Artificial Intelligence is incredible — and it's going to screw us over. Right now, schools are following the same tired “give everyone the tool” model they used for Word and Excel. Teachers are left to fumble through AI prompting with inconsistent results, bad training, and no collaboration. Eventually, they'll appoint a gatekeeper — someone who's supposed to “help” — and replicate that failure in every school, across every state. Institutionalised inefficiency, at scale. But AI doesn't work best like that. In two hours, I built a code-driven AI pipeline that produced an 18-page, curriculum-aligned Year 9 Vikings lesson plan — without writing a single line of code myself. Teachers didn't need to prompt it. Developers barely needed to touch it. That's the real AI model: automate the work entirely, not just give people shinier shovels. The problem? That model makes a lot of people redundant. AI's entire point is to remove human labour while keeping the product — and the profit. Which is why it's both the most amazing tool I've ever used… and the reason we're all doomed.

Think your knowledge work is immune to automation? Brace yourself, as AI is gradually making inroads into white-collar professions, shattering the illusion of job security. The question is, will you adapt and prepare, or be caught off-guard?

Forget the “AI is unsafe” angle. This breach traces back to a long-forgotten test admin account from 2019, no MFA or SSO, broken access controls (IDOR), over-permissive data access, and absent monitoring. Paradox touts ISO 27001 and SOC 2 while running a threadbare security function, and McDonald's signed off without enforcing supplier governance. The real story isn't a clever chatbot gone rogue—it's what happens when you outsource risk and treat security like paperwork.