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Risk and Resilience Series 2025–2029
When Millions of People Become Powerful Media Machines
Brace Yourself for the Human Triggered, AI-Generated Media Torrent
Your friend’s 14 year old son, just launched a massive TikTok campaign.
Your dentist is A/B testing email subject lines.
Your grandmother discovered Zapier last Tuesday watching YouTube videos and now she’s automating birthday invites with GPT-4.
This is the automation apocalypse where the entire population with a laptop and a dream become media super factories.
Reviewing at the number of available AI tools across online indices, its enough to elevate your anxiety 10-fold.
Democratization of Digital Destruction
The tools have escaped the lab.
N8n, Make, Zapier and a ton of these workflow wizards once belonged to tech bros in hoodies. Now a new army “vibe coders” with little technical experience with a relentless drive to make money fast have joined the ranks. And they are not alone.
These same power tools are in the hands of that part-time yoga instructor and your local plumber.