What 3 Days at Stanford's AI Security Conference Taught Me About Building Agents Safely

Last month I attended the AI Security Conference organized by the Stanford Security Labs.

Three days. Thirty-plus sessions. Researchers and practitioners from Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Palo Alto Networks, Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, UIUC, University of Toronto, and more.

The signal was unmistakable: we are building AI agents faster than we are securing them.

This post is my attempt to synthesize what I learned into something actionable for developers and architects building agentic systems today.

The Framing That Changed How I Think About Agent Security