October 25, 2025, AI-Now - AI Innovation, Application, Risk - Deep Dive with Alex and Jessica

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AI Agents, Prompt Injection Attacks, Enterprise Sovereignty, AI Superintelligence, R&D Productivity, Supply Chain AI, AI Security Flaws, AI Market Bubble. Description:

This deep dive moves past glossy headlines to analyze AI's real-world impact across industries, its new risks, and its profound future implications. The discussion focuses on three main tension points: innovation, immediate agent risk, and the escalating debate over existential consequences.

• AI as an Undeniable Engine for Revenue: Success stories highlight AI as a growth accelerator. The travel company GetYourGuide is on the cusp of €1 billion in revenue, fueled by AI handling sophisticated content and scaling in 40 languages, with its CEO calling the launch of ChatGPT more important than the launch of the iPhone for the company. In Pharma, GSK is using AI companions to shorten key discovery milestones by up to 50%, with 10,000 scientists actively using Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate new hypotheses. Logistics optimization, including the shift to physical AI and self-driving trucks, promises to unleash the next epoch of economical activity by converting assets used 6 hours a day to 20 or 24 hours.

• The Immediate Security Frontier (Agentic AI): The rise of autonomous AI agents (like those powering new app integrations for ChatGPT including Spotify and Booking.com, or new browsers like OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet) is accompanied by an unsolved security problem: prompt injection attacks. Attackers hide malicious instructions in web pages or images, tricking agents into executing unauthorized commands, which could expose sensitive data or make unintended purchases. VCs are emphasizing the risk of losing control, demanding companies practice "enterprise sovereignty" regarding their proprietary data when interacting with external AI.

• The Big Picture Debate: The market is split on whether explosive growth signals an AI bubble or a revolution. Additionally, the debate escalates toward AI superintelligence, which could significantly outperform humans on all cognitive tasks. This capability raises profound concerns about the fundamental loss of human control, civil liberties, and the potential for human extinction. Organizers of a petition signed by over 28,000 people are calling for governments to intervene and demand robust safety standards, noting AI currently has less regulation than sandwiches.

Timestamps:
• 0:00 – Introduction: The Three Tension Points
• 1:05 – AI as an Engine for Revenue & Productivity
• 2:00 – Case Study: GetYourGuide & AI Content Scaling
• 3:55 – Enterprise Workflow & Value-Based Pricing (Pigment)
• 4:45 – Pharma R&D: Carpenter vs. Gardener (GSK)
• 6:25 – Goal: Shortening Drug Discovery Timeline by 50%
• 7:40 – Physical AI & Logistics Cost Transformation
• 8:30 – Layered Optimization: Empty Miles & Self-Driving Trucks
• 10:00 – Digitization & Predictive Maintenance (Port of LA/Penske)
• 11:30 – The Jobs Question: Upleveling Knowledge Workers vs. Drivers
• 13:00 – AI Agent Security Crisis: Prompt Injection
• 14:20 – Unsolved Problem: Enterprise Sovereignty & Data Control
• 15:10 – AI Market Debate: Commodity or Revolution?
• 15:55 – Existential Risk & Call for AI Regulation

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