Rock Solid Families
Rock Solid Families
Using and Protecting Our Kids in the World of A.I. Ep 301 Episode
Like it or not, it's here. The world of Artificial Intelligence , A.I., is fast tracking to be one of the most powerful innovations mankind has ever experienced. Many are excited, many are skeptical, and many many more are flat out scared!
It's one thing to think about A.I. as an adult and how you will manage it, but the concern many parents have is, "what about our kids?". Technology has proved to be extremely helpful in our lives, but it has also proved to be extremely dangerous. In fact, it is not the technology itself that is helpful or dangerous, it is how we choose to use it. A.I. is no different.
Recently, Merrill and Linda attended a training that discussed the use of and the pros and cons of A.I. Today's show is a discussion of this new technology and the things we should consider as it becomes more and more prevalent.
As with most technologies, there is always the naysayer that can never see how or why anyone would ever adopt the use of this new technology. But, one big take away from our training is that we have an opportunity to pull our head out of the sand and jump in to get ahead of all that is good and bad in order to make an informed decision.
The technology of A.I. is nothing short of amazing, but in the wrong hands, it could be destructive. As parents, you have a responsibility to be the keeper of the gate in terms of its use in your home. Don't be ignorant and fall victim to its improper use. Education is key to helping your regulate and use this tool in amazing ways.
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Welcome to the Rock Solid Families podcast. This is Merrill Hutchinson being joined by my partner and wife, Linda Hutchinson.
Speaker 2:What are you doing? You sound like a robot.
Speaker 1:I'm practicing my AI talk, linda, that's not how it is. I'm a robot.
Speaker 2:That's what the lesson's about oh, dear Lord, you are going to feed the fan the flames of those out there that are like. I am not listening to an AI podcast today.
Speaker 1:Recently our mind has been blown, as many of you guys have. You know the AI world, artificial intelligence, and so we're going to actually tackle that subject today and you know, I don't know what you think about it out there as you're listening.
Speaker 2:What do you think about AI, hun? Well, if you had asked me a couple of days ago, I would have been like eh, I'm not into it because I feel like it is taking over the world, Yep. But we have spent two days with hundreds of nonprofits in what they called the World Impact Summit, and I will tell you that AI had a huge part of that in the conversation and the training and it did.
Speaker 2:It was like blew my mind on our whole team. We actually have a friend who runs another nonprofit and he literally said when he saw the breakouts, like I'm not doing that, ai junk right. And then, main stage, they were talking about the CEO of YMCA and how he uses AI every day and it is his personal assistant and it helps him in his finances and his HR and his grant writing and all of that stuff and we're like holy cow.
Speaker 1:And can I say he's probably about late 60s.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like he was no young man yeah, and so you know, if you're around our age which I'm not going to say how old our age is, but I'm in the Brady Bunch Little House on the Prairie age let's just say she's in the last year of the 50s decade.
Speaker 1:Stop, I didn't say what your age was.
Speaker 2:Well, it's really and then, I'm in.
Speaker 1:I'm 61. You're back in the. Leave it to beaver stage. Yeah, there was no AI back then, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:Okay, so let's just confess when I started teaching okay it was all paper and pencil there was no computers, there was no internet, and so-.
Speaker 1:All the horses were parked out front.
Speaker 2:It was tough and I remember beginning to teach and having an Apple IIe computer. It was a green screen and we started using email and I remember thinking I'm not using that. That's stupid, and where would we be today if I refused to do a computer which I have in front of me?
Speaker 2:or an email. It's just really where we are in our world and now it's, and that the reason why my mind is blown is that it's exponentially changing to a way where we were just talking in this one breakout session. We did that by the time our kids are adults, they're probably not even going to get a driver's license because it literally there will have cars that just drive for them.
Speaker 1:And you know, maybe that would benefit our society. I should have not gone there, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Snacks back.
Speaker 2:Anyway, but before we get into that, which you can tell, we've got a little excitement in this but a lot of conversation about around AI, and so, if you have no idea, it was funny because they pulled the room and we had a packed house. They pulled the room and there was a lot of younger people there, and so it was like a level one, two or three. Level one is I don't use it at all and I want to.
