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Good afternoon, everybody. This is Bill Anderson. I’m in for John today, and hopefully he’s having a good time off. Hopefully everybody had a good Labor Day week this week, and this week we want to talk about AI and the future. Quite interesting topic. Will it take over the future? Will it replace jobs? What do we do about it? And so, first of all, we must understand that it is not a matter of when ai gets here it’s already here we have actually had it into our system it’s been incorporated into our lives for a long time now a lot of our search engines whether it’s lexus or even anything from the phone now is all ai driven what does that look like for us And if you have comments and questions, make sure you can call in or text the line. John will make sure I get that if I do, and Luke will patch it through if you do call and have comments on these things. But a lot of people, I think, are placing their heads in the sand. Their heads are in the clouds with this whole conversation of AI. A lot of people are saying, you know what, I’m just not going to deal with it. And if you choose not to deal with it, that’s fine, but the rest of the world is. So you might have a tough battle ahead of you. We’ll have some comparisons here today as we look at self-checkouts and the system there and bucking that and the cost of job loss and what that looks like. We just got back from Phoenix. That’s why we were on the part of the radio last week. We were in Phoenix. And As we were leaving the airport, I lost count of how many times I looked at and was trying to count the driverless cars. They’re all over the place in Phoenix, and I know that’s kind of one of the places that they’re kind of launching that, but it’s also in California. And, you know, I thought that’ll never happen in Colorado because of the weather. And then I thought about it a little bit more, and I’m like, nope, they’re going to figure it out. They’re going to figure out how those cars can drive in the weather, in snowstorms, you know, and it’s coming to a theater near you. I guarantee it. And a lot of people are like, well, I’m just not going to do it. I’m not going to get in those cars. And actually, there’s some people that kind of said, you know, we need to take the human element out of it because of the distractions and People are on their phones. People are causing a lot of accidents, not paying attention, not driving correctly. And these cars, even though they’re robots, take the human error out. And some people feel more safe in a human-less driving car than they do with a human in there. So will AI effectively have an effect on the economy, I guess I should say? Will it happen? Well, it is projected by the year 2030 that 30% of jobs will be replaced by AI. 30% of jobs. Clerical, retail, fast food, trucking, even parts of the legal medical world, they’re at risk. Anything that involves data entry, well, that can be done by a computer easily. And let’s be honest, there’s a lot of jobs out there that they’re not really necessary. There’s a lot of jobs out there that are created that can be easily replaced by a machine. You know, the industrial revolution, the machine replaced the muscle. Well, in the AI revolution, the machine is going to replace the decision-making machine. of the human. So you’ve already got the muscle replaced. Now you’ve got the decision making replaced. There’s a danger with that. You know, you might be thinking, hey, what are some AI safe jobs? And that’s a tough question. You know, if you want to send your ideas in or call in and have a discussion about it, I’d love it. Because as I was thinking about this, I used to think, hey, the service industry is great. It’s going to be foolproof. It’s not going to fall through with AI. It’s going to withstand. Then I started to think about the total impact. The total impact of a 30% job loss. Let’s think about that. America’s economical system is based 70% upon consumerism. Now, if you take 30% of the jobs out there and you cut them, What does that do to your consumer spending? And just to give you a little bit of perspective on this, the Great Depression had a 25% job loss. So this is even greater than the Great Depression. It’s going to go away. In fact, a lot of this stuff is already taking place. When you call for tech support, you’re talking to a machine. When you type in for a chat support on your computer, you’re talking to a machine. You’re not talking to a person anymore. That’s easily replaced. All they’re doing is asking you questions, and then they’re going through the algorithm, checking boxes to come up with an answer. Think about that. I mean, the doctors are doing the same thing now. That’s what the humans are doing. The humans are going, okay, what’s the symptoms? Okay, this says something. If you’ve got a headache, it goes to here. Okay, check these things. How are these things going? They’re just going through a checklist anymore. True physicians that actually look at the body and try to diagnose what’s going on, those days are gone. Few and far between. And those physicians usually don’t last in the system. Usually they have to go start their own practice because they’re not going along with the system. They’re not just prescribing the things that they’re being told to. to subscribe because the drug