For business it causes problems.
The one reason I like it is the extra hour o daylight after work. Thats a big plus

My personal feeling is that time...

The problem with AI is that it sometimes gives answers based on data rather than the answers desired. 

Of course ff the data is indeed bad the results...

Majority of my time is DBA, but things need to be done, so my fingers are in VOIP, building security system, VMs, engineering software support, backups, payroll system. And occasionally...

The problem is more tricky than code fixes.

Many breaches are caused by social engineering. Others are caused by third, fourth or fifth parties. Some are caused by bugs...

Automating repetitive processes is basically a good thing but should never take human observation completely out of the loop. Expected patterns work well, but there are far too many times...

Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

Firing the executive is not necessarily the right thing, because of the nature of security failures. Of course negligence is one thing, but often it's a matter of the company...

Ah the '1' argument is what I was missing. 

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Thanks everyone

Thanks for the input. Monday I hope to dig back into this.