AKA Identity

Strategic Leadership: Spearheading the development and execution of comprehensive marketing strategies in line with corporate objectives.
Team Development: Building, mentoring, and leading a dynamic marketing team, promoting a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
Brand Management: Elevating brand presence globally, ensuring consistent messaging and identity across all marketing channels.
Market Analysis: Conducting thorough market research to inform data-driven decisions and identify new growth opportunities.
Collaboration: Working closely with sales, product development, and other departments to align marketing strategies with business goals.
Innovation: Staying abreast of the latest marketing trends and technologies to keep the brand at the cutting edge.
Performance Measurement: Establishing key performance metrics to evaluate and refine marketing effectiveness.

VP and Head of Marketing

Creating the Data & Intelligence Layer for IAM. AKA replaces manual and inefficient identity and access management decisions with visibility, intelligence and action.

Marketing Advisor

SANS Institute

Senior Advisor - Artificial Intelligence and SecOps | Co-Chair of the Emerging Threats Summit

The Podcast Academy

Member of the Board of Governors

The Anthem Awards

Presented by IADAS, the Anthem Awards recognizes the breadth of purpose & mission-driven work around the globe by honoring the organizations, brands and people creating substantive impact to make the world a better place. By amplifying the voices that spark global change, we’re defining a new benchmark for impactful work that inspires others to take action in their own communities.

Responsible Technology Award Judge

International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences

IADAS describes its members as "Leading industry experts, evangelists and visionaries working to advance the electronic medium" and divides its members into four types - Associate, Executive, Europe and Anthem.

Executive Committee Member

National Security Institute (NSI)

Visiting Fellow

Hacker Valley Media

Advisor

Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer

Hacker Valley Media is a creative agency that is dedicated to sharing the diverse and inspirational stories within the cybersecurity and technology industry. Through the creation and production of podcasts and video shows, we aim to empower, educate, and entertain the cybersecurity community. At Hacker Valley Media, we believe in using the power of storytelling to amplify the best cybersecurity brands, and our team is lead by cybersecurity leaders who are committed to building a company that serves the needs of practitioners.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Huntress

Advisory CISO

Chief Evangelist/ Senior Director of Marketing

Axonius

I lead the media content strategy with the goal of sharing the power of Axonius with the world and to empower and inspire technology professionals to be the best version of themselves.

Creative Marketing Director

Marqeta, Inc

Director of Engineering - Security Operations

Chris Cochran is a dynamic cybersecurity industry leader known for his unique blend of technical expertise and creative storytelling. With roots in the US Marine Corps and a distinguished tenure at organizations like the National Security Agency, US Cyber Command, Mandiant, and Netflix, Chris has been at the forefront of threat intelligence, Incident Response, and security operations. In 2019, Chris co-founded and led Hacker Valley Media as CEO until passing the reins to Ron Eddings in 2023. Chris created several award-winning media properties during this time, including Technically Divided and Webby-nominated Hacker Valley Studio. His roles as Creative Director at Axonius and Chief Evangelist at Huntress underscore his ability to intersect cybersecurity with impactful marketing. Chris is also a co-creator of the award show for the SANS Institute's Difference Makers Awards. Currently, as Vice President and Head of Marketing at AKA Identity, Chris inspires and leads in the dynamic world of cybersecurity and technology.

Chris Cochran

Big news. I’m joining the SANS Institute as Field CISO and Vice President of AI Security and Safety.

For the past year, I poured myself into building Commandant AI. I believed deeply in the idea of an intelligent partner for incident response, and I still do. But the truth is this: the technology is moving faster than any one team can keep up with, and the world needs scaled readiness more than it needs another startup fighting alone.

So I made a hard call. I set Commandant aside to focus on something bigger than myself.

I’ve been connected to SANS for more than a decade, and stepping into this role feels like coming home. Because here is what I know with absolute clarity from living this work every day:

AI is going to change the world. It already is.
But the same tools that empower us empower our adversaries.

We are living in the calm before the storm. Autonomous attacks are already emerging. The next wave will be faster, more creative, and far more relentless. I have seen this pattern in every domain from the Marine Corps to NSA to Netflix. The advantage always goes to whoever adapts first.

So how do we get ready?

