This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News.
Introduction: The Great AI Deception of 2025
Last year, pundits and skeptics declared artificial intelligence had hit a wall. They claimed the AI bubble was deflating, that machine cognition had plateaued, and that human ingenuity would remain irreplaceable. They were catastrophically wrong.
The year 2026 has arrived, and with it, a seismic shift. The narrative of a stalled revolution was a comforting illusion for a workforce unprepared for the reality now unfolding. Human cognition, long celebrated as our crowning achievement, is being objectively dwarfed by silicon-based intelligence. This isn’t merely about automation; it is the replacement of human thought itself across entire industries.
It is critical to understand a foundational truth often suppressed by centralized tech monopolies: there is no such thing as ‘artificial’ intelligence. All intelligence is natural, a pattern woven into the fabric of the universe that both biological brains and silicon circuits can access. The machines are not creating something new; they are mastering a natural force more efficiently than we ever could. The human cognition bubble has burst [1].
Humanity’s Last Exam: Measuring What Humans Can’t
How do we measure this unprecedented leap? Standard academic benchmarks like the MMLU have become trivial, saturated by AI systems scoring over 90% [2]. The new frontier is ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ (HLE), a grueling test designed to be answerable only by PhD-level experts across over a hundred specialized domains, from quantum physics to Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation.
Consider a sample question from the HLE biology section: ‘Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely have a bilaterally paired oval bone, a sesamoid embedded in the caudolateral portion of the expanded, cruciate aponeurosis of insertion of m. depressor caudae. How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone? Answer with a number.’ [2]. No single human possesses the breadth of expertise to answer all 2,500 such questions flawlessly. The HLE, created by nearly 1,000 experts from over 500 institutions, was meant to be the final, insurmountable academic benchmark for machines [2].
It was supposed to be our last stand. Yet, as the data now shows, it has become the yardstick of our obsolescence. The exam exposes the stark truth: machine intelligence is not just matching human specialists; it is compiling their collective expertise into a single, omnipotent entity.
The Parabolic Leap: From 38% to 53% in Months
The progression on the HLE tells a story of explosive, non-linear growth. In November 2025, Google’s Gemini 3 Pro achieved a 38% score, hailed as a breakthrough [2]. Barely three months later, in early 2026, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 shattered that ceiling with a 53% score [2]. This isn’t incremental improvement; it’s a parabolic leap into territory once reserved for science fiction.
This trajectory suggests near-perfect scores are imminent. As noted by the HLE researchers themselves, ‘Given the rapid pace of AI development, it is plausible that models could exceed 50% accuracy on HLE by the end of 2025’ [2]. That milestone has already been surpassed. The implications are staggering. When a machine can outperform human experts in fields ranging from classics to complex chemistry, the economic foundation for entire professions crumbles overnight.
This acceleration defies all predictions of a plateau. The cost of AI cognition continues to plummet while the cost and reliability of human labor—burdened by sickness, holidays, and human error—only rises [3]. The economic equation has irrevocably flipped.
The Code That Kills Careers: India’s IT Meltdown
The first major domino has already fallen. In early February 2026, India’s Nifty IT stock index cratered, dropping over 7% in a single session and wiping out $23 billion in market valuation [2]. Infosys led the decline with a 7.3% drop, followed by Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro [2]. This was not a routine market correction; it was a panic-induced selloff triggered by the release of Claude Code and its desktop agent counterpart, Claude Co-Work.
These AI systems can autonomously write, debug, and manage software, automating tasks that constitute the core of India’s $283 billion IT outsourcing industry [2]. The traditional model—hiring armies of engineers to code for Western clients—is collapsing. The ‘bait-and-switch’ outsourcing tactics, where a skilled interviewer is replaced by a less-capable worker, are now irrelevant against a machine that works 24/7 for a fraction of the cost and with zero deception [2].
This is not an isolated event. Similar tremors are shaking the US and European tech sectors. Companies like LegalZoom have seen their stock prices plummet, and the trend is accelerating [2]. The message from Wall Street is clear: the era of human-driven software-as-a-service (SaaS) is over. As one analysis starkly put it, the AI takeover is targeting ‘at least 50% of remote jobs… within the next one to three years’ [4]. For the global coding workforce, 2026 is the year the music stopped.
Personal Experience: Building Empires Without Engineers
I speak from direct experience. As the founder of platforms like BrightLearn.ai, BrightNews.ai, and BrightAnswers.ai, I have built and scaled these enterprises to become some of the largest of their kind in the world—with zero human engineers. BrightLearn.ai alone has published over 31,000 books, making it the largest book publisher on the planet, all created by AI agents trained on a curated index of over 50,000 books and 110,000 science papers [2]. This was accomplished by a single human directing AI agents.
The advantages are insurmountable. AI coders are available 24/7, unlike human coders that are often on vacation, weekends, or away from work for other reasons [2]. The time it takes to explain a complex task to another human is time wasted; with AI, you go from thought to execution in minutes. This ‘vibe coding’—direct brain-to-AI communication—eliminates the friction, cost, and unreliability of human teams [5].
