AI Apocalypse Incoming: Why Your Job, Education, and Even EBT Cards Are About to Get Disrupted

In this live­ly morn­ing episode of BKP with BKP Pol­i­tics on VoiceofRuralAmerica.com, host BKP kicks off with a stormy weath­er alert for the Elli­jay area—complete with flick­er­ing lights and a nod to his bowtie-wear­ing weath­er­man Rod­ney Harris—before div­ing into a whirl­wind of tech-fueled anx­i­eties and polit­i­cal warn­ings. BKP, ever the skep­tic of main­stream dis­trac­tions, urges lis­ten­ers to stop obsess­ing over spec­u­la­tive Trump third-term rumors and focus on the real exis­ten­tial threat: arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) and quan­tum com­put­ing reshap­ing soci­ety in the next three years.

He recaps his two-year cru­sade warn­ing about AI’s takeover, cit­ing fresh head­lines like Ama­zon’s mass lay­offs of thou­sands of cor­po­rate work­ers to fund AI ini­tia­tives, along­side cuts at UPS, Tar­get (1,000 notices sent Tues­day), and broad­er white-col­lar job van­ish­ing acts blamed on automation.BKP paints a vivid pic­ture of an “AI job apoc­a­lypse”: doc­tors wheel­ing in lap­tops to dump patient data (ill­ness­es, aller­gies, tests) into AI sys­tems; insur­ance reps record­ing every claim detail—from shin­gle types to wind speeds—for algo­rith­mic train­ing; and even entry-lev­el col­lege grads fac­ing obso­les­cence as AI han­dles tasks for free or bet­ter.

Spot­light­ing 22-year-old col­lege dropouts behind Mer­cor, a bil­lion-dol­lar start­up that pays lawyers, con­sul­tants, and experts to “unlock human poten­tial” by feed­ing their knowl­edge into AI—essentially crowd­sourc­ing job replacement—BKP argues this is unfold­ing faster than any­one admits. Com­pa­nies are freez­ing hires, skip­ping back­fills, and eye­ing lay­offs, yet Con­gress treats it like a sideshow while debat­ing “dumb­est things.” He calls for a rad­i­cal over­haul: ditch pricey $6 mil­lion engi­neer­ing schools for cer­ti­fi­ca­tion tests any­one can pass, ren­der­ing stu­dent debt-fueled degrees “use­less” and forc­ing a realign­ment of edu­ca­tion and careers.

BKP shares a per­son­al anec­dote from an 18-month-old sem­i­nar on AI in classrooms—where teach­ers already grap­ple with AI-gen­er­at­ed papers—and jokes about spot­ting AI writ­ing in real time. He blasts pod­cast­ers ped­dling con­spir­a­cy rab­bit holes (respect­ing 8/10 but eye­ing the rest war­i­ly) and Andrew Yang’s uni­ver­sal basic income pitch as bandaids for a engi­neered cri­sis: data cen­ters explod­ing, gov­ern­ment shut­downs loom­ing, and debt bal­loon­ing to pave the way for AI dom­i­nance.

On a prac­ti­cal note, BKP issues a somber alert: Be hyper-aware in pub­lic amid poten­tial post-Novem­ber EBT/SNAP card glitches—even if funds remain, the sys­tem might fail, with no reloads after Fri­day (though Trump vows fix­es, skep­ti­cism reigns). He teas­es tomor­row’s deep dive into a chill­ing Atlantic arti­cle alleg­ing Don­ald Trump’s under­way plan to “sub­vert the midterms,” fram­ing our elec­tion sys­tem at a break­ing point.