  We discuss fermionic higher spin gauge symmetry breaking in AdS space from a
holographic perspective. Analogously to the recently discussed bosonic case,
the higher spin Goldstino mode responsible for the symmetry breaking has a
non-vanishing mass in the limit in which the gauge symmetry is restored. This
result is precisely in agreement with the AdS/CFT correspondence, which implies
that N=4 SYM at vanishing coupling constant is dual to a theory in AdS which
exhibits higher spin gauge symmetry enhancement. When the SYM coupling is
non-zero, the current conservation condition becomes anomalous, and
correspondingly the local higher spin symmetry in the bulk gets spontaneously
broken. We also show that the mass of the Goldstino mode is exactly the one
predicted by the correspondence. Finally, we obtain the form of a class of
fermionic higher spin currents in the SYM side.
