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Welcome to Annette on America. This is Annette Bybee, single mom to three teenage girls, lawyer, college professor for now. And we have some good news today. And then please stick with me through the second half because I have a really big topic that I want to discuss that’s been on my mind, oh, for quite some time, but it really became big for me last week. And I want to share that. But… First, I want to talk about some good stuff that’s going on. I mean, it’s like every day there’s more and more. It’s like the opposite of what we had during the Biden administration. It seemed like every day we would wake up to more horror stories during the Biden administration with, oh, you know, we would have… These gangs coming over the border and taking over Aurora or prices continuing to go up, drone sightings, Chinese spies. It just seemed like every day there was something else, some bad headlines, some bad news to worry about. But now we have the opposite. It’s kind of like on Seinfeld when George Costanza did everything opposite of what he usually did. He would just go against his instincts and everything worked out for him. Sometimes I think I need to do that in my own life. But anyway, it’s nice to be on the other side, finally. So first one, we’ve talked about this before, but… Trump EPA begins rolling back Biden EV mandate in biggest day of deregulation in American history. Amen, brother. Anytime you see deregulation, that’s a good thing. Trump’s EPA began the process Wednesday of rescinding vehicle fuel efficiency standards that Republicans have called a de facto electric vehicle mandate, the Post has learned. And this just makes me think we’ve got to keep it going. We cannot afford a Democrat in office after this term because nobody should be forced, just like with the health insurance. We were forced to buy health insurance and now look where we’re at. I’m in a crappy plan. Yes, I’m probably gonna bring this up every single time because it’s annoying that I have to pay a lot of money for an insurance plan that then I have to, when I go to the doctor, I still have to pay a lot of money. It’s just silly. Anyway, an administration official said dozens of additional regulatory rollbacks loomed on what would be the biggest day of deregulation in American history. The EPA is reevaluating policies enacted last year by the Biden administration meant to reduce emissions for light, medium and heavy duty vehicles. The estimated regulatory and compliance cost of the current rules come to $700 billion. The American auto industry has been hamstrung by the crushing regulatory regime of the last administration, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin told the Post. So nice to hear that from the EPA administrator, isn’t it? As we reconsider nearly $1 trillion of regulatory costs, we will abide by the rule of law to protect consumer choice and the environment. The rollback is being pursued under the Administrative Procedure Act, which lays out a process of public notice and comment periods before a final decision is made. The Biden administration in March 2024 finalized a rule to require carmakers to dramatically reduce carbon emissions beginning for model year 2027 light and medium sized vehicles. The EPA said at that time that the rules required that by model year 2032 there be a nearly 50% reduction in projected fleet average greenhouse gas emissions levels for light duty vehicles and 44% reductions for medium duty vehicles. Biden era EPA leadership argued that although the tighter standards would add to compliance costs, there would be a $100 billion of annual net benefits to society, including $13 billion of annual public health benefits due to improved air quality and $62 billion in reduced annual fuel costs. I just don’t believe those numbers. The agency also argued last year that manufacturers have the discretion to choose the mix of technologies that achieve compliance across their fleets, meaning that they could manufacture more electric vehicles and hybrids while still making traditional fossil fuels powered cars. Republicans scoffed at the claim, arguing that carmakers would be forced to dramatically overhaul their offerings. In the second half of 2024, just 8.7% of new cars sold were electric, according to Kelly Blue Book data. Hybrid and electric vehicles combined made up about 20% of the new car market last year. A similarly sweeping emissions policy was revealed last year for new trucks and tractors drawing concern about the ability of companies to comply without significant economic impact. Those rules would apply to smaller work trucks by model year 2027 with a 17% tightening of carbon dioxide emissions standards for light work trucks taking effect and a 13% cut for medium-sized commercial trucks. By model year 2032, work trucks and tractors would have to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by between 25% and 60%, depending on weight category. Zeldin, a Republican former Long Island Congressman, announced the moves one day after Trump publicly purchased a Tesla electric vehicle from CEO Elon Musk on the White House driveway. Trump campaigned on scrapping Biden’s fuel efficiency rules by arguing that consumers should have the option of buying gasoline or diesel fueled vehicles without government interference. Some people like the gasoline and they should have their options. Trump said Tuesday, I’m all about options. So yeah, well, and it’s pretty ironic that this is, you know, we have the left insisting that we’re all gonna die. The planet’s gonna die from