I am not anti AI and I am not selling it either. Recorded outside on a windy May afternoon, this one is my middle ground: where I believe AI can be something strong, where I see it already being abused, and what I think has to be in place for the first to win out. I start with 2003 and the music industry. I put out a press release then about what digital downloads would do to artists, and I share why I think the lack of regulation, accountability and organization in that industry is the same wild west AI is in now, on a much bigger scale. From there, five areas I see growing through 2030: advanced multimodal systems, agentic and autonomous agents, quantum AI for specialized problem solving, reasoning and frontier models, and industry specific applications such as fraud detection. For each I share the side I find exciting and the side I find dangerous, like the headshot that is no longer you or the stage photo of a crowd that was never there. The core of it: I believe honest AI will not replace humans because the people asking the questions still have to know what to ask, what to vet and what red flags to raise. A prompt returns popular answers. It does not return the discovery, the local context, the money, the reputation and the law that a real plan needs. I share the paralegal example, the album count AI gets wrong about me, and why I check every link a model hands back. I also share why I would welcome standards, committees and, yes, fines. Why I like the blockchain idea for proving when something was written and whether it was altered. And why I believe every business should publish a statement of how it uses AI and how it does not. A long one and a bit of a rant. That is where I stand. Written transcription, chapters and links: https://lorenweisman.com/2025/05/20/honest-ai-podcast-transcription/

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