THE GREAT AI BACKLASH: Have we reached the tipping point and what comes next?

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Send us Fan Mail Something has shifted: AI no longer feels like a clever tool we can choose to adopt, it feels like a system being imposed on everyday life. Matt's think's we are already over the cliff edge, Jimmy thinks we are a few steps away. We dig into why the backlash is surfacing now, why it is showing up in public opinion data, and why it is getting loudest among the people who are supposed to be “digital natives”. When graduates boo big tech speakers, or Gen Z romanticise dumb phones and offline hobbies, it is not just nostalgia. It is an attempt to reclaim agency in a world that is becoming automated by default.  From there we go straight to the pressure point: jobs. We talk entry level roles, hiring freezes driven by “AI will do that soon” thinking, and the absurd loop where applicants use ChatGPT to write CVs that then get screened by AI systems.  Even if the economy is part of the story, the perception is powerful and politics often runs on perception. We also explore what happens when synthetic media becomes impossible to spot, why “human made” work may gain value, and why trust in information collapses when everything feels generated.  The conversation gets shar