greenhouse gases. We need these electric vehicles. And what are they doing over there in Oregon, Portland to be specific? Leftists are attacking Tesla car dealerships. Yep, because they are now mad at Musk for trying to cut back on waste, fraud, and abuse in government. So yeah, I think that’s kind of funny. Well, and Trump has named those groups domestic terrorists. And I asked my Facebook group, by the way, if you are on Facebook, I encourage you to go find my Annette on America radio show group and join us. I take polls most days. I don’t always remember, but most days I go on and I post a poll. And a few days ago, I asked Annette, everyone what they thought about these terror attacks on Tesla and about them being labeled domestic terrorists. And several people said, yes, they’re doing this out of fear. They’re not doing this out of anger at electric cars or whatever. They’re trying to cause fear. They’re trying to hit back on the government, frankly, through Elon Musk. Anyway, okay, so that’s good news. What’s the next good news? Government shutdown likely after Schumer says Senate Dems will block GOP funding bill. So it’s kind of good news, bad news. I think it’s always a good thing when the government is shut down. They stop spending for a little while, you know, and maybe they can regroup and spend less. Okay, that never happens, but that would be nice. So I just think it’s funny that… It’s always the Democrats that are howling about a government shutdown, but looks like Schumer is going to try and make that happen. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday that most Democrats in the upper chamber will not support a House Republican passed bill to fund the federal government through the end of September, all but ensuring a partial shutdown beginning at 11.59 p.m. Friday. Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input from congressional Democrats, Schumer said on the Senate floor Wednesday. I wonder how it feels to be ignored. Chuckie, how does it feel? Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House continuing resolution. Our caucus is unified on a clean CR through April 11th that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass. With Republicans holding a 53 to 47 advantage in the Senate and legislation needing 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, at least seven Democrats would need to support the spending bill, which passed the House 217 to 213 Tuesday night. Rand Paul also opposed the measure, so the GOP will need eight Democratic defections if there is full attendance in the chamber. Following Tuesday night’s vote, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced the lower chamber of Congress would recess until March 24th, leaving Schumer with the option of accepting the House bill and keeping the federal lights on over the objection of progressivist activists or rejecting it and putting the nation’s capital on course for the 11th partial shutdown since 1980. In a statement after the lower chamber passed the funding bill, Johnson said, It was a decision time for Senate Democrats. Cast a vote to keep the government open or be responsible for shutting it down. It is a shameful display of coordinated political theater. Democrats are willing to run out the clock on funding the government in a failed attempt to block the America First agenda, the House speaker said. Now it’s decision time for Senate Democrats. Cast a vote to keep the government open or be responsible for shutting it down. Anyway, we don’t need to go on the rest of that. I’m like, shut it down. Shut it down. Works for me. All right. And let’s see more good news. What have we got next? And what we’ve all been waiting for. Egg prices start to drop after bird flu shortage caused massive hikes. Shoppers may finally feel some relief in the egg aisle after waning demand caused steep price declines over the past week. That almost sounds as if free market works. Eggs go up too high, people stop buying them, eggs come down. Imagine that. Egg prices jumped 10.4% in February as rampant bird flu outbreak continued to cause widespread shortages, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday. But prices for large white eggs dropped $1.20 to $6.85 a dozen, which is still ridiculous. As of March 7th, down 16% from a staggering $8.15 price tag two weeks prior. The last time I went to the store and I looked at egg prices, I was like, is that a misprint? That doesn’t look right. Anyway, so the price is starting to come down. It’s going to come down further. I’m sure this always happens. The avian flu outbreak grew more localized over the past few weeks, giving the New York market a break while continuing to hamper California and the Midwest. Yada, yada, yada, yada. We don’t really need to go into any more details anyway. Demand will likely spike again in April and inflate prices as families stock up for Easter egg hunts, perhaps pushing shoppers to scoop up plastic eggs instead this year. Yeah. So, you know, it’s just an example of the way market forces work. All right. Big story here. Ceasefire in Ukraine. If this actually holds, this is very, very good news. And never saw this under Biden, right? Zelensky has agreed to terms on a ceasefire, but Putin is not yet on board. The three-year-long war in Ukraine may be drawing to a close, given that the country just agreed to a ceasefire deal proposed by the United States. Russia has yet to sign on, though, and may not. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, can’t get tired of saying that, by the way. It’s really nice to say that. