Quick Take (TL;DR)

LLMs don’t think—they predict. Keith Hoodlet shows what this means for CISOs facing bias, slopsquatting, MCP risks, and burnout.

Guest Spotlight

Keith Hoodlet is Engineering Director at Trail of Bits. He previously led at GitHub and Rapid7, co-founded Application Security Weekly, and launched the InfoSec Mentors Project.

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Resources & References

Books

• AI Snake Oil
• Four Thousand WeeksArticles / Studies
• Marine Corps Times
• 2025 Cloud‐Native Security and Usage Report
• The Register: SlopsquattingTools / Frameworks
• Model Context Protocol
• NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails
• Meta Llama Guard

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