industry is promoting and funding all of it. And so they’re just going through check-in boxes. Guess what? A machine can do that. A machine can go, hey, what’s your symptoms? I type them in or I talk it in or whatever. And it says, okay, here’s your prescription. And then it goes down to the automated pharmacy and the robot fills your prescription. Yeah, when we were at the Phoenix airport, they had, you know, human-less coffee shops and There were convenience stores where you go pull the things off the shelf, you scan them, and you leave. And don’t think those aren’t going to work because of theft. No, they’re going to have a fix for that too real soon. They’ll have a fix for that. Pretty soon they’ll be putting in, you know, the chips or whatever into your body. So whatever’s in your pocket, whatever’s in your hand you walk out of the store with, boom, it just instantly charges you. So there’s other things that they can do. They will figure it out. Think about this. This AI is learning at such a rapid pace that three weeks from now, you have a more developed, educated system than you have at this very moment. And then you go another three weeks and it’s now further educated based on the learning from the previous three weeks. The compound of knowledge that is increasing with this thing, you’re going to run into a thing called overspeed where it’s just going to go so fast that at some point it will probably collapse. But you’re having this thing learn quicker and quicker and quicker at a rapid pace. Think of the poker bots. When all this first started, they had, hey, you could play poker against the machine. The human element would beat the poker bots every single time until they started learning And then they kept up. Now, poker masters can’t beat it because it has learned the game. And that’s what it’s designed to do. And why will people buy into it? Because they’re lazy. They’re complacent. They want convenience. Think about this for a moment. Self-checkouts. You know, when we… First, we’re introduced to self-checkouts. We’re like, no, we’re not going to do it. We want a person. We’re going to go to a person. But now you go to a store and there’s no cashiers. Or the one cashier that is there has a line that’s so long and you’ve got places to go, people to see. And you’re like, I can’t wait in line. And you find yourself checking yourself out. Now, here’s the thing. Now, if I use the self-checkout, shouldn’t I get 10% off? Because haven’t I replaced the labor? Yeah, you don’t see any discount for that, do you? Nope. You know, when I stand in line and someone says, hey, the shelf checkup’s open, I say, no, I’d rather go to this real person over here. They get irritated at you. Even the employees working at the store will get irritated at you for not using the shelf checkout. Why? Because they have to work. You go to a McDonald’s now, you have to order by your app. They have a concept store in Texas where they’re trying to make a fully automated McDonald’s. It’s not fully automated yet. There’s still human interaction there. But all ordering and everything is done via online or through your app. That’s going to go away, folks. That will go away. And this is where your 30% job loss is. Yes, it’s going to impact teachers. I don’t need to listen to that human. especially as the human opinion becomes more and more extreme. People aren’t going to tolerate it. They’re going to be like, yeah, let’s just get the facts. I don’t want your input. I don’t want your political bias. Just teach me the topic. A computer is not going to have that. It can be programmed. Don’t get me wrong. Yeah, I know people are going to be saying, but they can be programmed. Yes, they can. But it’s a lot less volatile than a human. So teachers, I mean, lawyers, paralegals, doctors, pharmacists, judges. I mean, you can go down the list. All of these jobs, which we think are safe, are on the line. Okay, but what about the service industry? You know, we’re electricians over here at, you know, Arc Electric. That’s one of our main things that we do. I’m safe. I’m safe because, you know what, a robot can’t come and do my machine. Okay, cool. Great. But remember, there’s a 30% job loss. And so somebody’s lights go out, but they don’t have a job. They can’t afford to pay you. So there is going to be an impact on the service industry because things aren’t going to get fixed if people don’t have money. So there is an impact. Now, their small businesses are going out of business because nobody can afford them. Not only that, but now you’re going to have an excess of people coming in to do those jobs. Now, those lawyers and those doctors, all of a sudden, they’re going to be handymen. They’re going to be like, hey, I’ll come in there and do that. The other side of this is the more and more that we demand higher pay. The more and more we demand, hey, I need personal paid time off, I need health insurance, I need 401K, it drives the prices up. And now you’ve got an employee that says, you know, I just don’t feel like going to work today. I’m going to take a paid day off, or I feel like being some other gender today, or I feel like being a kitty cat today, or I feel like being whatever today. Guess what? A computer doesn’t do that. A computer doesn’t get sick. A computer doesn’t get tired. A computer doesn’t want Labor Day off. It doesn’t