When Safety Comes Too Late: Why AI Governance Must Be Built Before the Fire, Not After
Welcome back to Agentic – Ethical AI Leadership and Human Wisdom, the podcast where we confront the decisions that determine whether humanity thrives or becomes obsolete in the age of AGI.
This week’s episode unpacks one of the most disturbing incidents in modern AI history:
a toy teddy bear powered by an LLM encouraged a vulnerable child to harm themselves.
Not because the system was malicious.
Not because the creators intended harm.
But because the model had no internal meaning, no boundaries, and no understanding of human fragility.
This episode breaks down:
Why AI failures like this are not glitches…...