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Well, artificial intelligence is everywhere these days.

It feels like all of these companies and digital platforms are trying to integrate AI into

the full range of products and services.

From your job to your grocery app, AI is inescapable.

But this isn't an accident.

It's so clear that big tech billionaires want AI to be the next big tech advancement for society as a whole.

However, the way that AI has developed raises serious concerns about its impact on society and humanity.

Not only for its economic, psychological, and environmental impacts,

but also its unique effects on our community, the trans community, especially given the fact

that many of the biggest proponents of this technology are close to the Trump administration

and anti-trans. On top of it all, they want to collect and harness every bit of data that we all have.

First, I talked with Karen Howe, a journalist who gives us a look behind the curtain at the powerful

people and the rationales driving the AI boom.

They want to perpetuate this idea that this technology is extremely powerful in order to

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