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AI Is Changing the CISO's Job: Helping Leaders Weigh the Risks and Rewards

Dark Reading · 27 Oct 2026
Key Takeaway Before your business adopts any AI tool, decide who is accountable for the risks it brings and make sure that person understands both the benefits and the downsides.

As artificial intelligence spreads through workplaces, the role of the chief information security officer (CISO) is shifting. According to Dark Reading, Nvidia security executive Mark Weatherford says CISOs must help business leaders weigh both the benefits and the drawbacks of AI.

Weatherford also stresses that the people who deploy AI should own the risks that come with it. In other words, responsibility for AI-related risk should not sit only with the security team. It belongs with the business units choosing to use the technology.

The source summary does not go into further detail, but the message is clear: AI adoption is a business decision as well as a technical one, and security leaders are expected to guide that decision rather than simply react to it.

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Summarised by CISO AI from Dark Reading, written with Claude Sonnet 5.5. We link back to every original so you can read it yourself.