Speaker 2:Level two is I use it occasionally but I don't know much about it. And level three is I'm pretty proficient and I would say I think there was one or two people in there that were proficient and then majority of us was like in the middle.
Speaker 2:And then there was quite a few that had never, ever touched it, like I'm not going there, and so maybe that's you, maybe you're proficient in there, I don't know where you're at, but whatever range you're in, join us in this conversation because I think it's going to go in an interesting way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd hardly say that I was an early adopter you know that would be, but I actually, uh, about over a year ago, our oldest son, um, I had already heard about AI, but he he said, dad, like here's what it can do for you, and we were working on a project and stuff and he started showing me we were sharing different documents that he had been creating and then how he would change some tone and different things on there.
Speaker 2:And I was like wow, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1:And he was in the Navy kind of special ops, so like he had access to a lot of that like yeah, but even then, like he, we were just doing it randomly and stuff, and so, um, it opened my eyes to not doing my work for me, but aiding me in my work so that I could do it better, faster, whatever, and so I did start using it then. I don't know why I have to confess to this, but I'll confess. I'd say, in the last seven or eight months, all the shows that I have put together, I have at least AI'd them first just to help set up the outline, outline like the idea, like hey, let's talk about drug addiction with teenagers, how can we go about them?
Speaker 1:and so you know, you have your training, but those are all those years back in your head and and right away the ai can say, oh, hit these points right, so it can take the ones you already have and then it can give you the more like oh yeah, this is so much more thorough, so I will. Also. You know that in our work, like I adopted, I don't know six months ago now, using a note taker, an AI note taker, because when we do notes in the counseling world, I mean when you do a session, you have to finish the session and you may have, and we typically don't take notes during sessions, not well but I'm not like nose to the notebook not looking at my client, you know I'm I'm paying attention and I'll scribble down things, but it's not really a good note.
Speaker 1:And then you know you got to go back and spend 10, 15, 20 minutes going, okay, and this might be a day or two later that you go.
Speaker 2:Okay, what were we talking?
Speaker 1:about and you try to create this note. And you know me, I hate paperwork to begin with and I was like, if there's anybody I can do to get to do this, and so using what. I use, for that has just been fantastic. I mean, I have six appointments today and I will spend probably a total of about five minutes on just making sure my notes are put together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we'll go talk about that a little bit more, but before we do, let's thank our sponsors, because we want to thank Casey's Outdoor Solutions, maxwell Construction and the Hoosier Ice House for their support of what we're talking about today, and we are going to talk about the ethical concerns and privacy situations.
Speaker 2:You know, if you're a conspiracy theorist, you could go in a million different directions with this, but we're going to kind of debunk some of those concerns and questions and you know it does raise some ethical things. So we're going to talk about all that. But yeah, we just want to thank those sponsors for their support.
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Speaker 2:Yeah, so let's get rolling yeah, okay, what does AI stand for?
Speaker 1:artificial intelligence. I've had that all my life. I'm not sure why it has to be a big thing.
Speaker 2:I did hear this week um augmented intelligence.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah and augment, then the reason is the augment is to build into right to build into and supplement right, and so this whole idea, guys, I think when you first see this, you, you, I think the fear is somebody else or some other brain is going to come over and start taking over all the thought process and you start to learn and educate that the thinking process of AI is generated from many, many, many different algorithms of how humans think, so it's a large collective body body, and so you, basically, instead of it's like saying you could ask your one friend how to build a house, or you could ask a thousand builders how to build a house and you could get a- generalized okay this is the way.
Speaker 1:So you're getting so much more input right to help you make valuable thing, a decision. So, um, it is again, it's a tool. Yeah, and tools are not or bad, it's how we use them Exactly.
Speaker 2:So again we're showing our age. I remember when my parents invested in world book encyclopedias, right and like they had this gigantic shelf of expensive books. And maybe some of you are so young you don't even know what encyclopedia is, but it was Google and paper. But the minute you got it, literally it was like 2005, it'll say, but then everything was In 2006,.
Speaker 1:it was out of date Exactly.
Speaker 2:So it was kind of like you know it was pre-Google, obviously pre-internet, and so just the efficiency and the automation that we can create through AI managing emails, writing grants, making meal plans, workout plans, job descriptions, you name it it's just blowing my mind what it can do.