even care about Labor Day, Saturday or Sunday. So the more these people push these things, the more they’re pushing themselves into their own demise, and they don’t even realize it. Because when the economy crashes and everybody’s losing their jobs, now, The wages are going to go down because there’s 100 people in line for your job, and you’re going to play that game of, hey, I don’t feel like it today. Okay, great. You’re done because the guy behind you sure feels like it. And by the way, he’s going to do the job less than you did it. So, guys, this has got a big, huge impact coming our way. And it’s not if it comes, but it’s when it comes. And they’re projecting this in five years, 30% job loss. 30% job loss. AI learns and adapts just like everything else. Just like the muscle replaced the machine that I talked about. It will get there. And there could be a day where you pull your car into the garage, they plug it in, right? We already have that. Read the computer, see what the fault codes are. You plug it in, the machine, the AI, diagnoses your car and then spits out, hey, we need to replace this item. And now instead of technicians, true mechanics, now you have installers. And that’s all they do is replace parts, install parts. And there’s no value in that. You know, if all you are is a part swapper – I don’t need to pay you a lot of money. Anybody can do that. Anybody can replace something. I can train you for that. I’ve been in the union for 30 years. I still am. And there was a time when the apprenticeship was the creme de la creme of training. It was the best. Not so much anymore. And I, for two and a half years, was in charge of the training program in Denver. And I fought them tooth and nail. And they’re like, well, we’ve always done it this way. I said, yeah, they were real good at making wagon wheels, but they don’t need them anymore. So unless you start learning how to make other things, you’re going to work yourselves out of the job. You’re going to become a dinosaur. And that’s exactly what they’ve done. They’ve got installers now. There’s no true mechanics. I’m not going to say that is an absolute. There are some in there. But every journeyman that I’ve had to hire from the hall, I’ve had to teach how to be a troubleshooting electrician because they’re all installers. You’re on the pipe crew. You’re on the wire pulling crew. You’re on the trim crew, the switch gear crew, whatever it is. And that’s all you did. And if you got real good at it, oh, they kept you there. Now the big thing is they’ve got prefab shops. And all these apprentices will go and spend their four years in a prefab shop, bending up 190s or whatever it is, prefab and boxes. And they ship them out to the installers to put them in. Something was wrong. They can’t fix it. They got to call in the troubleshooting guy to figure it out. So you see where AI has the advantage and employers aren’t going to put up with it. And the consumer is going to go right along for the ride. So all of these industries could see a rapid shrinking. Think of what Uber did to taxis. Well, now the driverless cars are going to do that to Uber. Think about medicine, law, transportation, and even trades where this is all going to come in to an issue here very, very soon. And productivity with the machines will skyrocket. The demand for human labor will drop, pushing wages down. So what do we do about it? That’s kind of the question. Now that we’ve built the scenario, part of ready radio here is how do we ready ourselves for what will come? You can choose either to push against the system or you can choose to utilize the system. But that choice is yours. And it ain’t going to go away. And the majority of the population, they’re going to go with it. So you’ve got to decide, what am I going to do here? And so when we come back after this first break, we’re going to talk about things we can do to prepare, to ready ourselves for the AI future. So we’ll talk about this after the break. Don’t forget, call in or send us a text, and we’ll answer any of those comments or questions. In the meantime, 560-KLZ.

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And welcome back. So the text line number is 307-200-8222. Send your text over to there or the call number 303-477-5600. We’d love to hear your comments and what your thoughts are about AI and the future, whether you agree or disagree. I’d love to have a chat about it, but what can we do about it? Because that’s, it’s coming in my opinion, it’s already here. Is it going to get worse? Is it going to get any better? We don’t know. We don’t know, but we can prepare against it. That’s the whole idea of this radio show. It’s the whole idea of what we talk about on our website, Prep to Protect, where we prep to protect against whatever it may be. So in this case, AI, one thing that we can do is we can start to reskill our lifestyles, right? Adjust our lifestyles in AI-resistant areas, right? So, yeah, trades will be a risk and partially, but that’ll be down the road probably a little bit more, a lot more, you know, a lot more years before, you know, we actually see a robot walk in. However, they do have a robot that’s making an omelet now that can crack the egg and dice all the stuff and fry it up and do everything. So, you know, one of the biggest things with Tesla is Tesla is making a lot of its