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COMMENT: On June 6, the first Zoom talk for June again fea­tured John, a Sil­i­con Val­ley AI pro­fes­sion­al.

Top­ics of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: The pos­si­bil­i­ty of AI’s lead­ing to white-col­lar lay­offs; The issue of declin­ing birthrates and the view­point that col­lege is “unnec­es­sary;” The issue of sur­veil­lance devices (glass­es) and AI’s; AIs’ capa­bil­i­ty for enhanced hack­ing; The pos­si­ble use of AI’s to enhance employ­er sur­veil­lance; The pit­falls of “vibe-cod­ing;” AI’s being “tricked” into reveal­ing sen­si­tive per­son­al infor­ma­tion like people’s phone num­bers; The issue of AI’s being attached to people’s bank accounts (with all of the atten­dant pit­falls that that implies); The issue of turn­ing man­age­ment of a per­son­al com­put­er over to AI’s; News out­lets lim­it­ing the infor­ma­tion they put online and how that may “dumb-down” future AI’s (that train on open, online infor­ma­tion); The twined issues of voice-recog­ni­tion and facial image-recog­ni­tion with regard to AI-sur­veil­lance; “Vibe-cod­ing” by cor­po­rate employ­ees.

NB: Mr. Emory’s views on AI diverge from John’s per­spec­tive.