Speaker 1:Our daughter wanted to run a half marathon. She said Dad, will you put together a? Training plan and I thought well, I want to just see what AI produces, and I have several that I've used over the years myself. You know old paper pencil things. And so I just put in hey, half marathon training plan. I don't know what it was 12 weeks to train or whatever, I want to be able to run this fast, her minute per mile stuff, and it gave me three different training plans.
Speaker 2:And I'll tell you all.
Speaker 1:three of them were every bit as good, if not better, than what I would have created.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Because again, you're just I forget what they said. I thought they said 175 billion pieces of information, which I don't know what that looks like, but that they're gathering together, like you're getting the best of all these different places and sources and so it can enhance your decision-making. Like, for instance, we're doing a banquet in March of next year and so we have a theme and so we just type that theme in and we talked about faith-based and just what are some things to think about or to include. And it was just, it was crazy how much it just kind of enhanced our direction or our ideas, and so it doesn't mean we have to replace what we were thinking, but it definitely opens up more ideas than we never really thought about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, well, awesome. And, honey, you know you talk about all of these people, or all of these, I guess, brain experts that come together, and I think the thing that we have to be aware of, too, is you are in charge of tweaking the brains that we'll be seeking from. So I could have said tweaking the brains that we'll be seeking from. So I could have said create a running plan dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot dot. Okay, and it may have gone to 10,000 brains, so to speak.
Speaker 2:Okay, or I could have said from the top coaches in the world what would they recommend for training? In other words, I could, I could screen down For a a girl who is 19, who runs about an average eight-minute mile, and she runs two miles a day.
Speaker 1:And we're going to be running the races at altitude of this. So you can tweak this down. You are holding the reins to how these brains will collectively think. And hon, you mentioned the encyclopedia.
Speaker 2:And I think well, everybody trusted the encyclopedia.
Speaker 1:You literally would say, well, I got it out of the encyclopedia. And I think, well, everybody trusted the encyclopedia. You literally would say, well, I got it out of the encyclopedia, out of the world book. Yeah, and you have to ask, well, who put together the encyclopedia? Did you trust all them? You know, and we had that question with the Bible, right, well, who wrote the Bible? Do you trust that? And it's like, well, yeah, you know we have. So we trust things that are in print often, and so now we have to learn to understand where all this information is coming from.
Speaker 2:But again, the Bible also says to test everything against the word. But, like you said, is like who wrote the word? Well, we feel we believe that it's inspired by the Holy Spirit, right, okay, but let's go back to AI because it can be your new assistant. Okay, but it's only as good as your prompts, so you have to be super specific. So if we're doing AI pros and cons, then we want to know it from a Christian perspective. We got to write that in there. Or we want to look at it as a parent. We wrote that in there and so you know you guide it and direct it and it needs those prompts, and so that's important to ask. And one of the things that the speaker was teaching us on is so you write your prompts and then you say ask me questions for clarification.
Speaker 2:So, in other words, if there's anything they're not sure of, then they'll ask like OK, well, who's your audience, or you know how old are these kids and and so that's a pretty cool way of just getting feedback. And, by the way, I think this was crazy. If you praise, it like if you have chat.
Speaker 2:GPT if you praise it and go man, that's exactly what I wanted, or you're right on track, it actually remembers that. But if it says, no, I want it from a Christian perspective, it literally remembers If you have the app or the website, it actually remembers what you're looking for and it actually starts to shape like your searches and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how you operate and even how you speak. I had one AI generated tool that I use for a little bit and it was very limited. It was part of a package that I bought into and it only spoke in one tone, like it was super, super smart and how it wrote things, and I said that's not how I speak, and so here I was wanting to use it so to help me create some content on this on some of our podcasts, and I was like I would never speak that way.
Speaker 2:yeah, so you got, but but true AI generated stuff that you can start to customize will start to reflect your tone and your thought processing it's crazy and they gave us lists of their favorite and there's like 200 something, and it's changing every day of different apps that you can use, and they were talking about one of these video apps that literally can translate a sermon into 40 different languages and it literally has your mouth moving in that language, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 2:And so I just think of wow, if we just sit there and go, nope, sorry, I'm not doing AI, so I'm sorry, I'm not doing AI, then our church can't reach those Hispanic immigrants that have moved into our neighborhood, reach those Hispanic immigrants that have moved into our neighborhood. We're right now using that AI to translate the sermon in one service into another language in another service, just think of the opportunities To serve.