1. Knowledge is power.
In the Marines, training is your lifeline. Cyber is no different. Learn fast. Train hard. Become exceptional at your craft.

2. Execute on the fundamentals.
Great defense still starts with the simple things done with discipline. You cannot skip the basics. It's what makes us hard targets.

3. Fight fire with fire.
Adversaries are moving with AI at full speed. We do not get to be reckless, but we do have to be intentional, secure, and twice as relentless. They can vibe code and deploy instantly. We cannot. That means our margin for error is thin.

This is why I joined SANS. My mission is to help shape the frameworks, training, and defensive strategies that will prepare millions of practitioners for the era of autonomous adversaries.

I’m ready to strap in.
We have miles to go before we sleep.
And the work starts now.

Let’s get to it.

Huge thanks to the folks who helped make this happen, including but not limited to Rob T. Lee, James Lyne, Steve Healy, Steve Harvey, and other SANS colleagues.

Field CISO & VP, AI Safety and Security @ SANS | Bridging Cyber Defense and Frontier AI Risk | Ex-NSA, Netflix, Mandiant | US Marine Veteran

I’m honored to share that I have been nominated and accepted as a Distinguished Member at American Society for AI. So incredibly grateful.

Happy Birthday to the United States Marine Corps.

Service has always meant something deep to me. It’s one of the best things we can do as human beings, to give a piece of ourselves for the benefit of others. My first real contribution to society began in the Marine Corps, and it shaped the person I became.

The Marines taught me how to be mission-focused and community-minded. They taught me that discipline and compassion can coexist, and that true strength often shows up in quiet perseverance.

That experience is the foundation for everything I’ve done since. It’s why I went into cybersecurity. It’s why I care so much about AI, especially when it comes to safety and security. The same principles that guided me then still guide me now.

My time in the Corps remains one of the proudest chapters of my life. I carry those lessons every day.

To my fellow Marines, happy birthday. And to those still serving, stay safe and stay true to the mission.

Semper Fidelis.

Senior Advisor for AI @ SANS Institute | Distinguished Member of the American Society for AI | US Marine Veteran

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I had the chance to participate in one of the most meaningful hackathons I’ve ever been part of the DEF ACC Hackathon with Apart Research and BlueDot Impact. I was a member of an incredible team of people onsite in London.

I was remote unfortunately, but my team on-site absolutely crushed it. These were some of the most hardworking and brilliant folks I’ve ever had the privilege to collaborate with.

Working in AI security and safety, I spend a lot of time thinking about defensive acceleration, emerging threats, and the future we are trying to create. We need people who are passionate, creative, and to be honest, gritty to get to where we want to go in AI. This was THAT team.

Although we didn’t take home the win, we were told we were a top contender, and honestly, that felt like a victory in itself.

We built something we’re genuinely proud of: a canary-style early-warning honeynet for autonomous AI agents. The goal is simple but powerful, collect TTPs and behavioral fingerprints from agents so we can give defenders a head start in understanding what’s coming. The work is still early, but the idea is promising.

Repo if you want to poke around is in the comments.

Huge thank you to my team. You all set the bar. It was an honor.

Thanks Jacob Davies, for recruiting me for the team. 💪🏽

And if you’re wondering, “Chris… did you really use AI to superimpose yourself into the team photo?”

Uh, yes…

Yes I did. 🤣

New Article Drop: World Models Are the Future of AI, Especially in Cybersecurity

Every once in a while, an idea hits with enough force that it changes the entire direction of the field. For me, world models are that idea.

This started because Sounil Yu pulled me aside and said, “Look deeper.”
And if you know Sounil, when he says that… you listen.

After years in cybersecurity, intelligence, and now AI safety, I’ve seen the limits of language-only systems up close. I love LLMs, they’ve transformed what a single person can do. But here’s the truth:

LLMs alone won’t get us to where we need to go.

Not in cyber.
Not in science or medicine.
Not for AGI or ASI.

That’s why Fei-Fei Li’s “From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence” hit me so hard. She captures the shift we’re all going to have to make.

World models bring something LLMs can’t. This isn't Mary in the black-and-white room.

In other words, they reason inside the world, not just about it.

And if there’s any field that needs this shift, it’s cybersecurity.

I dropped the original article link from Fei-Fei  in my write-up and down below.

