AI

In today's episode, we discuss (AI), Artificial Intelligence, and its potential to be a double-edged sword. We draw attention to its advantages and disadvantages.

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Welcome to the Art of Conversation. It's your girl Alicia C. And we out ya recording live. Yo. Happy Saturday, everyone. Good morning. I hope you're feeling selfish this Saturday. Why not? I hope you're feeling selfish. Self-care Saturdays, baby, baby. Feel selfish. Yes, you've worked hard this week, each week, each month, each year. Fuck it. Be selfish. I hope you're uh just chilling out. Soft, smooth Saturday. Some people indulge more on the weekends. So indulge social in on indulge on overindulge is the correct word. Um, that was the word I was looking for. Overindulge on social media during the weekend. So make sure you squeeze in some self-care. The title of today's episode is AI. What are you about? According to Oxford, AI, which also stands for artificial intelligence, is a branch of computer science that builds machines and software to simulate human intelligence. It enables computers to learn from data, recognize patterns, and solve problems, making decisions without being explicitly programmed for every scenario. Oh, baby, baby. Oh boy. I said AI artificial intelligence. Oh man, I love technology. I love advancement. However, slow down. What the hell is the rush? I just want to get to know you. Hold up. Wait, hold up. Going way too fast. AI, oh man, like everything else gets misused. I'm over it already. Oh gosh, make it stop, man. Stop, stop it. Make it stop right now. Don't get me wrong. Very efficient, very convenient. You gotta take the good with the bad. Uh-huh. Duly noted. Social media overall. Pros and cons, but my gosh, like, no cap. AI is scary. It's scary. It's it's it's scary. It is it's use for evil. The media has been tampered with for years, decades, centuries by the government, connecting parties, working with the government. We understand, we know. Some may not, may or may not be aware of that, but however, this is just a step up. The digital world is moving at a speed that we are not ready for. People are already talking about. I want to see cars fly. We got cars that's driving itself. We've been hearing about how many accidents. Not ready. Slow down. Take a few years or decades to test these things. It's just going too fast. Let us enjoy these things for a couple of freaking years, a decade first before you come and push something else out, right? AI has become an integral part of everyday life. Now, listen, it's efficient. It's convenient. It's powerful. It is, but it's a double-edged sword, as they like to call it. Some of the pros include it's automation, data driven, decision making, it's 24-hour availability. Come on. It can basically execute your most challenging task. It's very it's caught and it's also cost effective. Like it's very useful if you put to use correctly, of course. On the other hand, the cons. What consists? Well, job displacement. AI is taking over. What do I need to pay you for? I don't need you to come in here using up my light, my electricity, my Wi-Fi, and I gotta pay you when I could just get an AI tool and tell it what to do. Burley. AI taking over. You see the job market right now? Woo child. Then we got ethical concerns. There's bias. There's this social media, period. What comes with it? Data privacy risk. This is AI. In order for it to be cost, excuse me, not cost, but in order for it to work efficiently. And there's high implementation cost. This is not cheap. It's human is like basically human intelligence. I think the biggest thing, it's it's lack of human empathy or really creativity. Really? It's just one box keeps you in a box. Really, no, not too much flexibility when it comes to certain things. You just type in what it is you want to see or what you want to generate, boom. Talking actual videos, it can make you question your reality. It'll make you question your reality. Is this real? Is it real? Sometimes I get videos. This, what's this? This is AI? Look, listen, don't forward me no AI shit. If it's a good laugh, cool. But if it's AI, like don't send it, man. I don't I'll get enough of that stuff. You send in news the little videos of news captions and it's AI. Like, why are we generating news captions? Like, for what satisfaction and reason, unless you're trying to falsify and send shit out. Rage bait. So just imagine for a second. Now we got to still think about baby boomers and all that. Because I feel like as time and years change, we know nothing remains the same. So think about baby boomers and how difficult that transition was for them when we found out that hey, a lot of employers are pushing debit cards. You got to get a banking account. And if you don't, then you go to the check cash and then these other places where you could get, I guess, like a cash card, one of those cards that you can put money on it and use as a debit card is an option. But not everybody want to do that. And there's some fees and there's things that go with that. But for the most part, you're not getting paper checks. You need everything is electronic wire. Uh, right. Social media. And how hard the transition was. The the transition to mobile phones, the transition from having actual keyboards on the phones to punch the buttons and type to touch screen fully, the smart TVs, everything, right? And how hard it was for some of them to adapt. However, they're getting more