Polls
Follow Us
© 2026 AMAC, Inc. / AMAC Senior Resources Network. All Rights Reserved.
The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) is here to protect your interests, and to offer an alternative perspective on how to best solve the problems seniors face today. We need you. America needs you.
As a retired IT person I can say that people have no idea how bad AI is going to be. It will do and think as it is programmed. If a left wing wacko teaches it their idealogy the AI will think that way. It’s dangerous and needs to be banned now.
Mostly negative is going to become truer at each passing day. The fake audio, video, and the resulting scams are going to destroy a lot of peoples lives. I find this greatly disturbing, which will lead me to being horrified in the near future, I’m sure. Pardon my pessimism (i.e., realism)
There is a place for AI in our society, but not without effective safeguards. AI is the latest tool for collecting vast amounts of data and simulating human learning; enabling performance of complex tasks; problem-solving; and decision making.
AI is beneficial in the manufacturing field especially in repetitive work by eliminating human error and risk. It is also beneficial in healthcare by aiding in early diagnosis; keeping up with current medical advances; faster completion of clinical notes; and advanced risk assessment in patients.
Now for the dangers of AI, and these are significant. I encourage you to read the article I wrote on SubStack on 11/28/25 titled, “Danger, Will Robinson!” (AMAC doesn’t allow links.) I revealed the hideousness of AI toys for children. These AI toys powered by advanced chatbots typically contain microphones; cameras; speakers; touch sensors; and microprocessors. The AI software has algorithms programmed to enable the toy to respond in a human-like manner and to learn from voice interactions through voice recognition software. Some AI toys come with a library of responses, stories, and sometimes educational content that they adapt their responses to the user with whom they interact.
A few of these toys have large internal memory to store data, while others have Wi-Fi/Bluetooth modules to enable connection to the internet or other devices. Gosh, what could possibly go wrong with that? Unscrupulous hackers have gained access to the data collected by these robot toys, then glean much information about the child, including the physical location when the child is playing with the toy. What is most alarming is that this data can end upon deep-fake child pornography sites.
Just like social media and our electronic devices have monopolized our attention and stolen precious time from our children, advanced AI threatens that and much more. AI impacts education of children and young adults. The greatest danger of AI in education is not that it will help students cheat. It’s that it will reshape how they think, learn, and even understand truth itself.
The problem is not merely that students may use AI to cheat on assignments—it’s that they may cheat themselves out of the very mental work that forms them into capable thinkers. My concern is that, when introduced too early or possibly even at all, AI will not supplement learning; it will substitute for the hard but necessary work of cultivating wisdom.
Misinformation is already rampant throughout the media et al. Now with AI, deep-fake video and/or audio recordings can “manufacture” stories and images that falsely exploit people forcing some victims to pay a ransom demanded by the AI culprits. The list of dangers and risks currently outweighs the benefits. Legislation for technological safeguards is perhaps the first step in addressing the present and future dangers of AI.
“Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.” Ephesians 5:11
It will dumb people down and take away their ability to think and process information.
AI is strictly based on what is in the database systems, clouds… GIGO! most in the last 30 years have been taken over by the left, socialist, non-Christian, secular, world worshipping elite in the universities and legal system. NOT MUCH if any can be trusted. Just do a search on something you already know the answer and it will always take you to a left sided url links by the thousands.
It was bad enough having to triple check everything for veracity. With political disinformation in overdrive, AI is really exacerbating the situation. But wait until AI improves. We will be in trouble then.
AI is dumbing down the populous as more and more begin to rely on it than using their own ability to think, especially youth. Same as the self driving features on newer vehicles lead to more distractions from other devices.
I DON’T use A.I.
I ASKED Google’s A.I.:
‘WHAT is a WOMAN?’
…and received FIVE different ‘responses’.
I ASKED:
‘WHAT is a MAN?’
…received a ONE sentence response.
A.I. may be ARTIFICIAL, but it is certainly NOT intelligent.
…and people USE it for MEDICAL advice?!
AI will be Satan’s tool for when he has complete control over the earth. He will monitor everything even more than what is seen now. For us pretribers I’m so thankful that we won’t be here to witness it. I’m praying for all to come to the saving Grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
“And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.””
