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.

Follow - The Circuit with Trevor Wiseman — AI governance, cybersecurity & business translation, no jargon.

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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.

Ready to read the fictional thriller that explains supply chain risk better than a PowerPoint?

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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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A deep dive into the KERNEL prompt framework that emerged from 1,000 hours of Reddit experimentation. This episode breaks down how a single Reddit user's obsessive testing created a viral framework that's changing how businesses use AI—and why it matters to your organization's AI governance strategy.

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In this 15-minute audio portfolio, Trevor Wiseman outlines his strategy for stabilizing operations while modernizing technology stacks.

With over 12 years of experience as a VP of Technology and a background in banking infrastructure and disaster recovery, Trevor brings a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to IT leadership. This episode covers his career arc—from the U.S. Navy and BancFirst to leading Technology and AI Governance at Griffin Media—and details how he bridges the gap between technical engineering and executive strategy.

Key Highlights & Proven Results:

• Cyber Risk Reduction: How he lowered enterprise risk by 40% through layered security controls and MFA deployment.

• Operational Resilience: Maintaining 99.9% uptime during a complex headquarters relocation and data center move.

• Practical AI Governance: Identifying "shadow AI" to drive 55% efficiency gains while aligning with NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 standards.

• Financial Stewardship: Managing a **9M+technologyportfolio∗∗(7M OPEX / $2M CAPEX) without service degradation.

Target Roles: Trevor is currently seeking VP or Director-level roles in Technology Operations, Infrastructure, Information Security, or AI Governance. He is based in Edmond, Oklahoma, and is open to hybrid roles statewide or remote positions across the U.S.

Connect & Contact:

• Email: trevor.wiseman@outlook.com

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• Mobile: (405) 888-3159

Today we're talking about something that keeps me up at night. Not because it's theoretical. Because it's happening right now to organizations that think they're prepared.

Attackers cut phishing email creation time by 99.5 percent. Deepfake ID fraud surged 704 percent. And 73 percent of organizations report they've been hit by AI-powered threats.

Your traditional security tools? They're failing at machine speed.

Resources:

NIST AI RMF: https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework

EU AI Act: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence

Autonomous AI agents now read your data, trigger workflows, and interact with customers without a human in the loop. That also means they hold keys, tokens, and permissions that traditional security and governance never anticipated.

In this episode, you will hear how real incidents around agent platforms, link previews, and RCE in AI workflows expose a new attack surface. You will learn why “agents as apps” thinking fails, how to define scopes and kill‑switches, and what logging, incident response, and board reporting need to look like in an agent‑heavy environment.

Your vendor's AI data policies became your compliance problem. Most organizations track their own AI systems. Ask about third-party AI and confidence drops to 2 out of 5. Only 20% of companies adapted their vendor risk processes for AI. The other 80% face audit surprises they don't see coming.

In this episode, I break down the three risks your current vendor program doesn't address: data usage you can't control, black-box models you can't audit, and supply chain dependencies you don't know about. I cover the regulatory landscape including EU AI Act fines up to 6% of revenue and Colorado's new AI legislation. Plus five actions you should take this quarter to close the gap.

When your vendor's AI fails, regulators investigate your organization. Customers sue your organization. Your vendor issues a press release and moves on. You live with the consequences.