As Gen Z Enters Cybersecurity, Jury Is Out on AI's Impact

Bandana Kaur, an 18-year-old cybersecurity researcher, explains that AI will automate repetitive security tasks while enhancing human analysts' ability to scale work and focus on creative, higher-value activities; she warns about AI-enabled attacker tools (improved phishing, deepfakes, runtime-malware modification) and highlights transferability of adversarial prompts as a security risk, critiques hiring practices that disadvantage graduates, and describes her nontraditional path into security and upcoming Black Hat presentation.