AI Ascent with Dr. Jonathan Luckett Podcast

Ghost GDP and the 2028 White-Collar Crash: A Warning We Can't Afford to Ignore What if the economy looks healthy on paper — but millions of office workers are already being quietly erased from it? That's not a conspiracy theory. It's the central premise of a striking economic thought experiment published by Citrini Research  — titled Ghost GDP and the 2028 White-Collar Crash  — and after spending time with this simulation, I can tell you: it's one of the most unsettling econo

Imagine getting stopped on the street, handcuffed, and having your face scanned by a federal agent, who then tells you that their app's facial recognition result is more definitive than your birth certificate. That's exactly what happened to Jesus Gutiérrez, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen in Chicago. His case isn't an aberration; it’s a preview of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly transformed itself from a conventional law enforcement agency into the most powerf

Introduction: The Age of Synthetic Junk If you’ve been on Facebook recently, you’ve likely scrolled past it: a bizarre, oddly smooth image of Jesus made of shrimp, a surreal cat soap opera, or a wooden sculpture that defies the laws of physics. This is "AI slop," a term for the tidal wave of low-effort, mass-produced AI content now clogging our digital feeds. The phenomenon has become so pervasive that "slop" was named Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, a choice tha