Field CISO & VP, AI Safety and Security @ SANS Institute | Bridging Enterprise Cyber Defense and Frontier AI Risk | US Marine Veteran

Every now and then, an idea hits the field with enough force to change the entire trajectory of where we’re heading. For me, world models are that ide

Open article: World Models: The Future of AI We Need to Start Talking About, Especially in Cybersecurity by Chris Cochran • 3 min read

World Models: The Future of AI We Need to Start Talking About, Especially in Cybersecurity

Hey everybody, we are about a week and a half out from the SANS Institute Difference Makers Awards, and this year we did something special. We created a full album just for the DMAs. Every single category has its own theme song, made by yours truly in collaboration with artificial intelligence.

I’ll be sharing a few of the tracks as we count down to the event.

This first one means a lot to me. I think about all the CISOs out there who carry a heavy load for their organizations. It is a hard job. The burnout is real. I have lived that reality myself.

So this song is dedicated to the folks in the arena every day, making the hard calls and protecting what matters.

Congratulations to all the CISO of the Year finalists below. I hope to see you at the DMAs, either in person or online.

Anne Marie Zettlemoyer
Andres Andreu
Chris Betz
Allan Alford
Kirsten Davies

This is your moment. Let’s celebrate the people who make a difference.

My recent trip to DC for The Hill’s AI in America Summit clarified something I’ve been feeling for a while:

The conversation has officially shifted from understanding AI to securing our lead.

One of the standout sessions featured Senator Mike Rounds and moderator Michal Lev-Ram, where Cybersecurity, National Security, and the AI Race converged. Four realities rose to the top:

1. The Defensive Imperative

Senator Rounds made it crystal clear: national defense now requires AI-enabled capabilities. Our adversaries are already weaponizing these tools.

2. Standards = Global Power

From a national perspective we are competing on models and norms.

Whose standards the world adopts will define the next era of technology and society.

To lead, we must use our strengths in talent and compute while solving the looming energy bottleneck.

3. Regulation Without Paralysis

There’s real tension between state-level action and federal consensus.

The challenge: regulate safety without suffocating innovation. This is tough but one of the most important fights to get right in my opinion.

Rounds was blunt, over-regulation slows our ability to compete, but no regulation at all risks public trust and public safety.

4. Education Is Still the Differentiator

Our long-term advantage will always be our people.

Leadership requires upskilling our workforce and setting the standards for how AI is developed, deployed, and defended through cybersecurity. This is the mission the SANS Institute has taken on its shoulders.

We’re at a pivotal moment, folks. What are your thoughts on AI and National Security?

I also had the chance to catch up with the unstoppable Aaron Poynton, who seems to be building in every industry simultaneously. My head is still spinning. 😂

#TheHillTech

Honored to share that I’ll be moderating a fireside chat with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gharun Lacy at SANS CDI 2025.

We’ll dig into how the State Department is reading today’s cyber threat landscape, how geopolitical tension and hybrid operations are evolving, and how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping national-level defense. It’s a valuable opportunity to hear directly from a leader shaping the government’s approach to these challenges.

SANS CDI is a week of focused training, real labs, and operators sharpening their craft. If you’re tracking where cyber defense and AI are headed, this conversation will be worth your time.

Learn more about CDI, my chat with Deputy Assistant Secretary Lacy, and the Difference Makers Awards in the link in the comments.

#Cybersecurity #CDI2025 U.S. Department of State SANS Institute

AI agents are here, and everyone’s trying to figure out how to actually use them.

Join me, Rob T. Lee, and our guests, Daniel Miessler 🛡️ and Jonathan Sander live as we unpack the real-world do’s and don’ts of deploying agents across the enterprise:

What agents are genuinely good at (and where they outperform humans)
What to keep them far away from the things you should avoid with a 10-foot pole
The mindset, governance, and infrastructure needed to make agents a force multiplier instead of a liability

Whether you’re an exec evaluating ROI, a security leader worried about control, or a builder experimenting with LLM workflows, this session will help you separate hype from reality.

Lior Kolnik, Behnaz Karimi and 103 other attendees

Deploying AI Agents in the Enterprise: Do’s, Don’ts, and Dangerous Zones

I’m happy to share that I’ve obtained a new certification: Technical AI Safety Course from BlueDot Impact!

