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Sampath practices what he preaches — using AI to rethink how work gets done daily. From multi-model ideation to coding agents that automate daily briefs, here’s how Cisco’s AI lead actually uses the technology.
Most enterprises are held back from AI adoption not by a lack of ambition, but by infrastructure debt and siloed data. Sampath says the real unlock requires pairing modern infrastructure with leadership clarity — and embedding intelligence directly into products.
Sampath says that the most urgent AI security threat is the risk of agent compromise. As these systems take on more tasks, they become powerful attack surfaces — with the risk only growing with time.
Many companies are racing to bolt AI onto existing products, but Sampath argues the real moat comes from embedding intelligence into the product itself — and makes a bold case that the future of AI shouldn’t be controlled by a handful of centralized providers.
Published by The Rundown AI