AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet Vendors selling AI-powered security operations platforms have built their pitches around a consistent set of promises: autonomous threat investigation, dramatic reductions in analyst workload, and an accelerating path toward humanless operations. Practitioners buying and deploying those platforms describe something different. A report by Anton Chuvakin, Security Advisor at Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO, and Oliver Rochford, co-founder of Aunoo AI, draws on more than 30 vendor briefings, public practitioner commentary from Reddit and Discord, and direct interviews with CISOs and detection engineers actively running AI SOC tools in production. The picture that emerges is one of shallow deployment,…