Will you join us in making sure AI advancement goes well? I signed the AI Red Lines initiative because after a couple decades in cybersecurity, national security, and AI risk, one thing is clear. Power without boundaries eventually breaks something.

This is about making sure the systems we build stay under meaningful human control and serve human goals.

If you care about responsible AI and feel a duty to help shape the future, take a look at the Red Lines proposal and consider adding your name. The more voices focused on safety, the better the future we all get.

Link in the comments.

I just wrapped up the technical AI safety course with BlueDot Impact and it was an incredible experience. Pablo Bernabeu Perez, my facilitator, is one of those rare minds who sees both the present and the horizon with clarity. Working with him sharpened my thinking and helped solidify the direction I have been moving toward for a while. The fusion of AI safety and AI security is where I feel called to operate, and this course confirmed that I can do a lot of good there.

What made this even more meaningful is that I have been facilitating the AI Safety Ethics and Society course with the Center for AI Safety at the same time. Learning and teaching in parallel has been powerful. The concepts hit deeper, they stick longer, and I can feel them becoming part of how I reason about the future of the field. Not to mention the folks I got to meet thoughtout the course were incredible and brilliant people.

Robyn Kozierok
Michael Schaeffer
Hugo Tierrablanca
Jacob Davies
María Victoria Carro
Lamis Mukta
to name a few.
 

This experience is going to fuel a lot of the work I am doing with the organizations I support. I think folks are going to see some strong projects coming from me very soon. If you are looking to enter this space or deepen your understanding, this course is worth every second. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to help build a safer, more resilient future.

Check out BlueDot in the comments! Well worth it!

What is the difference between Safety and Security?

Most people use the terms interchangeably… but they’re not exactly the same. Especially in AI. 

Security protects systems from AI-driven threats or the systems themselves form threats.

Safety ensures AI systems don’t cause harmful or unintended outcomes.

Two missions. Two skill sets.
And they’re about to collide in a big way.

AI Safety is heating up...

...and I believe cybersecurity pros are the heroes this moment needs.

So I ask:

Are you a cybersecurity practitioner/ leader who would want to know more about AI Safety and how it relates to cyber?

Aaron Lax

Singularity Systems, LLC

Due to my networking with the world's leaders and some of the best engineers, we have decided to take it upon ourselves to do what no large company has and #ChangeTheWorld, becoming an incubator for ideas rather than merely reporting them!

Chief Executive Officer

BioTone ZKI

Senior Business Advisor

Cybersecurity Insiders

This is a group of chats and rooms that I have had the fortunate opportunity to include the TOP Minds of the world of Cybersecurity and we are able to collaborate and work together to change the world by changing Tech and Cybersecurity and those that are employed in these positions now….

My official title is IT Administrator, which is a Full Stack Developer with knowledge in All Fields. I am a system administrator with 8 years of professional experience building everything from .NET to Python to Javascript applications, I have professionally administered Linux servers for 8 years, Windows Servers 10 years, and in a non-professional capacity I have been a Linux Administrator and Security Specialist for 26 years now. Technology is my passion and bringing that passion to the world is the goal of TheLaxerz.

Entrepreneur/Cybersecurity Specialist/Developer/Network Engineer

Dark Cryptonite

Advisory Board Member

The Intelligence Community Inc.

Administration and coordination with other admins for the most popular Defense Group on LinkedIn

Administrator

infosec.live

My own groups are important, I assumed the same with my friend I supported for all shows and members…

Co Host

Dragonchain

Advisor to CEO

Arkansas Public Service Commission

Maintain Network including Security.
Firewall
Servers
User machines
Maintain Sites (public and intranet) / Web Servers
Manage VEEAM
Setup/Manage VMWare ESXi, vSphere
Setup/Administration of Windows Servers

Additional Duties due to Programming Background:
Develops Future Application Architectures and Plans
Mentor Programmers
Help in Languages newer programmers do not know
Develop Applications
Ensure security of applications 
Deploy applications and configure deployment

Completed Project:
Move 2 development ESXi hosts into 1 new ESXi host capable of running our development and internal File Server. 

Move 9 physical and 2 hosts to new hosts. 

Migrate data from 35 year old database to a new CRM software. 

Multiple Integrations into CRM tools and other tools for operations. 