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz met with Ukrainian representatives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The parties discussed what Waltz called substantive details regarding security guarantees if Ukraine agreed to the deal. This includes lifting the recent pause on intelligence sharing and military support. Ukrainian drone strikes in Moscow killed three people on Monday, hours before negotiations in Saudi Arabia. Early this morning, Russia responded with deadly strikes in Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kriviri, try saying these names fast, as well as Odessa. So nobody’s out of the woods yet. Today we made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations to end this conflict in a way that’s enduring and sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability to prosper as a nation, said Rubio. We will take this offer now to the Russians and we hope that they’ll say yes to peace. The ball is now in their court. Trump echoed that saying, now we have to go to Russia and hopefully President Putin will agree to that also and we can get this show on the road. We want to get that war over with. That has been his goal for years. He’s far less interested in restoring a chunk of land to Ukraine than he is in stopping the war with its death and destruction. That’s why he chastised Ukraine in February saying you should have never started it. That’s also why he ousted an ungrateful Zelensky from the Oval Office shortly thereafter. The Ukrainian leader learned the hard way not to insult the American president by trying to renegotiate a deal at the 11th hour. And if you missed last week, I had a martial artist on, Michael McCune, talked about how that whole thing went down. And as I noted, how Trump and Vance swept Zelensky’s leg, right? Ukraine was not the aggressor in this war and its people have suffered mightily. Yet Zelensky is less favored than he was three years ago. And there are many reasons for that. For example, he took extreme repressive measures early on. And last fall, he even effectively campaigned for Democrats. That’s little wonder, given the blank check Joe Biden always seemed ready to give him. The horrendous war has claimed many lives, estimates range from 60,000 Ukrainians and nearly 100,000 Russians to well over 300,000 combined and ruined numerous cities in Ukraine. Rebuilding will take years and untold amounts of money. Many things can be true at the same time. Trump’s comments of late have been shocking, but more often than not, he was correct or making an arguable point. He’s also done more in seven weeks to bring the war to a close than Biden did in nearly three years. In fact, Putin never would have invaded if Trump were president. Biden’s weakness provided that opening. Trump’s pressure on Ukraine didn’t look nice or friendly. Putin has violated ceasefires before, and the old KGB agent and Soviet nostalgist is deeply untrustworthy. Yet, Zelensky seemed more eager for endless aid than peace. Yeah, we made that point last year. Because you have to wonder how much money is going into his pockets, his family’s pockets, his friends’ pockets. You have to stop shooting at each other, Rubio said Tuesday, and that’s what the president has wanted to see, and that’s the commitment we got today from the Ukrainian side. Unfortunately, Putin has so far conceded nothing and may demand far more out of Ukraine, demilitarization, more territory, etc., before he agrees to end his horrific invasion. So we will stay tuned. That’s partially good news, potentially good news. All right, departmental, here’s some more good news. Department of Education fires more than 1,300 employees, closes office for security reasons Wednesday. So we will see where that goes. But anytime you cut back a federal agency, that’s good news. And I’m going to be talking about college next and in the next half hour. Because as you know from my intro, I am a college professor and I’m seeing some disturbing stuff. But here’s some other news. Good news that’s starting to happen on college campuses. Beacons of light in the dark academic wilderness. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week on anti-Semitism in America, Senator Ted Cruz declared that the Democrat Party has a deep and pervasive problem confronting anti-Semitism. Not one Democrat showed up for that hearing. Imagine that. Leftists will feign shock and dismay at this assertion, but it should surprise exactly nobody. The Democrat Party has a long and sordid history of racism. Its leaders were, are, and will continue to be the agents of black oppression. Democrats are now simultaneously the historical authors and political beneficiaries of systemic racism, which they have institutionalized over the last century. And by the way, a little side note. Leftists just love to be victims. They just love to talk about how victimized they are, especially now when Trump’s in office. I always like to report on some of my liberal friends that I see on Facebook that I don’t talk to much, but I keep them around because you got to know what the other side’s doing. And so one of my friends on there posted this meme, I guess, or this image that says 404, file not found. And she said how women are all, a lot of women are posting this because we are trying to delete women’s history, right? That we’re trying to forget that women ever… couldn’t vote or that women didn’t used to be able to own property, yada, yada, yada, all this. And I don’t say it to her because it’s pointless, but why would you want to harp on the past? That’s firmly in the past. We just had a female vice president. We