Surviving AI – Navigating AI Job Displacement and Automation
Join Carlo Thompson on Surviving AI, your definitive resource for understanding AI job displacement and mastering AI survival strategies. This podcast breaks down complex artificial intelligence trends affecting jobs and offers practical guidance on skill development and navigating job automation challenges. With expert insights and structured content, listeners are equipped to protect their careers and capitalize on new opportunities in the changing economy.
Surviving AI delivers:
✓ Early warning signs your job is vulnerable
✓ Skills that AI can't replicate (yet)
✓ Career pivots that protect your income
✓ Geographic arbitrage strategies for the AI economy
✓ Real case studies from the automation frontlines
✓ The truth about "AI will create more jobs than it destroys."
This is a structured, season-by-season curriculum — not a news recap. Seasons 1–2 cover the foundations: automation risk, protected careers, skilled trades, corporate survival, and business ownership. Season 3 goes deeper into strategic positioning — where to live, where to invest your energy, and how the map of opportunity is being redrawn.
For professionals who'd rather adapt than be replaced — regardless of industry.
This isn't fear-mongering. It's a wake-up call. Because hope isn't a strategy, but preparation is.
New episodes weekly.
Surviving AI – Navigating AI Job Displacement and Automation
Latest Episodes
41% of Trades Workers Retire by 2031 — Here's Who Gets Paid to Replace Them
Randstad analyzed 50 million job postings and found skilled trades growingthree times faster than professional roles — while 102 people leave manufacturingfor every 100 who enter. The pipeline is going in the wrong direction at exactly<...
Meta Could Reskill 20% of Its Workforce for Less Than 1% of Its AI Budget.
Meta is reportedly considering laying off up to 20% of its workforce to help fund $600 billion in AI data center investment through 2028. The headline got attention. The math behind it didn't. Carlo Thompson comes back between scheduled episode...
One Country Solved AI Job Retraining. Most of Its Citizens Still Didn't Use It.
Roughly 76% of workers plan to build AI skills this year. Only about 13% have actually received any training — and 42% say their employer told them to figure it out on their own. That gap hasn't closed in two-plus years of explosive AI growth, ...
AI Will Delete 50% of Middle Managers. The Ones Who Lead Are About to Get Rich.
AI is coming for the managers — and the headlines are right about the cuts but wrong about the reason. Through 2026, Gartner projects 20% of organizations will use AI to flatten their structure and eliminate more than half of current middle-man...
The AI Training Gap Is a Business Problem: Here's the Corporate Math
Only 26% of companies offer formal AI upskilling, down from 35% last year, while AI tool spending grew by 23% over the same period. This isn't just a workforce problem.It's a business problem with a compounding cost. In this episode, Carlo ...
