The Crash Test is Over: New Standards of Command for AI Safety
George Kurtz
RSAC 2026 Conference · Main Stage Keynote
In this compelling talk at RSA Conference, George Kurtz, CEO and Founder of CrowdStrike, addressed the critical and rapidly evolving landscape of **AI safety** and **governance**. Titled "The Crash Test is Over: New Standards of Command for AI Safety," Kurtz underscored the profound, yet often unmanaged, shift occurring as artificial intelligence moves beyond mere execution to independent reasoning. He highlighted that within a mere 24 months, the most intelligent "employee" in many organizations will be a machine, necessitating a radical rethinking of security paradigms.
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George Kurtz takes the stage at RSA to deliver what is, at its core, a CrowdStrike product positioning talk dressed up in the language of security research. The three-problems/three-tenets framework is clean and the anecdotes are vivid, but there is zero original research here — no CVEs, no technical analysis, no reproducible methodology, just CEO-level storytelling about things his customers told him at Davos. The 'AIDR' category prediction is transparently a market category that CrowdStrike is positioning itself to own. This is not a research talk. This is an investor deck with better…