AI Security vs. Securing AI: A Practitioner's Reality Check

Everyone's talking about using AI to fight threats. Far fewer organizations are asking who's securing the AI itself. This facilitated discussion draws from real deployments  enterprise AI handling HIPAA and FERPA-regulated data at a major research university, automated certificate infrastructure shared with 1,000+ institutions, and AI governance policy work spanning 130+ countries to explore the practitioner questions that rarely make conference keynotes: What's your confidence threshold before AI acts autonomously? Who owns AI platform security? Are you ready for the post-quantum deadline? Come ready to talk, not just listen.