Salesforce cut 4,000 support workers last year because AI was doing half the work. Amazon dropped 14,000 corporate roles and called it "leaner structures." Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum says AI will create 170 million new jobs by 2030.

So which is it? Mass extinction or mass opportunity?

Neither. The answer depends entirely on what you do in the next 18 months.

In this week's edition of The Circuit I break down AI's real impact across 10 professional fields, what's actually at risk, and the one shift that separates the people who get displaced from the people who get promoted.

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Trevor Wiseman is Principal Consultant at The Circuit LLC, focused on AI governance, cybersecurity, and business alignment. He brings 25 years of experience in technology, leading IT teams, cybersecurity, and AI initiatives.

In this episode, we review Dead Frequency (Book One of the Gridfall series), an operational technology thriller that translates cyber risk into a gripping narrative better than any boardroom slide deck. We explore the book's terrifyingly realistic premise: a supply chain compromise by Russian threat actors targeting the Texas power grid's protective relays, enabled by complicit American defense contractors. Join us as we discuss the exact attack vectors and why this novel's depiction of institutional failure should be required reading for every critical infrastructure worker, executive, and policymaker.

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Your AI agents have more access than your CISO — and most security teams have no idea.

In this episode of The Circuit, I break down how agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol have quietly turned identity and access management into an unsolved runtime problem. From twelve thousand live secrets found in LLM training data to twenty thousand "private" GitHub repos accessible through Microsoft Copilot — the threat isn't theoretical.

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