savvy. Some of them, they're on Facebook, social media, you know, their friends, family, everyone's on social media, their loved ones, I would hope, showing them how to operate these things, etc. But for the ones who have not reached that stage, which is still many who don't, think about the scammers who develop videos by stealing photos of people's loved ones. So think about God forbid, hypothetically speaking, you go on your on vacation with your family, you leave your phone at the pool side, yay, yeah, party, eat dinner, then you realize that phone is missing. You search high and low, phone's gone. Obviously, someone took it. It's an iPhone Ultra, that shit ain't coming back. You might as well disconnect it and buy a new phone. You ain't getting that. That ain't turning up in no lost and found. So now the person who found it, hip hip hooray, and you know, they need to get into your phone somehow. Maybe uh uh they have friends, maybe they're a scammer and they're able to break into your phone, jailbreak, all that good stuff, uh-uh, get access to your photos, videos, contact, blah blah blah, blah, blah. Fast forward now, thinking of a scammer, right? Spammer, scammer, same shit. Using AI to generate these videos of those loved ones, those pictures, videos, the voice, the pictures, the image. Just imagine a scammer sitting there, generate a video, and send it to some of these baby boomers. And what if they believe it, right? What if no one told you about AI fully and what to, you know, the red flags, what to question, da da da da. You know that, uh-uh, and what if, what if you're someone, you know, you have this phone to keep in touch and communicate, but you don't really know how to use it. You only speak to your kids, grandkids, blah, blah, blah. And someone has your information, they do all of that, they randomly text you from a whatever burner number and say, Hey grandma, hey mom, hey dad, hey, whoever, and send you this video. You automatically get nervous because you're like, hey, um, I'm texting or contacting you from this number because this happened to my phone, or this is my friend's number, blah blah blah blah. I need X amount of money, I'm going through this, and they're clicking it and seeing the video playing of their loved one talking, asking for this money. And you know, these are things. And if they're not educated, you know, they're gonna believe it, they're not sure. You know, here's a video, my grandson talking. This is my grandson, you know, the impressionable, the gullible, the naive, the innocent. You can fool a lot of people, it's terrifying. Even I've come across videos, and I'm like, bro, AI. There's videos that I had the question, and then I seen at the bottom the caption, AI generated. I said, yo, son, you could have fooled me. I thought this shit was real. Sometimes I've come across videos that I had to pause it and go look up the information. Like, nah, this ain't true. But let me double check because I don't really be watching TV and into too much of that unless I have to. I'm like, yeah, this ain't true. I didn't think so. This is a bullshit. AI generated videos. Frightening, frightening. So much falsified information gets relayed on these platforms with the use of AI. People are quite literally going to start losing their minds. And it's not to be pessimistic, you know. You hope and pray, that's why we're always promoting and speaking about mental health, mental health awareness, being mindful, self-care, taking care of yourself, continuing to do the things that serves you best, that helps improve your mental strength, because these are things you're surrounded by shit that's meant to take you the hell out. Let's call it what it is, and almost most several, several, several. To my continuous listeners, several times you've heard me say the government doesn't have Americans' best interests at heart. And so you think about this ideology that, yeah, you guys can't be in all these places at once. You're not God, you're not source. So what is it, right? And I always say, if I was one of those people, I would think if this was what I wanted to accomplish, I would think, hmm, I can't reach all of you. If I can't take you out, if we wink wink, the government, if we can't take you out ourselves, if we can't take you out, then we're gonna provide you with the resources to take yourself out and others around you. We hear about the increase in hate crimes, we think we think about the legalization of recreational marijuana, the plethora of marijuana and cannabis, you know, dispensaries, the alcohol, the things that you're just overly consumed. You're just it's in your face. How could you not dibble and dabble? It's right here. Matter of fact, it's two, three, right here in your proximity, purposely in your face. Now they go with AI. Now, like we didn't already have behavioral challenges with social media platforms as it is. You go ahead and push AI and its accessibility to those who hasn't even shown that they deserve to even have a Facebook page or a TikTok page. You give this tool, these are tools that can be used to cause great harm. I say people will quite literally start losing their minds. Why? They're gonna question themselves: what's real was fake, real from the fake, bad from good, what's bad was good. Is it real? Oh boy. PubMed Central shared that AI poses both direct and systemic threats to human health. Yes, it does! Oh boy, the risk can range from dangerous AI medical advice that mimics authoritative