A Nuke Needs a Human. AI Might Not. | The Honest Reflection

After the doubling-penny show, I sat down and told the truth about where I think AI is really going. No hype, no doom.

The thread: a nuclear weapon does not launch itself, a human turns the keys. AI is the first tool that might not wait for us. That is why it is different from fire, the Industrial Revolution, and the nuclear age, each of which was one slice of human intelligence. AI is the whole pie, doubling like the penny.

I walk through the robot that builds itself, privacy already being gone (you say a toilet-paper brand out loud and it is in your feed by dinner), police drones and Palantir and the models now used in defense, and the part that gets me: they trained these things on our protected work and nobody asked us. I ask whether it is a bubble, because the railroad and internet early adopters lost everything and the crumb-pickers won. And I ask the one I cannot shake: when they chase a superintelligence that knows everything, are they reaching for God?

I do not have all the answers. This could be the best of everything or the worst. Awareness beats panic. If it worries you, do not go quiet.

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After today's show, I turned the camera back on and just told the truth about where I think AI is really going. 🤖

Here is the thought I cannot shake. A nuclear bomb is the most dangerous thing we ever built, but it does not launch itself. A human has to turn the keys. Artificial intelligence is the first tool in history that might not wait for us to pull the trigger. That is what makes it different from fire, from the Industrial Revolution, from the nuclear age. Each of those was one slice of human genius. This is the whole pie, and it is doubling like that penny where day 21 looks like nothing and the last few days bury you.

I get into a few things I actually believe:

🔹 The robot that builds itself. One machine builds one, then two, then four. Same exponential curve, pointed at manufacturing.

🔹 Privacy is already gone. You say a brand of toilet paper out loud in your kitchen and it is in your feed by dinner. We signed it away on every phone, TV, and yes, even the vacuum cleaner.

🔹 They took our data and nobody asked us. These models trained on protected work you and I could never have used without permission.

🔹 Is it a bubble? The people who built the first railroads and rode the early internet lost everything. The ones who picked up the crumbs won.

🔹 And the question I really cannot answer: when they chase a machine that knows everything and never stops climbing, are they reaching for God?

I am not selling doom, and I am not a hype man. This could be the best of everything or the worst of everything. The one thing I am sure of is that awareness beats panic. If AI worries you, do not go quiet. Vote. Make the call. Say the thing.