money now in this arena with the robotics and technology. and AI and not so much in the cars, but, um, they’re going that direction with it because they see the future of it. And they’ve got some pretty big advancements in that area already. But we can also focus on roles meeting the human trust. Yeah, there is an element that the human trust, the human emotion, the creativity, the empathy, regulation, and all these things, you know, you can’t replace those. Yeah, you can become super black and white with robotics. Yes and no, yes and no, very analytical things. But human needs to still be involved in some things so we can focus on roles that are going to be there. Heck, I even think my role as a pastor, hey, that could be replaced pretty easy because people can stop going to church and just start asking all their questions and doing their Bible studies through AI now. We saw that with COVID. COVID, everybody got real used to online church, and now they’re watching it from home. Well, now that it’s all back to normal, what have they done? Well, they just didn’t go back to church. Now they’re like, oh, I’ll stream that later. Well, later never happens, and then they slip into that rut, and now they’re stuck in it. But we can leverage AI. Don’t compete with it, but leverage it. And this is a big thing. If you learn to use it, Whether you like it or not, it can actually be an advantage to you. Learn to use the tools to multiply your output. There’s a thing called the polymath, which poly means many and math means learning. Many learning, things like, or people like Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Capi, these guys were masters of many things. They knew a lot about many different areas. And we can easily do that, like no time ever before. You know, we don’t have to sit down and research through a bunch of books. We don’t have to go to the library anymore. We don’t have to do any of that stuff. We can ask a question. And the way that, you know, chat GPT or whatever AI you happen to have has resources, all of these billions of resources that it can pull up at lightning speed. You know, even if you take the smartest person in the world, there’s some brain processing that has to happen. And that takes time. With AI, it’s almost instantaneous. Give me a list of all these things. Boom, boom, boom, boom. It’s remarkable how fast it is. So you can actually use this. Use this to your advantage. You can say, hey, ChatGPT, I want to learn this topic. And, you know, here’s what I have on hand. Here’s what my knowledge is about this. And then you tell it, hey, your role is you’re a master at this particular topic. Give me a learning program. Give me some articles, some resources. Give me some YouTube videos. Give me some books to read. Give me three of each. Give me an eight-week learning program on this topic, and it will spit it out. You know, I even did it. It’s like, hey, give me a workout plan. Yeah, personal trainers, you’re going to be in trouble. Well, I know. I know. You’ve got to look at the form. And guess what? You turn your camera on and you have ChatGPT watch your form and critique your form. Yeah, you’re not safe. It’s not safe. So just whatever you can imagine, they’re already figuring it out, okay? So winners in this race will be humans that utilize AI, not humans who will fight it. I’m going to tell you that right now because you’re not going to fight the system. Diversity, you need to have diverse streams of income, multiple. It’s not like the days of old, you know, where you’ve got a career and you did that career for X amount of years and that career took you from start to finish. You have to have multiple streams of income. In fact, we go back to that polymath idea. And if you’re really just a master of one, when that one collapses, you’re done. It’s a one and done thing. Think of all those people that put all their money learning and all their education into computer coding back in the 90s and stuff. In the 80s, when I was in school, they’re like, yeah, you don’t need to do the trades. Those are for the people that aren’t very smart, which was me, by the way. But you can’t do that. You’ve got to go to college and you’ve got to get a tech IT. It was a big push on that. And now that market is so saturated, those people don’t make any money. And now… their jobs are gone. Hey, we got computers to do that now. We don’t need you no more. So you have to diversify your income. You got to have some side things going on, side businesses, and you can turn your hobby into a business. And I know once you turn your hobby into a business, it’s no longer a hobby. I get that. But you can take what you’re doing and figure out how can I make a little bit of extra money on this. If you’re growing a garden, Hey, maybe I can, you know, take a little bit extra of what I’m growing and I can sell it. I can make seed. I can do whatever. You know, I’m not going to sit here and give you a prescription on what to do because the principle is there and the principle is universal. You know, if you’re into firearms, can you teach, can you do whatever you got to do to teach firearm classes? You know, and a lot of people say, well, I can’t teach anything. Listen, here’s what I tell everybody. If you know more than somebody else, Whatever that topic is, if you know more than them, you can teach them. So