From Automation to Autonomy: Building Trust in AI-Driven Networks

Enterprise networks carry decades of legacy gear, dozens of OS variants, and change processes that can take a hundred signatures to approve. AI promises to take network operations further, but how much control are enterprises ready to hand over?

In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis talks with Alex Henthorn-Iwane of Gluware about the evolution of network automation and the road to autonomous infrastructure.

They explore why AI adoption is moving faster in observability than in network change management and why brownfield environments make automation so much harder. Nick and Alex also debate whether AI can check its own work, and land on why independent validation rooted in the live network matters as AI takes on a bigger operational role.

Alex shares how AI can help teams cut through the flood of vulnerabilities, prioritize what truly requires action, and build the automation foundation that makes autonomy possible. Plus why there’s no FSD for a 2002 Corolla, and what enterprise networks need to change before AI can truly take the wheel.

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