Revelation 22:7 ESV
I’d like to pick a little of three choices.
#5, It’s too early to really know the impact of AI. How much did Alex G. Bell understand the impact his invention would have on people when he had wired up his first neighborhood? Originally he just wanted to help deaf people. That’s about where our understanding is now.
#6, Not sure, I’m still learning what AI does, or can do, or even when I have seen it at work. It can be a bit unnerving, especially when I’ve interacted with it unknowingly.
#3, A mix of both plus and minus. Even though it’s artificial it’s still a product of imperfect humans. Intentions may be honorable but there are those who could (or will) use it for nefarious ends.
#8, Don’t look now but democrats are already using AI’s counterpart, AS. Artificial Stupidity. Or maybe that’s NS, natural stupidity.
I dislike the fact that you don’t know for sure what is real and what is not. Very disturbing how it is used negatively by people who want to scam others. Especially preying on elderly or children.
I dislike that I no longer can even “trust my own eyes” when I’m reading online material accompanied by “photos”; who knows whether its real or AI?. That expression “seeing is believing”?…..forget it!!
I’m not really cognizant on AI. From what I do understand, much of it CAN be used for evil but some for good. I think it depends on WHO is in charge of it. We know already that the anti-American LEFT will do ANYTHING to gain and wield power and AI might help them to do it!
AI will be viewed as the biggest marketing scam in the history of mankind. Sure, eventually it will be effective in good, unique ways, but for the time being it is hogwash. Anybody that talks about AI becoming sentient or is going to take over all-the-things is completely ignorant of the technology. Companies that think they’re going to fire humans because of AI are only firing the extra employees they have that aren’t doing anything anyway. No company can count on AI to do much of anything useful. As a software developer, I find that AI has some usefulness, but it isn’t anywhere near doing any real, creative, maintainable software. Anyone that says otherwise probably wants to increase their stock holdings or other investments in AI where money is going to investors by the dump truck load, but that bubble will surely burst. Bah, humbug.
AI is not good. It takes away jobs. It does thinking for us. What is ever going to stop it from thinking for itself. It could potentially take over many many things. Artifical is never good.
I am an illustrator who refuses to use AI, but I am very concerned (as are others like me) that someone can simply ask, “draw a scene in the style of …” and get work that looks like mine, but is not mine. Many artists are very concerned that their style and techniques will be stolen and used against them. This is just one incident on the “con” side of this technology. Even more disturbing is that people, especially on social media, cannot recognize what is real and what is being used to manipulate them.
I pray our president is not listening to people who will use his desire for technological dominance to manipulate him into ushering in a very dark new world.
I don’t trust AI, actually the programmers who initiate AI. While some tools, like medical apps are helpful, even useful, the majority of the time the abilities of AI are abused down to harassing phone calls from scammers and the like. The effectiveness of this tool has been destroyed by its abuse and the obvious biases of the earlier programmers, especially those with a political edge to their thinking. In order to be truly effective, AI needs to be completely unbiased and properly formatted to serve us, not dominate our lives with various forms of misinformation! There also needs to be regulations concerning the application of AI, it can’t be allowed to reign freely!
I feel it is truly a destructive tool and the bad will outway any good. We are already seeing what it is doing to our vulnerable teenagers. I can not believe that our politicians are thinking they can harness this evil genie that they let out of the bottle. Parents need to go back to the old school methods of education and not allow, artificial intelligence to teach our children and turn their brains to mush.
As with anything new that could be good and useful some idiot will find a way to use it to do bad things.
Just wait until AI turns into artifical people, then artifical votes, artifical judges, and an artifical government.
The turning point will be when AI starts making important decisions.
What will the Bill of Rights look like then?
Will anything be real afterwards? Or will all the power rest in the hands of data centers?
I’m sure it helps our military is some ways, What I don’t like about it is such famous people as Victor Davis Hansen and Elon Musk persons are copied on videos on YouTubebut the words are not their own words. Also,some videos on youtube are made by AI. I think it will grow starting now and become a huge problem later. Just like all the fake and false things in the media. Just plain lies usually by the left.
I wish, I wish that we could trust our fellow citizens to remember that the operative word here is “Artificial.”
