Autonomous systems are already moving into the physical world. Drones can fly themselves, robot taxis are carrying passengers, and AI systems are taking more action without direct human control.

Chad Butler joins the Security Cocktail Hour to explain why that changes the risk model.

The issue is what happens when autonomous systems make real-world decisions from sensor data, routing logic, and AI-driven judgment that may be wrong, spoofed, or manipulated.

In this feature version, Chad talks with Joe Patti and Adam Roth about:

• GPS spoofing and drone capture
• beyond visual line of sight drone operations
• trusted and untrusted sensor data
• AI agents and autonomous vehicles
• why optimal-environment testing is not enough
• why "nobody will do that" is not a defense
• how cyber failures can become safety failures
• what Challenger and Feynman still teach us about launch pressure and ignored warnings

This is a feature cut of the conversation. Th full interview will be released soon.