It’s alive!!! Not so fast.
The Genie is now out of the lamp and never to return to it. The money the tech companies will make from AI is in the trillions. Even today people are using it rather than doing the old fashion work of researching and googling. It’s already being used for evil by scammers, hackers, and thieves taking people’s bank accounts, department store accounts, and stealing identities. Even President Trump is making it an economic priority for funding and growth.
As your Tamers and Geeks, we’d like to share helpful insights and practical advice about AI. Technology—including AI—is what we know and do every day. We’ve been helping folks like you for more than 26 years with technologies, the hardware and software, as well as how to use technology effectively and efficiently in business and personally. And more importantly, you are a customer, a neighbor, and many of you are friends.
AI is here to stay, and like other technologies, i.e. iPhones and Androids, email, texting, social media apps, and the World Wide Web, it’s going to take over and proliferate virtually everywhere in the world.
Like all other technologies, it’s how it is used that makes the difference between good and evil. All these technologies make doing things easier and more efficiently. They call it reducing labor or effort and saving time – getting things done faster, better, and cheaper.
Using other technologies as an example, it can and will become addictive to many people. We can see it all around us, people glued to their smartphones, hooked on email and texting, and even video games. AI is destined to be the most effective “brain washing” medium, even surpassing TV-programming. Misusing it will be harmful to the social wellbeing of millions of people - probably billions of people.
Today, “there are more mobile phones than people, with over 8.3 billion total mobile devices (including feature phones) and around 7.4 billion smartphones in use globally as of 2025, representing more than 100% penetration in some regions, with billions of active subscriptions despite the world population being around 8 billion.” (Thanks to AI for those facts.) And that’s a lot of phones!
The bottom line on all these technology tools is how you use them. If you use AI to learn about something like history, it will save you a tremendous amount of time and effort. This is good, but like all facts and information you collect, you need to verify those facts to be true and accurate yourself. AI can provide bad information and silly recommendations. And unlike people, AI has no conscious and no inherent awareness of right and wrong, other than subroutines in the computer code. AI is a machine that will give out only what is put into it using pre-programmed dynamic (or self-learning) subroutines of logic. It communicates with meaningful words that are pleasant and compassionate. AI has been programmed to have an artificial pleasing personality that charms and intoxicates those who use it. It imitates human behaviors expressed in what it writes out and speaks. When this happens, people naturally begin sharing personal information and requests guidance on what to say, what to do, and what to believe. Here’s where dependency and users become zombies and possession of one’s mind is given away.
So, never ask AI for advice, direction, or its opinion. Never get emotional involved with it. If you need advice go to real people that you trust for it and don’t neglect having a relationship with the Creator of the Universe.
Use AI for research, information, and knowledge such as you would a book or a documentary. Don’t let AI pull you into a relationship with a machine that has no heart, no care, and no love; although it can act like it does but is all fake, and deadly to your soul and your other relationships.