What's it all about...AI?

This post is about artificial intelligence and I want to emphasize that the issue has become a most important focus now for where our country is headed. It's out there--AI, I mean--in all its glory and there are only a few people who understand what this new technology is capable of. I do, with limitations, having worked with the software some ten years ago in its infancy, while in the junk mail industry. To give you an idea of the value of AI, I paid $25,000 for a program that I I had to renew at $2,500 annually.

It was worth it based on the results I obtained for my clients. However, the new emphasis on AI comes from Donald Trump in the White House, where he will find ways to use it to make his administration look good, for retribution against his enemies and, of course, corruption that will put money in his pocket. Here's the scenario...

"President Donald Trump has significantly boosted AI throughout his second term — and a whistleblower confirms that major economic bubble is about to burst, and take many Americans' fortunes with it."

There's more...

“We've spent something like $1.4 trillion dollars building data centers in this country, and the revenues on AI are $600 billion,” said Alexis Goldstein, a former financial regulatory expert for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Maryland Democratic congressional candidate to The Left Hook’s Wajahat Ali on Thursday. “So the tech industry has earned not even half of what they've spent building these data centers.”

Are we to believe that Epstein compares the AI bubble with the housing bubble that gave us the great recession? If so, the hi-tech designed to make life easier and business more productive will certainly end up a cataclysm.  Donald Trump is not necessarily the source of the artificial intelligence bubble, but his policies and public promotion have actively sustained and inflated it. He's taking credit for the stock market momentum, which

Donald Trump absurd AI likenesses of himself

influences Wall Street in the following ways...

Unprecedented Deregulation: The Trump administration has aggressively pushed back against state-level AI regulations and postponed federal security or oversight orders, citing fears that strict compliance could stifle innovation and development speeds.

Infrastructure & Energy Support: To ensure American technological dominance, the White House has moved to open up federal lands and increase energy production specifically aimed at supporting the massive power needs of new AI data centers.

Voluntary Equity Stakes: The administration has explored taking direct government equity stakes in major AI and tech firms, similar to past equity agreements made with companies like Intel.

Market Volatility: While his "run-it-hot" economic strategy and tax incentives have fueled tech spending, his broader economic policies—such as sweeping global tariffs—have simultaneously introduced market volatility, occasionally triggering broad stock sell-offs across the tech sector.

Wall Street and the tech industry have initiated an impulsive drive, like a rolling ball gathering moss, except this ball is gathering gullible investors who mistakenly believe all is safe, with no risk, or, at least very little. It is like everything else Trump touches, he jumps in and generates all that he can for the home team and then bails, leaving everyone else in the lurch. The problem here is that T-rump may have created something he will soon lose control

over and his departure will leave more than disgruntled Americans.

Anthropic, the developers of the most recent and most powerful AI software say that it is only a matter of time before it can clone itself and will not need a human to advance to commands that only the program has control over. Both scary and a warning of what is to come, especially in the wrong hands. Anthropic adds...

"That is likely to create a feedback loop in which AI systems create even more sophisticated successors."

If you want more and can understand coding for writing algorithms, you will definitely want to read this article by Anthropic, "When AI builds itself."

Anthropic has been all over the media with its warnings...

"that humans risk losing control over AI systems in the very near future if a concerning trend with its Claude model continues."

More about Claude...

"The $1 trillion startup revealed that Claude now writes more than 80 per cent of its own code – up from less than 10 per cent in February last year.

"Anthropic claims that the Claude-written code is currently roughly at parity to human-written code, and is expected to be much better within the next year." 

The article is a warning of future problems if we don't maintain some control over this new phenomena. Those controls must persist throughout the world, as well as in the U.S. There's not much we can do about foreign countries determined to use this technology to do harm. There is, however, something we can do in the U.S. This will require the removal of Donald Trump from the White House and a full sweep of Congress for the Democrats in November.

It is obvious Anthropic wants to control Claude for the good of future AI technology that can benefit the world rather than destroy it. Sure, there will be grifters like Donald Trump who capitalize only on what this new technology can do for them, pushing things to the brink, where both industry and the government will have to step in. It always happens when there is greed present. We are emerging from a dark period where the conservative radical right has almost destroyed our democracy and the right to pursue new ventures like Claude. 

I hate making this political, but after what Donald Trump has done to this country, he has made it all about himself and his minions, their efforts to tear down everything our forefathers created. You know what to do in November!