have women at high levels everywhere. Women own property. Women vote. Women do everything that men do. I mean, look at the fire department in LA for crying out loud. So instead of celebrating where we’re at, why do leftists feel the need to continually harp on the past and on being victims? I don’t really understand it. I would love to have Jordan Peterson on sometime to talk about why leftists like to see themselves as victims. But anyway, it is Democrat policies that have kept generations of poor, mostly black Americans ensnared and enslaved on urban poverty plantations, which they both seeded and cultivated since the 1960s. Fact is, Democrats are the architects of white supremacy. So why would anyone be surprised that their academic institutions are now promoting antisemitism? there is now an unprecedented partisan gap of 50 points. I keep reading ahead of myself. 83% to 33% between Republican and Democrat support for Israel. So in other words, 83% of Republicans and only 33% of Democrats support Israel. And the gap is about to get bigger. Recall that the week after Donald Trump took office, he issued an executive order titled Additional Measures to Combat Antisemitism. It was a directive ordering all government agencies to confront antisemitism within their bureaucracies and to withdraw any funding from taxpayer supported institutions, college, that do not prosecute those who promote hatred towards Jews and other groups. This aggressive defense of Jews is coming from the man the demos have repeatedly claimed is literally Hitler. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, I love saying that, has made clear that the Trump administration has zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists because they threaten our national security. His warning was aimed specifically at international students who would be subject to visa denial or revocation and deportation. for action supporting organizations such as the fascist Hamas network responsible for the barbaric October 7th, 2023 attacks on Israel. This past weekend, ICE agents arrested radical Syrian Islamist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the pro-Hamas demonstrations by students and others at Columbia University. Astoundingly, Columbia had posted a protocol with phone numbers for free legal advice if its Jew-hating Middle Eastern students were questioned by law enforcement, including advice on how university staff could obstruct ICE agents. It’s going to get better, I promise. Of Khalil’s arrest, Trump warned, this is the first arrest of many to come. We know that there are more students at Columbia and other universities across the country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump administration will not tolerate it. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country, never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here. Apparently, the academic elite at Columbia thought Trump was joking. until they got notice that the U.S. government was revoking $400 million in grants and contracts. And Leo Terrell, who leads the Justice Department Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, let Columbia know, and by extension every other elitist university, that losing its $400 million in taxpayer subsidies was just the beginning. Naturally, Democrats are defending Columbia with New York Demo Reps Gerald Nadler and Adriano Espelat. How do you pronounce that? Declaring that the Trump administration’s actions constitute a war on education and science that sends a chilling message that universities must align with the MAGA agenda or face financial ruin. Well, if aligning with the MAGA agenda means defending students targeted by radical mobs, sign me up. And now, after four long years of systemic redlining of free speech by the Biden-Harris regime in collaboration with their left media and social media propagandists, demos are now claiming that curbing hate speech and violence on college and university campuses violates free speech. Go figure. Predictably, the ACLU is defending Khalil, insisting this seems like one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threat to the First Amendment freedoms in 50 years. The administration knew that the arrest would draw Hamas sympathizers out of their rat holes and arrests of protesters followed in New York City and Washington, D.C., In other good academic news, overshadowed by the $400 million penalty against Columbia, the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors adopted a plan to dissolve all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs on campus, as well as all DEI offices and positions across the UVA system. According to the Wall Street Journal, this is a major departure for UVA, which has been all in for DEI. In 2020, the school’s Racial Equity Task Force called for $950 million for racial equity initiatives. By 2021, the school tied for the second largest number of DEI personnel among major universities with 94 and had 6.5 DEI staff for every 100 professors. In March 2024, Open the Books reported UVA was spending $20 million a year for 235 DEI employees. Can you imagine that? In response, UVA’s Faculty Senate Executive Council Committee Chair Eric Ramirez Weaver insisted his committee would look for workarounds to preserve the racist preferences and figure out how new recruiting techniques can be done post the Harvard decision. That is a reference to the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision striking down race-based admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Notably, Virginia’s Jefferson Council is also going after