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Beware the Slasher: AI Could Kill Off Cybersecurity Pros' Skills

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Beware the Slasher: AI Could Kill Off Cybersecurity Pros' Skills

Nathan Hamiel discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in security operations could erode core technical skills among cybersecurity professionals, comparing the effect to how prior technologies made certain capabilities obsolete. The concern centers on whether heavy reliance on AI tools may diminish hands-on expertise in critical security functions.

Why it matters: Cybersecurity practitioners should evaluate how AI integration into their workflows affects skill development and maintainability of manual capabilities; organizations need to ensure AI augmentation does not create dangerous knowledge gaps when tools fail or require human judgment.

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