“Disruption” is a word familiar to the technology world. Several technology developments have disrupted several industries in the past. At that time we welcomed the development as part of the innovation trend. Now Artificial intelligence, the Open-ai project is having its impact on making many jobs in IT redundant. In particular, Coding professionals are finding that their functions are being efficiently replaced by GPT3 tools.
As a consequence of these developments many IT professionals are being laid off. Those working in Amazon, Microsoft are the recent sufferers of this development though this is an industry wide disruption.
In a way the “Bhasmasura” effect of technology development is showing its uglier side effects.
While the debate on whether this is a short term phenomenon or whether the employees can re-skill themselves into new jobs that may be created in the AI itself is a debate for the future.
At present, we would like to provide some support to the community by providing opportunities to enable some of these IT professionals to gather additional knowledge and skills in the field of Data Protection.
Accordingly Cyber Law College will be planning a DPO training program at a concessional fee structure for a limited time. This will prepare IT aware professionals to be able to understand the requirements of data protection and move into the Data Audit domain. Initially they can team up with other legal professionals and later develop themselves into independent DPOs or Data Auditors. Some of them can also team up with audit firms and support them with technical skills.
We also expect that some of the Coding specialists may turn into “Code Auditors from Data Protection Perspective.
Please let me have your views in this regard.
Naavi
