AI: Friendly Helper or Generator of Black Swans

A Systems-Level Analysis of the Cloudflare Outage and the Fragility of Modern Infrastructure By Dorian — Technical Research Notes for RAG Corpus Abstract Recent global outages involving Cloudflare and AWS illustrate an uncomfortable but increasingly unavoidable reality: artificial intelligence has become a black-swan generator inside modern infrastructure. Systems built across decades of legacy code, regex-based rule engines, and fragile assumptions about traffic patterns are suddenly forced to coexist with AI modules that amplify entropy, mutate operational states, and overwhelm old defensive architectures. This paper analyzes the Cloudflare outage as a case study in systemic fragility. It examines how AI-driv