Surviving AI – Navigating AI Job Displacement and Automation

Send us Fan Mail 550,000 plumber shortage by 2027. An 80,000+ electrician shortage doubling by 2030. Median age in the trades: 48, with mass retirements coming. Meanwhile, AI threatens millions of white-collar jobs — but the infrastructure powering AI creates massive demand for the very work robots cannot do. As Nvidia's CFO put it: electricians, plumbers, and carpenters are in "astronom...

Send us Fan Mail CES 2025 showed us the promise. CES 2026 delivered production timelines, price tags, and deployment dates. The question has shifted from "if" to "when" — and increasingly, the answer is "soon." In this special AI Dispatch, we unpack the seismic shift that just happened in Las Vegas, from Boston Dynamics announcing factory deployment by 2026 to the $25...

Send us Fan Mail If you want a job in 2035, look at where hiring is in 2025. Healthcare added 528,500 jobs last year. Nurse practitioners are the fastest-growing occupation in America — up 50%. These are not just safe jobs; they are booming careers with rising wages and nearly unlimited demand. This episode examines the specific healthcare and public safety careers that AI cannot automate — and ho...

Send us Fan Mail 9.6% versus 3.5%. That is the percentage of women's jobs versus men's jobs in the highest AI automation risk category — nearly 3x the exposure. The data comes from the UN's International Labour Organization and Poland's NASK research institute, and it challenges everything we thought we knew about who AI threatens most. Women face immediate displacement from wh...

Send us Fan Mail We have spent years warning about AI taking jobs. The predictions have been dire — knowledge work, creative work, analytical work, all at risk. But there is a massive variable that most AI forecasters are ignoring: the physical infrastructure required to actually run these systems at scale. And that infrastructure is hitting very real walls. This episode is a deep dive into the da...

Send us Fan Mail AI threatens 300 million jobs globally. But 5.5 million new US businesses launched in 2023—the highest ever recorded. What's going on? Episode 5 of Surviving AI explores the entrepreneurship explosion happening alongside automation—and why business ownership might be your best defense. THE NUMBERS THAT DON'T ADD UP: 19% of US adults now identify as entrepreneurs (highest...

Send us Fan Mail By the end of this episode, you'll have a number — your personal automation risk score out of 100. And you'll know exactly what to do with it. Vague anxiety about AI and your career is worse than useless. What you need is a specific, data-backed assessment of your actual exposure — and a prescription that matches your exact situation. In this episode, Carlo Thompson walk...

Send us Fan Mail By the end of this episode, you'll know if your job has 24 months or 10 years left. Most of you? 24 months. In this premiere episode of Surviving AI, we break down the cold, hard data on AI job displacement—no fear-mongering, no hype, just facts from academic studies and industry reports. We cover: → The Cashier Crisis: Why 88% automation risk means 350,000 jobs vanishing by...

Send us Fan Mail White-collar workers with degrees are getting automated faster than blue-collar workers without them. Here's the data that proves it—and what to do about it. In Episode 2 of Surviving AI, we expose the paradox destroying the "get a degree, get a job" myth: → Pharmacists (PharmD + licensing): 60-75% automation risk → Electricians (apprenticeship + license): 5-15% aut...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone asks "Will AI take my job?" Wrong question. The right question is "WHEN?" Here's the month-by-month breakdown through 2035. Episode 3 of Surviving AI gives you the specific timeline for every major industry—so you can plan, not panic. PHASE 1 (NOW - 2027): 76,440 jobs already lost to AI in 2025 IBM: 8,000 layoffs (AI replaced HR) Customer service:...

Send us Fan Mail You spent $200K on a degree to do work that ChatGPT does in 3 seconds. How does that feel? Episode 4 of Surviving AI delivers the uncomfortable truth about white-collar automation—with specific data for data scientists, lawyers, and accountants. DATA SCIENTISTS: Microsoft study: On the "40 most vulnerable jobs" list 35-50% of tasks at immediate risk The irony: BLS projec...