Resilience in the Uncharted AI Landscape
Ranita Bhattacharyya
BSidesSF 2025 — Here Be Dragons · Day 1 · Main
Building resilient AI systems is not a post-deployment afterthought — it requires hundreds of small, deliberate decisions made from the earliest design stages. Ranita Bhattacharyya frames resilience through three pillars (robustness, recovery, and plasticity) and walks through a concrete agentic AI product example to show exactly what those decisions look like in practice. ---
AI review
A GRC practitioner talking through resilience design for an AI grocery store chatbot is not the most riveting hour of your conference, and the 'Food & Stuff' worked example spends more time on infrastructure stack selection than on AI-specific failure modes. The three-pillar framework is standard BCM vocabulary with AI paint.