This next bit was Vanessa sharing her opinion on the idea that we have no choice but to go all in on AI and why she isn't buying it.

Girl, you don't...

I'm going to say I am still working out my public stance on AI in terms of its qualities and its detrimental aspects.

But what I feel very confident about is...

I am a skeptic when it comes to its inevitability.

I do not buy that this thing that nine men are funding, putting all of their power, trying to drain our water, trying to become part of our, you know, civic structure is inevitable.

I think that is as much marketing as it is anything else.

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So I use AI, absolutely.

Um, I don't use it to write emails because that's not something I struggle with.

[laughs] Um, but I do use it for condensing large reams of information where a citation is not needed.

It's a matter of, you know, very big pools of info.

You know, occasionally it will help me from getting my ass handed to me because I need it said differently.

Um, but by and large, I think AI does what it does, what technology does, which is people don't know how to get somewhere because of GPS, and people don't know how to move through the world.

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