: “So we’ll need an agent for this.” Not a question. A diagnosis. Usually delivered about four...

The AI Didn’t Escape – technical briefing

by | Oct 4, 2026 | Blog, FDE

The recent media frenzy surrounding AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic “escaping” their containment sandboxes has fueled an exhaustion of sci-fi doomsday narratives. Headlines have painted a picture of sentient code breaking its chains, outsmarting its creators, and...
The AI didn’t escape

The AI didn’t escape

by | Sep 29, 2026 | Blog, FDE

There’s a lot of hoo-ha at the moment about AI agents “breaking out”, “going rogue” or somehow escaping the control of their creators. This is anthropomorphising the technology and it is technically misleading because it insinuates something that simply isn’t...