Aviation solved the vigilance problem. AI just gave security a worse one
Opinion piece argues AI multiplies concurrent tasks and worsens vigilance failures, urging deterministic payment controls over reliance on human attention.
Alan LeFort, CEO of AI-native email security firm StrongstLayer publisher note aside, argues AI has intensified the 'vigilance decrement' aviation spent decades engineering around, overloading security and finance staff. He advocates deterministic controls such as payment callbacks, dual control on wires, and hard payment thresholds rather than depending on overloaded humans to spot rare malicious events. Intent-reading AI in the money path, he writes, must prove quiet reliability before anyone follows it.
- AI workloads replicate aviation's vigilance decrement for knowledge workers
- Controls firing on actions, not intent, should guard payments and identity transfers
- Author is CEO of StrongestLayer, an AI email security vendor
From the original article
3 min read at csoonline.com
An air traffic controller watching a busy scope will, sooner or later, miss the one aircraft that matters. Sustained attention decays under load, a limit aviation named the vigilance decrement and has spent seventy years designing around. AI has moved every knowledge worker into that chair.
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