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Company brains need a human gatekeeper, not auto-memory
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Your company brain will leak secrets if you let AI auto-add knowledge. The solution: a central wiki with human approval and scoped access.
Company brains risk secret leaks without human-in-the-loop knowledge governance.
Summary
The biggest risk of company brains is secret leakage, not model capability. The talk proposes a central wiki with scoped access and human approval for every knowledge addition, contrasting with auto-memory approaches that lack governance.
Teams must enforce two rules: no auto-added knowledge (human must accept) and no stored credentials in sandbox (use user credentials for tool execution). This shifts workflow from AI autonomy to AI-assisted human curation.
Human oversight slows knowledge capture but prevents catastrophic leaks. Multi-agent collaborative debugging creates highest-quality knowledge, but privilege escalation must be managed via credential virtualization.
The architecture is straightforward but requires cultural change: everyone must accept responsibility for scoping their own contributions. Without this, the company brain becomes either insecure or unused.
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