free speech suppressors, declaring UVA has fallen into a monoculture that rejects the free exchange of competing ideas. Expect to see more reforms correcting the disgraceful circumstances at a university founded on the fundamentals of American liberty. The Harvard UNC decision launched far-reaching and long-overdue corrections, not just in academia, but in many large corporations, including the Meta, Facebook, Instagram, Conglomerate, and other big tech companies, which are moving to eliminate their biased DEI practices. So just more good news. But on the other side, I want to talk about some of the reasons why all colleges need to get rid of DEI and a bunch of other things because college may be already obsolete if not heading there quickly. I know it’s a hard thing to say as a college professor, but… Stick with me, and I will tell you why I think that, and I will be right back.

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Annette Beide here. I returned to the program and I ended my last half hour talking about how college campuses are starting to come back from the wilderness of anti-Semitism and DEI. Thanks in large part to President Trump. And by the way, if you’ve missed any of this episode or any of my other episodes, you can find them at AnnetteTalks.com, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube, Rumble, iHeartRadio, Ask Alexa, yada, yada, yada. You can find it there. And also, if you want, you can email me your opinion on whatever I’m talking about. Send me an email to Annette at AnnetteTalks.com. All right, so I, as you know, as I keep mentioning, I’m a college professor. And this semester I have discovered a disturbing trend, which has probably been going on for a little while, but it’s just ramping up now. What am I seeing that’s so disturbing? Well, I’m seeing papers and reports, assignments turned in, which the answers are coming straight from AI, specifically ChatGPT. For those of you that don’t know, AI means artificial intelligence. If you don’t know what artificial intelligence is, you had better catch up quickly because it’s taking over. Well, you know, I’ve been thinking all week long about what I wanted to call this half of my episode, you know, crutch, tool, or wrecking ball. What is AI? And I did get some perspectives over the weekend after I talked to my Facebook family about AI, and I just realized I’m looking in the wrong place. I want to go find it. So… Here’s the problem with what’s going on at school. So I get these papers, you know, we have our students write a paper during the semester and we ask them to, you know, we give them a prompt on what we want them to write about and they’re supposed to go out and do research, right? And then write on that research and then give us all their sources. And so I had, you know, I’ve seen some good papers in the past that I suspected were not original work. But it’s only this semester that students started leaving accidentally, I guess, I would hope, comments from chat GPT in their assignments. Things like, oh, okay, so I’ve written this paper for you. Do you need sources to go with it? And it says in there, chat GPT is saying that. So it’s so obvious that they obviously went into chat GPT They put in the prompt and then they let ChatGPT write the paper and then they got some sources from ChatGPT and then they did a cut and paste job and turned it in. So something that should have taken them at least, I don’t know, three or four hours longer if you’re a very serious student or slow. Now takes them all of five minutes. 10 if they’re taking the time to take out the chat GPT prompt instead of leaving it in there. And I saw one student accidentally turned it in and it had not only the paper that he had just written, but somehow he ended up submitting his entire semester worth of assignments and chat GPT answers, including the multiple choice quizzes. He had cut and pasted the multiple choice questions and possible answers and asked ChatGPT to find the answers and it did it. And he’s been getting good grades. I was like, holy cow. Wow. So I had a couple of students that I had to report to the university and tell them they were getting zeros on those assignments. And the one student, basically, I went back and gave him zeros on several other assignments. And I don’t know whether he turned in his latest test before or after I caught him, but I just graded his test last night. And I’m looking at the answer and ChatGPT has, there’s some ways that it writes that make it very obvious that it’s ChatGPT and not students. And one of those is it makes, it writes up about two paragraphs, and then it gives you bullet points or numbered lists. And I thought, you know, just out of curiosity, I’m going to go over to ChatGPT and just paste in the question for this exam and see if it’s similar to what this student put in there. Lo and behold, yep, cut and paste job. So I thought our exams were proctored through Proctorio, so they couldn’t get to any other sites. So the only other thought is maybe he went on to a different computer or used his phone or tablet or something, but obviously he took the question, went over to ChatGPT, plugged it into ChatGPT, let it answer for him, took the answer and plugged it into his test. So in that case, I actually was able to get an exact same answer from chat GPT. And so it was easy to tell he was cheating. And of course, he got a zero and an email from me saying, sayonara, buddy. But that’s not always the case. See, it used to be that students would plagiarize. They would go out and find stuff online and cut and paste it and turn it in and