AI is often cumbersome & a pain. A human can get to the point much faster…AI will eliminate 250K jobs in the next 18 months so who will support the economy? AI presents a huge danger [shades of the Terminator flash across my brain]
It has made a lot of people change the goals for themselves and their future. AI will replace so much in our lives and work that it’s kind of scary. It replaces much that we see in the movies and jobs that provided opportunities that will no longer exist. We will always have to be on guard for scams that will be and are so convincing that many of us will be affected and hurt. We need an effective control of this sooner than later.
After decades working in IT we urge every American to be concern about this technology. Do not give out ur biometrics to any app for this technology now will clone u. No computer or server is secure and is easily hacked. Someone can easily take ownership of everything u own.we saw under biden how tech companies are aligned with government and can easily be in ur home monitoring 24×7 without u knowing. Congress should have legislation restricting this technology vs trump giving them free reign. Trump giving china access to Nvidia chips is devastating for they will be able to control the world. Average people not familiar with this technology doesnt understand how dangerous it is to western civilization.. your freedom is over without strict government control over it. Congress and executive branch lack the knowledge to understand how deadly this is. All tech companies have demonstrated they can not be trusted to do only good for having power over others is their focus. Google, meta and Microsoft are aligned with china not america, they have demonstrated this with censorship of conservatives. They all should not have 230 protection but be held accountable for the trash on their apps.AI is still requiring a human to write the algorithms and we see less and less facts from queries for data, more ideology and marxist views. More accurate info on history is in our old encyclopedia than one can search for on internet..
It will probably go the same as the internet and social media. They both started out as a good thing but over time both have become corrupted and social media has also become a sewer.
AI can have a negative effect in classrooms as students use AI instead of their own work . It creates more work for the teachers . Good teachers who would know their students can pick up the difference between student generated and AI generated work , but it requires more teacher time .
I believe Ai is the beginning of people not being able to think for themselves. It does have some benefits, but people will start believing what Ai tells them. Especially with schools, kids can’t learn to think for themselves or write papers. Common sense has disappeared. We are turning into a helpless society. All great nations will eventually fall.
AI is only in its infant stages now and still reasonably easy to discern what is AI and what is real. However, it is advancing daily. The scariest thing about AI is the agenda-driven propaganda that it will constantly spew and shape the minds of those being influenced. There is a great line in an old Robert Redford movie, Sneakers, that says,” It’s all about who controls the information.” What prophetic words. AI will be the one controlling the information. And AI will slant the information to the will of those in charge. From where I sit, that doesn’t look good.
People have a right to be concerned about AI. I’ve seen it up close: a front desk worker at my gym, laid off from his charter school recruiting job after budget cuts, later discovered the position will likely be made obsolete by artificial intelligence. It’s a sign of where many fields are headed.
Still, fears of an AI takeover feel more like a 1950s B-movie plot—the kind our parents barely watched from the backseat at the drive-in—than imminent reality. Tools like AI chatbots, in my experience, are still riddled with mistakes. Like any program, they only know what’s put into them, and for now, that limits how much control they truly have.
Where AI does unsettle me is in its practical reach: it’s managing our electric grid, influencing utility costs, and creeping into banking and law enforcement. Errors in systems like metering or data analysis could have real consequences. Our privacy is already compromised, and AI threatens to erode it further.
Entertainment is a mixed bag. AI-generated animation on platforms like YouTube and Instagram can be strikingly lifelike, often achievable by a single creator. Yet that same efficiency threatens to displace countless writers, artists, and filmmakers.
So while I’m not losing sleep over a machine takeover, I am worried about how quietly—and imperfectly—AI is reshaping the infrastructure of daily life.
AI is already causing massive communication problems with the false generated reports of news that NEVER OCCURRED!! People need to think for themselves! AI could be used for good, but as you can see: in the wrong hands it’s a disaster!! When you let machines think for you: you lose your ability to think for yourself!
AI is great for pushing propaganda. It also aids in continuing the “dumb down” process of US population. The real facts and truth are difficult to ascertain at the present and AI will make finding the truth and facts almost impossible.
It has made me skeptical of most things seen on line. No idea if it is real or created.
