News Summary

• Recent cloud disruptions illustrate how the way a change is introduced can affect the scale of an incident.
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently stated in Alphabet’s annual report that nearly 75% of all new code at Google is AI-generated and approved by engineers.
• As automated software becomes more capable and more deeply connected to production environments, mechanisms for pausing, disabling, or reversing AI-enabled functions may become relevant to resilience planning alongside monitoring and incident response.
• The question, therefore, is expanding from how organizations observe AI systems to how they maintain operational control over them.