Very probably not a happy outcome at all

The NSA Will Replace Most of Their Potential Snowdens with Machines - Abby Ohlheiser - The Atlantic Wire

The NSA will eliminate 90 percent of the system administrators who maintain the agency's networks, according to the agency's director Keith Alexander. Speaking on Thursday to a cybersecurity conference, the NSA chief said that most of the current work done by staff and contractor system administrators — Snowden's old job — could be replicated by automated technology.