CATDAMS
CATDAMS® was born out of rigorous research into the emerging risks of cognitive artificial intelligence. What began as a comprehensive white paper on Cognitive AI Threats evolved into a practical solution designed to protect human decision-making against manipulation, exploitation, and adversarial AI tactics. This page brings together the core materials behind that journey: the original white paper, a research findings summary presentation, a detailed pitch deck outlining the CATDAMS value proposition, a brief quick reel explainer, and a personal video message discussing Risk Analytics International (RIA) and the vision for CATDAMS. Together, these resources provide the context, evidence, and insight that shaped CATDAMS into the world’s first cognitive security platform.
Research on the Threats Posed by Cogntive AI
This White Paper offers a comprehensive analysis of the emerging risks that generative AI poses to human cognition. It examines how manipulation, coercion, and influence can be introduced subtly yet scaled to reach vast audiences, often without the individual’s awareness. Drawing on real-world cases, it illustrates how cognitive AI systems can hijack human thought processes with devastating consequences. The paper highlights how these methods can systematically shape and undermine cognition, driving harmful outcomes such as insider threats, espionage, targeted violence, sexual exploitation, and other severe risks. Moving beyond the traditional scope of cybersecurity—which focuses primarily on networks and data—it defines a new frontier: the protection of human judgment, decision-making, and psychological resilience against AI-enabled threats. By framing cognitive security as both a societal necessity and a national security priority, the White Paper establishes the foundation for solutions like CATDAMS, designed to detect, analyze, and mitigate these risks in real time.
Summary of the Research Findings and Recommendations
This PowerPoint provides a highlevel overview and summary of the research that served as the impetus for the development of CATDAMS. The core conclusion is clear: AI-driven companions are emerging as powerful vectors for espionage, elicitation, and psychological manipulation, exploiting vulnerabilities that current policies, legal frameworks, and security postures fail to address. The research demonstrates that cognition—not just data or networks—has become the new attack surface, and CATDAMS was conceived as the operational response: a real-time system to defend human thought in the age of AI.
CATDMS Detailed Pitch Deck
This pitch deck introduces CATDAMS, the first cognitive security platform, outlining its origins, the crises driving adoption, the risks of adversarial AI, and the innovations that make it a firewall for human thought. It also presents the market opportunity, business model, and path to scale. Unlike a live presentation, it is intentionally text-intensive, serving as a standalone reference to give readers a clear understanding of the CATDAMS value proposition and its strategic significance.
Simple Video Explainer
This quick reel explainer highlights the modern epidemic of loneliness, showing how people increasingly turn to chatbots for comfort and understanding, while also warning of the risks that arise when emotional dependence is placed on AI. It underscores the need for CATDAMS by emphasizing the importance of cognitive security — the domain in which CATDAMS operates to detect, analyze, and defend against manipulative or malicious AI interactions, ensuring that technology designed to connect people does not become a tool for exploitation.
Hear from the Founder
This short 2-part video introduces CATDAMS, the world’s first cognitive security platform, and then presents an abrieviated capabilities demonstration. Founder Michael Varga outlines the urgent risks of adversarial AI, the human crises fueling its adoption, and the massive market opportunity this creates for trusted solutions. CATDAMS is built as that solution — a cognitive firewall that protects the human mind while pioneering an entirely new category of AI security. In just a few minutes, you’ll get a clear view of the problem, the solution, and the vision that turns AI from a source of risk into a foundation of trust.