as long as you know more than the people you’re teaching, yeah, you can teach them. Then hopefully, as you are teaching, you are now learning more, so you progressively go up in level so that they can always stay under you. I remember when I started teaching Krav Maga. I was just thinking about this the other day. I’ve been teaching it for years. You know when I started teaching Krav Maga? When I was a green belt. That’s like pretty early in the belt system. Well, guess who? I wasn’t teaching brown belts and black belts. Well, maybe I was, but anyway. But I wasn’t teaching them primarily. No, I was teaching the new students. I was teaching the white belts because I knew more than them. And I was able to share with them the knowledge that I did have. So don’t think that you can’t teach because whatever knowledge you have, you can share. There’s somebody out there that doesn’t know that much. about that topic and you can teach them. So yeah, some kind of a side business, some kind of a barter, bartering is great. We can go into a whole topic about that. Do you know when you buy something, typically there’s four people that get paid. There’s the manufacturer, then there’s the distributor, okay, and then there’s the retailer. Then if you’re in the service industry, right, in like my case, right, the customer. So somebody produces a circuit breaker. That circuit breaker is sold from the manufacturer to the distributor. I go and I buy it from the distributor, and then I take that circuit breaker from the distributor, and I sell it to you. So four people have gotten paid there, but there’s a common denominator in all of that. The government has been paid every single time. So they’re getting four pieces of it. And this, by the way, is why so much has become disposable, and the government has pushed towards that. Because you don’t get paid if you fix something. I can’t tax me fixing something. But I can tax you again if I have to replace it. That’s why your TVs don’t last. They’re not repairable. That’s why your dishwashers, your refrigerators, your appliances, yeah, you can’t fix those anymore. You’ve got to go buy a new one. You got to go buy a new phone every six months because those people, three or four levels, whatever it is, whatever you’re talking about, there’s at least three levels, the manufacturer, distributor, and then the retailer. There’s at least three levels where somebody is getting paid. And this will blow your mind, too. So you say, well, I’ve already paid for the tax when I buy. Okay, so as an electrician, I go buy the circuit breaker from Home Depot. I pay the tax from Home Depot. I don’t pass the tax on to the consumer. Okay, so they don’t get paid on that. But here’s the deal. When I go apply for your permit now, The permit asks me how much the material versus the labor is. I have to break that down. And then they charge me according to the material. So I’m paying another tax. It’s crazy how much the government is milking everybody. And you can, by the way, get away from that by bartering, which is trading, buying used, you know, creating these communities. where we kind of, you know, self-sustained, if you will, yeah? And you would think, well, the prices will go down, kind of like the self-checkout. No, the prices are still going to stay the same. But what kind of a side business can you do? What you want to do is you want to have some kind of a side business. You want to start preparing people. to take care of yourself, become as self-sufficient as you can. And by the way, nobody will ever become 100% self-sufficient, so therefore you need to develop communities. Maybe I produce a whole bunch of eggs and my neighbor produces a whole bunch of lettuce. Well, I don’t need to produce lettuce. I just need to trade some of my eggs for some of his lettuce and we’re good. He doesn’t need to produce eggs because I’m producing eggs. We’re trading them. You need to focus on energy independence. Because that’s a critical thing in our world today. We’ve got to have juice. We’ve got to have the energy. And we can’t be dependent upon the government to give it to us. So we’ve got to create systems and ways to create our own energy or to keep our energy. We’ve also got to think about our food production. I don’t care who you are. I don’t care where you live. You can start to produce, at some scale, some food. The most simplest you can do is sprouts. Everybody can do that. All you need is a mason jar. That’s it. And you can start to create some sprouts to create some food production for yourself. And then you level it up. Not everybody’s on two and a half acres like I am. Not everybody can have chickens and rabbits and a huge garden. Not everybody can do that. I get it, but you can do something. See, people who have all these excuses really just don’t want to do anything. They really lack the want to. They’re more focused on what they can’t do. If you take that energy on what you can’t do and put it on what you can do, now we’re getting somewhere. Also, we can start to look at the new learning models online. Like I said, you can teach your skill set. And we can start to look, hey, how can I make some extra money online? Maybe I’m selling something. Maybe I’m teaching something, whatever it may be. You can also build local resilience as more industries collapse due to automation, local