Is Agent Smith from The Matrix going to show up at your door? No, not in the form you think. “Agent Smith” will be the autonomous agent that automates your job. It will be the experienced worker that leverages AI plug-ins in excel to be 10x more productive than you. It will be the accounting agents they deploy at Goldman Sachs to automate accountants that have total recall ability. It will be the agent swarm that launches a sophisticated cyber attack against your organization and cleans is forensic artifacts up faster than your incident response team can track it down. The only thing that will protect you are fundamentals. Security fundamentals reasoning fundamentals and moral fundamentals.
You must build security principles into your life at the fundamental ground levels. You will not keep up with sophisticated artificial intelligence. It has total information awareness on the data that it is fed which by now is the whole of the internet. If the advancement of this technology stopped today it’s still decades ahead of anything in production right now. If, at this point you remain a skeptic about its raw capability and potential you are in that common trap of underestimating its potential to replace you. If you are in technology and manage systems, its looking directly at you. If your job is 100 percent done behind a screen, its looking at you too. If you work in the public sector or with the US government or efficiency really doesn’t matter that much you might have a little while longer. Takeaway is – no one knows where this is heading. Your best best is to learn the tools and how to weild them to maximize the time your labor is economically valuable. If you have kids, get them into the trades, healthcare, or some profession where being a good and likeable human actually matters.
