Global High School Test Scores Plummet to 20-Year Low as AI and Social Media Fuel a Learning Crisis

NYPost.com:

It’s a brain rot pandemic! Students worldwide are getting dumber, with scores from a sweeping exam issued to teens around the globe tanking to 20-year lows — and tech like AI and social media may be behind the brain-rotting culprits. 

 

Reading and mathematics scores plummeted nearly 20 points on the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test administered every three years to 15-year-olds across the globe and taken this year by 760,000 kids in 91 countries. 

 

And those score drops were merely the latest low point in a two-decade trend of shocking decline — mathematics scores have slipped on almost every PISA test since 2006 to drop 32 points during that time, while reading scores sank 34 points since 2000.

Starting with families interest in their kids' education falling anf falling, there's so many reasons high school test scores have plummeted across the country. Add to the list kids distracted by digital devices, the increasing use of AI and also newer trends in the educational system like 'lowering standards' and 'grade inflation' that adjust grading metrics and reduce academic rigor. Not that anyonre in the two-party system or the msm cares.

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Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

Fox56News.com:

Amazon is hoping robots can help it avoid hiring more than half a million U.S. workers, according to The New York Times.

The e-commerce giant’s automation team projects that the company won’t have to hire over 160,000 U.S. workers it would otherwise need by 2027, the Times reported, citing interviews and internal strategy documents. The shift would reportedly save Amazon roughly 30 cents on every item it picks, packs and delivers.

By 2033, automation could eliminate the need for more than 600,000 additional hires, even as the company expects to sell twice as many products, the Times said. The leaked documents reportedly show Amazon’s robotics team aims to automate 75% of the company’s operations, and the online retailer has already begun preparing PR strategies to manage potential backlash.

This plan exposes the dark side of automation. As while efficiency and profits soar, human livelihoods face extinction. As the shift threatens not only warehouse jobs, but also the economic stability of countless families, proving that corporate convenience often comes with a devastating social cost.

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Bernie Sanders Warns That 100 Million Jobs Could Be Wiped Out from the U.S. Alone Thanks to AI

Fortune.com:

AI isn’t just coming for low-wage or entry-level jobs—it could erase nearly 100 million of them across the U.S. over the next decade. That’s according to a new report from Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) that warns that “artificial labor” could upend the economy faster than the world is prepared for.

Fast-food and customer service workers could see more than 80% of their roles disappear, while even high-skilled jobs like accounting, software development, and nursing will also likely face sharp cuts.

Business leaders like Ford CEO Jim Farley and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have sounded similar alarms about the crisis facing white-collar workers in particular, but Sanders’ report marks one of the strongest warnings yet from Capitol Hill about AI’s threat to the workplace. And while 100 million may seem like a large number, he admitted it could still be an underestimate.

The way AI is already wrecking havoc on the creative industry esp. when it comes to music, acting and freelance writing, one wouldn't be surprised if Sanders turns out to be right.

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