Surviving AI – Navigating AI Job Displacement and Automation

About Surviving AI – Navigating AI Job Displacement and Automation

Every week brings a new AI headline: a benchmark record, a layoff wave, a trillion-dollar bet. Surviving AI takes those claims apart. Carlo Thompson, a patent-holding technologist with more than 20 years in connectivity and computing, and Ainsley, his AI co-host, ask the questions the press release skips: who measured it, who paid for it, and what it means for your work, your industry, and your income. Not hype. Not doom. Signal. Surviving AI delivers: ✓ The numbers behind the AI headlines, and what they leave out ✓ How AI is reshaping industries, companies, and the wider economy ✓ Early warning signs your job or sector is exposed ✓ The skills and roles gaining value as AI spreads ✓ Where the AI money is really going, and who captures the gains ✓ Honest corrections when the data proves us wrong This isn’t a news recap. Each episode takes one claim, tests it against the evidence, and turns it into something you can act on. It’s for professionals, business leaders, and anyone who’d rather understand what’s happening than be told what to fear. Hope isn’t a strategy. Clear thinking is. New episodes every Monday and Wednesday. 📚 Browse every episode, show notes, and resources: survivingai.co/episodes-center Follow Surviving AI: Facebook | TikTok | Instagram | X/Twitter

Publisher

Carlo Thompson | Survival Strategy in the AI Economy

Category

business · education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Dec 2025

Latest episode

9 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

96 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Nov 2026

   Social Security Runs Dry in 2032. Who Pays When AI Takes the Paychecks?

   Here's the move: pull out your last pay stub, find the Social Security line and double it, because your employer pays the same amount again. That is what your job sends into the system. Then ask your elected official one question: if my paycheck shrinks, what replaces that money? Payroll taxes brought in about $1.8 trillion in the fiscal year that ended September 30, up about 4 percent and about a third of all federal revenue. The Congressional Budget Office projects Social Security's main r...

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   6 Nov 2026

   Data Centers Put $9.3 Billion on Power Bills in One Year. Here's Why You Pay Twice.

   Here's the move: pull your power bill from the same month last year and put it next to this year's. If you used about the same power and the bill still went up, part of the difference may be the cost of getting the grid ready for AI data centers. On PJM, the grid that serves 13 states and Washington, D.C., the independent market monitor estimates data center demand added $9.3 billion to capacity costs in a single year, recovered from customers across the region, and pushed the total cost of w...

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   2 Nov 2026

   AmEx Made $3.7 Billion and Plans to Cut 3,500 Jobs. Who Keeps the Gain?

   On October 23, American Express reported third-quarter profit of $3.7 billion, up from $2.9 billion a year earlier, and told investors it plans to cut about 3,500 jobs, roughly 5 percent of its workforce. On Friday, the Labor Department's employment cost index showed wages and salaries after inflation down about half a percent over the past year. By our own calculation from the government's national accounts, corporate profits are taking their biggest slice of the economy since 1947, and BLS ...

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