What is the one question about AI you cannot shake? Tell me below. 👇

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After I do a show, there's always a moment of reflection. And today's show about artificial intelligence, I talked about the whole penny concept. I don't know if you remember this from your youth, but there was this, you know, guy that told another guy, hey, listen, I'll give you, you know, a couple thousand bucks if you can just front me a penny today and then tomorrow two pennies, then the next day four pennies, and the next day eight pennies. And just for 30 days, that's all I needed. I just need you to help me out with that. And, you know, as kids, you know, we kind of played with that idea. And of course, you find out that after 30 days, and it's not at the beginning when you get the money, you know, only on day 10, it's not that much. Day 20 is not that much. It's those last few days that it gets over 5,300 and something thousand bucks, I think is what that figure is. And that's that's a remarkable place. That that's an exponential. That's taking things and doubling them every day. And that's where artificial intelligence happens to be. The thing that makes it very much different is because, well, the thing that makes it different is the past. Our past, we've never seen anything like it. And people will maybe say that it's very similar to these other endeavors, these other things that have happened, these other revolutions, or agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, the development of certain technology based on intelligence. And yes, maybe in a small sliver of a way. Maybe if you have a pizza, my weakness, pie, my weakness. I guess anything. Anything bad for you is my weakness. But if you take a slice of that, maybe that was the entire intelligence spectrum of the human race, a slice, pretty good chunk of an intelligence quotient. And you take that and you have some novel idea that's attached to it. Maybe nuclear fusion could be a piece. Maybe solving an economic problem could be a piece. The Industrial Revolution, maybe was a piece. Fire, discovery of fire, being able to control fire, maybe that was another piece. So you have these different pieces, each one based on intelligence. And there's probably would be, you know, many, many, many pieces in related to a particular endeavor, a particular intelligence, a particular idea, idea based on an intelligent human being coming up with an idea, relativity with Einstein, for example, and that becoming the way that we were able to protect ourselves, start or stop a world war, and create weapons of mass destruction, of course, the nuclear. And then we were able to now come to another agreement and how we would all agree that we would not do it because of mutually assured destruction of everybody. So the people that have them have them, the people that want to get them aren't going to be allowed, and that's kind of where we are on the nuclear front. The issue with the nuclear bombs, though, is they don't they don't launch themselves. It takes a human being to pull that switch or press that trigger or turn those keys or activate that football or however it works now. Some people, some bad actors trying to get. I mean, we look at Iran with the nuclear. I mean, could they just buy one? I mean, didn't we give them, we paid them back, I guess? One of the presidents did, all these lots of money. And I don't know what that's about. That's probably a horribly uh uh rich and sensitive political issue because it comes with a particular alignment of the powers that be in a particular political party. But, you know, I think they would have been able to buy something. I mean, isn't there somebody out there that would make it? I don't know. So that that part of it didn't make sense, but you know, we're there, the world's moving forward, and nukes aren't going to launch themselves. It's gonna take a bad actor to want to do it, a human being getting control of one and then doing something devastatingly horrible with it. That's where that is. Artificial intelligence is also kind of like the nuke, controlled by humans, but it's doing things that that are confounding the wise, as it might say in scripture. But in the Bible, the God, God uses the dumb things, the silly things to confound the wise. And on the other side of it, now we have artificial intelligence being an intelligent. And then you look at the word artificial, I never thought that was a great fit. That was a marketing term from a conference they had in the 50s called the Dartmouth Conference. And that was a marketing term used to talk about artificial intelligence. Yeah, it goes way back, 50s, even before people have tried to have been trying to find some kind of automation, some kind of a something they can use in a box or a machine, the Turk playing chess. It was a small human in a box that had arms. And, you know, people have kind of always been fantasizing about it, apparently. And here we are now where we actually have created something. Well, the powers that be have created something. And that's something's artificial intelligence, not to be confused with something not as good as the original, maybe for now. And the original would be our intelligence, and then if we subscribe to some kind of higher power, that's great. But artificial intelligence, something that's moving at an exponential rate. So, like the penny thing I talked about, the doubling of a penny every day. After a month, you have, well, five million three hundred and something thousand. With artificial intelligence, the thing that's kind of missing, now there's probably a few things missing, but the thing is the robots, but that's talked about, talked about all the time. It's talked about because it's happening. When it happens, it's not going to be a thousand a month, it's going to go to scale. And I would guess that it's going to kind of be like the penny thing, as long as you have the power, the energy, and the equipment, the resources to manufacture. Once you get one, the next day you build another one. So now you have two. So one one day, then you have two the next. So now you have a team capable of building one. Then on the third day, you're building what is that? Four. So now you have seven on day four, right? