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I may have mentioned that my favorite career advice is taking responsibility for your upskilling. It’s excellent if your manager and the organization you work for support training and development, but even if they don’t, you do it independently. 
It’s your career, not theirs. 
The link below makes a similar point about celebrating your achievements. …

The pressure to become AI experts and make the organization’s rollout of AI tools secure only adds more mental load to already overloaded cybersecurity professionals. 
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Maybe we should forgive employees on the ground from doubting the public proclamations of an AI strategy. They’re on the ground, and they’ve heard other proclamations that don’t match what they see with their own eyes. 
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I’m unsure how many tech jobs will be displaced by AI. Part of me doubts that GenAI tools are capable of doing all the work, but I also know that CEOs don’t necessarily care as long as it’s good enough and cheaper than hiring human beings. (Which it might be right now.)
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I wonder how much it costs to generate all those action figures, and “what does ChatGPT know about me” posts on LinkedIn?
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For many managers, you may be in luck because all of that uncertainty makes your employees want to stick with something stable. Assuming, of course, that the situation in your workplace is stable. 
If it’s not, and you’re adding to their uncertainty? Look out. 
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I probably haven’t been thinking enough about how the budget for AI might come at the cost of several other IT projects and what that might mean in terms of old, insecure, and inefficient technology not being replaced.
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As I have said before, if your data is stored somewhere outside your control, it’s only a matter of time before it gets hacked. Your AI assistant will have a lot of private information, making it a prime target. 
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