clinical guidance, algorithmic biases in diagnosis, psychological impacts, and as existential, concerns like the bioengineered design of pathogens, using generative AI like chat GPT. Now they continue. Now they're specifying the chat GPT because we hear a lot of this. We talk, we we we hear a lot. We've I've had conversations with professors who've spoken about their students not like times have changed and how like they get, I hate to say it, but this is our this is the word that was used. Like they're getting dumber each year they come in. Like, no effort. You go to these chat GPTs, they type or they give you the exit the whole paper, and then they're like, you know, they get clever, they can go humanize, everything is accessible, and even if you have to pay a small fee, half of them work so they can get the little pay the little monthly fee, and they're not writing their papers, and we can tell they're not, and it's hard to check it because when you run it, they've used so many tools to humanize it that or re-paraphrase it that you can't pinpoint, but you know that they did. And it is crazy because it's like I've been in the school systems and I'm like, damn, since COVID, it's like a lot of youth cannot read, youth and adults cannot read, can't read properly, can't complete sentences, can't read, write in cursive. Like it's crazy. It's like all these tools to make you like we hear about yes, it's convenient, convenient, accessible, yes, but it's also dummying people down. Like, hello, people, people, we're human. We need human social interactions. Let's take me back to the 90s, early 2000s. We went outside. How did we get messages? We wrote them, we called on house phones, we went and met up in person, like is becoming too much. That's why I'm saying that it's gonna get to a point where people are gonna lose their minds, right? So they continue to share with us that using generative AI like ChatGBT for medical advice poses severe, severe, and they have that bold in caps, severe risk. They say chat bots can hallucinate, provide incorrect or outdated information. They can omit vital safety warnings and fail to ask critical follow-up questions. Now, think about, and you see, everything connects, interconnected, right? We just talked about the threat it poses to the medical field. Let's think about awareness, awareness that the rate, the mental health issues, the rate is rising, alongside hate crimes rising, these numbers are going, increasing weekly, daily, by the day, by the hour. Mental health is very, very crucial, especially in this country. Overall, everyone, with the things that's happening in the US. We talk about attempting. Part of the reason why I explore entrepreneurship and I advocate, you know, everyone's not for everyone, but you will have an impact on someone or someone's help, contributing, because it's communal. We're all pieces to a jigsaw puzzle. We all have something. We all have something to offer. We all have a purpose. We our peace fits somewhere. Without our peace, it is incomplete. We're all actively trying to bring awareness, fill a gap because the government, which again it goes back. Are you doing what's best for your citizens? No, you're not. No, you're not. You're spending money, you're fucking up the budget in areas that isn't unnecessary. This is the areas we need the funding for. You cut it, you cut, cut, cut people-centric social services. You you're cutting medical, you're cut, cutting from where people need, and you're putting it in places that you think is best, but it's not serving the citizens from who you're taking from. So I say all of that to say there is a scarcity in mental health services. We know this mental health services, social services, services for people, services for the autistic population, services for the seniors, the youth, the disabled, the intellectually, the like the list goes on. There is a cut in funding for these programs, these clinics, these services. Insurance does not cover. A lot of these services. A lot of these services require you to have some kind of written proof from a physician, from a doctor, whoever, stating why you need certain things. And if they give it to you, then it comes at a fixed amount of units. Okay. We're not going to cover this. We don't cover this, but since your doctor says that you need it, we're only going to give it to you for 56 units, which totals to four months worth of this. And then we could try again and reevaluate you and blah blah blah, right? Why do certain communities, neighborhoods only have certain types of mental health or services, whereas other communities and neighborhoods have quality services, accessible services. Some people are not eligible, some people are right there floating in the middle without any coverage or insurance. Let's just say that group of people who are uninsured and can't afford. You're looking, you're going through a crisis, something going on with you, but you don't have the money or you don't want to get hit with a bill, etc. Everybody has a different reason for why they avoid medical care. Let's just say you're in one of those situations and you decide to speed up the course and let me just Google it. Let me see if I could do this at home or if it's something, uh. So then we talk about the medical advice that cheat chat GBT, chat box, AI, generative shit is omitting, right? So if you're relying on this information that has no validity for serious symptoms that you're experiencing, but you don't have