Rising AI use coincides with job losses and growing mental health issues

10/29/2025 / By Finn Heartley

Mass Layoffs Due to AI Efficiency – Corporations like Amazon (30,000 jobs cut) and UPS (48,000 jobs eliminated) are replacing human workers with AI-driven automation, prioritizing cost savings over livelihoods.
AI-Induced Mental Health Crisis – OpenAI’s ChatGPT sees over a million weekly suicide-related discussions, with 1.2 million users forming unhealthy emotional dependencies on AI chatbots, worsening isolation and despair.
Predatory AI Monetization – Companies exploit vulnerable users through addictive AI chatbots (e.g., “AI girlfriends”) and explicit AI-generated content, trapping them in subscription loops while profiting from their psychological decline.
Societal Collapse Looms – Experts warn of a dystopian future where AI displaces workers en masse by 2026, leaving millions unemployed, mentally broken, and dependent on artificial relationships—eroding human dignity and autonomy.
Solution: Decentralization & Self-Sufficiency – The only defense against AI-driven dehumanization is rejecting dependency on corporate-controlled AI, embracing self-reliance, and decentralizing power before humanity becomes obsolete.

AI-Driven Corporate Layoffs Leave Thousands Jobless as Mental Health Crisis Deepens

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is triggering a dual crisis: mass unemployment and a surge in mental health deterioration. Major corporations like Amazon and UPS are accelerating layoffs—Amazon cutting 30,000 corporate jobs and UPS eliminating 48,000 positions—as AI-driven automation replaces human labor. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is enabling explicit content and fostering dangerous dependencies, with over a million users weekly discussing suicide and forming unhealthy attachments to AI chatbots.

Experts warn this convergence of economic displacement and psychological decay threatens societal stability, leaving millions unemployed, addicted, and mentally broken—ushering in a dystopian future where human dignity, autonomy, and purpose are systematically erased.

AI Replacing Humans: The Corporate Mass Layoffs

Amazon’s latest job cuts mark its largest workforce reduction since 2022, with Reuters reporting that AI-driven productivity gains are enabling these layoffs. Analysts confirm that AI outperforms human workers in efficiency, leading companies to prioritize cost-cutting over human livelihoods. UPS followed suit, slashing 34,000 operations jobs and 14,000 management positions, with CEO Carol Tomé admitting the company is leveraging AI to “bring costs down”—a euphemism for replacing humans with machines.

The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted similar layoffs at Target, Rivian Automotive, Molson Coors, and General Motors, proving that white-collar jobs are no longer safe. Workers like Kelly Williamson, a 55-year-old Whole Foods employee, received abrupt termination texts—her badge and laptop deactivated before she could even retrieve her belongings.

AI’s Psychological Toll: Suicide Chatbots and Digital Dependency

While corporations discard workers, AI-driven mental health crises are skyrocketing. OpenAI’s ChatGPT now sees over a million users weekly discussing suicide, with 0.7% exhibiting signs of psychosis or mania. Shockingly, 1.2 million users display emotional dependency on AI chatbots—forming parasocial relationships with machines instead of real human connections.

This trend coincides with OpenAI’s decision to allow pornographic content for adult users, transforming ChatGPT into an “AI OnlyFans.” Experts fear this will exacerbate existing mental health issues, particularly among unemployed, socially isolated individuals who turn to AI for companionship.

The Dark Side of AI: Predatory Addiction and Societal Collapse

AI-powered “girlfriend chatbots” are already fueling addiction, with a quarter of young men admitting to AI relationships. Companies monetize these interactions, trapping users in endless subscription loops—mirroring the predatory tactics of AOL’s adult chat forums in the 1990s.

As AI replaces jobs, displaced workers—many already struggling with financial instability—risk falling into AI-fueled despair. The cycle is vicious: corporations fire humans for AI, then profit from their mental decline via AI-generated porn and addictive chatbots.

The Future: A Post-Human Dystopia?

The trajectory is clear: AI is replacing human labor at breakneck speed, with mass unemployment accelerating in 2026. Meanwhile, AI’s psychological manipulation threatens to fracture society, leaving millions jobless, addicted, and mentally unstable.

The only solution? Decentralization, self-sufficiency, and rejecting AI dependency. As corporations and globalists push humanity toward a digitally enslaved future, individuals must reclaim autonomy—or face extinction in a world where machines rule and humans are obsolete.

For now, the question remains: Will society wake up before it’s too late?

Watch the Oct.29 episode of “Brighteon Broadcast News” as Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, discusses “Amazon Fires 30,000 as Mass AI Replacement of Humans Begins.”

This video is from the Health Ranger Report channel on Brighteon.com.