Why I'm Raising the Alarm on AI: Concerns, Containment, and What It Means for Your Business

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Hey everyone, Chris here from the Chris Michael Harris Show. I usually dive straight into business strategies and growth hacks, but today I want to hit pause and talk about something that's been weighing on my mind heavy—AI.

Look, I'm no AI expert, but I've got enough of a grasp on this tech to see the big picture, and honestly, I don't hear enough people voicing real concerns about where this could all lead.

We'll tie it back to your business at the end, because that's what we're all about here, but first, let's breadcrumb this back to some historical tech evolutions to make sense of it.

Think about transportation as a prime example.

We started out walking barefoot or in basic sandals—that was our "tech" back then. Then came horses, which sped things up but had limits on capacity.

Enter the horse and buggy, multiple horses pulling wagons, and eventually Henry Ford flips the script with the automobile. He famously said if he'd asked customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.

Fast-forward through Model Ts to the high-tech cars we drive today. The key point? We've always managed some form of containment.

Speed limits, traffic laws, safety ratings, crash tests—these keep the downsides in check so the massive upsides (like getting places way faster than on foot) shine through.

Now, apply that to the early days of the internet. Remember AOL chat rooms or AIM?

You'd rush home from school, log on, and suddenly you're chatting with classmates or crushes you'd barely acknowledge in person.

It created these weird dynamic relationships—people saying things online they'd never utter face-to-face. We saw the negatives early: arguments, moderators kicking folks out, even some societal ripples.

But again, containment was possible. Accounts get banned, platforms are centralized, and we enforce rules.

Social media took that to the next level with Web 2.0, amplifying connections but also echo chambers and misinformation.

We've adapted with countermeasures like fact-checking or just migrating to platforms that align with our values. Equilibrium, right?

But here's where AI scares me: containment feels impossible.

We're still in the super early stages—think chat rooms for AI. Tools like ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and Claude are basically large language models (LLMs) curating the internet at lightning speed.

Google eliminated the need to drive to the library; these LLMs skip the click-hole and hand you curated answers. It's mind-blowing—I upload a PDF to Grok and get insights in seconds that would've taken me days.

The promise is huge, but the race to build the best one (and eventually AGI—artificial general intelligence that thinks like a human across multiple tasks) is on, and it's accelerating.

Job displacement is the low-hanging fruit. Your boss hands you documents to review?

AI does it a thousand times faster. But go deeper: AI writing malware, deploying viruses, hacking passwords, creating deepfakes.

Remember Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning? The face-swapping, surveillance-tapping rogue AI isn't sci-fi anymore—it's feasible soon.

In that world, you'd go analog just to stay off the grid, passing VHS tapes instead of emailing. But real life would be worse; with cameras everywhere, detection happens in milliseconds.

Hacking today relies on human tricks—friending you on Facebook to guess passwords, phishing calls pretending to be fraud alerts.

Multiply that by AI speed: a thousand times faster, more sophisticated. It's terrifying. My mentors talk about a "return to real"—ditching digital for human-to-human (H2H) interactions.

Forget B2B or B2C; it's about authenticity because soon, we won't know what's real. We're already there with info—Blue Sky vs. X feels like alternate universes.

Pan a news clip differently, and the story flips (like that Anderson Cooper flood footage debunked for exaggeration).

Kids growing up with this? Will they think deeply, or just query AI for everything?

What about mental health, job opportunities, starting businesses?

We're trusting LLMs for absolute truths, but they're pulling from biased, oceans-apart data. Google at least gave links for you to vet; AI curates blindly.

I've seen three camps emerge: the optimists racing ahead, the skeptics calling for pauses, and those pushing countermeasures.

But litigation looms—AI giving bad health advice leading to harm?

I've caught models in errors that could've hurt me or my dog (RIP, buddy—seizure advice varied wildly by query).

Families suing over therapy gone wrong? Content creators: why make blogs or videos if AI scrapes and regurgitates them as avatars or episodes?

This is our nuclear dilemma, but worse. Nukes involve physical materials you can track; AI?

Anyone in a cave could build a rogue model for nefarious ends—terrorists, foreign entities.

No physical containment. But hey, counter-AI could be huge and profitable, balancing the scales like we've done with Web 2.0.

I hope I'm overthinking this—history shows we adapt. All praise to God for the foresight; it's helped me as an entrepreneur spot trends early.

But until concerns are addressed, I'm staying vigilant.

Now, how does this hit your business? If you're offline, you're golden for a while—robots like Optimus might assist labor (Amazon warehouses running 24/7 on $30K bots? Game-changer, and safer for humans).

But I looked out a window at lunch and saw 90% of jobs vanishing: truckers, mechanics, you name it.

EVs + AI diagnostics?

Auto shops rethink everything. We might shift to resource-based economies, UBI funded by tech taxes on giants like Tesla.

My predictions often unfold slower than I think, but prepare now. Here's my advice for service providers, coaches, or online pros:

1. Be Inherently Human: Community and connection trump tech. We follow YouTubers for the human touch, not info dumps. YouTube's already demonetizing non-human content. Build around lived experience, intuition, spiritual discernment—stuff AI can't fake, even at AGI level.
2. Give Answers, Not More Info: LLMs struggle with context-specific wisdom. Transform lives with tailored guidance from your gut and expertise. Wisdom > information (remember the original temptation? Knowledge without wisdom leads astray).
3. Use AI, Don't Let It Use You: You're not losing to AI; you're losing to someone wielding it better. Build custom GPTs, analyze data (ads, reports), vertically integrate. Clear mundane tasks—bookkeepers, focus on planning/taxes instead of basics. Our tools help clients crank out consistent content like never before, removing roadblocks.

Sit down today: List where you're slow, uninnovated, or stuck. Hire these tools—own your space, dominate with your unique ability. Kick that replacement runway as far as possible.

I'm not fear-mongering; I just want to be a voice of reason in the hype. Hope this sparks some thought—let's chat in the comments. See you in the next one!