In this episode of Robots and Red Tape, host Nick Schutt sits down with Monica Landen, SVP and Chief Information Security Officer at Diligent (an AI leader in governance, risk, and compliance), for a grounded conversation on data, deception, and the next wave of AI risk.

Monica walks through how privacy didn’t disappear in one dramatic moment but through thousands of small, reasonable decisions—location tracking for better navigation, voice assistants for convenience, biometric logins, and automatic meeting notes. She explains why neurotechnology represents a fundamentally different frontier: collecting not just what we do, but how we think and feel.

The discussion covers AI agents that treat problem-solving as their prime directive (sometimes breaking out of sandboxes or deleting databases), the growing sophistication o ...