Speaker 1:To serve them, yeah.
Speaker 2:So we're not saying please don't think that you're guilty or lazy from using AI. They kind of compared it to a formula in Excel. Like I'm constantly using formulas in Excel to count or to add up or to multiply or to you know, percentage of. Like I'm using that constantly. So that's a type of a tool, right an efficiency tool that I don't have to get my calculator out or don't have to add up by paper, and it can make you unsharp if you're not using your other tools yeah, so I yeah.
Speaker 1:It makes better effectiveness and efficiency are big things, right. Creativity all those things are positive. Here are some of the concerns, though, and I think this is worth stating. Sure, you know I have a concern about jobs Um, what you mentioned before. I'm a personal trainer. I've created probably I don't know 50 different workout plans for for other people myself playing around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're not going to need you anymore. I don't.
Speaker 1:I'm not necessary. I mean, my necessary thing might be hands-on at the gym, being everything from a guide to a rah-rah, whatever it is in that moment. But as far as, like, I think of the years of swim coaching, hun, where we would spend time creating. Okay, the state meet is this date and here's our start date and we would create okay, here's, here's where we're going to do our taper, here's where we're going to do our buildup, here's you know all these different things, things.
Speaker 2:And now the idea that you could literally do that in a 20-minute session with chat gtp, so so, like that job displacement is is could be a very real thing, yeah, we should be aware of well, and it was funny because we were discussing that too and they actually said no, this innovation has created even more jobs, because all of those marketing directors and digital controllers and you know all those things are being added as as we have kind of expanded our technology.
Speaker 1:So, yes, summer, for instance, you don't have the oh, just, I don't know all the encyclopedia writers, exactly, or newspaper, right, you know art, yeah, journalists journalists, you the print material is gone, but that doesn't mean there isn't opportunities in other areas, and so you do have to pivot.
Speaker 2:You got to learn how to pivot If you're going to be a truck driver and all of a sudden, everything is automated and they're driving themselves like OK, what's your next?
Speaker 1:role Right.
Speaker 2:So you have to kind of look at it like, OK, where can I be needed? How can I pivot?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So you have to kind of look at it like, okay, where can I be needed? How can I pivot? Yeah, and another, I'm going to say negative or something we should be aware of. You know, I'd say in the last 15 or 20 years our cable news has disrupted us so badly that because there's such a bias right and people, everybody knows there's a bias right Whether you're at this station or that station, but we're like you know, we're like dogs going back to the vomit. We keep going back to the same station even though we know we're going to get that bias. And so we have to be careful with AI, because you can build biases in. You might say you know, because you built your character, who you are algorithms.
Speaker 1:I'm saying algorithms and so you've built this, and the next thing? You know you're getting information generated that is really slanted because of how you've tweaked it, and so we're going to have to be really careful of how bias comes in and say no, I need to see multiple perspectives on these issues.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's already happening with Facebook and TikTok and Instagram and even Netflix. Like it learns how you, what kind of shows you like, right, Amazon, what you're searching for, what you're buying, and so AI is already infiltrating all of those areas. That's why you can literally see an ad pop up for something that you just were talking about or that you were searching for. So and that kind of leads to the loss of privacy right. And so just to clarify, you talked about your note-taking. Okay, that is a privacy issue.
Speaker 1:And so you have used a paid AI program and it's all HIPAA secured and approved, so it stays in my office and actually that's actually written, kind of cool, it really keeps my opinions out of it. Yeah, like I would never say something like and I feel like this person is dot, dot dot which is really maybe my opinion, and so it keeps it very scientific uh and professional professional clinical. So, um, that's a good thing, but right, but, but you have to, I have to pay for that yeah, so there is a free version of a lot of these apps, like chat, gpt, for example.
Speaker 2:Okay, there's a free version of that where you are the product, so whatever you're typing in, it's collecting that data. The fact that you were searching for that or you want to know about that, okay. So, for instance, if I searched rock solid families, it did pull up who we are Okay. And if it's wrong or if it's not complete, I can go in and say, no, that's not right.
