{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Media and the Machine","title":"Ex-Agency Pro Warns: 90% Marketing Cuts, Then an OpenAI Bailout","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2007,"description":"My guest today is CJ Chilvers, who went independent after parting ways with Studio North, a marketing agency.CJ’s  my first return guest. He was on episode #3, “The AI Content Strategist Big Tech Calls First” where he warned that the AI hype would eventually collide with the need to show real results.Now, he says some Fortune 50 companies are cutting 90% of their marketing teams—while expecting the people left behind to produce 10 times more with AI. In some cases, “the team trained the AI before they left.”CJ also explains why moving marketing under sales is the wrong move, and why: “The future is gonna belong to the independents.”His biggest prediction is that OpenAI and Anthropic have become too big to fail. He argues that ads and subscriptions cannot cover the trillions promised for data centers—and that a government bailout is inevitable, in part to protect insider investors. He says the public will pay the bill.CJ warns that this could lead to hyperinflation hitting a population already facing much higher unemployment.He saw similar warning signs before the 2008 financial crisis, when he bundled mortgages for HSBC, one of the world’s largest banks.But he is not an AI doomer. We end with where AI is already working—like radiology, where it detect tumors that human doctors may miss.Please enjoy my conversation with CJ Chilvers.Thx!Rob Kelly","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HFcKrDy4G3ckU9bjuMpsJ7q5fCZAR2rBgUQcovom8lk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjUw/Mjk1Y2I5Nzg4Mzg3/YzZiMzk2YTQ4MTI3/NGE2ZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}