Just to be clear about something: if you are selling or advocating for some sort of AI in software testing tool, framework, agent, model, or defect-predict-O-nator and you are NOT focusing primarily on safety, security, or HARM – you are NOT doing your job.

The testing industry has practically abdicated its role in this regard, so it is up to individuals to be the vanguard and it is not panic, job insecurity, or resistance to change driving their valid concerns.

I am seeing some very senior people with lots of influence making IMO/E poor decisions on how to frame where we we are with AI in testing – what it is, what it isn’t, what it can do, and what it shouldn’t.

For even more clarity, if you are dismissing concerns about artificial intelligence in testing, quality engineering, or test automation as any of those things you are partially responsible for what happens when those tools are used to create software and systems that do harm.

Period.