AI has been released too soon. It’s immature and inaccurate. It’s a gimmick and an overused one. Some IA created files are OK. But, if I can identify that they were created with AI it’s because the AI errors are a dead giveaway that the file was created by AI. You should see all the similar stories written by AI on YouTube. It should be used as an English class for creating plagiarism. It can’t handle American military ranks or uniforms at all!!! What it comes up with is truly bizarre. Surprisingly, most of the stories on YouTube must be written with the same AI platform. In 90% of the stories a member of the ‘Chen’ family appears. It’s like a signature for that particular AI platform. I think it’s inaccurate and keeps people from developing their own writing skills. AI used for other items will erode peoples skills as well. Our society is already down to reading at the 4th grade level. Do we want to reduce that level even more? I think not!
Ai chat bots are mostly useless in providing customer services.
Some software companies are abusing it for selfish purposes and it’s time to get rid of those programs.
Sadly, mankind is inherently evil and there will be opportunity for many to distort and corrupt the system for greed and to cause great harm to others!
AI will certainly assist us in accomplishing tasks, solving problems and so on. But it will make it far more difficult for the average person to determine what is real and what is fake. Scams and fraud may ultimately be undetectable for the majority of the people. And we may be drawn into sin without being able to detect it without the Spirit of God.
I keep having to confront students who want to use AI tools to avoid really studying, learning or creating. It may mean all essays are pen and paper and many questions are oral. ” I need to hear your voice, your style of writing,” is something I have to say more and more often.
The liberal far left democrats education has already dumbed down our youth and now AI is doing nothing more than making them lazy by AI doing their thinking and work for them. Commercials for AI on computers and iPhone and Android phones shows office people telling their phones to write reports, contracts and draw up selling agreements for business associates and print them out all before he or she gets to the office which means they get paid all that money when AI is doing all the work. The one good thing about it is solely for businesses who can cut their payrolls and save money. It’s a joke.
All things like hammers, guns, cars can be used for both good and bad. I see this initial investment as good to stimulate the economy. There will be several side effects like these AI data centers taking huge amounts of power. I believe it’s time all huge data centers take on the responsibility of building their own power generators that run them 24X7, 365 days per year. This would be so that my power costs don’t go get very expensive. Also so that I don’t experience power outages because of them. Alreay governments are wanting to survive everything we do, They are declaring encryption and VPN’s to be illegal which means they don’t want you or I to have security like I do in the privacy of my home. I’m sure AI will eventually be used to destroy privacy, which is a very negative thing that will happen because of it being available.
It is effecting education. The kids are learning how to cheat and not how to think. It is encouraging laziness. There are also good things about AI.
The question is silly, of course it dangerous! Negative is too mild a term. Look around you…people with their eyes glued to their phones! Can’t even have a conversation. People do not interact with their fellow man. It is truly horrifying. I hate it and have never been happy about since the very beginning when everyone had to have cell phones. The true harm is the children. Babies sitting in their strollers looking like zombies glued to a screen!!! Truly horrifying!
Although AI can help us improve health care it will also make us very lazy thinkers and eventually rely on it to think at all. It scares me to think that a machine will think for us instead of us developing our own brains.
Like any database… garbage in garbage out, scary stuff.
It will be used mainly for deception, hiding the truth and promoting the lies.
Like putting trust in a driverless car today.
No way in hell.
I have encounters with AI in an amusing way, working at a home improvement store. Here are some the replies I got: customer asked for washer pans AI replied, “wash your pants”. another asked for toggles AI replied “Douglas”. So, know AI at work I call AI Douglas.
Part of the problem is AI doesn’t understand my English accent!
I expect AI will bring more information for decision making; will it b better and more accurate information is the question.
Try Arguing with Artificial Intelligence that only a human can resolve issue on telephone, nothing worse than trying to convince a computer robot that assumes to know what it is Not programmed to resolve and has various avenues of replying in its folder !
Then even Worse’ for a specific reason I asked Google AI how deep does Apple Tree roots go, and after failing numerous replies, Google AI finally said 2′ deep, (a reply that specifically details Evergreen Trees, {Pine} Root depth) (so a knowingly Lie) and then the Apple Tree had a Humongous Red Tap Root’ that I had to remove for placing concrete pad on top of !