Hey, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the American Vindictus show.

I'm your host, Doug Thornton.

Today we have with us, Mando Gonzalez from the Prophecy Watchers.

And me and Mando have now formed a very tight bro-ship over the weekend of

spulunking and caving.

Well, we can't say spalunking because the cavers make fun of you.

So we were out there caving and going on some archaeological visits because of Mondo's

expertise.

And we formed a pretty cool broship here, man.

Like I think we're kindred spirits, maybe even cousins somewhere along the way.

So we're going to talk about AI today.

And more especially, Mando, we're going to talk about Google's sentient AI and why that's probably a really bad thing.

At least that's my point of view.

You may have a different one, but I want to start off with a quote.

And of course, if I'm going to start off with a quote about AI, it's going to be from

Stephen Hawking. So Stephen Hawking says, we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of

history. The rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend job destruction deep into the middle of classes

with only the most caring, creative, or supervisory roles remaining.

And he has some other quotes in there about how, you know, more or less,

artificial intelligence is probably the scariest thing that we could create or could be

the most beneficial thing we ever created. But it depends on how it felt that day. So that's my problem with artificial

intelligence. Like we were saying prior before we started recording with the Tesla car, I want myself

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