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Every business is asking the same question these days: Can we replace this with AI? The better question is: Should you?

✅ AI Detects Parkinson's Disease Before Symptoms I loved writing about some feel-good AI news to start my day! The latest from my substack:

The robots aren’t just coming for the factory line. They're coming for the middle and upper managers. They’re after the consultants, the marketers, and the coders. Even the people “above” the robots will realize they’re still standing on the ground floor. bessauer.substack.com/p/jobs-ai-ca...

Without empathy, AI risks becoming a blunt hatchet like Elon’s chainsaw. It will optimize for speed, profit, engagement, or whatever it's told to maximize—without concern for who gets left behind, harmed, or dehumanized in the process. I have thoughts on why we need empathetic robots.

I've got raise $4 million dollars fast, so I'm enlisting AI to help!

This week, I explore several new ways AI is invading our lives—from the workplace and home to your favorite restaurant and even our minds!

AI made an appearance at the Oscars, so I explored using AI to make my own videos… it did *not* go well.

I’m thinking of the 30,000 Federal employees who are out of a job (as of this morning) and how any one of us might be in a position eventually where we have to pivot. AI can make this possible. open.substack.com/pub/bessauer...

I’ve spent much of my time in recent months dreading the fact that current billionaires will be eliminating their human workforce in favor of AI. I totally forgot that the opposite effect can happen, where AI creates billionaires out of entrepreneurs.

I normally talk about AI and automation but I got a wonderful request from a subscriber to explain Bitcoin, so here's an everyday person's guide to crypto. I explain what you need to know about crypto and why you need to understand it.

Looking for AI people (developers, avid users, policy setters) in Orlando area - let me know if this is you!

Here's my Robot Roundup of recent AI newsworthy items -- new copyright rules regarding the use of AI as well as, er, sex robots. 😱

I’m giggling at the outrage!

Have you tried the new DeepSeek? Developed quickly for under $6 million, it's creating good competition in the AI field, which equates to a win for you and me. More 👇

Regardless of the energy grid needs, what will be developed by these Stargate centers is the real unknown. This is our generation’s Manhattan Project. Just as Oppenheimer wasn’t quite sure what he would be unleashing on the world, we are standing at that same precipice now.

With Elon in the news so prominently right now, I thought it was a good time to revisit this episode.

Not me spending today offline, doing what I love, in order to stay sane…

Yes!!!

From Tiktok to Twitter and Meta and more... all the tech giants are begging for a seat at the table in the new administration. What will this mean for competition, monopolies, innovation, and safeguards going forward?

My latest on AI and the robots-- the coming technology is wonderful and terrifying and it may already be here! 😱

Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukkah! This week I’m looking at how AI is affecting religious holidays.

Keeping an eye on the drone space.

Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids. Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?

While the current generation of AI may make lots of mistakes, I have to believe it is only a matter of time (sooner rather than later) when these bugs and glitches will be overcome. There are simply too many brilliant minds racing to create an infallible AI.

Is anybody else downloading their videos from TikTok to save and post elsewhere? I’ve got over 1300 videos to go! 😩

I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

Oh my! Chatbots still have a ways to go to be safe and effective. 👀

Instagram down? I can’t upload anything.

To any med students out there... please specialize in neurology. The wait times to get into see one is ridiculous! We need more of you!

As a former teacher, I am cautiously optimistic about AI in the classroom.

Looking for my Central Florida people!

I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

I've updated my Substack's name to "The Art of Being Human(s)" to be better aligned with what I am passionate about - I'm an artist and author exploring what's next for humans living in a world where robots can do our jobs faster, cheaper, and most likely better. Care to join me on this journey?

I just need posts like this all day long.

Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.

Ford Motor Company has weathered world wars, regime changes, cultural revolutions, and over 100 years worth of American Presidents. Musk’s companies are just getting started. What lessons can we learn from both as AI and automation takes over the workplace?

Reminder that your favorite local indie bookstores make a lot of their yearly income during the holiday season. Go shop local today. ❤️