A friend in cybersecurity told me something that kept me up at night.

"The attackers are using AI now. They're generating thousands of unique phishing emails per hour, each personalized to the target. No typos. Perfect grammar. Contextually relevant."

This is the arms race nobody's ready for.

The old approach — rule-based detection, signature matching — can't keep up with AI-generated threats. You need ML fighting ML.

I've been digging into this space and honestly, the cybersecurity + AI intersection might be the most important and most understaffed area in tech right now. Anomaly detection, behavioral biometrics, NLP for threat intelligence... the applications are everywhere and the talent pool is tiny.

If you have ML skills and even a passing interest in security, explore this space. The salaries reflect the scarcity — and the work actually matters.