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“This year has been so much about figuring out how to govern AI,” Uphadyay tells me, “there’s two sides to the coin – on the one side, you have to make sure that somebody else’s AI doesn’t break into your perimeter, and the other is how do you make sure your AI is well behaved, so not only does it not exfiltrate data, but it also doesn’t inadvertently go somewhere or break out of its perimeter.”

“When people trust us with their data, we need to make sure our platform is absolutely secure against agentic attacks.”

Uphadyay echoes the earlier Snowflake World Tour London keynote in what needs to go into making a successful agentic enterprise, likening the choice of AI model to the human brain and the agent being used as the body, all working on a foundation of data, which needs to be “rock solid”.

I ask Uphadyay how Snowflake can balance customer excitement around AI with the need to ensure trust and privacy.