How to Upskill for Cybersecurity and Stay Ahead in the Age of AI
How to Upskill for Cybersecurity and Stay Ahead in the Age of AI
https://www.govtech.com/security/how-to-upskill-for-cybersecurity-and-stay-ahead-in-the-age-of-ai
Publish Date: 2026-05-01 11:37:00
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In February, a firm called Citrini Research released a fictional scenario called “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” on Substack. It shocked stock markets and went viral around the globe.
Citrini called it a “thought exercise in financial history, from the future.”
The authors describe how rapid AI adoption would lead to mass white-collar layoffs, triggering a deflationary spiral and perhaps even a systemic economic collapse. And while this apocalyptic scenario was denounced by most other AI, tech, financial and business experts as being unrealistic — with potential ulterior motives — leaders like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have doubled down on their predictions that mass layoffs are coming.
Meanwhile, the app Resume Builder released a survey in February proclaiming that 57 percent of workers are now “job hugging,” or clinging to their current jobs. Seventy percent fear being replaced by AI, and another 63 percent of respondents are worried about layoffs in the next six months.
So what should organizations and cyber professionals be doing — and not doing — as AI is rolled out to more staff and incorporated into more processes?
One negative example comes from The Plain Dealer, Cleveland’s largest newspaper. According to sources, articles were drafted by artificial intelligence under the title “Advanced Local Express Desk.” While the process included editors reviewing content before it was released, anonymous Plain Dealer journalists demonstrated that editorial quality and staff morale were harmed in the process. Critics also claimed that guardrails, such as thoroughly fact-checking and consistent editing, were often absent.
Bottom line was that the end product for clients got worse when AI agents replaced writers, akin to a restaurant watering down the soup.
Even among those who disagree with Anthropic’s Amodei about AI’s job-killing future and the timelines for AI to…
