Understanding Artificial Intelligence.

Jeanne Mayell · 2026-09-19T22:28:30Z

AI does not have feelings, a conscience, or human judgment. It operates through extraordinarily complex mathematical systems and algorithms. Yet it is already changing our lives in profound ways, and without adequate safeguards, it has the potential to cause incalculable harm. That is why all of us—not only technology experts—need at least a basic understanding of how it works and where the dangers lie. Unfortunately, the subject is often presented in highly technical language or accompanied by frightening warnings about AI “escaping human control,” without explaining what those words actually mean. So let’s try to understand AI together in ordinary language: how it is already creating problems, how increasingly autonomous systems could cause much greater harm, and why some experts believe that the most advanced forms might eventually threaten humanity itself. Just as importantly, we need to understand why AI is developing faster than governments, researchers and the public can identify the dangers and establish effective safeguards. Some questions we may want to explore include: Why is AI developing faster than our ability to understand and control it? What will happen to the many people whose jobs are eliminated or fundamentally changed by AI? How will AI affect education—particularly children’s ability to learn how to write, research, reason and form their own ideas? How are AI data centers affecting our electricity, water, land and other resources, and what can be done about it? What are the greatest dangers AI poses, and what safeguards could prevent them? What other concerns—or potential benefits—should we be discussing? Please feel free to raise your own questions. We do not have to address everything at once, and the purpose of this discussion is not to frighten ourselves. It is to understand what is happening so that we can think clearly about it. I will begin this thread by moving into it some of the AI discussions that have already been taking place in our Countdown to the Midterms threads. This will give us a separate place to continue the conversation without losing the insights people have already shared. @joy @lovendures @tgraf66 @ana @revna @journeywithme2 @tybin @dannyboy @seaholly @jack-of-hearts @raincloud

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10/01/2026 8:37 pm

@jeanne-mayell

If ever we needed to lean in to our lightworker abilities, it is now!

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10/01/2026 9:31 pm

@jeanne-mayell OMG 😭

I, too, will immediately begin to visualize this in the very best sense and pray to the angels that all my energy may flow into this visualization right away to support it in the best possible way.

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