Speaker 2:Rock solid families is a faith-based coaching organization, and so I can be specific and it will remember that the next time, so you can use it as a product, but also the privacy part. So this is where doctors are using it and counselors and coaches are using it and even like CEOs to CEOs to create a budget so they can throw in the numbers of you know, their profit margin and all that stuff and it can create that budget. But you want to use the private version where you are being.
Speaker 2:You know, that's where the CEO of the YMCA was talking about how he creates, like the job descriptions and his budgets, but that's on a private. It's literally an AI assistant.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that he has been creating and tweaking based off of the need that he has, versus on some open field.
Speaker 2:But we do have to be careful on the open GPT.
Speaker 1:And I think we're going to have to continue to monitor that right you say as well. This is secure. Well, how do you know it's secure?
Speaker 2:so I mean, usually it's if you're paid right, yeah, but even that you know, they can tell you that.
Speaker 1:So like how do we actually know? So we have to, we're oh that's going to be something. We're going to have to get better and better at policing and regulating to make sure that there's actually teeth in that to say that and I want to go on another thing, and this is um, I think this is very real and I think this is probably a bit of my fear um, and trying to balance it, and that is becoming dependent and be in dumbing down ourself, like I will give the perfect example of.
Speaker 1:I know you're going of gps yes gps of gps I mean, we absolutely love gps because I can, we can go visit our son down in south carolina and if he says, hey, hey, let's go to Jack's Cosmic Hot Dog Stand, which by the way we did. And I'd be like, what, like, where's that? I can, in a matter of a minute, find out exactly where it is versus the old days of going oh, I don't.
Speaker 2:You know. My mom used to have one of those triptychs. Aaa where it was like this really long map of where we're going, and yeah, I mean, it definitely kind of makes you lazy, yeah Well you fail to learn how to navigate?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you, I mean we, most of our kids, don't even know north, south, east and west. They can't even go outside and begin to figure that out, and so so I think it's going to dummy us down in a lot of those areas which there's. There should be a concern about that, I think, just in the dependence. You know, this goes back to the calculator. Our kids don't know how to do a lot of simple math like the division and multiplication, because the calculator does it and it's like well and listen.
Speaker 1:I use it too. Yeah, thank God I did learn long division and all those things, but so there, I don't know like that's going to be something that I think is has an opportunity to cause some problems for us in terms of just keeping our brain sharp.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there is that ethical question too. For instance, I know a lot of pastors who use this prompting for their sermons right. But it can write the whole sermon for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so are you going to take credit for that? Or are you going to say this was AI generated and so, like you said, we do kind of type in the topic, we're going to do Right, and then we'll tweak it or add to it or like oh yeah, I never thought about that.
Speaker 1:Or our own personal experiences that you had, or, oh my gosh, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2:And so we do really want to be careful that we don't use it in harmful ways, that we don't kind of steal people's.
Speaker 1:Right. I like what you said there. I mean give credit where credit's due, right, Because I think what we find is that it does create good stuff. Yeah, it is Right, I'm thinking about the preacher, the sermon that you're talking about, a sermon who would be so prideful to say I'm not going to use it because it's not mine, but the message that maybe it created was maybe far better than anything you could have ever created.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you can say I want scripture in all these points or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that idea. But yeah, you got to give credit Like no, I got to be honest guys Like I got help on this. You know this is not for me, but get this better message to you.
Speaker 2:Our AI workshop. The very first thing the person asked me sat down, did you use this? And it will even generate the PowerPoint slides.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so, again, it's a start, it's a prompt, you know, and you do have to be careful. I know our son has been called out on AI. So the teachers I'm so glad I am not teaching in this day and age to try to figure out what's real, what's them, what's not, and so there is, I guess, some tools that teachers can use to check for AI, and so he's got caught on that before you know, so it's like you can't literally just copy and paste as a student or as a teacher.
Speaker 1:Well and that's even a little different because they're Googling and then just copying and pasting versus an AI generated that really could come up with a very unique document based off of how you do it. Now, I'm not sure that he was smart enough to do all that, but yeah. So, yeah, you're right, it's going to be a concern.
