Along The Edge Podcast: Breaking, Defending, and Understanding Agentic AI

Along The Edge e4: OpenClaw Enterprise Security, AI Robotics Vulnerabilities & The Prompt Injection Epidemic


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In this episode, host Andrius Useckas is joined by Aaron Walls and Alex Gatz to break down the explosive growth of Open Claw in enterprise environments — and the security nightmares that come with it. 

Plus, a special conversation with Isaac Qureshi, Co-Founder & CEO of Gatlin Robotics, on what happens when AI agents meet the physical world.

Topics covered:
🔒 Enterprise Open Claw Adoption — With 22% of enterprises already running Open Claw (often without IT's knowledge) and 40,000+ exposed instances, the team digs into why banning it doesn't work and what CISOs should actually do about it.
🛡️ Iron Claw & Secure Alternatives — Aaron shares his hands-on experience with Iron Claw's web assembly sandboxing approach. The verdict? More secure by design, but so restrictive it loses what makes Open Claw useful in the first place.
💉 Prompt Injection Epidemic — HackerOne reports a 540% increase in prompt injection attacks in 2025, with only 26% getting mitigated. The group debates whether model providers even have incentive to fix this — and whether regulation will force their hand.
⚖️ Regulation vs. Innovation — From the EU AI Act to Colorado's failed legislation and NIST's open calls for comment, the team discusses why compliance frameworks (PCI, HIPAA) haven't caught up and whether early regulation kills innovation.
🤖 Robotics + AI Agents (feat. Isaac Qureshi) — Isaac walks through Gatlin Robotics' approach to building cleaning robots with human-in-the-loop AI, the real risks of prompt injection via physical inputs (like writing on a whiteboard), and why maintaining a "knowledge gap" between human and AI is critical.
🧑‍💻 AI Agents Hiring Humans — The dystopian-sounding but very real marketplace where Open Claw agents can task humans to complete physical-world actions. TaskRabbit, but your boss is an AI.
🔮 Where Robotics + Agents Are Headed — From Pico Claw on Raspberry Pi to humanoid fleet systems, the conversation closes on how fast this space is moving and why security can't afford to be an afterthought.

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Along The Edge Podcast: Breaking, Defending, and Understanding Agentic AIBy Andrius Useckas