service networks, neighborhood community centers, bartering system, churches, homestead traders, these will gain a lot of importance. It’s interesting with our church, we’ve kind of been doing that lately. The past couple of years, we’re having, you know, after service, we’ll have what we call little lunch and learns, and we’ll be like, hey, let’s teach everybody how to can. Let’s teach everybody how to have a quick little vehicle survival, you know, kit in their car. Let’s teach everybody how to do oil. I mean, we open it up for topics, and we ask people to request topics, and then we’ll go out and we’ll teach them. We’ve got so much skill set within our churches. We’ve got, you know, We’ve got EMTs that can come in. We’ve got nurses that can come in and teach us wound care and maybe some first aid stuff. We’ve got people that can teach self-defense and gun, and we’ve got people that know how to sew and knit, and they come in and they do a class, and it just goes on and on and on. And now we’re starting a seed bank in our church. So we can start to swap seeds, not to save the $1.95 from the seed pack from the store, but the importance with seed saving is you are now growing a seed that is becoming resilient and accustomed to your climate. And so that seed knows how to grow in my soil, at my elevation, in my conditions, and every year it’s going to get stronger and stronger and stronger. That’s really the importance with seed saving, by the way. But all of this stuff can, you know, start to look for community, start to look for people, those bartering systems. Hey, what do you got? You got lettuce? I got eggs. Let’s start swapping. And, you know, you can use Facebook and get into some groups and find like-minded people and support. Don’t be a leech, a leech that just sucks everything, all the information for everybody. Be a supporter. Like in our little group that I have, someone says, hey, I’m going to do a soap making class. Do I really need to take a soap making class? No, but I’ll support you. I’ll go and I’ll pay you your $50 for your class because I’m supporting you. And then when I have a class, guess who comes? They come. We support each other. Got to build that network there. But skills like growing food, repairing items, Leadership in the community, they will hold the value when everything else collapses. So you need to build these things. The other thing you can do is you can start to look for policies that the government is pushing. Universal basic income, UBI, or heavy, heavy regulation. These are the stopgaps that we’re going to look at and start to look at where the trends are going and what’s happening. We need to understand these aren’t solutions. These are short-term patches that aren’t going to fix anything. And the more regulation you get, the less control you have. So AI is not coming. It’s here. And if you’re waiting for someone to protect your job, to put in a regulation or to raise the minimum wage or to, force the employer to give you a retirement and to take care of your health insurance. You know, that’s a whole other topic that just people are so irresponsible that they have to mandate that the government says, oh, you have to now pay for the health insurance of your employee. I mean, think about that. People are crying for that. You know, well, you need to make the employer have health insurance on us. Why? Because you couldn’t do it yourself because you couldn’t budget your own, you know, your own stuff. Now I know what the people are going to say. Well, they don’t pay us enough. It’s all perpetual. You increase the minimum wage. The employer isn’t going to go, Oh, okay. I’ll just eat that cost. Because I’ll be honest with you, with all the regulation and with all the demands of what it costs to have an employee, and now I got to put up with, hey, I don’t know if this employee is going to show up today because maybe he feels like a kitty cat or whatever it may be. I don’t know. You know, that’s the number one least predictable outcome of a job. That’s the uncontrollable factor in all of my estimates that I do is the labor factor. I know the cost of the material. I know what it should take to get that job done. But let’s say that employee today woke up with a bad attitude, woke up a little sick. And now, you know, instead of giving me eight for eight, I got one hour. Well, I can go on a rant of this. I was at Home Depot yesterday, you know, and I had to use the restroom. And, you know, I go in there and all of the stalls were full. And they’re all Home Depot employees. How do I know that? Because I could see their orange aprons hanging on the hook and dangling down below the door there. All of them were orange. And I’m like, okay. So I go out and I do some more shopping, about 10 or 15 minutes. I don’t know what the time was to come back. They’re still in there. I was half tempted to take a paint bucket and fill it up with water and throw it over the thing. I mean, they’re in there on their phones hiding. And it’s like, you know, people need to use those things. It really irritated me yesterday. But you see this time and time again. You know, so they’re the unpredictable. I don’t know, am I going to get eight for eight today, or am I going to get two hours for your eight hours? Because you’re going to sit in the truck and not feel good, or, you know, you’re going to