•  BUSINESS LEADERS BEWARE OF INFLUENCE FROM A.I. PLATFORMS which can give contradictory answers to identical questions and “amplify popular assertions derived from Echo Chamber repetition of AI-powered groupthink & hallucinations over hard truths.” This can influence Exec Team or Board consensus – especially when dissenting voices are suppressed due to misguided pressure for harmony and cohesion. A recent Deloitte survey of 600 Directors for major global companies found 50% acknowledging they “don’t’ understand their AI usage, but still agreeing to echo chamber repetition of conventional wisdom (from most repeated assertions in articles reviewed) over less well-showcased truth.”  Private Company Advisory Boards are at still greater risk of: (1) abdicating judgement to algorithms; (2) artificial consensus leaving unpreparedness for error; and (3) delegating strategic context analysis and critical thinking to AI platforms and/or purported AI experts. DCG have decades of expertise in effective strategic planning; we can help.  [CORPORATE BOARD MEMBER]  
  •  ANOTHER A.I. REVOLUTION IS PERHAPS THE MOST IMMEDIATE THREAT TO HUMANITY: WIDESPREAD GENETIC ENGINEERING – the power of artificial selection to the advantage of China. “Along with its demonstrated willingness to experiment with genetically enhancing its population, China’s progress in AI raises the possibility that a totalitarian state with profoundly different ethical standards from our own will have at least equal say in determining the future of genetic engineering.  AI excels in ultra-complex, multivariable pattern recognition needed to disentangle the meaning of generic sequences – which are a non-human language whose combinatorial complexity would have remained impenetrable using conventional methods… AI techniques are now creating the tools needed to make more effective CRISPR gene editors, editing proteins from scratch that are precisely designed for specialized purposes, including genetic screening, enabling a vastly larger pool of embryos to pick and choose from and predicting their traits – i.e. designer babies by overproduction and precision selection… China has already surpassed U.S. leadership with drones, solar panels, graphene, electric vehicles, and pharmaceuticals, plus taken the lead in some cutting-edge areas, such as CAR T-cell therapy, a new approach to cancer treatments. In genomic data, China now has a clear advantage.”   https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-ai-genetics-revolution-is-coming 
  •  A HEALTH NOTE: Suddenly feeling foggy, tire, puffy, dizzy, anxious or just plain ‘off’? In about 25% of people, Mold Toxicity results from tiny microbes which make poisons in the body called Biotoxins, and which can shut down our immune system’s ability to detoxify. It can feel like tingling, vibration or numbness in random spots under the skin, joint & muscle pain, GI symptoms (nausea, bloating, diarrhea), temperature swings, or unusual thirst. Toxins get absorbed most commonly through inhaling spores, but also from touching contaminated surfaces or eating moldy foods – like dried fruit, aged cheese, mushrooms, overripe produce, even beer, wine, vinegar and processed meats. Once diagnosed through blood or urine tests, a healing process can take a year or more – especially when there’s still hidden mold somewhere in the home or workplace. [MYHEALWORKS.COM]
  • “THE STATE OF OUR POLITICAL DIVIDE is that the chief goal of radical Leftists in the U.S. is to destroy the existing cultures, traditions, institutions, economic and governmental systems so they can build a socialist utopia from the ashes, by sowing chaos by any means necessary, with hopes of graduating to complete revolution… They want to destroy the family unit, churches & religion, patriotism, American energy independence, free speech, the middle class, our military readiness, educational excellence, individual financial independence, the constitution, and the country as we know it. Virtually every disastrous policy – from the Affordable Care Act to DEI, defunding police, Green New Deal, open borders, student loan forgiveness, cashless bail, transgender ideology and beyond – has been enacted to inflict some measure of damage to one or more of the country’s fundamental systems, or to simply bring about chaos, and Leftists have been quite successful in their overall mission… The media are dominantly controlled by or are themselves the radical Left, pushing narratives that align with those views by aggressively censoring competing conservative narratives, and during the Obama presidency years, use of the terms racist/ systemic racism/ white privilege/ bias/ diversity/ whiteness over mainstream media increased nearly 1,000% with DEI language, metrics and policies officially cemented across federal agencies… Our political divide can be summarized with this simple metaphor: Democrats would like to drive the bus over the cliff; Republicans would like to drive it away from the cliff.”  https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-state-of-our-political-divide 

THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK

  • WAYMO autonomous vehicles have now driven over 100 million miles navigating city traffic without a driver, and avoided up to 90% fewer injury-causing collisions or pedestrian injuries, including risk from opening doors to exit without checking for bicyclists. The benefits from relieving parking-related stress, allowing office work while commuting, convenience for elder & vision-impaired drivers, enabling evening-out drinking along with after dinner or party naps is becoming a part of daily life in Los Angeles/ San Francsico/ Austin/ Phoenix/ Atlanta/ Tokyo, and soon Dallas/ Miami & Washington DC.  Waymo vision is that “the inflection point for acceptance has arrived, and that its vehicles are the future of motility.”  [McKINSEY]
  • The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, classified Gender Disorder as ‘mental health disorder’ until six years ago when it was reclassified as a ‘sexual health condition.’  After six high-profile shootings at schools and businesses involving people who ‘identified’ as transgender or gender-confused, the link between Transgenderism and Violence is increasingly being viewed as convergence of mental illness, medication and radicalization, resulting from combining hormones, medication and intense online pressure.  A 2022 study at University of Southern California found that Transgender individuals represented some .6% of the population, but were responsible for around 5% of mass public shootings, a ratio which has most likely increased.  [EPOCH TIMES]
  •  “You’re the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do… and you’re the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.” – ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER