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Keep Your AI on a Leash

Before you ask AI to tell you anything about yourself, pause.Before you ask AI to tell you anything about yourself, pause. We can't control AI. Founders and thinkers such as Michael Bhaskar and Mustafa Suleman (The Coming Wave) have written extensively about its impact and scale. It is impossible for individuals to make a large-scale… Continue reading Keep Your AI on a Leash

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The Power of a Reoccurring Message

(Caveat and apology: I'd like to write 100% of each post myself and have AI edit and revise my entry but now that CoPilot is integrated so well into MS Word it just wants to take command and write the whole thing itself. I asked it (in many ways) to just guide me with prompts… Continue reading The Power of a Reoccurring Message

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Humble thought to think over the holidays

Being humble is a very Canadian trait, whether a stereotype or not, that is one thing that defines us as a Canadian but be clear on what it means to be humble. I am humble when I say I am not a good drummer, that others are much better than I am when I know… Continue reading Humble thought to think over the holidays

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Stop Training AI to take our jobs and with it our authenticity 

In a recent National Post article (December 6, 2025), How a ‘bleak’ job market is pushing white-collar workers to train AI that could one day replace them, Joel Blit, an economics professor at the University of Waterloo brings to our attention that “To some extent, workers are training the very machines that are going to… Continue reading Stop Training AI to take our jobs and with it our authenticity 

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Why AI? Deepfake apps create only problems and no benefits

My son introduced me to the Grok app. I'm not promoting it so I won't add a link. You look it up if want. He showed me videos him and his friends made. They were completely innocent and fun but I felt a wave of nausea because I realized that in seconds a deep fake… Continue reading Why AI? Deepfake apps create only problems and no benefits