Every enterprise wants the upside of AI — faster workflows, sharper decisions, leaner teams. Far fewer have asked the harder question: what happens when the same systems delivering that upside are also quietly rewriting who, or what, has access to the crown jewels? Autonomous agents are now reading contracts, touching customer data, writing production code, and triggering workflows once reserved for trusted employees. The attack surface hasn't just grown — it's changed shape entirely.

Mohammad Arif, Head of Information Security at Guild Group, has been on the front line of that shift, helping enterprise leaders separate genuine AI-driven cyber risk from the noise around it. In this intervie...