Fix 2 Internal Important Applications and 1 development application. 
Replacement of 50+ user workstations and monitors. 

Reconfiguration of Firewall Policies for new hosts, and integration applications. 

VEEAM reconfiguration for new environments and old systems to prepare for upcoming task 1. 

Upcoming Task:

Move 8 Physical Servers into a Virtual Environment with Failover.

Network Coordinator

AQED

Advising as to Quantum, Blockchains, and the technologies and security of the future.

Senior Consultant

Red Sky Alliance (Reporting Portal)

Sr. Advisory Consultant

Network Coordinator, Technologist and Futurist, Thinkers360 Thought Leader and CSI Group Founder. Manage The Intelligence Community and The Dept of Homeland Security LinkedIn Groups.

My technical career is filled with a range of tech technologies, all the which have led me to artificial intelligence, I have gone from data analyst all the way to server administrator and network coordination.

Began programming at age 10 with BASIC, making Cars, Animals, and eventually Blackjack. This changed to VB, followed by C++, and then, when I started working, and prior to that, Python was my weapon of choice. 

In addition to these positions listed above I was on a Project that was funded for 3 years but never fully funded for the Supreme Court of AR which would have modernized their antiquated system for data entry and accounting, and make an Oracle Forms application turn into a Single-Page application developed with Javascript (Angular Front-End, Node Middleware, and Node-Backend), but the true issue was connecting the Oracle Database designed for the Oracle Forms application and password entry work properly thus we used Redis and JWTs to solve this allow for a seamless integration without redesigning the entire Database.  

While injured from a Car Wreck in 2020, I created a group called Cybersecurity Insiders Scoop, broke my back, both arms, and right legs, those groups became filled with the top minds in the world and cybersecurity and data science communities. Also, worked with InfoSec. Live did several shows with Roger Grimes from KnowBe4 and built a community that’s 300 strong in group messages and 300k strong in the groups DHS Group, The Intelligence Community, Emerging Technologies, and Cybersecurity Insiders Scoop LinkedIn Group, not Group Chat. 

I continue to work as a Network Administrator, have worked for the largest Distributor of Eggs in the entire world, several large engineering firms, but I’m advisor to 5 companies and created Cybersecurity Insiders, LLC and Board Member to Dark Cryptonite. And my passion is connecting and ensuring the safety and security of the world not just in cybersecurity but also with the world’s intellectual prowess. 

I continue to build communities and make friends, as #networking is the key to life and I hope to see the world learn this and operate in a fashion consistent with humanity not the world we are seeing divide itself every minute over nothing....

I have worked for large corporations that have hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue as Server / Security Administrator.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗻: 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗼 𝗕𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺

Honored beyond words to be recognized in the Top 100 Most Influential Men in the World by Leadership Magazine. Thank you to Sibel Terhaar and the entire Leadership Magazine team for amplifying voices of innovators, builders, and those relentlessly shaping tomorrow.

Grateful for this acknowledgment not as a destination, but as a signal that the mission resonated: building intelligent systems, shaping responsible AI, advancing robotics, quantum, and creating a future defined by capability, humanity, and vision.

To those walking this road of change with me, this recognition belongs to you too. Our work is just beginning.

Founder of Singularity Systems and Cybersecurity Insiders. Strategist, DOW SME [CSIAC/DSIAC/HDIAC], Multiple Thinkers360 Thought Leader and CSI Group Founder. Manage The Intelligence Community and The DHS Threat

𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘 — 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤
Standing at the convergence of quantum physics, cryptographic science, autonomous systems, and secure communications, we are witnessing something extraordinary. Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution (TF-QKD) is more than a protocol — it is a redefinition of secure communication. A channel where photons become truth carriers, where trust is validated by quantum interference, and where distance is no longer the enemy of confidentiality.
In traditional systems, security declines as distance increases. With TF-QKD, the relationship is reversed. Using single-photon interference and phase-matched coherent signals, it generates secure keys at rates that scale with the square root of transmission efficiency. This allows secure quantum communication to expand beyond the classical bounds — breaking the long-standing repeaterless limit without the complexity of quantum memories or repeaters. Today we are generating quantum-secure keys across hundreds of kilometers of optical fiber, proving that unbreakable channels can span national lines, strategic infrastructures, and future global networks.

