The Two Mikes, today, were most fortunate to receive an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Mr. Zach Vorhies, a computer/engineer and entrepreneur who worked for Google.

He quit Google over the manner in which the company operated. Since leaving Google, he has spoken openly about what he saw there and why he left. On this issue of AI, Mr. Vorhees spoke to us about the recent revelations about some media companies using AI to write their articles for them, and how few readers caught onto the ruse. Mr. Vorhies said that AI is growing very quickly and may well soon be a big problem because of the proficiency with which it produces articles -- soon even complete books -- with only a small assist from human beings. The people using AI for these purposes, for example, draw not on a database, but from what more accurately be called a "data lake" consisting of a large number of databases that have been aggregate and arranged for easy and effective access and tasking by anyone who needs an article, a school paper, a statement, a speech, or a book. The rub in this process arises over the question of who is going to feed the data lake.

The aggregating process, if even-handed, would provide a previously unseen -- perhaps close to an unimaginable -- source of information from which people could choose on the basis of their needs, personal views, and openness to data that changes previously held views. On the other hand, if feeding the data lake is left to Big Tech companies -- given what we know about their partisan activities over the last decades -- it will be an inflow of data focused on only those things they want Americans to read, and which, over time will be formative of their worldviews, political ideas, social mores, etc. In addition, if a picking and choosing is allowed to occur about what books, manuscript collections, letter collections, memoirs, videos, movies, newspaper, and magazines -- to name just a few categories of pertinent materials -- the Big Tech companies could not only indoctrinate younger readers, but by depriving all Americans of past writings they will able to erase what Americans have learned about the development of their country and the world over the past millennia, and the details of their own country's founding, history and culture.

--Mr. Vorhies owns and runs BLAST.VIDEO, which is a website that scans news and videos from all platforms, aggregates them, and makes them available, without editing.

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