Future cybersecurity threats may not look much like past ones. Artificial intelligence is changing how attackers find vulnerabilities, automate attacks and probe digital systems. At the same time, federal agencies, businesses and communities are expanding their use of AI. Related story These factors create a new, urgent question: Who will secure our vulnerable infrastructure and computer security systems? The United States already faces a persistent shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals, with experts estimating about 500,000 unfilled roles. Now employers need a new kind of professional — one who understands how to use AI to defend digital systems and how adversaries can harness the same technology to attack them. The School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, will help train that workforce. ASU is one of 14 universities selected to receive inaugural awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation's CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service, or CyberAI SFS, program. The Fulton Schools’ AI-Augmented Cybersecurity Scholars Program will provide students with scholarship support, advanced education and research opportunities at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. But there is another crucial component: a pathway to a job. CyberAI SFS is a scholarship-for-service program. Its goal is to prepare graduates for cybersecurity careers supporting U.S. government agencies and other eligible public-sector organizations. The scholarship is designed as a pipeline stretching from university classrooms and research labs to the places where some of the nation’s most consequential cybersecurity work happens. A pipeline with a proven track record In the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, that pipeline isn’t being built from scratch. The new program builds on existing NSF Scholarship for Service efforts, led in the school by the ASU Center for Cybersecurity and Trusted Foundations. Across two previous iterations of the program, ASU has