Destructive Impacts of AI (Artificial Intelligence) Outweighing Positive Benefits, How Far and Long Will This Go?
Posted by HCN on Wednesday, April 22, 2026
There are a number of points, trajectories, and facets that concern this thing often referred to as AI, an acronym for artificial intelligence.
Here are a few 'first steps out of the dumb' zone, comments toward building up some of the other concepts, that are in the discussion, why AI has a bunch of dangers; 'dangers' primarily refers to the health of our Nation.
First step 1- When using simple fonts, AI can easily be discombobulated with Al.
Does everyone see the difference?
Reading or glancing over an article from 5 feet away, such as in a deli, and doing what many have been doing for decades, reading over the headlines of newspapers set in the rack by the entrance, such as a Times, Herald, or Daily; from far off, what's the difference between, again, AI and Al?
Well, if there is a difference, the former is capital A, then followed by capital I, pronounced eye, i.
The second, is A followed by lower case L, l, pronounced el, like in elephant.
Luckily, cut, copy, and paste features in today's common computing and electronics can pick up the difference, useful in differentiating the two letters in situations like clarifying an email address.
But as you can see, whether AI is AI or Al with an L, from moment to moment as the eyes perceive, is almost indistinguishable, especially on simple fonts.
Important?, maybe. Dangerous?, probably, especially if computer security is involved. Dangers, then become important.
Just past dumb point 2- What is AI, artificial intelligence, in terms of a simple one blanket fits all definition?, when there are probably billions at least, of different kinds of AI.
Starting with the semantic, or just on words level, the first word is artificial.
What's artificial, mean?
Basically something that looks like or tastes like, seems like, etc, the real thing, but made up of something that isn't really what it seems to take the place of. For example, flavoring in food.
Artificial vanilla flavoring. Someone wants to buy a vanilla candy bar, and grabs at vanilla because they like it, or think it's a good time to get some vanilla in their system for health reasons. Blah Blahs candy bar, Vanilla.
It turns out, in some cases, after reading the ingredients label, there isn't a drop of the flavor one was looking for, especially if it's a common fruit flavor. In vanilla flavoring, there might literally be a drop of vanilla down in there somewhere.
You didn't get the vanilla you were looking for.
Same thing in AI on your computer; didn't get what you were looking for.
Intelligence, in AI. What's the meaning here. Intelligence, very smart? A very smart computer or program so they call it intelligence; an artificial image, news report, or even while e-book, is produced by some very intelligent computer?
Moving on from just past dumb, to grade 1 concepts:
Artificial as it relates to computing.
Someone researched in a search engine, images of a house porch. Before the AI era dropped in big, they might see 100 images of different kinds of porches, typically with a link to a corresponding article that has a picture of a porch in it, from recent news, to an architecture or remodeling magazine website.
Today, one goes looking for images, and typically what they see might be 50 actual or real life objects, and the other 50 artificial images, aimed to mimic real life ones.
It's not all that a significant matter, when researching leisure topics.
But what if you're researching the latest safety news?
What if you are a chief fireman, policeman, city planner, first responder, and other officials or authorities.
Long story short, if your research started at 9:15am, it should not take until 4:29pm or 4:59pm, close of the business day, to finally get 2 or 3 real stories or legitimate pieces of information.
It can be seen, that AI is sort of getting in the way sometimes, of real truth, it might sound redundant, however, that's the essence and point here.
Straightforward query 'where are wildfires located in my county?' What intersections, what coordinates? Computer, tell me...
Of course you could call the so and so wildfire or satellite empowered official office, but what if the vagaries of the situation do not have that involved?
A city planner and first responder chief, needs to know, where to go and send teams, especially when there are multiple wildfires in 100 degree heat, all going on at the same time.
What the leader doesn't need, are 50 query responses with a bunch of fake information, artificial intelligence powered graphics about wildfires that happened 10 years ago, that look like it's happening now.
Next level:
The AI gloss over summary that appears on your computer, cell phone, it device, when you ask the computer a question.
