USA-based Bangladeshi Sumaiya Shrabony shares her experiences as a technical program manager, AI workflow builder, and content creator with using AI professionally and personally, and how she feels about how AI is using people's data and works.

This interview by Karen Smiley is part of our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.

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Sumaiya Shrabony is a technical program manager and AI workflow builder by day and a content creator by night. Sumaiya also authors the Ground Truth newsletter on Substack. We discuss:

- Why AI output can be technically correct, polished, and still “miss everything that matters”

- The contradiction of demanding strict data governance at work while benefiting from AI models trained on unconsented data

- How “just opt out” ignores the real professional and economic cost of saying no

- Not trusting genAI tools to draw technical architecture diagrams

- Concerns with Grammarly, GitHub, Atlassian, and X opt-outs and use of data

- The legal shift introduced by California’s AB 2013 law

- Why she believes universal opt-out by default is mandatory as a first step towards transparency and trust

and more. Check it out, and let us know what you think!

Canada-based writer and strategist Jenn McRae shares her experiences with using AI professionally and personally, and how she feels about how AI is using people's data and works.

This interview by Karen Smiley is part of our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.

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🫛 In this edition of AI, Software, and Wetware, Jenn McRae and Karen Smiley discuss:

- AI as a cognitive prosthetic and reducing the ‘translation tax’

- How Claude tried and failed to build her a floor planner app

- Persecution of writers who use AI in their writing process (note: this interview was recorded on June 23, a month before Substack announced integration of Pangram ‘AI detection’ scoring)

- The resemblance between gestalt language processing (common in autistic cognition) and how an LLM will treat tokens as units of meaning

- Why she believes that “there is no ethical participation under capitalism” is not a license to not care or to excuse oneself from pursuing more ethical options

- How data is being used in Canada recently as more government and bureaucratic work is outsourced to private professional services firms (many US-based)

and more. Check it out, and let us know what you think!

USA-based elderotica author and micropublisher Stella Fosse shares her experiences with using AI professionally and personally, and how she feels about how AI is using people's data and works.

This interview by Karen Smiley is a special 2-year anniversary post in our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.

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🫛 Stella Fosse is a 🇺🇸 USA-based multi-book author who specializes in ‘elderotica’ and encouraging more women to write ‘well-seasoned romances’. She publishes a blog and Creative Crones with Stella Fosse. Stella is also the founder of the Crone Authors Together community and the creator of the newly-launched CroneHub. (Check it out!) We discuss:

- Using AI for research and "Donkey Work"

- The older writer's unreproducible voice

- Why there are no correct pronouns for Claude

- Whether book author self-certifications on AI matter to her, as a reader or writer

- Missing out on copyright infringement settlement funds because her book was not registered with the Library of Congress

- Why she would rather spend an hour in line at Heathrow than have her face scanned to be identified in minutes

- Connecting her thoughts on her books being used by AI to Star Trek episodes like the one with Mark Twain

and more. Check it out, and let us know what you think!

USA-based technical architect Nadina Lisbon shares her experiences with using AI professionally and personally, and how she feels about how AI is using people's data and works.

This interview by Karen Smiley is part of our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.

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USA-based business leadership consultant and M(AI)VENS founder Cheyenne Dominguez shares her experiences with using AI professionally and personally, and how she feels about how AI is using people's data and works.

This interview by Karen Smiley is part of our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.

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USA-based Danish culture thinker and author Jeanette Bronée shares her experiences with using AI professionally and personally, and how she feels about how AI is using people's data and works.

This interview by Karen Smiley is part of our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.

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Canada-based founder and author Hodman Murad shares her experiences with using AI professionally and personally, and how she feels about how AI is using people's data and works.

This interview by Karen Smiley is part of our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.

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USA-based Brazilian fractional CPO & tech strategist Luisa Herrmann shares her experiences with using AI professionally and personally, and how she feels about how AI is using people's data and works.

This interview by Karen Smiley is part of our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.

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USA-based developer and customer advocacy leader Jake Ward shares his experiences with using AI professionally and personally, and how he feels about how AI is using people's data and works.

This interview by Karen Smiley is part of our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.

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USA-based product leader Kanupriya (KP) Yakhmi shares her experiences with using AI professionally and personally, and how she feels about how AI is using people's data and works.

This interview by Karen Smiley is part of our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.

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