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A while ago, I began scribbling notes in a notebook. That’s nothing new for me. I’ve always written down thoughts when they refuse to stay quiet. But this time, it felt different.

It started with a conversation with my older son. We were talking about the growing presence of AI in our lives, not just the headlines, but the quiet infiltration into everything we do. We both come from mathematics, and as we unpacked the logic behind GPT, Gemini, Claude, and the rest of the so-called super-intelligences, I felt something shift.

Are we slowly losing our place to these engines?
Will they replace us as machines once replaced horses in the industrial revolution?

And then the darker questions emerged, not just how these systems work, but who guides them. What if someone, somewhere, decided to tilt their logic?
Would that be enough to bend truth, to move elections, to steer minds?
Could bias, subtle, invisible bias, become the new instrument of control?

Where is this all going?
Who’s holding the wheel?
And to what destination?

My notebook soon filled with fragments, unfinished thoughts, half-formed questions, reflections that never settled. But one thing kept echoing. we all use AI every day. We enjoy its brilliance, the endless knowledge waiting on our screens, the answers we no longer have to seek. Yet, few of us stop to ask, Can it harm us? What kind of harm could it bring? And can we, as the human race, truly afford it?

This blog isn’t about answers.
It’s not about fear or salvation.
It’s about pausing long enough to think, to feel, to wonder.

Just thoughts, honestly written.

Full Disclosure
I used AI to help shape these words. The questions are mine. The doubts are mine. The language, as polished as it may sound, and a few of the quotes were shaped by GPT.

Good luck to us all.
And may we never stop asking why.

Yair



"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out."  - Elon Musk









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