The following is a lightly edited transcript of the Tech 4 Grown-Ups podcast episode featuring Jack Smith, host of the IT Horror Stories Podcast and 30-year IT industry veteran. Some filler words and crosstalk have been removed for readability. The full audio episode is available below. Michael Routhier sits down with Jack Smith, 30-year IT veteran and host of the IT Horror Stories Podcast, for a conversation about voice cloning, AI scams, and the threats targeting people 55

The most-cited living scientist on earth helped build AI. Now he's warning we may have a decade to change course. Hey, welcome back to today's episode. If you're new here, new to the show, or if you've been listening to me for ramble on for quite some time, welcome back. I'm glad to have you. Before we get into today's episode, I need to do a little bit of house cleaning. If you've been listening to this show for as long as it's been, we are new, um, you, I think you might be

This summer, Disney scanned your child or grandchild's face at the park entrance, converted it into a permanent biometric identifier, and stored it in a database. They did it without asking you, and now there's a $5 million lawsuit because of this. We live in a world where the most powerful technology ever built is being handed to you without instructions, without warnings, and without anyone asking whether it serves you or uses you. That question has a name, the virtuous mac