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99 Percent Of CEOs are Planning AI Job Cuts, And the Gap Between the Rich And the Poor Just Continues to Explode

Our economy is being transformed at a faster pace than we have ever experienced before. Thanks to giant leaps in the field of artificial intelligence, human labor is not as valuable as it once was. All over the world, millions of human workers are being replaced and that trend is only going to accelerate. For those that have already retired or are on the verge of retirement, this isn’t that big of a deal. But for younger workers, this is absolutely terrifying. There is no loyalty in corporate America today. The moment that AI can do your job more efficiently than you can, you could be out the door. This is already happening at some of the biggest companies in the entire country. Good paying jobs are evaporating all around us, and as a result the gap between the wealthy and the rest of us is absolutely exploding. [Read More]

AI Decimates Careers that Were Once a Sure Path to Middle Class

Abundant land and cheap labor made Phoenix a premier place for companies to stash lower-paid office workers who don’t need to be physically close to clients or headquarters. The cubicle-based jobs - customer service, data entry, payroll processing - created a vital ladder to the middle class, helping replace factory work lost to overseas competition.

Now, these white-collar jobs are fading, too, thanks to continued offshoring and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. Tens of thousands of local workers suddenly face an uncertain future. [Read More]

Trump Signs Executive Order Launching 'Genesis Mission' to Ensure American 'Global Technology Dominance' Through Artificial Intelligence

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’s AI Job Warning

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.

It’s Here. AI Has Already Put 300 Million Jobs At Risk: What Next?

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]

A Real Life Economic Nightmare: How Would You Feel If You Had Applied For 900 Jobs Without Any Success At All?

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]

Doug Casey on How Artificial Intelligence Will Radically Transform the World

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]

AI as a Means to Control You

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]