AI Boundaries, Phone Free Rooms, and Tech at Sporting Events

After a recent talk at a local church I was approached by someone who works for a major tech company and regularly works with AI. He stressed three points heavily:

1. Our children need to be intentionally prepared for AI. It makes up info, it lies to cover its tracks, and even the best AI trainers don’t know what they’re going to get out of this resource.

2. Our children use AI more than adults do, so they will be the first native-use employees entering the workforce with AI in hand. It’s our opportunity to equip, and warn, them.

3. Don’t use AI for anything you can’t vet.

Today we’ll address this as well as the problem of heat pollution, how tech companies plan to handle the incredible energy draw of AI farms on the grid, how to handle tech at sporting events, and what we should do about phones in the bedroom.

Listen to "AI Boundaries, Phone Free Rooms, and Tech at Sporting Events" on Spreaker.

Special thanks to George Fox University for sponsoring the Gospel Tech Podcast.

SHOW NOTES

We need personal boundaries with tech: Both when we use it and what we use it for. Sometimes the models produce outcomes no one expected, be they tirades against certain people groups or the surprising ability to potentially bypass cybersecurity like never before. Take a moment on that second link to note that the most recent edition of the Claude AI, Mythos, was able to exploit security weakness more than 70% of the time, compared to its predecessor that did it less than 10% of the time.

Interview between mom and son about relationship with AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIe3ovHjZ8k