This week, Christina & Rory are joined by Fractional CISO, Risk & Governance expert, - and soon to be author - Kayne McGladrey as he returns to the show to discuss the complex and rapidly evolving legal and financial realities of AI liability. Who takes the fall when AI systems make critical errors, violate copyrights, or leak data? The discussion delves into the pros and cons of open-weight models i.e. they save money on token costs, but the deploying company must assume 100% of the liability for both inputs and outputs, unlike when using a frontier model (like Microsoft or OpenAI), the company at least has a contractual defense and some recourse...

Kayne's website, inc. details of his forthcoming book: kaynemcgladrey.com

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