Future Proofed Leader

A month ago the EU voted to keep alive a rule letting platforms scan private messages, emails, and photos, no warrant, no suspicion required. It survived that vote on a technicality, not a majority. Last week the US Senate Commerce Committee advanced four bills built on the same logic, KOSA among them, requiring platforms to verify the exact age of every user to protect the few who are minors. Neither is fully law yet, but both are moving.

I break down what Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 actually are and where each one stands, what the Senate Commerce Committee actually advanced on the fifth of August, the real Discord breach and lawsuit sitting behind the age-verification industry, and how Britain has already gone furthest of all, with Ofcom's new register naming eleven platforms by law and nearly catching Wikipedia in the same net.

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On 29 June, the US Supreme Court made a decision that barely made headlines outside law firms, and it threatens the legal foundation that lets your data move between the UK, the EU, and the US.

The Court ruled that the president can fire commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission whenever he wants, ending ninety years of independence for that agency. That independence was not a side detail. When Europe signed its Data Privacy Framework deal with America in 2023, it cited FTC independence 259 times as the guarantee that American data handling would stay fair and apolitical.

That guarantee is gone. Within a day, the privacy group noyb told the European Commission to withdraw the agreement entirely. This is already being called Schrems III, named after the lawyer who brought down the two data deals before this one. Both fell eventually. Everyone said they were safe right up until they were not.

Britain is not standing outside this either. The UK runs its own version of the same deal, called the UK-US Data Bridge, built on the exact same guarantee that just disappeared.

Nothing has been struck down yet. The framework remains legally valid today. But the foundation it stood on just cracked in three countries at once, and the people who broke the last two versions of this deal are already circling.

Watch the full breakdown above. Tomorrow, part two: the child safety laws that are quietly turning into ID verification for everyone.

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TLDR: New episode is up. Day 31 of the 183-day video challenge, closing a three-day series on AI and jobs. Eighty eight percent of hiring managers say they can spot an AI-written application, and claiming AI fluency has quietly turned into a red flag instead of a credential. Below is the full episode, the full breakdown in writing, and everything else I covered this week if you want to catch up. Instagram is almost at 16,000 followers now.

Eighty eight percent of hiring managers now say they can spot an AI-written application. Fifty four percent mark the candidate down when they do.

Claiming AI fluency on a resume has quietly become a red flag instead of a credential, and most people have not noticed the shift yet.

This is day three of a three-day run on AI and jobs. Day one looked at who is actually losing work to AI right now. Day two looked at what makes a role hard to replace. Today is the part that matters most if you are trying to stay employable: how do you actually prove you can use AI well, when the proof itself is now under suspicion.

Here is the research that changed how I think about this. A Harvard Business School and Boston Consulting Group study tracking 758 consultants found something uncomfortable. Inside AI’s zone of real competence, using it boosted quality by more than 40 percent. Step outside that zone, into the areas AI is confidently wrong about, and performance got 19 points worse than not using AI at all. Standard AI training made this worse, not better, because it taught people to trust the tool rather than to check it.

Separately, a study published in PNAS found that humans can tell AI-written text apart from human-written text at only 50 to 52 percent accuracy. That is a coin flip. So the idea that a hiring manager can eyeball your portfolio and know whether you actually did the thinking is mostly wishful thinking on both sides.

And Anthropic’s own data on how people actually use AI in practice found that only 8.7 percent of conversations involved any visible fact-checking or verification, and that number is going down as the models get better, not up. People are trusting the output more as it gets harder to catch when it is wrong.

So here is where that leaves you. Stop trying to claim AI fluency. Start documenting judgement instead, the moments where you caught the tool being confidently wrong, where you pushed back on an output, where you verified something before it went out under your name. That is the proof hiring managers actually say they are looking for. A polished, tidy AI-assisted portfolio is now more likely to hurt you than help you, because 29 percent of hiring managers say they have already caught a candidate submitting an AI-generated fake one.