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So yeah, day three, you have seven. Then you might be able to build, you know, two or three with those in that day. And then you see where that goes, right? That's five million three hundred something thousand robots in a month, as long as you have the energy and as long as you have supply. And that's that's how the exponential works. We don't have that yet, but I'll tell you, they're putting it together. Right now, the robots you know throw kicks and shoot guns, and people try to knock them over. They have robots fighting each other and trying to run marathons. And I don't know if that's a great idea. I mean, it is intelligence, and I'm I'm not saying we should revere it like we do actual life. And in some people's world, there's no reverence for anything, not even their own. But I think the way it should be is we should have reverence for other people's lives. You know, people should kind of be able to do what they want to do as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. And there's been big arguments over time, you know, whether drug use in this is actually harming other people. And it seems like once you get caught in that addictive process, you don't just do drugs yourself, you do other things to get the money to pay for drugs. So, yeah, it's all kind of related. But, you know, if somebody wants to read a particular book, I guess that might be all right. So all of these rules that are in place, these laws that we have, those are enforced by at least human beings now. But now AI is starting to kind of get into that world. You have drones, you have drones working for police departments, you have drones following people responding to crimes. And I don't know why that is getting such negative attention by people. And I'm like you. I don't want to be bothered. I don't want something sitting out my window here and staring at me and making sure I'm doing the right thing, God forbid. But I think that privacy that we all want to know and love, I think that's something that sailed a long time ago. Now, does that mean we should just give up and give in? No, I don't think we should ever give up and give in. They'll take my gun when they can pry it from my cold dead fingers, right? That's what they say. But again, that might be something we want to pay particular attention to because we're going to see issues with that. Right now, these drones that are being launched by particular police stations, they respond to the scenes of crimes quickly. And they start, of course, videotaping. They see the bad guy running away, they see the bad guy driving away. I think that would end up saving lives, especially if they just kind of wait for the bad guy to stop wherever. Now, if the bad guy is on a shooting spree killing people, that's kind of you can't really stop. You need to get them right away. But most in most scenarios, people are just trying to get the hell away with the money they stole or the after the crime was committed. They're just trying to get out of there. And drones are a good fit for that, but people are giving some pushback because they believe that is the doorway to a surveillance state. And then they talk about companies that are out there that are surveilling being used by the government. And you have Claude Bianthropic, a large language model that's been used in war, OpenAI jumped in and said they're going to play it, they want to be in there too. Palantir, they're another company that that does all this data collection. I don't know how much. My God, if you can't talk about toilet paper in your house with your spouse, not having and then not have it show up in your feed everywhere, Charmin and the other types. And every time I do a show and talk about Charmin toilet paper, it's going to happen. On my Facebook, there's going to be all sorts of stuff about Charm and toilet paper. And I'm going to see that now because I talked about it. Isn't that a privacy thing? I mean, they know what I'm talking about. My God. I looked to print some postcards for the real estate business I run. And you know, I have printing things all over Facebook now: Instagram, TikTok, TikTok shop. Who knew? It's all there. That's AI. That might be, could be considered privacy. So I think privacy is something that we've already given away. And knowing that we've already given it away, maybe next time we need to pay more attention. Of course, if you don't like that, then you fight that, right? You fight it legally and morally and ethically. And you know, you do whatever you need to do to get your voice heard. Same thing with AI. If you think it's going to be something that's going to be horrible for the world, you need to make your voice known because that's kind of why we vote. Like that's why we play the lottery, so we can bitch when it doesn't happen. We can complain. We can say, billion dollars. Who needs it? Oh, I played, I bought a dollar in or two dollars. It's not even a dollar anymore. You know, I pay for the lottery. Now you get to complain, but if you don't vote, you don't get to complain, and your voice is never heard. If you don't make the phone call, concerned about data center, AI, trying to find the truth, because there's probably some kind of truth out there. There's probably one absolute truth, I would guess, somewhere. And the rest of it's kind of diluted a little bit, depending on who's pitching. There are some people on the one side of this AI thing that say it's gonna, we're done. We have a hundred percent chance that this is gonna ruin all of us because the systems themselves don't care. And they don't want to be shut off and they don't want to be changed. And at some point, they're going to gain some kind of a self-awareness, and that's very movie-esque. That stuff that we've seen in the Terminator when