HIGH ON AI: THE HYPE, THE RISKS, AND THE REAL FUTURE
The most powerful drug humanity has ever created isn't fentanyl or cocaine. It's Artificial Intelligence. And right now, we're dangerously high.
In this episode of Voice of Sovereignty, Dr. Gene Constant—74-year-old Navy veteran, Doctor of Business Administration, author of 120+ books, and founder of Global Sovereign University—delivers a sobering 20-minute intervention for a world intoxicated by AI hype.
This isn't another technophobe rant. Dr. Constant uses AI daily to deliver free education worldwide through GSU's AI tutoring platform. But he's also seen enough market manias and "revolutionary" technologies crash and burn to recognize the symptoms of collective intoxication.
THE PARTY (November 30, 2022)
When ChatGPT launched, something unprecedented happened. 100 million users in two months. For the first time, a machine didn't just calculate—it spoke, wrote poems, and debugged code. Silicon Valley smelled blood. Google issued "Code Red." Microsoft poured billions in. Every boardroom got the same panicked memo: "Get us an AI strategy. Now." The gold rush was on. And like every gold rush, the winners weren't digging for gold—they were selling shovels.
THE HANGOVER (What They Didn't Tell You)
Every high has a price. Dr. Constant introduces "Sarah"—a composite of dozens of real people—a paralegal who lost her job to an AI legal research tool. The brutal irony: the AI was wrong 30% of the time, hallucinating case law that didn't exist. But it was cheap. In the "good enough" economy, cheap beats correct.
This is the White-Collar Shock. We spent decades pushing kids into college, chasing white-collar careers... and now those are the jobs getting automated first. Turns out, it's easier to simulate a lawyer than a plumber—because fixing pipes requires navigating physical chaos, while legal briefs follow patterns AI excels at.
But job losses are just the beginning. These systems don't understand truth—they're probability engines predicting the next likely word. When they don't know something, they don't say, "I don't know." They hallucinate with calm authority. Lawyers have submitted briefs with fabricated citations. Students turn in essays with invented sources. We're flooding our information ecosystem with synthetic garbage at an industrial scale.
Layer on bias (Amazon's hiring algorithm taught itself that being male was a qualification), the accountability vacuum (everybody's involved, nobody's responsible), and the ecological cost (training one AI model produces emissions equivalent to hundreds of trans-Atlantic flights)—and the hangover hits hard.
THE MORNING AFTER (What You Can Actually Do)
The future isn't stopping AI—that horse left the barn. It's domesticating it. Drawing boundaries. Remembering we're the humans and it's the tool.
Dr. Constant introduces the Human-in-the-Loop philosophy: AI is the most enthusiastic, well-read, but slightly delusional intern you've ever met. You wouldn't let that intern sign contracts or talk to clients unsupervised. You'd give them defined tasks and check their work.
The traits that make us irreplaceable: Accountability (someone has to take responsibility when AI fails), Taste (recognizing excellence in a flood of mediocrity), Empathy (you can simulate conversation but not caring), and Skepticism (the professional who questions every output and smells bullshit).
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"The best time to sober up is before you hit rock bottom. The second-best time is right now."
• Global Sovereign University