software would go out and find it for us and show us this is a plagiarized paper. I actually went and asked ChatGPT if there is software that detects AI use, and none of them are 100%. There are some that can catch it part of the time, but there’s also false positives. There’s no real way that I can go and check to see if my student’s work is AI generated. ChatGPT, I might be able to figure it out, but what if they used something else like Grok 3? I don’t know. But I’m certainly not gonna spend all my time going through and trying to figure out if my students are using AI. I spent a lot of extra time dealing with these AI users last week that I don’t have. And this is my last semester. And I made that decision before the AI thing came up. But now I’m glad because I really don’t want to be in this position where I’m sure my student is cheating, but I don’t have any proof to back it up. I don’t want to accuse a student of cheating when I have nothing to back it up. What kind of relationship do I have with students when I’m accusing them of cheating? I don’t. And if I have something to back it up, then I say, yeah, you’re cheating and you’re getting a zero and I’m reporting you to the university. But that small picture, that’s a very small part of this problem, right? Because this is the question that I asked on Saturday because this all kind of came to a head over the weekend as I was grading several papers. And I went to Facebook and I posted and I said, one of the biggest problems we college professors are facing right now is the use of artificial intelligence by our students. I routinely receive papers written by chat GPT. These students aren’t learning to research, think critically, or write. They let AI do all of that for them. This begs these questions. Will these skills become obsolete? Will AI do our thinking for us? Will colleges become obsolete? What else will AI take over? What professions will disappear or be altered dramatically? And what effects will all of this have on our ability to think? And I got several comments. I think this is probably the most discussed topic that I’ve ever posted to Facebook because anyone that’s paying any attention at all realizes that things are never going to be the same again in a lot of areas. And college was just the one that was looming large for me because I’m in that industry. And so there are so many questions here. First of all, if colleges don’t figure out a way to get a handle on this, and this continues on for a protracted period of time, college degrees are going to become worthless. because obviously students are going to go in, spend five minutes answering questions with AI answers. They’re not going to learn anything. They don’t have to read their textbook. They don’t have to think through it. They don’t have to research and go find sources and read and think. So it’s just them utilizing ChatGPT or Grok3 or whatever. So parents that send their students to college are gonna know these degrees are worthless. People that are hiring individuals are going to know these degrees are worthless. Colleges will shut down left and right. And that’s why I said from the last half hour, college may be on its way to obsolescence because No one’s going to go for the reasons that I just mentioned. So it’s, yeah, if you’re already spending, if you’re spending $20 million on DEI, you better knock out that nonsense right now and devote those dollars to figuring out how you’re going to handle AI. You got to figure it out. One of the interesting things that I had one of my Facebook friends tell me is that she is in a college program right now. She never did say if I think she’s in an education program, but she said in all of her classes, they’re learning to use AI. And I thought, yeah, you’re going to that’s going to have to be. It’s going to have to be part of the curriculum. I’m just gonna see if I can find her comment. Okay, here we go. I just attended this school and most of the classes were about AI. I think it is great for helping with lesson plans and other things as a teacher, but I still have to fact check and think through the plans. Students can be taught how to use AI in a positive way. Teachers need to be trained how to teach them and to have them use it responsibly. It’s a whole new world of technology, and I agree, navigating it is tricky. So already she’s learning to use it. And I believe, since she’s a teacher, it must be an education class. And I’m just assuming then that these classes were teaching teachers how to use AI software. Teachers are learning how to use it. Students are using it to answer. Is it going to get to a point where we have AI talking to AI and the humans are just not even a part of it anymore? But again, that would make these degrees worthless. I’m going to get, hopefully, to a discussion on what this means for spirituality because I had a whole debate with a guy on Facebook about this, but… That’s another thing though, AI is also not always accurate. I have asked it questions, I use it in my day job as a lawyer, and I’ve been using it for a while, but you have to go back and double check because sometimes it will tell you something that’s wrong. So if it tells me that this statute says this, or this case law says this, I have to go and look up the statutes and the case law to make sure that’s correct. So sometimes using AI is kind of like Google. It’s like a starting point for research. It might head you in the right direction. Other times it heads you in the wrong direction and you spend longer researching than you would have otherwise because you went off on the wrong