Ryan Bridge: The AI takeover isn't coming, it's here

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 21, 2026 · 2m · transcript

The AI and robot takeover isn't coming, it's here. Well, sort of.

A bunch of data's come out on this over the past few days.

Seek says job ads mentioning AI have doubled in the past year, up 4.1% from March to April.

Nicola Willis reckons AI tools will help shave 9000 odd jobs off the public service in the next four years.

Meta has this morning started firing 10% of its workforce, around 8000 workers in the first round, to make way for AI tools.

The workers are so brassed off, a bunch of them are signing petitions demanding that Zuckerberg NOT collect their computer-use data.

That data is…