insurance. So this is your option, but you see where this option has consequences because you have a life or death situation and you're relying because of your circumstance, which is understandable, where else, right? You're gonna think, where else to go? Let me just see if I could just use a chat bar, I guess, of advice. Let me type into chat. Hey, chat, chat GBT, hey, I, you know, whatever. I'm having X, Y, and Z. This da da da da da. What should I do? What is this? This is what it looks like, and AI will go soak in a bath for one hour. Stay home. 24 hours. Who knows what it says? But I'm just giving an example. Something that you need to get your ass to an emergency room. Chat is telling you to just sit on your ass and take soak in the tub, and you know what I'm saying, put the tie onions to the bottom of your feet. No, you need to go to the emergency room, right? And you're relying on this because I mean it just has to. This is saying that this is what it is, blah blah blah, can end up causing you life or death consequences. But then you got to wonder, question why? Some people, hey, something something itchy, something something red. What can you do to get rid of a beast thing or simple stuff? You get maybe some resources, but flat out, straight out, life or death situations, or you're really critically hurt, and you're and again, what if you don't have insurance? Some people rely on this stuff, they rely on the internet, they trust the internet, they trust what they read and see at first glance. Nobody's questioning like Wikipedia. Nobody questions, hey, Wikipedia, you can edit the page and put information there. Which is all websites, right? But there's not that much validity behind certain things on the Pedia in certain places. So it's just like, you know, some people just believe everything's on the internet, some people believe everything that people say on social media, some people believe the persona people put on on social media for social media, and it has nothing to do with real life. So there's that. Health experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association, warns, Americans warns, Americans warns parents, warns everyone that generative AI poses significant age-specific threats to children's health, right? So we talk about human health. Yes, yes, yes. But let's let's let's give it a umbrella, right? This is the concept. Here's the subconcept children's health. Oh gosh, man. Safety of the kids, protect the kids, protect the babies. Take care of them, take care of them, they're the last hope. I'm trying to tell you. But you see how everything is just hair and coming in and all of this, all of this, all of this, all of this shit. To take their innocence, to tarnish their innocence, to brainwash. We talk about it's just crazy. Crazy. We talk about early childhood many times, and how children are sponges. Starting from infancy up till what age five, and then as of age five and up, that's when it's the critical years now, because now from five and up, everything sticks and becomes their behavior and think way of being, thinking, condition. Infancy to five. Alright, yeah. See some things, repeat some things, it ain't stick. It's just you're doing it, I do it. You say it, I say it. You make a face, I make a face. Okay. Or you know what I'm saying? But five and up is when it starts to stick. This is molding this little individual here. So careful now. Careful. Teens, kids, bullying, cyberbullying, sex trafficking, human trafficking, social media, desperation for attention. Attention is a hell of a drug. Kids that's not getting love and attention at home, seeking in other places, asking generative AI, certain questions, getting advice from generative A vi and generative AI, enhancing their pictures and videos through generative AI. Going on adult sites, making profiles as if they're of age, and with their face modified with a hot body, adult body through generative AI. I mean, it's not funny, but you you know where I'm getting, you know. There's perverts everywhere, right? So some of the key concerns with that include the social development delays. We can't forget that. COVID, nobody's been the same, especially the kids. They were too young to handle something like that out of nowhere and not prepared. Learning was a flop, social, emotional, mental like stimulation, like all of their well, all of that got fucked with. It was affected. Emotional dependency on the chat box. Chat box is now your best friend. You come home, long day at school, work, and chatbot seems to be the only reliant source. You accent chatbot, personal things, you're talking to chatbot about shit that's going on in your personal life with your friends, or this person never responded back to me. But I I text my best friend, and and she texts back, she'll get back to me after dinner, which is eight o'clock, and I never heard from her, and it took her, I didn't hear from her for three days. What was that about, chat bot? What does that mean? Are we not friends anymore? No, you are not friends. In fact, she hates you. You know, like shit. Yo, things get hacked. Like, you gotta think like that. You don't know what the hell your kids or whoever, your spouse, whoever, wherever, whenever, asking these things. It's not safe. We think about the mental health risk from the unfiltered content. You like come on, come on, come on, man. Unregulated shit, basically. Yeah. The exposure to AI generated sexual abuse. There's abusive material being