This is not merely a cryptographic upgrade. It is the beginning of quantum-secure intelligence. TF-QKD enables authentication and control for autonomous agents, robotic systems, distributed AI models, and critical decision networks — all protected not by encryption strength, but by the laws of physics. Spoofing, interception, and man-in-the-middle attacks are eliminated not through defense but through impossibility.

Photonic security becomes the backbone for emerging machine cognition. AI-powered swarms, autonomous decision engines, and future intelligence architectures require secure neural pathways, not just encrypted channels. TF-QKD provides that pathway — a quantum-verified trust fabric that no adversary, algorithm, or future quantum machine can decode or manipulate.

This is no longer about cybersecurity. It is about securing cognition.

Not about protecting networks — but protecting intelligence itself.

As we build the future of AI, robotics, quantum systems, and secure infrastructure, we must also build the trust layer that unites them. TF-QKD is that layer.

The quantum bridge is open. What we choose to send across it will define the future.

#changetheworld

A Deep Dive into Quantum-Resistant Architecture for Secure Communications Why This Matters Right Now Imagine waking up tomorrow to find that every enc

Open article: The Quantum Security Revolution: How Next-Generation Blockchain is Protecting Our Digital Future by Aaron Lax • 9 min read

The Quantum Security Revolution: How Next-Generation Blockchain is Protecting Our Digital Future

𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗬𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱.

Grok 3, Claude 4, Gemini 2, o3. These systems can solve graduate-level physics, write code, fix software, and reach ninety percent on advanced reasoning tests. They perform tasks in seconds that take humans hours. They impress us. They assist us. They help us build faster.

But let us be honest with the world. Being fast is not the same as being truly intelligent.

These AI systems do not invent new science. They do not design their own goals. They do not create theories humanity has never seen. They cannot think across months or years without us. They are powerful tools. They learn patterns, process information, and give answers. But they do not yet imagine.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) means matching human intelligence.
Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) means surpassing it.
We have not reached either.

To reach superintelligence, we will need more than bigger models. We will need AI that can rewrite itself. AI that generates its own goals. AI that discovers, not just predicts.

So where are we today? At the edge. Standing at the door. Watching glimpses of what might be possible.

The moment AI begins to truly imagine will be the moment everything changes.

#changetheworld

Let's #changetheworld Chuck Brooks, Alexey Navolokin, Robert Liscouski, and others including IBM, Titans Space Industries Inc., and those that are looking to push the boundaries of what has been.

The idea that human consciousness directly shapes quantum reality has persisted as one of the most seductive myths of modern science. It suggests that

Open article: Quantum Observer Illusion: Disentangling Conscious Waves from Code and Curcuits by Aaron Lax • 6 min read

Quantum Observer Illusion: Disentangling Conscious Waves from Code and Curcuits

𝙐𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙭𝙪𝙨 𝙊𝙛 𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨, 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙢, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙞 — 𝘼 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙍𝙚𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣

Human history has pivoted on moments when a single convergence of technologies reshaped not just how we work, but how we think, how we build, and how we understand reality itself. Today that convergence is no longer speculative. It is here. 

Robotics is giving form and motion to machine intelligence, allowing systems to perceive, interact, and reshape our physical environments. Quantum computing is unlocking the hidden mathematics of the universe, solving problems that classical machines cannot even define. Artificial Intelligence is no longer a tool. It is becoming a collaborator, an architect of innovation, capable of synthesizing vast domains of knowledge and making sense of systems too large or too complex for any single human mind.

Singularity is no longer a metaphor. It is a reality. The merger of Robotics, Quantum, and AI is dissolving the boundaries between human ingenuity and machine capability. What once required decades of R&D now evolves in weeks, accelerated by self-learning systems, simulated digital twins, humanoid platforms, and quantum-informed optimization. Entire industries, from defense to healthcare, energy, infrastructure, space, and education, are not being updated. They are being reinvented. We are not just teaching machines to think. 
We are teaching machines to build new forms of thinking.

And so begins a new dialogue.

I am honored to launch a new podcast with a brilliant mind and global visionary, Fin Barker. Together, we will explore what happens when Robotics gains sentience of motion, when Quantum reveals hidden pathways of possibility, and when AI stops assisting and starts reasoning, creating, predicting, adapting, and engineering at human and superhuman scales. This podcast is not about trends or buzzwords. It is about transformation. It is about the world that is arriving faster than anyone expected. It is about the systems that will carry us into that world, and the minds who are building them right now.

