Sep 3, 2026 · 49 min · 13 segments
AI is moving faster than most of us can process. While it promises breakthroughs in everything from healthcare to productivity, there’s increasing unease about what happens when the technology moves…
Amber MacGuest
Lynda SteeleHostMelanie NejiHostWow.
Actually, on a more serious note, I am really mostly concerned about the fact that this really important, powerful technology is in the hands of just a tiny number of tech bros, a number of rich dudes who are all on this race to get to a trillion dollars or whatever.
I don't trust them to put in the guardrails that we need to make sure that a bad actor doesn't come in and start using AI to start a war or release a new virus or shut down a power grid or something.
That's what I'm a little bit concerned about because I see these tech bros and they have been just embarrassingly prostrating themselves in front of world leaders like Donald Trump, you know, handing him gold tchotchkes and sitting front row and donating millions of dollars to him in the hopes of getting preferential treatment or contracts or tariff relief or whatever.
And it doesn't seem like the focus is really on saving the world and offering some great new service to society.
And I sort of tiptoed into it a couple of years ago, figuring I see this really fast AI train screaming down the tracks.
And I can see how, especially as a freelancer, it can create an entire presentation like 1001.
And, you know, being a freelancer, you don't have a secretary or an executive assistant or a graphics artist.
And ChatGPT, as long as you ask it the right questions, boom, it can do all this stuff.
But I also have seen it make some mistakes, which is alarming because a lot of people are not using their critical thinking skills anyway and maybe are a bit lazy around the idea of, well, I'm just not going to put the effort in.
So I wonder when I see it making mistakes, what else have I not noticed that it made a mistake on? And then you're putting out a presentation that's got your name on it.
And the other thing that I'm really concerned about is the fact that there are a ton of teenagers with developing minds that are using these chatbots unsupervised.
For example, the Tumblr Ridge teenager who went to the school and shot and killed eight people.
Wow.
Actually, on a more serious note, I am really mostly concerned about the fact that this really important, powerful technology is in the hands of just a tiny number of tech bros, a number of rich dudes who are all on this race to get to a trillion dollars or whatever.
I don't trust them to put in the guardrails that we need to make sure that a bad actor doesn't come in and start using AI to start a war or release a new virus or shut down a power grid or something.
That's what I'm a little bit concerned about because I see these tech bros and they have been just embarrassingly prostrating themselves in front of world leaders like Donald Trump, you know, handing him gold tchotchkes and sitting front row and donating millions of dollars to him in the hopes of getting preferential treatment or contracts or tariff relief or whatever.
And it doesn't seem like the focus is really on saving the world and offering some great new service to society.
And I sort of tiptoed into it a couple of years ago, figuring I see this really fast AI train screaming down the tracks.
And I can see how, especially as a freelancer, it can create an entire presentation like 1001.
And, you know, being a freelancer, you don't have a secretary or an executive assistant or a graphics artist.
And ChatGPT, as long as you ask it the right questions, boom, it can do all this stuff.
But I also have seen it make some mistakes, which is alarming because a lot of people are not using their critical thinking skills anyway and maybe are a bit lazy around the idea of, well, I'm just not going to put the effort in.
So I wonder when I see it making mistakes, what else have I not noticed that it made a mistake on? And then you're putting out a presentation that's got your name on it.
And the other thing that I'm really concerned about is the fact that there are a ton of teenagers with developing minds that are using these chatbots unsupervised.
For example, the Tumblr Ridge teenager who went to the school and shot and killed eight people.
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