path. So AI is not perfect, however, I’ve only been using it probably for three or four months, and I can see it already getting better and better as time goes by. Which brings me to another interesting thought. I had a friend tell me that he heard prognosticators saying that because AI gets things wrong, that it’s going to go away, it’s going to disappear. That is so wrong. The genie is out of the bottle, people. There is no way that AI goes away. The only way AI ends is with an EMP. And we don’t want an EMP. We just don’t. Go read one second after if you don’t believe me. So anyway, college is the first big… I mean, I started thinking about the implications of this over the weekend in my mind about shorted out. Now, if I had AI in my brain, just kidding, I’m never going to put AI in my brain. However, you know that’s the direction it’s going to head in, right? If people are already going to turn to AI for all their answers, why would that not be the next step? Just put it in your brain. You don’t even have to get on your device. Just… Use your brain. That scares the snot out of me. I can tell you that right now. So college is the first thing. So college has got to figure out, first of all, I’m sure that eventually there will be software to detect the use of AI. And that will probably be what colleges start using. But it better happen soon. Because faculty is struggling to figure out what to do about this. And right now, I don’t think there’s any consensus on how to handle it. But they’ve got to get on board quickly before, like I said, people say college is worthless. So they’ve got to figure out. Let’s say they do. They get a software to figure out when AI is being used. And they get over that hurdle. But… Like I said, let’s just say college keeps going on and people keep going, but AI is still out there. It’s starting to be used for… Other careers, well, for example, law, okay? I think eventually there’s going to, I’m sure, 100% sure, eventually there will be an AI program that will write up trusts, long, complicated tax implication trusts, right? Something that would take lawyers hours and hours and hours. AI will be able to do it in like five minutes, okay? Does that mean the end of lawyers? I don’t think so. I think we’re always going, for one thing, you need someone to double check, someone that understands trust to go in and double check to make sure AI didn’t do something screwy. But then you’re also going to need lawyers to talk to clients to explain to them what they’re doing, how this trust is going to work. Then you’re going to need someone to implement the trust. I mean, you’re always going to need people at some level. However, you’re probably going to need fewer people. My hope is that in a lot of these areas, especially areas like law, that it will become a tool that will be very helpful, which will drop the prices, will drop the expense. So if a trust costs you $6,000 right now, maybe it’ll cost you $1,000. all of a sudden legal services would become affordable. And I don’t think it’ll put lawyers out of business. I think it’ll bring a lot more people to lawyers. That’s the hope. You know how many people are sitting out there without estate plans right now? That’s really bad. Even Prince, I don’t know what he was thinking. He died without an estate plan. Terrible. That should not happen. So I’m hoping that AI becomes a tool where it becomes more affordable and so more and more people have access to legal services than do right now. That’s my hope. And in that way, I hope that it becomes a tool. We can look at the same thing for doctors. Let’s hope that eventually it becomes a tool where AI can take a look at your medical history and a list of your symptoms and a vast medical database of information, knowledge, and quickly diagnose you and maybe give some differential diagnoses. And then the doctor can say, this is what we’ve got. Let’s try this. I don’t think we would ever wanna cut out the middleman of the doctor. I don’t want AI, I don’t wanna go in, punch my symptoms into a computer and have it spit out a diagnosis and a prescription to me. I don’t want that. I want someone that I can go in and talk to. Now, I would love for them to use that tool if it works, and then maybe doctors can see more patients and give better diagnoses. That would be a hope, right? And then maybe that would take health insurance down. The cost of health insurance could come down. Wouldn’t that be great? So again, hopefully it’s a tool. And hopefully that’s the case. And I had other people tell me that their jobs, they’ve become much better and more effective at their jobs since they started using AI. And so let’s just hope And pray, frankly, that instead of taking these jobs away, that we become better at them and more efficient. And so costs can come down. That’s just a little micro thing. Cosm of a few jobs. There are so many jobs that are going to be affected by AI I’m just hoping that because I had this nightmarish thought that a lot of jobs are gonna disappear But we’re gonna come up with some universal basic income to pay these people and it’s fine for people to get paid We don’t want anyone homeless on the street Out there unemployed not with no money, but my fear is that if we rely too heavily on AI to do all of our thinking, and then if we’re, let’s just say there’s a whole class of people sitting at home, a whole, I don’t know, 20 million people sitting at home, just in this country alone, sitting at home, not working, and bringing in this basic small income that’s just enough to let them survive. And because they don’t have to work