{"slug": "amid-fears-of-ai-killing-tech-jobs-companies-race-to-fill-cybersecurity-roles", "title": "Amid fears of AI killing tech jobs, companies race to fill cybersecurity roles", "summary": "Despite fears that AI would eliminate tech jobs, cybersecurity engineering roles are experiencing a hiring frenzy that recruiters cannot keep pace with, according to The New York Times. The surge is partly driven by Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, which the company is withholding due to its advanced cyber capabilities until defenses are strengthened. The broader decline of software engineering jobs may also be overstated, as engineers remain needed to manage AI agents that now write the majority of code at major tech firms.", "body_md": "# Amid fears of AI killing tech jobs, companies race to fill cybersecurity roles\n\nOne of the biggest fears of the AI boom is that the [technology will destroy jobs](https://sherwood.news/markets/ai-is-becoming-a-go-to-reason-for-layoffs-but-is-it-actually-replacing/), starting with entry-level programmers and eventually coming for all manner of white-collar work.\n\nThis week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman [said](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/openais-altman-says-ai-unlikely-lead-jobs-apocalypse-2026-05-26/) the “jobs apocalypse” isn’t turning out as bad as he’d feared, noting, “I’m delighted to be wrong about this.”\n\nOne tech job that had appeared at risk of AI replacement was cybersecurity engineer. But The New York Times reports that the role is now going through a “hiring frenzy,” and tech recruiters can’t keep up with demand for them.\n\nOne of the driving forces behind the surge in cybersecurity roles is the emergence of Anthropic’s Mythos AI model — which is being held back by the company due to its advanced cyber capabilities until companies can shore up defenses.\n\nThe demise of software engineering roles in general may have been overblown as well. According to the report, engineers are still needed to manage AI agents, which are increasingly [writing the bulk](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-generated-code-75-gemini-agents-software-2026-4) of the code at Big Tech companies.\n\nOne tech job that had appeared at risk of AI replacement was cybersecurity engineer. But The New York Times reports that the role is now going through a “hiring frenzy,” and tech recruiters can’t keep up with demand for them.\n\nOne of the driving forces behind the surge in cybersecurity roles is the emergence of Anthropic’s Mythos AI model — which is being held back by the company due to its advanced cyber capabilities until companies can shore up defenses.\n\nThe demise of software engineering roles in general may have been overblown as well. According to the report, engineers are still needed to manage AI agents, which are increasingly [writing the bulk](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-generated-code-75-gemini-agents-software-2026-4) of the code at Big Tech companies.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amid-fears-of-ai-killing-tech-jobs-companies-race-to-fill-cybersecurity-roles", "canonical_source": "https://sherwood.news/tech/amid-fears-of-ai-killing-tech-jobs-companies-race-to-fill-cybersecurity-roles/", "published_at": "2026-05-26 15:32:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-26 23:44:02.200036+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-agents", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Sam Altman", "Anthropic", "Mythos AI", "The New York Times"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amid-fears-of-ai-killing-tech-jobs-companies-race-to-fill-cybersecurity-roles", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amid-fears-of-ai-killing-tech-jobs-companies-race-to-fill-cybersecurity-roles.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amid-fears-of-ai-killing-tech-jobs-companies-race-to-fill-cybersecurity-roles.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amid-fears-of-ai-killing-tech-jobs-companies-race-to-fill-cybersecurity-roles.jsonld"}}