AI companies are buying physical books by the thousands and even the millions. They cut the spines off, run the pages through high-speed scanners, and then shred or discard the paper originals. Books printed before 2022 are especially prized because they contain no AI written text: “AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They’re Free of AI Slop” [Read More]

President Trump signed an executive order Monday that makes the expansion of AI a top government priority and enshrines it as the key to solving the world’s most challenging problems.

The executive order, called the “Genesis Mission,” makes the development of artificial intelligence a matter of “national security,” meaning everything and anything will be thrown at it with no regulations or protections against the dark side of this technology. [Read More]

Stanford University has issued a chilling warning about the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs. The number of job opportunities for young professionals in AI-affected sectors across the United States has dropped by 13% over the past three years.

According to a report from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, AI is going to reduce the number of jobs available to human beings, and has already done so. Researchers cautioned that smart technologies are swiftly reshaping career prospects for entry-level workers, and the future is looking increasingly bleak.

Once upon a time, talk of AI stealing jobs from people was science fiction. Today, it’s real life. From graphic design and translation to copywriting and customer service, we have already seen how quickly automation can eat into work once done exclusively by humans. This trend is no longer a problem for the future – it’s already happening. What’s currently unfolding is not just a shift in productivity tools, but a total structural transformation in how the world economy functions. By 2030, the global workforce may look completely unrecognisable, with over 300 million jobs projected to be severely impacted or totally replaced in just the next few years. [Read More]

If you have applied for hundreds of jobs and still find yourself out of work, you are certainly not alone. In many industries, it is absolutely brutal out there right now. U.S. employers have been laying off hundreds of thousands of workers in 2025, and there is immense competition for any good jobs that do happen to be available. So if you have a good job that you highly value, I would hold on to it as tightly as you can, because you don’t want to end up among the desperate hordes that are scrambling for work in this very harsh economic environment. For example, a 46-year-old woman in Florida that was laid off last September has applied for 900 jobs without any success at all... [Read More]

International Man introduces the topic of rapidly advancing technologies that were once considered science fiction, noting that they are now becoming reality. Among these, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is highlighted as a particularly important area of progress. The discussion opens with a question on perspectives regarding AI’s development and its future trajectory. [Read More]

In this episode of Cutting Through the Chaos, Artificial Intelligence is often marketed as the great neutralizer - an objective problem-solver, a logic engine immune to bias. But in practice, AI has become the handmaid of ideology, enforcing dominant cultural narratives under the guise of neutrality. What we’re witnessing is not the rise of an independent intelligence, but the institutionalization of bias through code, feedback, and curation. [Read More]

Many preppers are often asked “what are you preparing for?” The responses are anything from a simple weather event to an extinction-level event. Having been in the field of disaster planning and response for 24 years, I cannot tell you the number of times someone from the public would call looking for our tornado plan, or flood plan, chemical spill plan and on and on. The reality is, many entities do not have disaster specific plans but rather general emergency operations plan that address the similar consequences of several different disasters. [Read More]

The siren song of technological progress has always promised a brighter future, often accompanied by reassurances that any jobs displaced will be swiftly replaced by new, unforeseen opportunities. From the Luddite rebellions against textile machinery to the fears surrounding automation, history is replete with instances where technological advances were expected to lead to widespread unemployment, only to witness a net increase in job availability. [Read More]