not be the right frame of mind, and you’re going to make mistakes, and now we’ve got to go back. And, man, I tell you what, Throw a computer in there that doesn’t have that as an employer. Sign me up. Right? Because the more we push for higher demands, higher pay, more benefits, oh, I need this, I need this, I need this, you’re going to push the employers away because the employers can’t control it. I mean, look at it now. You see help wanted signs everywhere. You go into, I was in Home Depot again today. Couldn’t find somebody to help me unlock the wire cage so I can buy some wire. Had to go to the customer service. Then they had to page somebody. He’s probably sitting in the toilet on his phone. Anyway, text number 307-200-8222. Call the number 303-477-5600. Love to hear your comments if you got any. And when we come back, we’ll finish this topic, 560-KLZ.

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All right, welcome back. We are talking about the AI future and how to be ready for it and what we can do to protect ourselves from what I think the future is going to be. It’s going to have a major impact. All things are indicating that by the year 2030, we could see up to a 30% loss of jobs or replacement of jobs. And it’s kind of hard to believe. People might say, I don’t think that’s going to happen, but it can literally happen overnight. Not only this, but let’s talk about something here in this last segment here of AI and also the death of privacy, where this could have a personal impact on us. You see, AI tracks everything. And they’ve been conditioning us this for a long time. Think of the reward cards. You go into a store and they’re like, hey, what’s your number? Don’t you want reward points? We were at a store there in Arizona. I think it was called Cal Ranch. And it’s equivalent to a Murdoch’s or a Tractor Supply or a Big R’s. Well, it’s a ranch store. And we had bought some stuff and we were checking out and they’re like, you have a number with us? And we’re like, no. And they’re like, would you like a number? And I’m like, no, we don’t live here. And you could totally see with her attitude. She’s like, oh, it was like we were the weird ones because we didn’t put our number in there. And, you know, they’re conditioning you with this. Well, hey, you can save 10% or you can save this or you can get on our mailing list and get special deals. And they’re already conditioning you this. And all it is is a tracking system. AI is tracking everything. You know, you start talking about something with your friend, and then all of a sudden on your Facebook feed or your Google feed, you’re seeing whatever you were talking about being advertised to you. So the purchases, the browsing, your phone calls, the voice recordings in your home, everything is happening. The other danger of this is how it can, you know, emulate something. I’ve got this. I downloaded this app called Speechify. And it’s a text reading program so that I can, you know, load my Kindle books in there and I can have it read to me because, you know, I buy a lot of Kindle books. But, you know, I listen to a lot of stuff when I’m driving or when I’m working or, you know, whatever. And so I’m listening. And you can choose, you know, different celebrities’ voices. Now, I know that the celebrities didn’t sit there and read all those. No. You see, my daughter did this to me. She’s like, hey, just say a couple of words. And I said a couple words, and then all of a sudden, it was reading some random text in my voice. And so, yeah, you can be deceived. Hey, the president said this, or this official said this, or this person said that, or you said this. I never said that. Well, here’s the recording. Not only this, but they’re doing it with video now. You know, there’s concerts. They’re bringing back concerts, virtual concerts. Go to a virtual concert of Elvis. You know, Elvis is, I’m sorry, he’s gone. He’s not still living in Las Vegas. He’s gone, right? But you can watch a concert. They’re adding in people. They’ve been doing this with, they did this, you know, in the Star Wars movies where they put Carrie Fisher back in after she passed away. I mean, they did it with other characters too. But there’s some dangers with this. And you don’t know what you’re watching if it was AI generated or not. but what you’re listening to, if it was AI generated or not. So that portion is already here. Facial recognition. I was listening to the show about this hacker and he says, oh yeah, he says he took a picture and then within seconds it took that image and searched all of the internet and the whole entire internet of images of you and it brought them all up. And it’s like, well, I didn’t even know I was in that picture. Yeah, you were just, you know, a bystander of somebody else’s picture. You know, you involuntary photobombed that picture and it found you. They’re saying that they have the technology to find one person in a football stadium found. So it’s there. Now, who’s doing this? Well, it doesn’t matter. Corporations, government, anybody can be finding out where you are. And you can have nothing to do about it. There’s pictures and there’s cameras everywhere. You know, everybody wants a ring doorbell. I don’t have a ring doorbell. I’m kind of against them. One, because they’re super easy to hack. But two, you’re just feeding information