// talks & press
On the record, when it matters.
A handful of speaking and press engagements a year — national security, AI in regulated industry, financial stability, and the places those topics collide. I'd rather say yes to one good conversation than ten generic keynotes.
// on the record
Bloomberg · April 2026"The concern isn't just personal identity data. Even de-identified, CAT data is a strategic asset — for traders seeking alpha and for adversaries seeking market intelligence. AI has changed the economics of exploiting it: what once took a nation-state team can now be done on a single laptop with open-source tools. Mythos and systems like it push that further, enabling synthesis and misuse of decades of market data at industrial scale."
Television & video.
Selected broadcast appearances, hosted on vimeo.com/sultanmeghji.
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NewsNation
TVEPA, water infrastructure, and the cyber surface ↗
May 2024
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CBS News
TVNational — economic outlook segment ↗
November 2022
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Fox News
TVJesse Watters — national economy and banking ↗
November 2022
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CBS News
TVNational Money Watch — banking and consumer outlook ↗
November 2022
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Yahoo Finance
TVMarkets, rates, and bank technology ↗
November 2022
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CNN
TVFederal Reserve rate hikes, recession, and retail spending ↗
June 2022
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NewsNation
TVIs Google's new AI alive? — on LaMDA and machine sentience ↗
June 2022
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NewsNation
TVAI risk — violent chess engines and armed robot dogs ↗
July 2022
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NBC
TVCrypto, banking, and cybersecurity ↗
May 2022
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Newsy
TV2023 financial predictions ↗
January 2023
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Newsy
TVSan Francisco robot police proposal ↗
December 2022
What I'll speak on.
The shortlist. I can go deep in any of these; I try hard not to fake depth anywhere else.
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Secured AI for regulated industry
What "secured AI" actually means when the regulator walks in the room. Data provenance, model provenance, inference surface, output governance, compliance mapping.
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Post-quantum risk for the financial system
What bank treasurers, CIOs, and supervisors should be doing today — and what most are not — ahead of cryptographically relevant quantum.
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AI inside federal agencies
From the inside of building the FDIC's first innovation division: how federal AI programs actually move, where they stall, and what changes the speed.
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National security in an AI-accelerated world
The seams between AI, cybersecurity, and state-on-state competition — and why the financial system is adjacent to every one of them.
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Founder operating playbooks
Thirty years of founding, scaling, buying, and selling venture-backed companies — viewed with hindsight.
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Resigning on principle, with receipts
For leadership audiences — the mechanics of leaving a senior federal role publicly, when and why, and what the op-ed actually did.
// book a talk
Conference, panel, closed-door briefing, or classroom — email works best. Please include audience, date range, and whether the session is public or Chatham House.
Print & commentary.
Selected outlets. Links go to outlet archives — swap for direct article URLs over time.
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Bloomberg
PRINTMythos Poses Risk to SEC Market-Tracking Database, Group Says — quoted on CAT data, AI, and strategic-intelligence risk ↗
April 2026
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Bloomberg Opinion
PRINT"I Quit as FDIC Innovation Chief Because of Regulators' Technophobia" ↗
February 2022
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Crain's New York Business
PRINTOp-ed: The AI bubble will burst. Here's how to get ahead of it ↗
2025
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The Hill
PRINTDid Big Tech bite off more than it can chew with AI? ↗
August 2024
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Fox News Opinion
PRINTLet's use AI to stop fentanyl at the border ↗
April 2024
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19FortyFive
PRINTWhy the U.S. must treat fentanyl like a war on terror ↗
February 2025
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American Banker
PRINTBanks should use open tech to ease faster payments migration ↗
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Wall Street Journal
PRINTAI Will Mean Cheaper Food ↗
March 2024
Government & multilateral advisory.
A partial list of governments, central banks, and multilateral institutions I've advised.
- CIA
- FBI
- DHS
- Federal Reserve
- OCC
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- German Bundesbank
- European Central Bank
- United Nations
- International Monetary Fund
- World Bank
- G7
- G20
- UK Ministry of Defence
- Prime Minister's Office, Singapore