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Co-dependency is when you are in a relationship and one person enables the other person’s dysfunction. Perhaps an over simplification but a necessary one for you to enjoy this week’s newsletter.

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• Caroline’s weekly thoughts

• Chef Maggie Recommends

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Is using AI to do anything creative unethical? Or is the definition of art and creation dependent on a human element? That means that art cannot be touched by a machine, right? Today, I debated whether a chef, who videos himself and edits those videos and puts them on TikTok should use AI to edit those videos. My point was that the AI saves him time to focus on being a chef. But my counterpart argued that using AI for creativity is unethical. It is a popular opinion right now.

Gambling is considered to be in the vice industry. Most investors stand to reason that people have vices and you can’t stop them, so why not make money off of it? AI in the gambling industry has been gaining traction, quickly. Using AI to “enhance” the human experience of gambling means big money. And I mean big. Potentially costing Americans up to $8 billion in additional debt. Imagine if AI could literally coax someone into gambling.

You’ve got your phone, you’ve got your watch, your laptop and your iPad. So what’s missing? Well, a necklace of course. OpenAI is teaming up with a former Apple designer to create a wearable AI device and Sam Altman bought the designer’s company for a whopping $6.5 billion! I guess Avi Schiffmann must be pretty pissed right now (in case you don’t remember, he is the founder of “Friend” a startup building an AI friend necklace). Now, no one actually knows what OpenAI and Ive are building and it is all speculation but apparently it is very altruistic, with Ive claiming he wants to make up for the “unintended consequences” that happened with the iPhone. Yeah right.

Brain technology has been in development for years. You probably have heard about it. Not only can it read your brain’s electrical signals, but it can also write to them. And yet there are very few privacy laws that address this particular type of technology and even fewer AI laws. Not that those AI laws will matter much if the Big Beautiful Bill passes the Senate (it passed the House). The reason for the lack of attention is due to the lack of adoption. Not many people have opted in to neurotech, yet. But as new FDA approvals stimulate even more neurotech startups, I have to wonder, “are we ready for this?” So far this technology has done some amazing good for people who could barely function, but what about the first person who just wants AI literally implanted in their brain? Are we just going to shrug our shoulders and just say, “well that person wanted it.”