The Rush to Adopt AI: How to Get it Right & Business Risks • Nick Selby & Sarah Wells • GOTO 2026

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted https://gotopia.tech Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/427 Nick Selby - Tech Transformation, Infosec & Managing Partner at EPSD Sarah Wells - Independent Consultant & Author of "Enabling Microservice Success" RESOURCES Nick https://infosec.exchange/@fuzztech https://bsky.app/profile/nickselby.com https://github.com/nickselby https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickselby https://nickselby.com Sarah https://bsky.app/profile/sarahjwells.bsky.social https://linkedin.com/in/sarahjwells1 https://www.sarahwells.dev Links https://ainowinstitute.org/contributor/heidy https://www.heidyk.com https://youtu.be/MNUlTHIPLEw https://youtu.be/lz0L0rRV7RE https://youtu.be/UfWo0XZB9IQ https://youtu.be/ul5vjXTNSsE https://youtu.be/tRL2sRDg_DA https://youtu.be/0GpN_vEUGLk https://youtu.be/3jjlEo-ZoPQ DESCRIPTION In this conversation, Sarah Wells and Nick Selby explore why the current rush to adopt AI tools introduces significant business risks. They discuss how AI vendors deliberately blur security terminology to confuse buyers, how AI tools' insatiable appetite for data creates enormous blast radii when breaches occur, and what organizations can do to adopt AI responsibly - from threat modeling and cross-disciplinary governance to minimum-permission principles and incident readiness. TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:06 The problem nobody Is talking about 03:18 How AI vendors are blurring the language of risk 04:38 The data access problem 11:24 Defining the blast radius before something goes wrong 13:40 What good AI governance actually looks like 19:34 Threat modeling as starting point for executive conversations 22:18 Conclusions 24:34 Outro RECOMMENDED BOOKS Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success • https://amzn.to/4aa8xrv Katharine Jarmul • Practical Data Privacy • https://amzn.to/3OafC3m Katharine Jarmul & Jacqueline Kazil • Data Wrangling with Python • https://amzn.to/3Ue5BV5 https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Governance #GovernanceMatters #AIGovernance #Risk #ReducingRisk #RiskOfAI #Infosec #ThreatModeling #DataProcessing #Programming #TodayInTech #NickSelby #SarahWells #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1