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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.
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Send a text 🚨 SEASON 3 PREMIERE — THE STRATEGY ERA BEGINS 🚨 Seasons 1 & 2 taught you WHAT to do. Season 3 tells you WHERE to be. We're halfway through Surviving AI, and it's time to shift from skills to strategy. In this season premiere, we reveal the geographic arbitrage playbook — the real map of where AI is creating wealth, where it's destroying livelihoods, and why your zip code now matters more than your job title. Here's what most people aren't seeing: while AI eliminates remote-fri...
Send a text You’re 40. Your job has 3 years left. You have $50K in savings. What do you do? Episode 11 gives you the answer — seven complete 24-month roadmaps from dead-end jobs to protected careers earning $80K+. Real scenarios, real numbers, real timelines. A retail manager becomes a nurse. A call center rep becomes a cloud engineer for $1,000 in certifications. A paralegal becomes a legal tech consultant earning $150–$300/hour. Includes: month-by-month plans, exact costs, certification pat...
Send a text SURVIVING AI | Season 2: The Protection Playbook | Episode 12 (Season Finale) "The Final Immunity Test — Are You Actually Going to Survive?" Two seasons. Twelve episodes. The data, the timelines, the risk assessment, the career paths, the retraining roadmaps. Now the hard question: Did you actually do anything with it? In this Season 2 finale, Carlo Thompson delivers the Survivor Diagnostic — a five-question test to determine if you’re a Survivor, a Tinkerer, or Delusional. Then:...
Send a text 5.5 million new businesses in 2023. 19% of Americans are now entrepreneurs. They're not waiting around to see if AI takes their jobs. They're not hoping their companies figure it out. They're not praying, they're one of the lucky ones. They're doing the automating themselves. As an employee, someone else decides your fate. As a business owner, YOU decide. That's not freedom from risk—it's ownership of risk. And in the AI era, owning your risk might be safer than outsourcing it to ...
Send a text Your company will automate. The only question: will you be the one implementing it or the one being replaced by it? In this episode, we break down the tactical playbook for keeping your white-collar job when the restructuring memo lands. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: The Three Types of Employees Why Resisters get cut first, Adapters survive, and Champions get promoted—and how to move from one category to the next in 30 days. The 6-Month Champion Playbook Month-by-month actions: from learning...
Send a text 550,000 plumber shortage by 2027. An 80,000+ electrician shortage doubling by 2030. Median age in the trades: 46–48, 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 can't do. As Nvidia's CEO put it: electricians, plumbers, and carpenters are in "astronomical demand." In this episode, we cover: • Why electricians, plumbers, and HVAC techs face only 5–15% automation...
Send a text If you want a job in 2035, look at who's hiring in 2025. Healthcare added 528,500 jobs last year. Home health aides are up 21%. Nurse practitioners? Up 52%—the fastest-growing occupation in America. This episode breaks down WHY healthcare and public safety are AI-resistant and how to break into these fields. Healthcare careers analyzed: Registered Nurses (3.2M employed, 6% growth, $81K median) Nurse Practitioners (52% growth, $121K median, can open own practice) Home Health Aides...
Send a text 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 infrastructure is hitting some very real walls. Today, we're doing ...
Send a text 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 points) → Routine vs. creative work → Digital vs. physical → Predictable vs. variable environment →...
Send a text 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 business formation68% of small businesses already using AIPeople's ...
Send a text 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" list35-50% of tasks at immediate riskThe irony: BLS projects 36% growth—but the entry ladder is disappearingSurvival path: Pivot to AI engineering, governance, or deep dom...
Send a text 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 2025IBM: 8,000 layoffs (AI replaced HR)Customer service: 80% automation by 2025Medical transcription: 99% automated already491 people losing jobs to AI every single dayPHASE 2 (2028-203...
Send a text 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 environments are MORE automatable than unpredictable job sites We introduce Th...
Send a text 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 pattern that predicts YOUR industry → Why the famous Oxfo...
Send a text AI agents aren't chatbots anymore. They're writing code, grabbing Jira tickets, running CI checks, and opening pull requests — autonomously. And if your job involves following a manual or a predictable workflow, it's actively being replaced. In this episode of Surviving AI, host Carlo Thompson delivers a comprehensive Q1 2026 environmental scan of AI agents through three critical lenses: reliability, automation efficacy, and market performance. This isn't hype — it's a data-...
Send a text Are you feeling anxious about your career and finances in 2026? You aren't alone. Despite a seemingly stable 4.3% unemployment rate, the U.S. economy is currently locked in a "low-hire, low-fire" equilibrium. Workers are holding tightly to their current roles—a trend known as "job hugging"—while employers hesitate to expand their workforces. But beneath this surface-level calm, an AI-driven tectonic shift is completely redrawing the American labor market. In this episode, we unpac...
Send a text The AI revolution isn't coming—it's already here. Tens of thousands of jobs were lost to AI in 2025 alone, and the window to adapt is rapidly closing. Welcome to the complete Surviving AI masterclass with Carlo Thompson, where we break down the cold, hard data of the 2026 job market and give you the exact blueprint to AI-proof your income. Are you a "Survivor, a Tinkerer, or Delusional?" Whether you are a white-collar worker facing the "Ghost Boom" of record corporate profits but ...
Send a text The AI revolution isn’t coming—it’s already here. In 2025 alone, over 76,000 professionals have already lost their jobs to automation. Are you next? In this comprehensive recap of Season 1: The Reality Check, we distill the data-driven insights from our first six episodes to give you a clear-eyed look at the shifting employment landscape. From the "Entry-Level Massacre" to the surprising vulnerability of white-collar degrees, we break down exactly how AI is restructuring the globa...
Send a text The AI tools market just had its most dramatic year ever. ChatGPT lost nearly 20 points of market share. Google Gemini doubled its user base to 750 million. Claude became the most valuable AI platform per user, generating $2.2 billion in enterprise revenue. And a free, open-source model from China called DeepSeek proved you don’t need billions of dollars to build competitive AI. In this special season break episode, Carlo Thompson delivers a complete market report on every major A...
Send a text Think AI is going to take all the jobs? Think again. 83% of business leaders believe AI will ELEVATE the importance of uniquely human skills—not replace them. 65% of executives say human creativity remains essential to competitive advantage, even as they pour billions into AI. MIT researchers just released a framework called EPOCH—the human capabilities AI is most likely to complement, not replace. At the top? Creativity. Empathy. Original thought. But here's the paradox: As AI ge...
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