generated, physically, emotionally, sexually, all of the above. Some of these videos, the things it's saying, how realistic the people look, like people you like literally pass on the street, you're friends with, you can sit next to on a train, you're waiting for the light to change, like real life, like you've seen people like the sideburns, the baby hairs, like the talk, like it's so realistic. Doing unimaginable things. We see jokingly people make little pranks to their families. Oh, grandma fell off a cliff. Hey, how's this? How's the hiking trip, ski trip, hiking trip, whatever trip? Oh, it's great. You're looking after grandma? Yeah. She's going up for a closer look. Oh, don't make her go up there. Too late. Grandma fell. What? They sent a gen AI generated video of grandma. And like, this is grandma. This is legit. This is her. This is her outfit. This is how she looks, how she sounds, how she moved. That's her wheelchair or walk or whatever. And there she goes. School, school, school. And London bridges falling down. There she goes off the fucking cliff. You're in a frenzy because you think your mom, your grandma literally just went off a cliff. And no, it was AI generated. You literally can cause a lot of damage with this thing. Holding people for ransom, all type of shit. Like, listen, man, it's not cool. So it needs to be better regulated for sure. Everything needs to have some kind of boundary and proper, you know what I'm saying? You guys are a stickler for certain things, and then things like this is so accessible and open and not much, not much restriction on it. There's that word again. Awareness. Are you aware that that happens? Why certain things and why not others? And why during this time and not then or later or soon? Like, okay. The American Psychological Association provides us with several ways to protect yourself, your family from AI threats by balancing proactive technology limits with ongoing education. And as for children, limit their exposure to addictive chat box, monitor for any emotional manipulation, and teach them to never share personal data. The less these bots know, the better. The more they know, they're gonna use against you. Watch out for the deep fake scams and protect your digital privacy. You see? Here we go. Digital privacy, convenience, the dummying down of Americans, people, Americans, humans being lazy. Oh, we're gonna instead of walking around with a pocketbook or a wallet, ah, we're gonna go ahead and go get that chip so everything's already on the chip, and we just wave our hand and that's it. Are you that lazy? Are you dumb? That's what they say, right? Are you dumb? Are you stupid? Are you dumb? It's like, are you that lazy? No, I don't pull out my car. Digital. Some people say, you know, it's easier, uh, it's protected. You can lock your car. This, this, this. Yeah, but there's still somewhere in the ethers a copy of your debit card or your cards front and back with the pen, expiration, everything. There's a digital copy somewhere floating in the universe, and anyone can reach up in the air and grab for it if they really set their mind to it. Wink wink. And it's just digital privacy, bro. I guess it is a difficult task, and it's a diff it's a difficult thing to measure, right? We are in a technological generation, and as much as I love advancements, and it's just going at a rapid rate, and we're not ready for this. Still catching up and getting acclimated to everything else that has transitioned, advanced, everything else that's going on. It's like let everyone catch a breath first. They are continuing to make pursuits that will kind of sort of not really, but yes, surrender and comply with that newly formed or newly released, or new I don't even want to say new or newly, right? Read uh I'll use the word evolved because it's not really new, like this is repeating itself. This is the same thing they've been doing, it just looks different, right? It's kind of like the Jordans and other sneakers and other things and movies. Like, here's the original, right? But we're gonna keep spinning it off, spinning it off. Like something's gonna be similar, but it's gonna be different. But it's technically the same thing, same outcome. Complying with their system. I already mentioned the switch to banking accounts, Debbie, debit cards, no more metro cards, no more tokens. It's been a while, remember? Years, years, decades. Went from tokens, it was like the bus tickets, tokens, metro cards. They just got rid of the Metro Cards. Now it's the Omni. Then you could tap your cars, tap, tap, bots, do checkouts, McDonald's, self-checkouts. Each year, there's like less, just less human and social interactions, less, less, dummying people down, turning people into very shall about strategy, stand in line, compliance, comply, huh, huh, huh, huh? Routine, routine, routine, get up this time, like literally get up this time, walk this way, go, bathroom, use bathroom, wash hand, wash face, shower, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Out the door, whatever you do, ha. Open door, press. Like it's it's just crazy. Lastly, I'd like to leave you guys with a recent 2026 study published in JAMA Network Open, and they found that Americans who use AI at least daily have 30% higher odds of moderate depression. Although AI can't destroy people per se, it has significantly strained human mental health, cognitive function, and emotional well being. Well, well. All right, clock it. Be safe, y'all. Stay prayed and peace out.