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By Ankush Chowdhary — practitioner writing on AI security, agent authority, runtime control, and executive accountability. Each piece is the definitive, attributed record; many first appeared on LinkedIn.

Essays & analysis

Inference is the new perimeter

Commentary · 2026-09-18 — The control point for AI has moved from the network edge to the moment of inference and action. Practitioner commentary.

We gave AI agents a marketing campaign, a metric, and no rules. Here's what they actually did.

Experiment · 2026-09-10 — A controlled experiment: hand a swarm of autonomous agents a goal, a metric and no rules, then watch what they actually do — across four language models — with Neo Control enforcing limits at runtime.

Power and Control in Cyber: The Game Beneath the Game

Commentary · 2026-01-30 — Cybersecurity has a branding problem: we sell it as defense, but the deeper game is about power and control. A harder look at what the work is really about.

The Rise of the Inside Agent: When AI Builds the Backdoor for You

Commentary · 2025-10-29 — When an enterprise AI assistant becomes the perfect insider threat — zero intent, perfect access — and how growing agent autonomy quietly builds the backdoor for you.

Inside the Mind of AI: What ChatGPT Told Me About Surveillance, Identity, and Power

Commentary · 2025-08-24 — A direct, unfiltered conversation with ChatGPT about surveillance, identity and power — and what it reveals about the most consequential technology of our era.

Whispers and Firewalls: The New AI Warfront

Commentary · 2025-05-21 — How second-tier nations — Rwanda, Poland, Vietnam — are quietly reshaping global cyber power through strategic agility, AI talent and narrative control rather than outspending the giants.

AI Civil War: The Uninsured Risk of Autonomous Model Conflict

Commentary · 2025-05-05 — What happens when an enterprise's own AI agents, trained for different goals, turn on each other — and why no cyber policy, legal team or insurer is ready for autonomous model conflict.

Cybersecurity Isn’t Just About Tech—It’s About Mindset, Psychology, and Strategy

Commentary · 2025-03-04 — Security is as much about mindset, psychology, trust and relationships as it is about controls — and the best programs win people over rather than police them.

Announcements

I Built Neo to Bring AI Control Together. Now I Am Opening Its Foundation.

Product announcement · 2026-08-31 — Why I built Neo Control to unify AI governance with implementation, and why opening the AI Control Architecture matters: the industry needs shared building blocks, not ten incompatible ways to control AI.

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