Your Next Employee Might Be AI

Podcast: AI Breakdown · Varun Sirohi

Opublikowano: 2026-10-14

𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐀𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝. 👀 This week Kree and Varun sit down in studio with Darren Gallop, board director and chief executive of Carbide, who governs cyber, privacy and AI risk for a living. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭? Once an agent has a login, a task list and the authority to act, it sits closer to staff than to software. Darren's working question is the one most businesses skip. Who owns it, who approves what it does, and who decides what it can reach. Inside the conversation: 🔴 When a tool quietly crosses into being an employee, with agents now starting around $20 a month 🔴 Machine identities already outnumber human staff by as much as 82 to 1, and only about 22% of organisations treat an agent as something with a real owner 🔴 Only 23% have a formal strategy for agent ownership, while 80 to 88% have already seen an agent behave in a way they never intended<b...