“There's just no way that you can make a system that consists of a stack of software all the way down to the silicon secure. You just can't do it. You can find holes and plug them and just hope that you find holes and plug them before an adversary finds the hole and exploits it… And especially in the era of AI… you're really gambling that your AI is more powerful than your adversary's AI.”
The Enterprise AI Show · October 2026
Williams is contrasting traditional cloud stacks with the Internet Computer, the network-based platform he leads, so the argument is also a pitch. His claim is that layered stacks can't be made secure, only patched, and that AI raises the stakes of that race.
Transcript
that's why it's called the internet computer. Exactly, yeah
…you've mentioned a couple, AWS and Azure, and then I think you have this idea, a slightly different take, like kind of the internet computer. So maybe like contrast like exactly what is the internet computer, and then for all of us that are familiar with hyperscalers why is it different?
…you can make a stack of software y- a system that, that consists of a stack of software all the way down to the silicon secure. You just can't do it. You can find holes and plug them and just hope that you find holes and plug them before an adversary finds the hole ex- and exploits it. And that's what a zero-day exploit is, right? That's a hole in your stack that that nobody knows about yet. And especially in the era of AI, this is a kind of risky way of, creating compute stacks. You're d- really gambling that your AI is more powerful than your adversary's AI, and therefore it's gonna find all the holes, and so you can plug them before they do, but before they exploit them. And I always thought that was the, the, the, you know, that was a key thing we need to fix, and it's become increasingly true. Al- also, of…
Okay. So I like the the Dr. Evil. That's good. So maybe take us inside, 'cause this all sounds good, but as, I think probably many of us listening would be familiar with you write some application logic, maybe you put it in a container or you package it up in a server sl- service, serverless or…
From you- your perspective as a developer this is just a serverless cloud, and you can just deploy to it. And and, t-today probably you're not writing the code yourself. Probably you're using Claude Code and, Claude Code's building this thing, this app, this service for you locally, and then when…
Okay, so that makes sense on the-- So I get I kinda take then a- and I can really write anything that can you know, compile down to WebAssembly. That makes sense. Lots of great solutions for that, and we've actually had some guests on the show talk about that. So that part totally makes sense. I…
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