Our Videos

Bennett Borden on why control starts when you stop renting a general model and build the agent yourself.

“The first thing I want you to know is you can control an AI system that you build 100% of the time.”

He is not talking about the frontier model. He is talking about an agent with a job, a persona, and a prime directive — his preferred version of constitutional AI.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/oLEbBH-qayU

#aiagents #agenticai #ai #artificialintelligence #RobotsAndRedTape #buildinpublic #aiforbusiness

Lawyer and data scientist Bennett Borden joins Nick Schutt to talk about the first technological revolution aimed at knowledge work, not factories. Borden traces a path from a 1990s CIA analytics shop to Georgetown Law, Big Law AI chairs, NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework, and founding Clarion AI Partners. The conversation covers Iron Man versus Terminator, constitutional AI and QC agents, the reasonableness standard, why society got social media wrong, Utah’s mental-health chatbot statute, education tutors that refuse to hand over the answer, and why frontier-model jailbreaks still keep him up at night. Listen to Robots and Red Tape.

• Why generative AI hits lawyers, consultants, and CEOs first
• Building agents you can actually control, with telemetry and a QC bot
• Regulation that cannot keep pace, and the common-law test that still does
• Social media’s attention algorithm as a warning, not a template
• Education, medicine, and small models trained on a firm’s own “secret sauce”

Guest: Bennett Borden, Founder & CEO, Clarion AI Partners — lawyer and data scientist at the intersection of law, technology, and data.

Subscribe to Robots and Red Tape

Watch: https://youtu.be/oLEbBH-qayU

Podcast: Robots and Red Tape | Host: Nick Schutt | YouTube: @RobotsandRedTapeAI

IBM Quantum Ambassador Harry Munroe frames the decade as two parallel challenges: abundant clean energy, and strong AI we can control and keep aligned with our interests. Progress on either one, he argues, makes the other easier. U.S. energy independence sits on that same track.

The full episode is the context.

Nick Schutt and Harry also get into:
• Why the U.S. is really three grids (West, East, Texas/ERCOT)

• Real-time supply and demand, and why 60Hz stability matters

• Data centers drawing 10 to 100+ MW, with cooling at 30 to 40%

• Nuclear offtake, solar plus storage, and second-life batteries

• Quantum for materials and grid optimization, not hype

No panic pitch. Just the infrastructure conversation under the model conversation.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/wSXb3txaaGk

Host: Nick Schutt
Guest: Harry Munroe, IBM Quantum Ambassador

@RobotsandRedTapeAI
#AI #Energy #QuantumComputing #PowerGrid #Nuclear #EnergyIndependence #RobotsAndRedTape

Austin Keller: the ROI is not replacing 80% of the work. It is the 20% nobody wants.
Right-size the model to the task. A desktop-scale model can analyze the spreadsheet. A frontier model is a bazooka — and a $200k token bill on a $10k problem is how you miss the ROI.

From Mainframes, Myths & Modernization, with Austin Keller.

Watch the full conversation 👉 https://youtu.be/Irr8cPbWki0
Subscribe to @RobotsandRedTapeAI

In this episode of Robots and Red Tape, host Nick Schutt sits down with Austin Keller, Director of Data Science at IntelliDyne, for a grounded conversation on why critical systems still run on DOS, floppies, and “version 15 final redo,” and why most AI projects start in the wrong place.

Drawing on manufacturing, Navy, DOJ, and VA work, Austin argues you start with the business problem—not the shiny tool—and that security is step zero.

Key topics:

• Why “if it works, don’t mess with it” leaves agencies on 20–30-year-old stacks
• Starting with the job to be done, not “we want AI”
• Data that will not talk to other data—and why that is by design
• Coding agents that can read COBOL and Fortran when the last developer is gone
• Where AI ROI actually shows up: repetitive tasks, small agents, and UI that saves keystrokes

Podcast: Robots and Red Tape | Host: Nick Schutt | YouTube: @RobotsandRedTapeAI

🤖 #RobotsAndRedTape #ai #legacysystems #datascience #govcon #modernization #cybersecurity #agenticai #digitaltransformation #FederalIT #IntelliDyne #techleadership #aigovernance #enterpriseai

CISO work is a sales job.
Monica Landen (SVP & CISO at Diligent) breaks it down:
Security teams spend enormous energy translating technical reality into language the board and CEO can act on.

If you can’t sell the story → budget doesn’t move.
Headcount doesn’t move.

And success is invisible… while failures are public and catastrophic.
Her advice? Bring security in early.

Create a “paved road” so innovation moves faster and safer.
It shortens sales cycles and unlocks customers.

As Nick puts it:
It’s a lot cheaper to prevent than to clean up.

Full conversation 👉 https://youtu.be/FQoFuu1sFZI

This clip is from our full conversation on deepfakes, data, AI agents, and the quiet erosion of trust.

Podcast: Robots and Red Tape | Host: Nick Schutt | YouTube: @RobotsandRedTapeAI

#ciso #cybersecurity #ai #leadership #RobotsAndRedTape #ai #Deepfakes #dataprivacy #grc #ciso #aiagents #trustandsafety #digitaltrust #neurotechnology #medialiteracy #aigovernance #infosec #syntheticmedia #techpodcast