Agentic Colonization: Keep Your AI Assistant from Running Your Life
Adrian Dunkley offers practical ways to protect your choices, creative work and cultural voice while using AI assistants at home and work.
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Field Notes
What is changing,
and what to do about it.
Short, evidence-based notes from inside the AI build. Every one names a real risk, shows the number behind it, and gives you one move you can run this week. No hype, no doom. Every statistic here is cited and verified.
Will AI Take Your Job? What the Data Says, and the One Move That Keeps You
170 million new roles, 92 million gone by 2030. The number that matters is not whether jobs vanish. It is which side of the tool you stand on.
Read Field Note 01 →The $25 Million Phone Call: How to Beat AI Voice Scams and Deepfakes
A finance worker joined a video call with his CFO and colleagues. Every face on it was fake. He wired $25 million. One household rule would have stopped it.
Read Field Note 02 →AI Is Quietly Making You a Worse Thinker. Here Is How to Stop It
The more you trust the model, the less you think. That is not an opinion. A 2025 study of knowledge workers measured it. The fix takes one decision a week.
Read Field Note 03 →Your Kid's New Best Friend Is a Chatbot. What to Do About It
72 percent of teens have used an AI companion. A third talk to it about serious things instead of a person. You do not need to ban it. You need three rules.
Read Field Note 04 →When the Machine Is Smarter, Who Are You?
Half of US workers are more worried than hopeful about AI. The anxiety is not really about tasks. It is about worth. Here is how to keep yours.
Read Field Note 05 →Who Owns the Model Answering You? The Question Nobody Teaches You to Ask
Somebody chose what the machine learned, who it is fair to, and whether it stays switched on. A Caribbean lab just did all three explicitly. Four questions to ask about the AI you depend on.
Read Field Note 06 →The Top Caribbean AI Author: How Adrian Dunkley Writes the Survival Manual for the AI Era
Two PhDs, the first AI company founded in the Caribbean, and a decade training thousands. Why the region's top AI author is the person you want writing your survival guide.
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These notes are the warm-up. Survival Guide for the AI Apocalypse is the full defensive playbook for all five fronts.
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