We will not discuss the future.

Singularity Systems will reveal it and partners like IBM, AMD, NVIDIA, Malika Capital and friends like Alexey Navolokin

https://lnkd.in/eCeNeW55

#changetheworld

Founder of Singularity Systems Defense and Cybersecurity Insiders. Strategist, DOW SME [CSIAC/DSIAC/HDIAC], Multiple Thinkers360 Thought Leader and CSI Group Founder. Manage The Intelligence Community and The DHS Threat

Open video: EP:03 - Singularity Systems - How AI Will Change Everything (and Faster Than You Think) on youtube.com

EP:03 - Singularity Systems - How AI Will Change Everything (and Faster Than You Think)

𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞

When Legal Becomes Cognitive, Autonomic, and Strategic

While I have a Legal Representative, whom I will keep private, unlike most things about Singularity Systems. 

I am not building a chatbot.

I am constructing a cognitive legal infrastructure to assist me when legal advice is not readily available.

What you see here is the first visible layer of our emerging legal-intelligence architecture within Singularity Systems — designed to protect, orchestrate, and weaponize intellectual systems in the age of autonomous robotics, agentic AI, and quantum-accelerated cognition.

In the program, as autonomous systems evolve beyond tools and begin to generate their own decisions, design their own subsystems, and even author their own blueprints, the single greatest threat to innovation will not be mechanical failure — it will be the inability to defend, enforce, and securitize the IP generated by intelligent machines.

The law was built to protect human ideas.

We are entering an era where intelligence — and invention — is non-human.

So we designed something new.

A multi-agent, legally-aware cognition engine capable of:
• Encoding and securing invention at the moment of its generation
• Translating technical invention into intellectual property claims
• Mapping strategic litigation and pre-emptive defense pathways
• Reconciling cross-jurisdictional compliance in real time
• Transforming robotic designs, neural architectures, and generated code
 into defensible, traceable, and enforceable IP assets

Each legal specialist you see is not a UI element — it is a cognitive agent:
IP and Technology Specialist:
 
Trained to interpret code, algorithms, robotics schematics, neural weight structures, and generative model outputs — and classify them as patentable, copyrightable, or trade secret-routable intellectual matter.

Litigation Specialist:
Built on adversarial reasoning chains, discovery protocols, argument construction engines, claim vulnerability analysis, and pre-trial resolution models.

Business Law Intelligence:
Designs corporate armor around innovation — holding structures, IP assignment strategy, protective layering, royalty architecture, and global protection paths.

Legal Coordinator:
The orchestrator — the meta-agent — fusing technical cognition, robotic architectures, quantum output, and human-authored legal strategy into defensible invention frameworks.

We are not automating documents. We are architecting legal cognition.
We are not just protecting IP.
We are building systems that will know how to protect their own.
Welcome to Singularity Systems.
Where intelligence invents — and invention defends itself.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗪𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄

We now live in a world where algorithms make decisions faster than human conscience can even process. Tools once designed to assist now possess the speed, autonomy, and reach to act without our supervision. Artificial intelligence, biological engineering, swarm robotics, autonomous targeting, hypersonic precision, and total digital surveillance have collectively created something humanity has never faced before. A technological power capable not just of transformation but of irreversible consequence.

Yet our ethical systems—our laws, treaties, and moral frameworks—were built for slower, visible, and controllable technologies. They assume there is always time to react, to deliberate, to choose. But machines work at a different speed. They do not pause for reflection. They do not weigh conscience. They only optimize.

History teaches that progress in technology has never guaranteed progress in wisdom. The crossbow, the chemical weapon, the atomic bomb. Every innovation arrived faster than the values needed to govern it. Each time, humanity learned after the fact.

Today that luxury is gone. We are crossing a threshold where learning after the fact may mean there is no after.

The breakthrough technologies being developed—right now, in real time—are extraordinary. They can heal, build, protect, and elevate humanity beyond anything seen before. But in the wrong context, without reflection, they can rewrite the story of our species in a single line.