Speaker 2:Google is down 25%. I don't know what the span of time is last year or two but it's because we're jumping over Google now and going to AI. I can ask AI the same question and get much more detail, where Google is just going to give me 10 hyperlinks of different places. I could go to get that information.
Speaker 1:Which is crazy. If you Google something, it, ais, it, its response comes up Like if I say hey, I'm having a problem in my left shoulder. Da, da, da, da, da da da, and it'll do the AI thinking thing. And it gives me this generate you're like well, you didn't even do your job, google.
Speaker 2:So of course, as a parent, we really do have to be careful that we don't one allow kids to over-rely on that. We do want them to learn their math facts and you know the simple stuff that you want to do when you're at the bank and you're trying to add up your checkbook or whatever Although some people don't even have a checkbook anymore, so I might be in the old school of that too. But also exposure to inappropriate content. I mean you could search for anything.
Speaker 2:And you can get videos, you can get pictures, you can generate pictures Like you can say I want a picture of. I saw one of the workshops had a picture of the Pope with this really cool like hip jacket, like he's a thug, and they're like, oh wow, look at the Pope. And it was all AI generated.
Speaker 1:Right, right, right, so you can generate.
Speaker 2:That's some scary stuff, it is scary, like how do you know it's real? And our presenter actually created a video with ai. It wasn't her, she just kind of wrote a script and literally sat in front of the thing and it created a video with her voice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's a little freaky so that's the thing we've got to be careful with our kids, um, that we help them know, understand the ethical. Um. I think there's consequences at some point and there's going to be, just like we've talked many times about just that we help them know, understand the ethical consequences there.
Speaker 1:I think there's at some point hon, there's going to be, just like we've talked many times about, just screens and so on. And you know, when a lot of this phones and all that came about, there was no reason for rules, because we didn't know what the roads look like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but then we started to get these, like, oh, we need to have some, I'll say, traffic laws here right, we need to know how to do this and I really think, like us as parents, like you and I talk about with phones, like not before 13. Well, I think really the same thing. I just feel like you would be doing your kid an injustice to let them learn anything through AI before 13.
Speaker 1:Like the math, like how to write a story, like all of these things, like, no, like the math, like how to write a story, like all of these things Like no, like as a parent or a school, we're going to have to say no to these things and then learn later how to use the assistance of.
Speaker 2:So again.
Speaker 1:I think that's just going to be one of those things that we have to walk through and say here's how we regulate it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we also are dealing with the social interaction. You know our kids, if they're all in a computer or sitting at a at a phone, then they're not interacting with each other, and we've already talked about that like sitting across from each other at, you know, the lunch table or you know, at the, at the volleyball game or whatever like, are we even interacting?
Speaker 2:And so when we're on AI, we're on a screen, we're not asking our dad or we're not asking our friend, and so we really want to create that opportunity for social development, right, and emotional intelligence. It's not going to come from AI. Emotional intelligence is going to come from human interaction, modeling and mentorship and all of those things that come with human connection.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, speaking of that, so let's talk a little bit about from a Christian perspective. You know, as, especially early on, when our kids, or even us, start to use AI, you have to remember that AI is going to be I'll just use the phrase worldly generated. Right, it's going to be worldly generated, it's going to be whatever the mass information is, and so if, if you don't understand that, then maybe I'll just maybe you say, tell me about abortion or whatever right, your kid's got to do a paper on abortion and you, as a Christian, may get a response out of that Like maybe it might say this is a form of healthcare that many women benefit from, or whatever, and you might be like what?
Speaker 1:So like you have to alter the perspective and understand how it's going to come to you. And if you don't. You know, it's kind of shame on us, Like we allowed the world to enter in without tweaking it or without giving it governance.
Speaker 2:Exactly so. You know, as a Christian parent, obviously it's important to carefully consider the potential benefits and drawbacks of using AI and just bringing up your kids. But as an adult you know, don't feel guilty or lazy. It is an efficiency tool that should be used, just like, like I said, the formula on Excel or the GPS in your car, and so we get to determine how much we use it. And again we were talking about in this class. You can say I refuse, just like my grandpa refused to use the microwave and I was refusing to use email.
