Safe CEO: AI is an assistant, not a replacement

Interview If AI can take on the role of a junior programmer, what happens when senior staff start retiring? Industry veteran and CEO of Safe Software, Don Murray, reckons the technology is becoming indispensable, but the human can never be removed from the loop.

"I think as an assistant," says Murray, "AI is indispensable. But it is not an authority."

Murray's company, Safe, specializes in data collation. Be it real-time or static, data flows through Safe's data pipe and can be output to any visualization tool the customer is using. It is therefore ripe for AI applications, both in mining the flow of data and in pursuing an agentic AI path to take action. Murray, having seen industry fads come and go over a multi-decade career, is therefore well placed to comment on the latest tech industry obsession: AI.

"If there's one thing AI has a never-ending ...