OWASP Phoenix Chapter: April Meeting – AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (And Why Guardrails Matter)      Presenter: Gary Perkins    Presentation: AI is moving faster than most organizations can govern it. Between vendor hype, rushed deployments, and well-intentioned experiments gone sideways, it’s getting harder to tell where AI genuinely helps and where it quietly introduces new risk.    This talk takes a practical, no-nonsense look at AI through three lenses: the good, the bad, and the ugly. We’ll walk through real examples of AI done right, common failures caused by missing guardrails, and uncomfortable edge cases where AI creates more problems than it solves.    Attendees will leave with a clearer mental model of AI risk, a grounded view of where guardrails help (and where they don’t), and practical guidance for using AI without blindly trusting it.