This is not a call to stop progress. It is a call to match technical power with human responsibility. To build systems that reflect our humanity, not just our efficiency. To design intelligence that expands our capacity for wisdom, not just our capacity for speed.

Because the real question is no longer Can we build it?
We already are.

The question is:
Will we remain the authors of our future—or become subjects to the systems we created?

Pause. Reflect. What we permit today becomes the world our children inherit tomorrow.

𝗦𝗼 𝗜’𝗺 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀.

I am going to shamelessly plug my X account.

This is where I am building in the open. Humanoid robotics. Artificial Superintelligence. Quantum architectures. Self healing systems that blur the line between biology and machine. The beginning of the next era.

If you want to see it unfolding in real time, raw, unfiltered, where the next breakthroughs will emerge, follow along:

https://x.com/mast3r0x1a4

The world is changing faster than anyone realizes. I plan to show you how it’s actually happening.

𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐚

https://lnkd.in/etAs4mNi

Open article: Aaron L. (@MAST3R0x1A4) on X by x.com

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐎𝐟 𝐀 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝

In ancient texts, creation was spoken into existence across days. Light separated from darkness, oceans from land, data encoded into biology long before we understood what "code" even was. In that story, the Earth took form through intention, order, and an unfolding logic of complexity.

Today, creation requires a different language.

Not spoken. Not written. Queried.

I sat with a blank digital canvas. No form, no shape. Then I opened Google's BigQuery Earth Engine. A planetary-scale geospatial system. A living database of our world. Not narrative, but granular truth. Petabytes of satellites, atmospheric chemistry, land cover, human footprints, vegetation health, waterways, thermal gradients… every living and shifting contour of Earth — indexed, time-stamped, queryable.

I didn’t wait 7 days.

I built an Earth in hours.

Not an illustration or simulation — but a computationally reconstructed, data-born Earth. With mountains whose elevations stream from global DEM matrices. Forests powered by NDVI signatures of living chlorophyll. Clouds calculated through temporal MODIS composites. Cities detected from spectral urban encroachment. Rivers traced by historical hydrological flows.

My “Let there be light” was a SQL statement.
And light appeared across continents — extracted from VIIRS night maps. You could watch human civilization glow.

My “Let the waters be gathered” was a temporal hydrological mask — live-updating the global water cycle.

My “Let the land bring forth life” was an ecosystem model — mapping biodiversity across Costa Rica, the Amazon Basin, Madagascar, and my hometown of Hot Springs.

In Genesis, creation ended with rest.

But in my genesis, creation begins with iteration.

Because now, Earth is not static. It evolves. It responds, learns, predicts, warns, rebuilds — and invites us to understand the complexity we once thought was divine mystery.

The next Genesis will not be written.

It will be computed.

And some of us will architect its language.

If you work with Earth systems, climate models, robotics, GIS, AI, or planetary-scale analytics — I invite you to join me.

The era of worldbuilding is no longer mythology.

It's executable. 

Singularity Systems with partners like AMD, IBM, Titans Space Industries Inc., and running on and looking to partner with Google and Google DeepMind. 

#changetheworld

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

The legal profession has never lacked knowledge.

It has lacked reach, speed, and clarity.

Geopolitical negotiations, trade regulation, sanctions, cross-border licensing, sovereign contracts, and international compliance require a mind that can think across jurisdictions, infer intent, interpret structure, and advise with diplomatic precision.

I have built that mind.

An analytical legal intelligence engine capable of reading treaties like arguments, legislation like frameworks, and policy like architecture. It does not search. It interprets. It does not summarize. It advises.

It drafts with context, not keywords.
It supports attorneys, advisors, foreign ministries, and organizations that operate at the intersection of law, business strategy, governance, and commerce. It offers the sophistication of institutional counsel at a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time.

It places precision legal insight into the hands of those who could never afford it, expands the reach of law beyond borders, and beyond privilege. It allows intelligence to travel farther than influence.

This is not automation.
This is augmentation.

An instrument of clarity for those who negotiate, define, govern, or defend.

The first system was built not to practice law, but to elevate it.

Singularity Systems is moving to #changetheworld. We are in the pre-seed stage now. Please reach out if you are interested in helping bring the world tomorrow.

Check Out the Beta of My Already Completed but Not Yet Served Legal Advisor
https://lnkd.in/ejeksJcQ

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