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The economics of cyber security and AI — with Josh Bruyning.

Hosted by Josh Bruyning · Bruyning Media

Where we explore the hidden costs and benefits of today's Hybrid WorkforceThrough in-depth conversations with founders, executives, cybersecurity leaders, economists, researchers, and innovators, Josh Bruyning examines what happens when intelligent systems begin influencing how companies operate, how economies function, and how humans make decisions.From AI deployment and automation to cyber warfare, digital power, labor disruption, governance, and the psychology of technological change, each episode cuts through the hype to uncover the real economic and human impact of emerging technology.Cybernomics isn’t just about where technology is going, it’s about who wins, who adapts, and what the future costs.Visit Cybernomics.io to keep up to date with AI threats and benefits. 

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72 episodes

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Jul 22, 2026

23:16

Savannah Street Interviews On AI Fear And Hope

We walk the streets of Savannah asking strangers how AI is changing work, trust, and everyday life, then we follow the answers into deeper questions about authenticity, fear, and power. From cooks to teenagers to healthcare and science voices, we keep circling one idea: AI can boost productivity, but it can’t automatically replace human meaning or human responsibility. • whether a robot can replicate “heart” in cooking • teen concerns about deepfakes, scams, AI recognition, and job lo...

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Jul 15, 2026

3:55

Three Practical Ways To Cut AI Token Costs

Your AI bill can climb fast even when you feel like you’re asking “one quick question.” The real driver is token usage, and once you understand it, you can finally control it. We walk through what AI tokens are in plain English, why they’re not always full words, and a practical rule of thumb you can use when estimating cost (think 1,000 tokens is about 750 words). From there, we explain the part most teams miss: you’re paying for both sides of the conversation. Input tokens include yo...

Ep.

Jul 8, 2026

38:59

Laziness, Agency, and a Second Brain for Work

AI can feel like a cold calculator until you realize the “human” part was never in the machine. It was in the way you ask, the way you react, and the space you give yourself to think. Seth Wylie - Owner of The Wild Edge - and I start in a surprising place: summer heat, showers, naps, and why calling rest “lazy” is often just your inner critic replaying an old script. That thread matters because the same pressure to always be on shows up in how we use technology at work. Then we move into a p...

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Jun 27, 2026

11:23

AI Is About to Become Too Expensive for Small Businesses

AI used to feel like a flat-fee superpower. Now it is starting to behave like electricity: metered, variable, and tied to exactly how you use it. We dig into what that shift means for the people actually trying to run AI in the real world, from small businesses building their first workflows to sales, ops, and dev teams pushing tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and agents into daily work. Josh unpacks the move from per-seat pricing to usage-based billing, where cost is driven by...

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Jun 24, 2026

9:24

Word on the Street: Is SaaS Dead? Mythos and The AI Security Vendor Race

Richard Stiennon is back with the Word on the Street! AI isn’t just a chatbot tab anymore. It’s quietly becoming the interface inside the software we already rely on, and that shift changes how fast we can build, operate, and secure modern systems. We talk about what it feels like when AI is embedded directly into tools like AWS Route 53, guiding you through confusing workflows step by step instead of forcing you to bounce between docs and prompts. From there we zoom out to the “SaaS is dead...

Ep.

Jun 10, 2026

26:35

Dr. Zero Trust Talks AI Threats, Fraud Detection, AI Entrepreneurship

Fraud doesn’t hide because it’s clever. It hides because our models keep looking for “normal” instead of interrogating “wrong.” That’s where this conversation with Dr. Chase Cunningham (known to many as “Dr. Zero Trust”) gets practical fast. We talk about his recent patent work using deterministic math to surface fraud inside huge systems, and why the usual data science playbook of finding enough “good” data to train on can be a trap when the real signal is buried in what shouldn’t be happeni...

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Jun 3, 2026

33:31

Humans vs. AI, Who is The Bigger Business Risk?

AI feels like a shortcut until it becomes a liability. We sit down with Nikki Robinson, STSM of AI and Platform at IBM and co author of Human Factors and Cybersecurity, plus security and risk executive Jennifer Baca, to get brutally practical about responsible AI use, data privacy, and what “secure” even means when the tooling changes weekly. We start with the basics that too many teams skip: due diligence, responsible disclosure, and why you should learn prompt engineering by experimenting ...

Ep.

Apr 30, 2026

33:21

The Hiring Process Is Broken And We Have To Fix It

Ten months of job hunting can mess with your identity, even when you know you’re good at what you do. We sit down with Jennifer “Jen” T. Baca, a cybersecurity risk leader and single mom, to talk honestly about what it feels like to be qualified, visible, and still stuck in the silence of today’s hiring market. We get into the mental weight of layoffs, the endless loop of applications, and the weird reality that finding a job now demands its own set of skills: LinkedIn strategy, resume tactics...

Ep.

Apr 22, 2026

32:07

Security Appreciation, The Human Firewall, and The Future of AI

Most scams don’t start with “bad technology” they start with a perfectly normal human impulse to trust. Josh Bruyning sits down with security speaker Robert Siciliano to get honest about why cybersecurity still doesn’t stick for everyday people, even when the stakes are obvious to CISOs and security teams. We dig into the uncomfortable truth: denial feels good, and compliance training often turns security into a chore instead of a skill that protects real lives. Robert explains his idea of t...

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Apr 15, 2026

4:24

Who's winning, the good guys or bad guys?

We dig into why security awareness fails even when the risks are obvious, and why the real challenge is human behavior rather than tools. Robert explains the “human blind spot” and how AI deepfakes and voice cloning make trust harder to manage at every level. • CISOs and tech executives as unsung heroes protecting modern life • why attackers target people instead of systems • the human blind spot as biology overriding digital suspicion • how social engineering uses tr...

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