What's Coming With AI Automation?

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Josh: We've got AI automation kind of looming it's a dark hand and we're already starting to see the the repercussions of it. I think one thing that's happening is is you're gonna have an inevitable inevitable move toward some type of global oligarchy, he says. Josh: The priesthood here are the coders the people who are doing the hard work of making artificial intelligence speak like a human act like a human process like a human and so there's going to be a lot of power at the top and we're all going to participate on some level. If we take too much of the bait we enter too much of this matrix world then i think we're in trouble as

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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