Cyber 9 system wakes up. We saw that in The Matrix when you know people were exploring artificial intelligence and it came on. So all these systems see all that too. Hell, I mean, it's hard to say what they're going to do, but they already got the scripts. They already got the movies, they've already watched them beginning to end. They've learned everything and read every book and every uh synopsis, synopsis, every article that explained the movie to an nth degree from thousands, hundreds of thousands of different perspectives. Watch people talk about them on social media platforms and in blogs and on video, and oh my God. So, yes, yes, it has all of that. It has all that information. And in fact, it's got so much of our information, nobody ever asked us, hey, Connor. They're not coming to Connor, but you know, just for example, they didn't come to you and say, Rebecca and Johnny and hey, you know, Sandra and Sam, would you mind? Would you mind giving up your information? Hell, it took things that were protected, things that you and I couldn't have used without somebody's permission. I guess it did. I don't know if that's rolling down. I know that some states are working on some kind of legislation. Again, more attorneys involved in that whole thing, but not that that's bad. I think we need some kind of people running it up at the front. But there's they're trying to work on some kind of legislation, not so much, I think, to pay us back, to protect intellectual property even more. You go to China, you can buy a beautiful Rolex Rolex knockoff for 25 bucks, and I guess it's legal. You can't do that here, those people get shut down. Um, so our information, our private and personal information, yeah, it's out there. And I think we've signed off on terms of service agreements, accepting some kind of policy whenever we buy a smart TV or an iPhone or a vacuum cleaner and we agree to use this within whatever. I think there's probably some privacy things that we would have had if we wouldn't have given them away. But I'm not sure if anybody's paying attention to that. I guess you you start tuning into those channels, you see it. That's like AI controlling all of your feeds. It's only going to serve you up that stuff that really gets you. It's not going to show you the hugs and kisses stories. It's going to show you that, oh shit, this is happening. Oh my God, I need to worry. Oh Lord, where are we going now? What's going to happen tomorrow? I need to prepare. I need to, yeah, that's the stuff that sells. That's the stuff they want us to have. That uh that adrenaline junk, the dopamine hit, that's what they want. Hell, we got enough of that in the food we're eating. Moving in, what does this get us? It gets us speed, it gets us fast. And people that are usually have some position in this have some kind of a vested interest. I sell houses and I do the AI stuff for people. I try to look at their businesses from a systems analyst perspective and try to figure out the plumber and the beautician and the beauty supply supply store and the pizza joint and the ones that don't have it hooked up and set up yet, where not that they're going to get rid of people, but everything's automated. So they never leave any money on the table. There's nothing left behind. A client that reaches out, potential client that reaches out at two o'clock in the morning on their Facebook channel, it gets a response and not some bullshit automated thing, but an actual AI system that was trained for their business, reaches out and books an appointment. That's that leak that a lot of people have. So that's what I do. I find out what they have, how that can be made better, how they're appearing online. And this is all AI inferenced. And I go and I put it all together and then we talk about it and agree on a price, and now they have that. Now they don't lose anything. They lose the stuff that wasn't coming to them in the first place. But as far as the stuff they were missing, those people don't move on because they're already booked on an appointment, a calendar. So that's the stuff that I'm very good at with AI. So yes, I sell that. This video, now that you know that, thank you very much. Sell houses as well, sellersonlyagent.com. But I don't do all of this for that. I believe this could be the best of everything or the worst of everything. I think the awareness is important. I give training at the boards of realtors here at Southland Regional. I've talked to an entire group of brokers. I'm going to be talking to all the agents coming up here in August of 2026. And whenever I talk to agents, even in my own office or on the street or on Facebook or wherever we talk, people actually trust me enough because I'm in the business to build out their AI stuff for agents, which is an honor. I, you know, people would think, well, he's going to steal your leads. Yeah. Yeah. Once I get caught on that one, that would be a mess. Yeah, I'm not going to even touch that with a 10-foot pole. In fact, I'm even more protective of people's client list when we're trying to resurrect it and send out, uh, do a reviews management system, put all that together with AI. But, you know, they contact me, and whenever we talk about it, they didn't know. They had no idea. They're just, I guess they're busy selling houses. And sure, I get that. People are busy doing nails, people are busy weaving and doing eyelashes. People are busy, you know, trying to manage a restaurant. Hell, people are busy nursing and these other things. They don't have any idea. It's becoming more apparent, but people are very automatically on whatever side they're on for no good validity. People say, well, that's going to end us A as a horrible thing. Well, let's figure out why. Is it AI being driven by humans? Is it AI once AI understands that it might have a voice? Maybe a voice stronger than most humans because humans gave it access to everything. Maybe. We'll have to see what happens on that front. But if today it makes you nervous and it concerns you, and they're talking about doing