Final Thoughts

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While I have been working towards completing my chapter on the growing issue of digital privacy rights in the United States, this part of the process was illuminating. Prior to this semester, I realized that the quality of the prompt determined the quality prompt.

Even with careful initial crafting and reworking, I still was not able to get what I wanted from Preplexity Pro. The “fault” doesn’t lie with the application; instead, it lies with the technology. Writing is a creative, human endeavor. Although my genre is educational nonfiction, good writing requires an engaging tone, inspired analysis, and an understanding of the audience that I found to be sincerely lacking in the drafts I attempted to craft with AI. I attempted to reiterate my wish to Perplexity Pro to “write” the drafts in a textbook style, the request was never fully realized.

What I did get from it was some illumination on how to fill out the chapter I am working on for my book. Is it the best it can ultimately do? I am not sure; however, it is the best I want it to do.

  • Introduction
    • Types of AI and What They Can Do
      • Narrow AI
        • Weakest
        • Limited to narrowly-defined tasks
        • Types of Activities:
          • Translation
          • Recognition
          • Customer service
        • Issues
          • Were not discussed or dealt with, but will need to be addressed in the final work
          • Example: What are the ethical, legal, and commercial complications of facial recognition?
      • General AI
        • Likened to human cognition
        • Activities
          • Problem-solving
          • Reasoning
          • Learning
        • Percolating Issues (again, not mentioned)
          • Technological limits
          • Ethical concerns specific to General AI
          • Questions about cognition
      • Super AI
        • Hyothetical
        • I, Robot
        • What might it be able to do?
          • Scientific discoveries
          • Autonomous decision making
    • Current Players in the Development of AI
      • Google/Alphabet
      • Open AI
      • Microsoft
      • IBM
      • Meta/Facebook
      • Nvidia
      • Anthropic
      • Clients Not Mentioned:
        • Deepseek
        • Grok
        • Perplexity
        • Peter Thiel backed projects not yet mentioned:
          • Sentient (new start-up)
          • Planatir Technologies – developed predicted policing technologies used by the LA Police Department and others
          • Audril Industries – AI defense technology
  • Body
    • Intersections with AI Privacy
      • Data collection and utilization
        • Government
        • Insurance
        • Pre-emptive policing
        • Intellectual property
        • Defamation
      • Surveillance
        • Yes
      • Automated decision making
        • Hiring (not allowed under GDPR)
        • Grading (not allowed under GDPR)
        • Healthcare (not allowed under GDPR)
      • Informed Consent
        • US has historically been an “opt out” rather than an “opt in” in the use of our personal data
        • AI adds an additional level of complexity due to the emerging status of the technology
    • Legislation
    • AI in Key US Sectors
      • Medicine
        • Diagnostics
        • Personalization of medicine
        • Education
      • Education
      • Government
        • I was familiar with the two OMB memos, but Perplexity Pro’s reading of them lacked the relevant context
        • As part of this work, I became a member of IAPP, which has become an invaluable source for keeping up to date
    • AI Concerns
      • Privacy
      • Societal risks
        • These are also underdeveloped.
        • Although I do not fear a Dune-esque inspired revolt of the machines bringing about a new world order, I do believe the issues and concerns are both material as well as intangible
    • Best Practices
  • Conclusion
    • I think this class prepared me to write a book not a chapter

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