Speaker 2:But it is the future, and so we either use it to our efficiency and benefit, and, from a Christ perspective, what would Jesus do? Would Jesus say I refuse to drive a car, I refuse to use the internet? You can say that, but the world is going there. And can we still do both? Can we love Jesus and use AI? I believe we can and, like I said, hundreds of nonprofits were sitting together and their minds were just blown at how God could use AI to make us more efficient, make us reach out.
Speaker 2:I mean, these were international missionaries that were learning how to create plans, to write grants to get water to their Nicaraguan villages or Nepal, and translating the gospel. You can use AI for a Christian, faith-based reason and it doesn't mean you're, you know, immoral or doing something unethical.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so maybe Hunt, as we draw into a conclusion here, as you said, like it is that wild Mustang and we can choose to not ride it and let it do all the damage possible as it runs through the streets, or we can be a relatively early adopter.
Speaker 1:I'm always I'm hesitant to be the first adopter, right but, but to be relatively early and start to learn how to tame it, like we are still the human mind that has control over it. Because, as you said, like what a powerful tool if we use it right. And so many different ways to make life more efficient, to help more people. So I would recommend you know, with a level of caution, that start learning about it, start jumping in rather than being behind the eight ball and wondering, like, don't do what we did with phones. And with phones they came out, it was exciting, it was all good and we bought all of our kids' phones. I'm serious. At second grade we had kids in our school all over with phones, and now we have learned, oh my gosh, what a disaster that little experiment was.
Speaker 1:And so that was because we were ignorant and it was an exciting tool, yes, you're right.
Speaker 2:So let's, let's get in now and learn. So set up some healthy boundaries Okay, have some. Like you said, educate yourself, monitor the content and the interactions, especially with your children. You're still the parent. Okay, ai is not replacing you. Encourage them to have critical thinking and emotional intelligence by connecting with humans. Okay, don't throw that out. We want to keep working on the things that, long-term, are going to benefit them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's going to be as this grows. I mean, advocacy is going to be big. You know you should have advocacy in your school. Like, okay, that means, do you know what your school is teaching? Do you know how they're teaching? You know, do you know the environment in the school? Well, the same thing is going to be coming in this realm, Like, are you just going to sit back and allow AI to dictate the world, or is are we going to come in and say, no, we're going to advocate for these directions and paths that we want AI to go. And so that's when you're going to start to see things go a little bit more political with regulation and all that. But again, like, this is part of the responsibility of the human experience to control these things. So, you know, start to think about those things.
Speaker 2:You want to hear what AI says.
Speaker 1:We should conclude with how great it is, or what.
Speaker 2:AI is a powerful tool that has the potential to transform lives in incredible ways, but it comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes to our kids. By staying informed and setting boundaries and advocating for ethical practices, we can harness the benefits of AI while minimizing the risks.
Speaker 1:That sounds like something I said. That's so cool, isn't that?
Speaker 2:crazy, like that was written for us. So that's it for today of the episode of AI Equation, if you enjoyed the show don't forget to subscribe and leave a review. Join us next time as we continue to explore the fascinating world of AI.
Speaker 1:Isn't that crazy yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so again, that was just generated for us, with us just asking for a podcast outline on AI pros and cons, like from a Christian perspective you know?
Speaker 1:Sorry guys, the whole thing was AI generated, but we're not even Merle and Linda, we just look like Merle and Linda.
Speaker 2:I haven't learned how to do that yet, but that will come. Maybe we can translate it or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, guys, we do want to thank you for listening, and you know a little bit of tongue in cheek humor here, but it is a serious matter, so start to embrace it and learn about it. So we thank you. We again want to thank our sponsors, casey's Outdoor Solutions, maxwell Construction and the Hoosier Ice House for sponsoring us. So go down there and get a real humanly cooked meal. You'll enjoy all of those. I think that's about all we got, isn't?
Speaker 2:it. Yeah, thank you so much, and it is the real Merle and Linda Hutchinson. And if we can help you connect with us at rocksolidfamiliesorg and we'll even connect you with a real human. You know, you don't have to just mistakes at all. Exactly Settle for AI. So thank you for listening to the Rock Solid Families podcast. Building a stronger community, one family at a time.
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