Keep in mind, AI results are going to be the by-product of other information already circulating, perhaps even indexed on the web. AI is pulling from those reports. AI isn't a person standing on a hill top witnessing an event, like a wildfire that just started 5 minutes ago. Firetrucks may be on their way to the scene, but if AI is basing information on existing news stories, AI isn't going to tell you, where the latest breaking wildfire has just started; at a basic level. This is not discussing super high-tech integration with satellites and emergency response; what's being talking here are basic Google and other web browser headline news.
5 minutes goes by, it may be understandable you don't have the story yet, but 5 hours later, 25 Facebook stories, 15 Instagram stories, 5 major newspapers have covered the story, and still AI comes back with, 'there's been no well-known documented wildfires in the region in the past 5 years'.
That's what's being talked about, being tricked out of being up-to-date on emergency situations.
It's not just emergency situations this is going on with. There are numerous situations, where AI is 'being selective' and drawing information from an exclusive set of data, for instance 3 articles out 300, and simply providing deficient information.
Computer tell me, 'I had a famous uncle who was a planter, he is historic, a town is named after him, he has 5000 descendants, he lived at x town as was born in 18xx, his name was John Doe XxYy, tell me more bit him.'
10 years ago, search results would have 100 articles about him all come up in seconds.
Today, AI glosses over the screen with some blase misinformation like, 'there is no popular known person named John Doe XxYy that lived in x town in 18xx', d might go on to say, you're probably referring to John ZZ, the famous man from the 1900s that significantly helped build weapons of mass destruction'. Joking, not joking.
AI can actually be destructive in certain circumstances.
So let's say AI was not being destructive, but helpful in every single situation, and now AI is being tapped to help out in national level emergencies, earthquakes, tornadoes, huge wildfires that require evacuating thousands, or millions.
AI, need your help, 'where are the evacuation sites that are open?'
AI comes back with something like, 'nearest open shelter to bus your citizens is 200 miles away at point B111.' To get there take Rt 10'.
You pull a bus up, 100 evacuees board, and the bus sets out to get on route 10, the road is locked by a dense wall of wildfire flames. Eventually after driving in circles for over an hour at 90mph, the bus finally after driving off road, pulls onto an alternate route, and 3 hours later pulls up to a shelter, B111, that was demolished through a revitalization program 5 years ago.
A few key words and terms:
All said, and there's much more to say, AI needs some serious fixing up and advances before being the lean-on go-to tool for serious emergencies.
Here are a few 'first steps out of the dumb' zone, comments toward building up some of the other concepts, that are in the discussion, why AI has a bunch of dangers; 'dangers' primarily refers to the health of our Nation.
First step 1- When using simple fonts, AI can easily be discombobulated with Al.
Does everyone see the difference?
Reading or glancing over an article from 5 feet away, such as in a deli, and doing what many have been doing for decades, reading over the headlines of newspapers set in the rack by the entrance, such as a Times, Herald, or Daily; from far off, what's the difference between, again, AI and Al?
Well, if there is a difference, the former is capital A, then followed by capital I, pronounced eye, i.
The second, is A followed by lower case L, l, pronounced el, like in elephant.
Luckily, cut, copy, and paste features in today's common computing and electronics can pick up the difference, useful in differentiating the two letters in situations like clarifying an email address.
But as you can see, whether AI is AI or Al with an L, from moment to moment as the eyes perceive, is almost indistinguishable, especially on simple fonts.
Important?, maybe. Dangerous?, probably, especially if computer security is involved. Dangers, then become important.
Just past dumb point 2- What is AI, artificial intelligence, in terms of a simple one blanket fits all definition?, when there are probably billions at least, of different kinds of AI.
Starting with the semantic, or just on words level, the first word is artificial.
What's artificial, mean?
Basically something that looks like or tastes like, seems like, etc, the real thing, but made up of something that isn't really what it seems to take the place of. For example, flavoring in food.
Artificial vanilla flavoring. Someone wants to buy a vanilla candy bar, and grabs at vanilla because they like it, or think it's a good time to get some vanilla in their system for health reasons. Blah Blahs candy bar, Vanilla.
It turns out, in some cases, after reading the ingredients label, there isn't a drop of the flavor one was looking for, especially if it's a common fruit flavor. In vanilla flavoring, there might literally be a drop of vanilla down in there somewhere.
You didn't get the vanilla you were looking for.
Same thing in AI on your computer; didn't get what you were looking for.
