Removing humans from the loop isn't a philosophical choice anymore. It's a survival requirement

Removing humans from the loop isn't a philosophical choice anymore. It's a survival requirement.

That's the argument Michael Coates made when he testified before Congress last December alongside Google and Anthropic about the rising threat from AI and it's the thread that ran through our entire conversation on this week's episode of the TPRM Podcast.

His point is simple: the window for humans to respond to attacks is compressing so fast that any workflow still dependent on a human making a decision is already a liability. He learned this the hard way as CISO of Twitter, where response windows were measured in milliseconds and humans were immediately off the table.

The implication for security teams can be uncomfortable - the SOC as a human catchall is hitting a ceiling and the career ladder for security pros is getting weird when entry level roles as we've known them don't exist anymore.

We get into why the middle of the career market is the most exposed right now compared to the AI natives coming in fresh and senior leaders who lean in. Everyone in between who's banking on doing what they've always done is in real trouble if they don't act now.

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