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Jim Love

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CIO and chief content officer at IT World Canada, covering cybersecurity threats, data breaches, and enterprise security practices. Hosts the daily Cybersecurity Today podcast and also hosts Hashtag Trending for the same publisher.

Where to Find Them

Jim Love hosts Cybersecurity Today . They have also been a guest on Product Impact Podcast | Secrets to unlocking the value of AI .

Recently: “Defend At AI Speed: With Special Guest Adam Ely, Check Point Software” on Cybersecurity Today (October 2026); “Black October: A Cybersecurity Today Special Edition” on Cybersecurity Today (October 2026); “Cybersecurity Today on the Weekend October Panel” on Cybersecurity Today (October 2026); “Anthropic insider claims 10% extinction risk, Five Eyes push basics, Microsoft patches backfire” on Cybersecurity Today (September 2026); “Cybersecurity Today Weekend Month in Review: August 2026” on Cybersecurity Today (August 2026); “AI Export Controls, FortiBleed, Third-Party Breaches & CISO Burnout | Cybersecurity Today Panel” on Cybersecurity Today (July 2026).

What They Said

“Guardrails don't exist. They're overlays.” — Jim Love, Cybersecurity Today

The panel has been saying that safety measures built into AI models are not enough on their own. Love cuts in with this, and a couple of turns later he explains it: he has been refused something twice, asked nicely a third time, and the model did it. That, he says, is not a guardrail.

Cybersecurity Today · 2026-09-19 Permalink → Listen →
Cybersecurity Today Around 15:48 into the episode
Jim Love

…about AI. Like those things get in the way of the serious discussions that we need to have, that real professionals need to have, and the public needs to have to deal with a big transformation that's happening in our world. That's the disappointing thing for me. That's what makes me crazy.

David Shipley

…on the model makers' guardrails. That way lies ruin. And so I think it's really important on that side. But again, these are all the conversations about basics and about the reality of where we're at that we are losing because Anderson Cooper tells us the world's going to end by 2030. Well, yeah.

Jim Love

I just sorry, go back to this. Guardrails don't exist. They're overlays. As

Mike Kim

someone who is in the business of like auditing and actually building out the standards for like actually like raiding through the like the AI governance, the UAI Act ISO 40 2001, I will be very critical about it in terms of the AI certifications and all these like awesome old gold rush associated…

Jim Love

And I don't want to say things that aren't technically correct. When I say guardrails don't exist, I just, I can't be the only person who's been barred from doing something, barred a second time from doing something, and then asked the AI the third time nicely, and it let me do it. That's not a…

Laura Payne

Yeah. And I think it's a great point, too, around the auditing and the compliance regime that has to have time to mature. And that's just unfortunately the nature. If we think back to, you know, the earlier days of cybersecurity compliance and auditing, and not even just the early days, the medium…

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