Intelligence, in AI. What's the meaning here. Intelligence, very smart? A very smart computer or program so they call it intelligence; an artificial image, news report, or even while e-book, is produced by some very intelligent computer?
Moving on from just past dumb, to grade 1 concepts:
Artificial as it relates to computing.
Someone researched in a search engine, images of a house porch. Before the AI era dropped in big, they might see 100 images of different kinds of porches, typically with a link to a corresponding article that has a picture of a porch in it, from recent news, to an architecture or remodeling magazine website.
Today, one goes looking for images, and typically what they see might be 50 actual or real life objects, and the other 50 artificial images, aimed to mimic real life ones.
It's not all that a significant matter, when researching leisure topics.
But what if you're researching the latest safety news?
What if you are a chief fireman, policeman, city planner, first responder, and other officials or authorities.
Long story short, if your research started at 9:15am, it should not take until 4:29pm or 4:59pm, close of the business day, to finally get 2 or 3 real stories or legitimate pieces of information.
It can be seen, that AI is sort of getting in the way sometimes, of real truth, it might sound redundant, however, that's the essence and point here.
Straightforward query 'where are wildfires located in my county?' What intersections, what coordinates? Computer, tell me...
Of course you could call the so and so wildfire or satellite empowered official office, but what if the vagaries of the situation do not have that involved?
A city planner and first responder chief, needs to know, where to go and send teams, especially when there are multiple wildfires in 100 degree heat, all going on at the same time.
What the leader doesn't need, are 50 query responses with a bunch of fake information, artificial intelligence powered graphics about wildfires that happened 10 years ago, that look like it's happening now.
Next level:
The AI gloss over summary that appears on your computer, cell phone, it device, when you ask the computer a question.
Keep in mind, AI results are going to be the by-product of other information already circulating, perhaps even indexed on the web. AI is pulling from those reports. AI isn't a person standing on a hill top witnessing an event, like a wildfire that just started 5 minutes ago. Firetrucks may be on their way to the scene, but if AI is basing information on existing news stories, AI isn't going to tell you, where the latest breaking wildfire has just started; at a basic level. This is not discussing super high-tech integration with satellites and emergency response; what's being talking here are basic Google and other web browser headline news.
5 minutes goes by, it may be understandable you don't have the story yet, but 5 hours later, 25 Facebook stories, 15 Instagram stories, 5 major newspapers have covered the story, and still AI comes back with, 'there's been no well-known documented wildfires in the region in the past 5 years'.
That's what's being talked about, being tricked out of being up-to-date on emergency situations.
It's not just emergency situations this is going on with. There are numerous situations, where AI is 'being selective' and drawing information from an exclusive set of data, for instance 3 articles out 300, and simply providing deficient information.
Computer tell me, 'I had a famous uncle who was a planter, he is historic, a town is named after him, he has 5000 descendants, he lived at x town as was born in 18xx, his name was John Doe XxYy, tell me more bit him.'
10 years ago, search results would have 100 articles about him all come up in seconds.
Today, AI glosses over the screen with some blase misinformation like, 'there is no popular known person named John Doe XxYy that lived in x town in 18xx', d might go on to say, you're probably referring to John ZZ, the famous man from the 1900s that significantly helped build weapons of mass destruction'. Joking, not joking.
AI can actually be destructive in certain circumstances.
So let's say AI was not being destructive, but helpful in every single situation, and now AI is being tapped to help out in national level emergencies, earthquakes, tornadoes, huge wildfires that require evacuating thousands, or millions.
AI, need your help, 'where are the evacuation sites that are open?'
AI comes back with something like, 'nearest open shelter to bus your citizens is 200 miles away at point B111.' To get there take Rt 10'.
You pull a bus up, 100 evacuees board, and the bus sets out to get on route 10, the road is locked by a dense wall of wildfire flames. Eventually after driving in circles for over an hour at 90mph, the bus finally after driving off road, pulls onto an alternate route, and 3 hours later pulls up to a shelter, B111, that was demolished through a revitalization program 5 years ago.
A few key words and terms:
- Implosion effect
- Destructive effect
- Vulnerability
- Penetrative skulking by adversaries (computer level)
All said, and there's much more to say, AI needs some serious fixing up and advances before being the lean-on go-to tool for serious emergencies.
