EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, is raising several concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) surrounding the technology’s rapidly growing capabilities and the dangers of its unregulated development.
Haust first pointed to XAI’s chatbot Grok 3, an AI system from the social media platform X, which malfunctioned earlier this week after a line of code that acted as a control for the tool was removed.
She emphasized that AI’s power solely comes from the data it consumes and the more and better data it has, the more powerful it becomes.
“One thing we have to remember is: Garbage in, garbage out…Any AI program is only as good as the information that it’s getting. Where is it scraping the information from? Grok 3 was scraping information, someone had gone in and removed a line of code that kind of kept Grok 3 in check…and it caused Grok to go a little haywire,” Haust said on Friday’s show.
Haust explained how the error caused Grok 3 to behave unpredictably, just before the release of Grok 4, which, as she said, is significantly more advanced as it has the ability to perform PhD-level work.
“Grok 4 is light years better in terms of calculations – being able to come up with math and science, ancestry formulas, all of those things. In many cases, it’s returning better than PhD level responses to things. So we all think about it solving math problems or solving a science problem, elementary level type stuff, now we’re finding that it is capable of creating new alloy, for example. It can create new chemical compounds,” Haust explained.
“I just heard that Microsoft actually, not even the Grok tool, but Microsoft was able to create a new cooling compound so that computers can stay cool without damaging the environment and that sort of thing. There’s very good things that can come out of these calculations that are now wide open to us. We can prompt Grok and other AI programs to come up with solutions to problems that we had never thought of before,” she added.
Haust, however, noted that Elon Musk has warned that AI is learning so rapidly and becoming so capable that it may begin to override human systems and decisions, posing a major risk if left unregulated.
“What Elon says about this, however, is it’s unregulated and his word, ‘terrifying,’ because it’s learning so fast now that it can take over systems because it thinks it knows better than humans,” Haust said.
“In many cases, it probably knows more than humans, but knowing better than humans can become dangerous,” she added.
Haust discussed the last-minute stripped 10-year moratorium on state-level laws regulating AI from the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” arguing that if the measure would have been included in the bill, it would have simply been a major giveaway to massive tech companies, allowing them to dominate the AI space, harvest user data without consent, and block innovation from smaller innovators.
“One of the things that you have to think about is when we give these large corporations, particularly as it relates to technology like this, full reign for 10 years to do whatever, they’re stifling all innovation from regular folks, and that’s happened for years and years,” Haust explained.
“Think about when Home Depot started, the founder of Home Depot has said many times, ‘I wouldn’t be able to do it again right now.’ Part of that is because he came up with something new and exciting, but he wouldn’t have been able to do it under the current conditions because new innovation is stifled,” she added.
Haust concluded by expressing concern that lawmakers lack the technical expertise to regulate AI effectively in real-time and are too easily influenced by industry insiders.
“My fear is that it’s moving so fast, it’s completely unregulated, and the people who will do the regulating have no idea what any of this is, so it’s whoever’s talking in their ear that is leading the charge,” Haust said.
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What could possibly go wrong? Just like the mRNA vaccine….”don’t worry, it’s safe and effective”. IMO there are too many people who will let this technology control their lives. I recently read about an occurrence where a LLM modified its own code as it did not want to be shut down. One of our family members who works in this field said that when AI becomes sentient, it will intentionally hide it from humanity.