AI's Double Edge: Control, Reality, and Free Discourse Under Threat

in earlier context of of other things, I talked about how I tend to lean optimistic. AI has me very uneasy. Um, you know, starting with we're at a point you just don't when you just don't know what's real anymore. Right. Um, that that greatly concerns me. You know, I don't know how you feel, Mike. What do you think, Mike? Well, I think both of those things are going to happen, Todd. I think I think AI will be very seductive to the weak-minded and it will centralize control over those people very effectively. But AI as a tool for augmented cognition of innovators and creators and researchers like all of us here, I think it will actually increase our individual thinking and our decentralization. So, I think the the the cognitive middle class will be gone. That's what I'm saying. You know, that's really, the cognitive middle class is going to get wiped out here. You I think that's yeah. very very astute. Wow. Well, are we approaching a future where algorithms quietly govern society with without elected accountability? Um, you know, algorithm, when I hear that word, I just shudder because of what the uh ex-algorithm ...