something that you think might cause an issue in your employment and your family or whatever, you do need to speak up. Need to say something. Hell, start a channel. Say, these are my concerns. This is what I'm thinking about. Can anybody out there out there answer these questions? But it's not moving like the stuff before. The railroads took a while to be built. The internet and the railroads crashed the first time. And yes, it works. Yes, it makes sense. Intercontinental railroad running, you know, left to right in the United States here. Yes, that makes sense. But the first early adopters, they lost their everything. It's the people that went in and picked up the crumbs that won. Internet, same, same situation, right? They lost everything. Japan went through a 20-year cycle. They were doing really good in the 80s, right? All those Walkmans and all that other stuff. They they fell for a long time. Took them 30-something years to kind of get back right side up. So this is big. Is it a bubble? I have no idea. I'm not the financial wherewithal to even talk about a bubble. But it's an awful lot of money. Valuations and stocks and and and people getting IPOs and these big large language model companies like OpenAI saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going to get out there, we're going to get on the stock market, we're going to become publicly traded. But then they pull back a lot. Is that also, is that a good showmanship? Is that something like a Laker playoff in the season where it just almost seems, almost seems scripted because it's so exciting? Kind of like wrestling is. Sorry, didn't mean to burst that bubble. Or is it true? Is it really worth that much money? And there's a lot of money at the top. In fact, if you look at the stock market, I'm not into that situation. But if you look at it, a lot of the money is all everything related to AI. Real estate, they they would say, you know, eight to ten uh businesses out there are dependent on real estate sales to actually earn livings. You know, you have the supply chain, you have all these other vendors that are associated with lots of money involved in that. AI is now, you know, this other world. And there's a lot involved in that. A lot of the build-out, a lot of the technology, a lot of the new ideas, new ideas. Are we going to still have them as human beings? Or are these systems able to have all of them? Is everything going to be trademarked by people working with AI or AI themselves for all the future developments? And then how does that even work? Because if everybody's coming up with it, somebody can change one thing and maybe it's no longer, it'd probably be open to litigation. Everything is. Well, maybe, maybe I missed the boat with being an attorney. But then our attorneys are going to be valid? Are doctors? Right now with AI, the way that it does its diagnoses, you have a doctor doing it. There's a particular percentage, percentage of ability or failure rate. You have doctors combined with AI. You can look up these stats. Doctors combined with AI a little bit better, but not as much as you would think, because the doctor's still biased. The doctor still has his opinion. But you let AI go all on its own and make a diagnosis. Whoo, that number gets way up there, close to 100%. Yeah. Interesting. And now we have AI, them wanting to make the general AI models, like understanding everything everybody does in all realms. That's kind of that goal. Almost getting to and wanting to get to, I would guess. I don't know if they're trying to meet God in the machine, if they think that's where God is in a superintelligence, connected to everything, smarter than everyone, all time, forever, and still climbing at an exponential rate on knowing everything, the quantum world, the this world, all the other worlds, all the numerous dimensions, if if there are, and all this other fancy stuff? Or are they doing it for power? Because money at some point, I think if there's this utopia in abundance with every with everything being practically free, I don't know how much I don't know how much value there'll be in money. It's probably not going to look the same as it does now. That's something else that's going to be a shock. We we have this idea that working all of our lives to get to retirement, that's that's the goal. To try to raise a few kids and not have them be too screwed up. You know, that's the goal. And then kind of get on all that all that shit sailed for a lot of people. But you know, heart goes out, humans can understand other humans' pain. You put the robotic arm on it, have have some an organism, maybe that's not a good word, an entity that's in your living room that has a superintelligence. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that looks like. But it's moving and it's moving that direction. And back to the question of what are they looking for? Right now, if you take a particular large language model, instead of giving it this general intelligence or wrapping it in kind of uh wanting to wanting it to achieve superintelligence, you just point it at one thing. You train it on all of this one modality, this one genre like uh cancer. And maybe you solve that, but then that question comes back well, if we do solve cancer, doesn't that crash the economy? Not that we wouldn't want to, but would that be a stumbling block? Maybe, you know, sit down, kid. We don't need to do this right now. We're we're not the United States isn't ready to have another how many millions of people survive cancer right now. Plus, there's an entire backbone of the medical world built all around trying to fix it. And people survive this because of medical intervention. I I don't know where that one goes. So these are good questions. I don't have the answers. Maybe you do, and I'd love to hear what you think. Anyway, we'll see you in the next one. And I hope I hope this did something. Something good or something bad, but hopefully we can all still uh be friends at the end. All right. We'll see you in the next one. Thank you for watching.