Show Notes
Jon Laux, Head of Analytics at CyberCube, explains why the reinsurance industry's cyber lane can't hold it, and where the exposure actually lands. That's after his insurance rapping intro!
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: Why treating AI as the next wave of cyber leaves your real exposure sitting in casualty How to separate network risk from a genuinely new kind of intelligence risk, and why that distinction decides which wordings respond What the I2T2 framework (information, intelligence, technology, tactics) gives underwriters that exclusions and grants never will Where AI liability lands when a professional services firm's bad inputs become somebody else's loss Why the next concentration risk might be called Anthropic or OpenAI rather than AWS or Azure
EPISODE LINKS: Jon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-laux-9477a72/ Cybercube: https://www.cybcube.com/
OUTLINE & TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Jon Laux raps 03:37 From kid rapper to insurance conference stages 04:16 Two realities: machine speed against 12-month policies 06:04 I2T2, and why it isn't a Star Wars droid 07:24 Not just a new form of cyber risk 07:45 When Anthropic and OpenAI become the new AWS 08:20 Cyber is network risk. AI is a new kind of intelligence 08:48 Why this is really a casualty conversation 09:30 Insurance likes lanes. The lanes are getting redrawn
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