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Friday’s global technology outage should serve as a stark reminder of the potential dangers of overreliance on artificial intelligence and cloud-based services for critical operations


Friday's global tech outage exposes the risk of AI overreliance. Businesses must enhance resilience and ensure human oversight to prevent catastrophic failures.

The world woke up Friday to a massive IT outage, driven by a patch update from security company CrowdStrike, which in turn led to a widespread blue-screen issue on Windows-operated computers. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and other leading CEOs should join in a pact to ensure AI development is not inadvertently stunting human growth. The recent global outage and growing AI integration into daily operations highlight the urgent need for balanced technology strategies guided by proven and solid principles that have withstood the tests of time.

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