{"id":695952,"date":"2026-05-26T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695952\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:57:08","slug":"theres-at-least-one-job-that-ai-isnt-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695952\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s at Least One Job That AI Isn’t Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things artificial intelligence seems particularly adept at is cybersecurity\u2014at least if you buy the marketing pitch of models like Anthropic\u2019s Mythos<\/a>, which supposedly spotted vulnerabilities that humans failed to patch<\/a> for more than 20 years. But instead of putting cybersecurity experts out of work, AI has actually created a hiring spree, according to the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Citing headhunter companies that help place cyber engineers at major firms, the Times found that demand for these experts is so strong that recruiters have struggled to find enough bodies to fill the open roles. Glassdoor data shows that cybersecurity job listings are up 11% in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the same period in 2025, and that growth is expected to continue.<\/p>\n

There are two ways to read the rush of cybersecurity experts: companies are so panicked by the potential hacking power of AI models\u2014Anthropic has claimed its Mythos model is so powerful that it can\u2019t be made publicly available because it poses unprecedented cybersecurity risks<\/a>\u2014that they are ramping up on people to fortify their defenses before the cyber apocalypse hits; or, everyone went entirely too hard on vibe coding and it\u2019s created such a clusterfuck of bad code that companies have to hire more humans to come in and unwind the mess.<\/p>\n

Odds are that it\u2019s more the latter, though the preferred framing throughout the industry seems to be the former. Earlier this month, Wired reported<\/a> on research that found more than 5,000 vibe-coded web apps created using popular AI software development tools that were plagued with security issues that made sensitive information trivially accessible.<\/p>\n

We can probably safely assume that\u2019s happening all over. Even the big tech firms have had some notable vibe-coding issues when letting AI agents step in and act as humans. For instance, Amazon reportedly had a server knocked offline<\/a> because an AI agent decided to delete and recreate a database on its own.<\/p>\n

AI is having an impact on jobs, but maybe not like we think <\/p>\n

Growth in any part of the economy feels pretty rare at the moment, but if one zooms out from the booming cybersecurity sector, it seems AI isn\u2019t having the impact on employment that one might think. MIT Technology Review pulled data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and found that the unemployment rate for jobs that have the most AI exposure is actually lower than roles with less perceived risk. There also hasn\u2019t been a meaningful shift from at-risk roles to \u201csafer\u201d ones, per Yale\u2019s Budget Lab research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hell, even some professions that you\u2019d think would be hurting are finding some new life. Wired recently reported<\/a> that AI companies are hiring up a slew of philosophers as they try to figure out what the concept of an AI model that behaves \u201cethically\u201d even means. And then there\u2019s the new jobs being created. An apparent upstart AI firm went viral over the weekend, publishing a job listing<\/a> for \u201cMasturbation Consultants\u201d to help hone a \u201cDaily Guided Masturbation\u201d feature.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say people aren\u2019t losing their jobs<\/a>. Layoffs continue, and AI is often mentioned as a reason why. But the reality seems to be more that corporations are \u201cAI washing\u201d their downsizing efforts<\/a>, claiming that they\u2019re replacing workers with new technology when they\u2019re really mostly just cutting payroll.<\/p>\n

Talking up your embrace of AI while laying off real people who\u2019ll eventually have to come back to fix your trash code? Now that\u2019s masturbatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the things artificial intelligence seems particularly adept at is cybersecurity\u2014at least if you buy the marketing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,46267,276,277,49,48,283,61],"class_list":["post-695952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-and-jobs","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cybersecurity","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}