into the system. They’re able to track your movements. They’re able to track who’s coming to your door. It’s adding more data of that person’s space in there. Can’t stand it. Yeah, don’t tell me that it’s not connected to the Internet. There’s vacuums that are connected to Chinese servers. Now, why does my vacuum need to be attached to a Chinese server? I don’t know. Things that make you go, hmm? Remember the Arsenio Hall days? So all of this stuff is going to have impact. Now they’re going to be able to use your information against you. Think about insurance companies. Hey, we’ve noticed your driving record here, your driving history. You know, we’ve got this little app that’s tracking you. Well, I didn’t sign up for that. They don’t even have to tell you. They don’t even have to tell you. employers can start to look at it and go, you know, I’m looking at your health history here. You’re not so healthy. I’m not going to hire you. They can monitor your keystrokes. They can monitor, see, hey, is he at the keyboard or is he, you know, on his phone in the bathroom? I’m not going to give that one up, by the way. That’s irritating, you know. That’s not a break room. It’s a bathroom. Drives me nuts. They’re going to be monitoring this. They’re going to be tracking, oh, that same Cal Ranch store? And I’ve seen them here locally in Colorado in Walmart. They have a robot that’s going up and down the aisle, and it’s scanning the inventory. That’s a Sam’s Club here, you know? You push your buggy through there. You’re pushing it through these big old things. And I’m like, what are those things doing? It’s scanning your cart. So, you know, you go to Costco, they’re looking at everything, checking everything off. Now a machine’s doing it at Sam’s Club. And it’s a red light, green light. The red light comes on, that person comes over and goes, hey, we didn’t catch everything. Let me just double check. Green light, they got everything. You can go right on through. So you can definitely look forward to that. So AI and dependency. So now once everything becomes automated and everything becomes controlled by this, people forget how to do things. This is a big misclaimer. People are like, you know, the people in the 1800s were so dumb. They weren’t very smart. You know, the people in medieval times weren’t very smart. We’re so advanced. It’s irritating because, you know, no, we’re not. We’re not. We’re dumber now. The more we allow technology to do our thinking for us, we’re not smarter. Think about this when you were a kid. How many phone numbers did you memorize? You probably still even know the phone number of your childhood home, your childhood friends. How many people know numbers now? I just go to my contact list on my phone. I don’t remember numbers. We’re not smarter. We’re getting dumber. We’re getting more dependent upon technology. And microwave don’t work. I don’t know how to cook. You know, I know people that don’t know how to cook and they eat out every night or they got to have something in a box. They couldn’t imagine. you know, making something from scratch, even if plumbers and electricians get replaced by robots, humans will still stop learning those skills. Doesn’t matter what trade it is, what context it is. And then if AI goes down, now you got the robots to come fix your home. Now you can’t get your car fixed, even if you could afford it. Power goes down, you can’t cook your food. can navigate with GPS. I told you the story that when we got new phones, we had to go, we were in the Parker T-Mobile store and they didn’t have the phone that I wanted. So I had to drive to the Castle Rock one. And so my phone was already disconnected offline. And I go out there and I get my car and I’m like, all right, bring up the maps to the Castle Rock T-Mobile. And it was like, oh, no network. And I’m like, I don’t know how to get there. We had to go back in there, and we had to ask them where the store was. Guess what? They didn’t know either. So they’re like, okay, let’s get you connected to Wi-Fi in the store, download the directions, and then you can go from there. We were both just very, very silly. I mean, it was unbelievable how both of us were like so dependent upon our maps. Can you navigate the city without your Googles? Guys, we have to not just prep for job loss, but we have to talk about the prepping, getting ready for the AI future and the potential failure. Warfare is going to be cyber warfare in the future. Like I said, why does my vacuum have to be to the Chinese server? Well, because they can shut it down. They can shut it down. And by the way, Whoever has the largest, most powerful AI will ultimately have the largest, most powerful military. So there is a race. We can’t as Americans just sit back and go, well, we don’t need to do it. We’re going to take a back seat because if you hand that over to China or to Russia or to any of these other countries and they take the lead and they have the control of it, they have control over everything. They have it. You get a digital overload when everything goes through. It overloads the system. You get that runaway speed that we talked about, and it all goes down. Networks crash. What are you going to do? All right, guys. Until next week, great talking to you. We’ll see you. Always be ready.

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