and they don’t have that responsibility, they sit home and veg out looking at TikTok. I just picture this whole group of morons overnight. They become morons because they’re not thinking anymore. Have a question? Just go ask ChatGPT. Have a problem? Just go ask ChatGPT. I don’t need to think critically. I can just go ask ChatGPT. It’ll just give me the answer. Oh, let me go back to TikTok now. And my AI assistant will figure out my shopping for me, will send a shopping list over to Walmart, and then it’ll deliver via drone, and I can sit at home on TikTok 24-7. See, that’s the thing I fear most. I’m hoping that it doesn’t become that. That to me is a wrecking ball. When you take away someone’s motivation, someone’s accomplishments, achievements, I love it when I get paid. I feel like, look, that’s me supporting myself, supporting my kids. Wow, I think that’s great. It’s not the same thing to get a check from the government because your job has been outsourced to AI. That’s not going to be the same. There is no sense of accomplishment from getting a check from the government for doing nothing. So to me, that’s a wrecking ball, and I’m really hoping that that doesn’t happen. Another interesting thing that someone said, and I would be curious to hear your opinions on this, but someone on my Facebook group said that they went to church, someone gave a talk, and you could, if you’re not at a church where people give talks, but you have like a priest or a pastor who gives a sermon, this person got up and said, I ran out of time to write my talk, so I had AI write it. So for five minutes this person read the AI talk. The person that wrote this in Facebook said, I didn’t feel the spirit during that time. Then the person stopped reading their talk and started talking about personal experiences and then I did feel the spirit. And I thought that’s interesting. Is there a difference between an AI produced talk or sermon or one where the person had to sweat blood, sweat, and tears, basically, to write a talk where they had to go and research scriptures, research talks, think about their own personal experiences, hopefully pray for guidance, and then write it, hopefully with the help of the Spirit. I think there’s a difference. I’m curious to hear if any of you have an opinion on that. Do you? Because I had a BYU professor arguing with me, saying that I’m just making that up, that I don’t know, that God can work through AI. I don’t know. I agree that if someone reads scripture from the pulpit… People can hear the truth and recognize truth and feel the spirit from that. But I think an AI produced talk is going to be much less effective than one or someone actually took the time and listened to the spirit, frankly, while they’re writing that talk. It’s not going to come from the heart. It’s not going to come from experience. It’s going to come from chat GPT. And I don’t think it’s going to be the same. So that’s my long and short talk on AI. And that just scratched the surface. And it’s not going away. So if you have not… attempted to use AI. You’ve probably used it without even knowing it, by the way. Even when I go onto my phone and I go to ask a question at the very beginning on Google, it now uses AI. I can’t do a Google search on my phone without AI jumping in and taking over. So you may think that you’re not using it and you actually are. Anyway, if you’re not, you need to start looking into it and you need to start experimenting with it and you need to learn because it’s not going away. It’s going to become more and more pervasive. I see ads on TV all the time about AI assistance. If you’re not using AI, you’re quickly going to become one of the few people not using it. I’m not saying that’s a terrible thing, but you’re not going to know what’s going on. You’re not going to understand the world around you if you don’t understand what is being used by most people. All right. So, of course, I have less than two minutes left. Now I want to end with a news story from my favorite news source. Checkmate. Trump hits Canada with tariff of double infinity plus one. I don’t know if you’ve been following all the tariff wars. I frankly can’t even keep up. I’d like to talk about them. Maybe next week I’ll get a chance. Canada is reeling after Trump upped the ante in the trade war by slapping America’s northern neighbor with a new tariff of double infinity plus one. International trade experts say this is the strongest tariff ever imposed on a foreign nation. These tariffs are strong, very strong. Frankly, maybe the strongest ever, said Trump to reporters. There is no number higher than double infinity. But then I added a plus one to make it even higher, which no one has ever done. This will inflict more pain and suffering on Canada than ever before, which they totally deserve for taking advantage of our big, beautiful country. Sources within the administration confirmed that Trump is also considering adding a no take backs clause and a I’m rubber, you’re glue provision should Canada refuse to back down. We’re in uncharted waters here, said one economist. Double infinity plus one tariffs would completely wipe out Canada’s economy. Civilization could be wiped out, leading to mass genocide and world war. We must pray that Trump doesn’t increase these tariffs to double infinity plus infinity. If that happens, God help us all. At publishing time, Canadians had responded to the tariffs by apologizing. I’ve got to love Babylon Bee. Anyway, thank you all for listening to Annette on America, where freedom lovers gather.

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