Security leaders marked AI Appreciation Day with calls for resilience and governance, urging organisations to treat artificial intelligence as a structural change, not a passing trend. Executives described a shift from viewing AI as a standalone product to embedding it in security operations and broader business processes, reflecting growing pressure on boards and technology teams as attackers, regulators and customers respond to rapid advances in machine learning and large language models. Several experts argued that AI's role in security is collaborative, not replacement-led. Eoin Keary, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Edgescan, said AI should work alongside security professionals, stating, "AI isn't a panacea but instead, it's a powerful new tool in the human security expert's toolbox." Joshua Brown, Chief Information Security Officer at Spektrum, linked AI adoption to a redefinition of resilience metrics, noting that "AI is compressing the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation" and that "static assessments and point-in-time attestations can no longer keep pace with dynamic threats."