The cybersecurity industry is trending upwards. More people are sharing sensitive data online, which entices criminals to find new ways to attack internet users. Every industry faces change, but the change the cybersecurity industry is facing may threaten job security. What Change is Threatening Job Security? A couple of trends are doing this.

From personal digital assistants to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence is quickly gaining ground with the technology promising increased productivity, efficiency and safety. Proponents believe AI will allow humans more time to be creative. But others caution that a device near you may end up doing your job. The movies are full of scary robots. From the Discovery One's sentient computer HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey" to the humanoid robot Ava in "Ex-Machina," artificial intelligence regularly goes haywire, running amok and often leading to the downfall of any human standing in its way.

AI (artificial intelligence) and robots threaten our living standards. With the ever-increasing ability of robots and AI to perform more intricate tasks with greater accuracy, speed and consistency than humans, it is progressively becoming obvious that many jobs, if done by robots, would be more cost-effective for companies, and may even do the job better. Not only do robots and AI hold the potential to take over many repetitive manufacturing jobs, they also look likely to take over commercial jobs, such as shopping assistants, as well as higher skilled jobs: from secretaries and administrators to surgeons, with some arguing that robots with AI may be able to write their own code as part of self-improvement in the search for performing ever more complex tasks even more productively and effectively – even removing the need for computer programmers! This presents an interesting and potentially frightening predicament: a society where business owners reap the vast benefits of having substituted workers for much more productive robots, while many millions of workers are out of their jobs. There could be millions of redundant workers suddenly forced to find alternative employment, but with robots taking many jobs, the majority will struggle to retrain to find jobs well-suited to their qualifications and experience that are not being done by robots (hence their redundancy).

The Information Technology has never had it so bad as it has since a year ago when job cuts and summary dismissals have been the order of the day. No matter which blue chip IT firm an individual works for, the jobs they are hold at risk, irrespective of seniority. A survey by Simplilearn, How Automation is Changing Work Choices: The Future of IT Jobs in India, says that the future of IT is in Cyber Security, Big Data and Data Science, Big Data Architect, Big Data Engineer, Artificial Intelligence and IoT (Internet of Things) Architect, and Cloud Architect . The jobs that will disappear will be anything in the next five are those that are repetitive and can be taken over by Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as manual testing, infrastructure management, BPO and system maintenance will massively decline over the next five years. Core development jobs will not feel the impact of job loss, said Kashyap Dalal, Chief Business Officer.

Douglas Rushkoff: U.S. Postal Service new example of human work replaced by technology He says technology affecting jobs market; not enough workers needed to run the technology He says we have to alter our ideas: It's not about jobs, it's about productivity Rushkoff: Technology lets us bypass corporations, make our own work -- a new model Douglas Rushkoff: U.S. Postal Service new example of human work replaced by technology He says we have to alter our ideas: It's not about jobs, it's about productivity Unless an external source of funding comes in, the post office will have to scale back its operations drastically, or simply shut down altogether. That's 600,000 people who would be out of work, and another 480,000 pensioners facing an adjustment in terms. We can blame a right wing attempting to undermine labor, or a left wing trying to preserve unions in the face of government and corporate cutbacks. But the real culprit -- at least in this case -- is e-mail. People are sending 22% fewer pieces of mail than they did four years ago, opting for electronic bill payment and other net-enabled means of communication over envelopes and stamps.

More on Artificial Intelligence Why Artificial Intelligence Sucks Right Now How Can You Tell If a Machine is Thinking? In this episode, Trace tries to imagine what an AI-powered future might look like. One outcome that a lot of futurists predict is "the singularity": the merging of man and machine. In 1990, noted futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that this was the inevitable conclusion of where technology will lead us. Kurzweil reminds us that the computer powering his cellphone is literally several billion times more powerful and 100,000 times smaller than the computers he used 25 years ago.