If you cannot test it under pressure, you do not actually trust it. That is SimSpace co-founder and CTO Lee Rossey’s standard for AI security testing, and it underpins the case he made to Matt Levenhagen on The Builders Podcast for proving grounds for AI security. Hospitals, banks, and power grids cannot be taken down to satisfy a test plan, so the alternative is a high-fidelity replica where repeatable attack scenarios build operational muscle memory. Rossey, who spent fifteen years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, treats AI as an accelerant on both sides. It compresses attacker kill chains while raising concerns such as prompt injection and model drift. Trusted AI agents work beside operators, not instead of them.