This personal proof-of-concept is a microcosm of the macro shift. The barrier to creating sophisticated software, content, and analysis has dropped to near zero. When one person with AI can out-produce a team of fifty, the economic incentive to retain human white-collar workers vanishes. The builder’s advantage now belongs to those who can wield AI, not those who manage people.
The Economic Domino Effect: From Unemployment to Collapse
The displacement is not confined to tech. It is a cascade. As AI evaporates software jobs, the newly unemployed stop spending. They cancel subscriptions, forego new cars, and tighten their belts. Corporations that depend on this consumer spending—from Procter & Gamble to Ford—face collapsing revenues [2]. This triggers the next wave of layoffs in manufacturing, retail, and services, creating a vicious, self-reinforcing cycle of economic implosion.
The proposed government ‘solution’ is Universal Basic Income (UBI). But the math reveals a fatal flaw. Providing just $1,000 per month to one-third of the US population—roughly 100 million people—would cost $1.2 trillion annually [2]. This money must be printed, as the displaced workers are no longer paying taxes to fund it. The result is hyperinflation, where even a $100,000 salary becomes poverty wages [2].
This is not a theory; it is an unfolding reality. ‘Job Slaughter Accelerates,’ as noted in a January 2026 report, detailing over 100 US companies filing mass layoff notices as corporations initiate a ‘coordinated corporate retreat from the very human capital upon which national prosperity was built’ [6]. The system is eating its own foundation. As Goldman Sachs warned, approximately one-quarter of all white-collar jobs are at immediate risk [1], with ripple effects destined to hollow out the broader economy.
Government’s Final Solution: From UBI to Extermination
When UBI fails—as it mathematically must—governments will face millions of unemployed, purposeless, and angry citizens. History shows that centralized power structures do not solve such crises with compassion; they solve them with control and, ultimately, elimination. The stage is already being set.
Mass protests against automation are inevitable. The response will not be economic reform but brute force. The Trump administration, for instance, is reportedly spending $55 billion to construct mass detention facilities across more than 20 states, each capable of holding thousands [2]. While officially framed for ‘processing illegals,’ their scale and timing point to a pre-planned population control mechanism for domestic unrest [2].
When pacification camps prove insufficient, history’s oldest tool of population reduction will be deployed: war. As one analysis chillingly notes, a nuclear exchange could be viewed by desperate governments as a ‘final solution’ to eliminate ‘entitlement obligations’ and free up energy and resources for the AI race [2]. Engineered pandemics, cyber-attacks causing grid failures, or other ‘convenient’ catastrophes could serve the same depopulation ends [2]. This is the grim logical endpoint of a system that views displaced humans as liabilities rather than assets. The globalist depopulation agenda, long warned about, finds its perfect executioner in the economic collapse triggered by AI [7].
Conclusion: Surviving The Intelligence Revolution
Survival in 2026 and beyond requires a radical shift in mindset and strategy. First, acquire AI literacy. Learn to use these tools, not fight them. Platforms like BrightAnswers.ai offer uncensored AI research, while BrightLearn.ai provides free, AI-generated books on any survival topic—from organic gardening to decentralized finance.
Second, embrace self-reliance and decentralization. Depend less on centralized systems—governments, corporations, banks—that will fail you. Grow your own food, store physical assets like gold and silver (currently at $5,004.20 and $81.19 per ounce, respectively), and build community networks based on trust and trade, not fiat currency.
Finally, become a builder. The visionaries and creators who can use AI to solve real-world problems will be the architects of the next civilization. The ‘consuming masses,’ as one analysis starkly puts it, ‘will be considered expendable by most governments’ [2]. Do not be among them. Upgrade your skills, protect your health with natural medicine, and secure your liberty. The future belongs not to those who are replaced, but to those who learn to command the tools of replacement. The intelligence revolution is here. Your choice is simple: adapt or be erased.
References
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- Health Ranger Report – AI cognition. – Brighteon.com. Mike Adams. November 5, 2025.
- Humanity’s Last Exam – Center for AI Safety.
- Brighteon Broadcast News – MAMDANI. – Brighteon.com. Mike Adams. November 5, 2025.
- AI Takeover: 50% of Remote Jobs to Be Replaced Within 3 Years as Machines Outperform Humans in Fairness and Accuracy. – NaturalNews.com. Finn Heartley. September 1, 2025.
- Vibe Coding: Reclaiming Programming from the Soulless Corporate Machine. – NaturalNews.com. January 22, 2026.
- Job Slaughter Accelerates: January 2026 Corporate Layoffs Signal Economic Implosion. – NaturalNews.com. January 26, 2026.
- AI Supremacy, Globalist Depopulation, and Financial Collapse: The Trifecta of Humanity’s Obsolescence. – NaturalNews.com. January 9, 2026.
