Assertion Supported
Kelleher: MIT study found 95% of AI initiatives lack tangible ROI
“We have, there was a very famous study came out of MIT a couple months ago that said, 95% of AI initiatives have yet to demonstrate a tangible ROI.”
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Kelleher: 90% of Surveyed Okta Clients Deploy Agents, 10% Secure Them
“So our customers that we spoke with told us over 90% of them today have agents that are deployed in production. Yet only 10% of them believe that the agents in production are currently being appropriately managed and secured.”
Opinion
Kelleher: AI Feels Bigger Than the Internet and Cloud Shifts
“It feels bigger than the introduction of the internet. It feels bigger than the shift to cloud. It is, we expect it to fundamentally transform how businesses operate and how humans operate.”
Insight
Kelleher: Autonomous decision-making sets AI agents apart from past tech shifts
“I think the way that we think about agents that I think about agents is autonomous software that's capable of taking actions on a user's behalf, not synchronously, but asynchronously, and that's capable of applying its own judgment on which actions to execute …”
Insight
Kelleher: Autonomous action distinguishes AI agents from LLMs and brings security risks
“I think when we talk about the distinction between an artificial intelligence, the distinction between a large language model and an agent, I think the ability to take action is a very specific capability of an agent, and it's really the ability to take autono…”
Assertion Partly supported
Kelleher: Major Restaurant Chain's AI Concierge Was Breached, Leaking 60M Records
“Several weeks back, there was a very well publicized incident where one of the world's largest restaurant chains had deployed an agent to help job applicants on its recruiting website.
And this is a restaurant that interviews millions of peoples per year.
it …”
Assertion Supported
Kelleher: Breached Restaurant AI Agent Used Default Password '123456'
“In fact, they built that agent with a default password of one, two, three, four, five, six.”
Disclosure
Okta Mandates Agent Vendors Support Cross-App Access for Internal Use
“At Okta, for example one of the teams I manage is our internal IT organization. We have a policy that we will only support We will only allow agents for our employee use if the vendors of those agents have committed to implementing cross app access support, be…”
Insight
Kelleher: Key AI governance fear is data leaking across queries
“One of the latent concerns people have as they're deploying, deploying third-party agents, is they want to know if that data is going to be used anywhere else. So is it going to be used just for my query to help me do my work, which is usually fine? Or is that…”
Disclosure
Kelleher: Okta has secured and provisioned over 60 AI tools internally
“With Okta internally right now, we have over 60 AI tools that we have secured and provisioned within our enterprise.”
Disclosure
Kelleher: Would Only Use Brain AI If It Runs Locally and Privately
“I'd be very curious to have an augmented brain, an AI augmented brain, and the ability to have a co-pilot that can help me navigate my life. So the idea of that's very intriguing, but for me, for that to be something I would actually do, I would need to have c…”
