Surviving AI – Job Automation & Workforce Future Insights
Let's be honest: Your company is already planning how AI will replace you. They're not evil. They're practical. AI is faster, cheaper, and doesn't need health insurance. The only question is whether you'll see it coming and adapt—or be blindsided like millions before you. I'm Carlo Thompson, Distinguished Engineer. I've spent two decades building the networks that now power AI. I understand this technology from the inside, and I'm here to translate it into survival strategies you can actually use. Surviving AI delivers: ✓ Early warning signs your job is vulnerable ✓ Skills that AI can't replicate (yet) ✓ Career pivots that protect your income ✓ Real case studies from the automation frontlines ✓ The truth about "AI will create more jobs than it destroys." Episodes are 30-45 minutes—no fluff, no filler—just the insights you need to stay employed in an AI-powered economy. For: Professionals 30-50 in customer service, middle management, marketing, HR, finance, operations—basically anyone who isn't a software engineer. This isn't fear-mongering. It's a wake-up call. Because hope isn't a strategy, but preparation is. New episodes on Wednesday. Because by Friday, your competition will have already listened. --- Created with AI tools (Claude, Notebook LLM, ElevenLabs, Descript) to prove humans and AI work better together than either does alone.
Episodes
9.6% vs. 3.5%. That's the percentage of women's jobs vs. men's jobs in the highest AI automation risk category. Nearly 3x the exposure. Source: The UN's International Labor Organization and Poland's National Research Institute (NASK) - the most comprehensive study on AI workforce disruption to date, released May 2025. The findings challenge everything we thought we knew about who's at risk: Women f...
Season 1 Break - AI Physical Infrastructure and adoption
We've spent years warning about AI taking jobs. The predictions have been dire—knowledge work, creative work, analytical work, all at risk. The consensus: it's coming fast, maybe faster than we can adapt.
But there's a massive variable that most AI forecasters are ignoring: the physical infrastructure required to actually run these systems at scale. And that...
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 ever)
- 92% of global economies saw increased bu...
By the end of this episode, you'll have a number—your personal automation risk score. Then we'll tell you exactly what to do about it.
Episode 6 of Surviving AI gives you the comprehensive assessment framework combining:
O*NET task analysis
The Four Protection Factors
Stanford exposure metrics
Microsoft AI applicability scores
THE 100-POINT ASSESSMENT:
SECTION 1: Task Analysis (40 poi...
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 2033 → Amazon Go, Walmart self-checkout, and the ...
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% automation risk → Why predictable office environment...
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: 80% automation by 2025
- Medical transcription: 99% aut...
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 projects 36% growth—but the entry ladder is disappeari...
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