Vendors are selling systems that decide, and shipping systems that suggest. That's Michael Rasmussen's verdict on where agentic AI in GRC has landed - and he's the one who named the category, on a snowy day in Chicago in February 2002, after two analyst briefings in a single afternoon.
Twenty-four years on, he sits down with Girish Redekar, co-founder and CEO of Sprinto, for the first episode of The Trustsmiths. They talk about what he was actually trying to do back then, why a completed inventory was never the same thing as a completed understanding, and the three demonstrations he'd put any vendor through before trusting a system to act on its own. He pushes back on Girish twice along the way.
Michael Rasmussen is the founder of GRC 20/20 Research, an OCEG Fellow, and an Honorary Life Member of the IRM.