The uncomfortable part underneath all of this. Staying ahead of a tool that improves every few months means accepting you will be a beginner again and again, for the rest of your working life. Not once. Not until you get certified. Every few months, indefinitely. That is not a phase you get through. That is the job now.

I built Monday Influencer with Steven J. Manning for exactly this reason. AI can be manipulated, and most people using it daily have no idea when that is happening to them. We built curated, verified expert insight specifically so you are not left guessing whether what you just read was checked by anyone at all.

Catch up on part one and part two of this series if you missed them, links below.

You can also checkout the full blog on my personal website here covering the entire situation: https://www.natschooler.com/the-graduate-job-collapse-what-fourteen-new-studies-actually-say-about-ai-and-entry-level-work/

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Nobody is getting fired for being slow. They are getting fired for trusting AI without checking it.

In this episode, day thirty of the one hundred and eighty three day challenge, I break down the one skill now splitting every job on the planet into two tracks. One track moves you into judgement and oversight as AI takes the routine work off your desk. The other track leaves you executing while AI quietly takes the expertise that used to be yours. Same job title, same qualifications, completely different future, and which track you land on is not down to luck.

I walk through real cases, including a telecom firm that saw productivity jump from five percent to thirty percent the moment staff moved from doing the work to checking it, plus what this shift means if you are early in your career trying to get hired, and what it means if you are further along and trying to stay employed. I also cover why deep focus and pattern recognition skills, long undervalued outside of a narrow set of roles, are becoming some of the most valuable skills in the AI era, and why almost nobody is talking about that properly.

I am doing a video every day for one hundred and eighty three days to build one hundred thousand followers and keep you informed. Follow along for the journey.

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Not your employer, not the government, not the algorithm. The Stanford study is stark: developers aged 22 to 25 have lost nearly 20% of their jobs since 2024, while developers 30 and older at the same companies grew.

This is not just an American story — the UK, India, and seven major economies are showing the same pattern. I break down who actually deserves the anger here, who does not, and what is working right now if you want to stay ahead of this, whatever stage of your career you are at.

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Day 1 of a 3-day series.

Britain, the EU, and the United States are each building the same digital identity infrastructure under three different names, while officially denying any of it is a “digital ID.” Britain killed Britcard, but One Login and the GOV.UK Wallet were never touched — already live in over a hundred government services, with right-to-work checks going mandatory by the end of this Parliament. The EU wallet is mandatory for every member state by December 24 this year, though Germany’s own version will not be ready in time. The US has no wallet and no single law, just a Senate bill that would make your phone report your age before any app opens — and cannot even tell a seventeen-year-old from an adult.

Three governments, three names, one identical outcome.

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Four filters for telling a real mentor from someone who has just learned to sound like one.

Most people cannot tell a real mentor from someone who has simply learned to sound like one, and that gap is where years and money get lost chasing advice that was never earned. I break down four filters for spotting a fake mentor or coach, human or digital, before you hand them your trust. Built from years working alongside IBM, Oracle, and other major tech companies, plus five hundred-plus expert interviews over ten years — this is pattern, not theory. The same test applies whether it is a human coach or an AI chatbot. Different packaging, same underlying check.

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Most people are still treating AI like a toy for writing emails faster. That is not where the money is. The professionals pulling ahead right now are using AI to build entirely new revenue lines, not to shave minutes off admin. If your only relationship with AI is asking it questions, you are standing still while the market moves. This is the shift that separates who thrives in the next five years from who gets replaced by it.

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Jawboning exposed. This week I dig into how governments across the US, UK, EU, India, the Gulf states, Iran, Tanzania and China pressure platforms to censor content, without ever passing a law. Plus the real laws now shaping it all, and what to say (and not say) while you're angry about it.

Full sources: https://www.natschooler.com/jawboning-exposed-how-governments-secretly-pressure-social-media-without-passing-a-law/

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