The AI Journal You Didn’t Know You Were Writing [Raw Session]

00:01 — Opening

Hey, welcome back to Slow Builds.

I had a thought the other day: I probably told AI things I haven't told anyone else.

Not in a big, dramatic way.

Just naturally.

Like ideas, questions, stuff I'm working through, things I'm not even sure I believe yet.

And it made me pause for a second, because I don't think I'm treating that like it matters as much as maybe it should.

I think the things we're telling AI, and the way we're using it, we're being kind of free with it and not considering the possible side effects or future effects that could happen.

Because at the beginning it's just a tool.

You use it like you use Google.

And I know I keep saying that, but that's really how a lot of people are using it.

You ask something, you get an answer, you move on.

That's it.

But that's not how it stays.

Sure, like browser history, Google history, you can delete it, you're kind of aware of it.

They're not always completely connected.

But over time, this is different.

And it shifts.

You start using it to think.

You're using AI for more of a memory.

When you're stuck, when you're making a decision, when something doesn't feel clear, you open it and just start typing or talking, which makes it even more free-form, where you're just letting your thoughts ramble on.

And slowly, without really noticing, it becomes a place.

Not just something you use, but somewhere you go.

You go for quick advice before you send an email, a text, any problem that happened, from a recipe to changing a tire to looking up something about a pressure washer, and then straight to a vacation issue, a family issue, or a financial issue.

And that's where it starts feeling a little different to me.

Because now it's not just: what did I search?

It's: what have I been thinking about?

What keeps coming up?

What am I circling?

What am I trying to build?

It's not a history of actions.

It's a record of intent, direction, and thought process.

It's basically me.

It's me and the AI.

It's a counterpart to my thought process and my brain and what's happening in my day-to-day life and what I need direction on, instructions on, or just everything really.

02:45 — We Protect Everything Else

We already know how to treat certain things.

Like we know how to treat our bank accounts.

We protect them through two-factor authentication.

We use text messages. We use Face ID.

Emails are protected. They're private.

We separate work from personal.

Our passwords are locked down.

We're using a password manager so there's one way in and one way out.

We don't even know what the passwords are really.

But AI, most people are treating it like it disappears.

Like it's just something passing in time.

Like it's a scratch pad.

Something temporary.

But it's not temporary.

If you're using it daily, or even less than that but regularly, it becomes your running log of ideas, plans, patterns, beliefs, contradictions, random thoughts, exploring ideas, chasing rabbit holes, wild ideas sometimes.

Because it feels like a place where you can be honest and no one's watching and you can explore possibilities.

It's the raw version of your thought process really.

Doesn't mean just things you want to act on, but things you're curious about.

04:03 — The Creative Risk

And this is where it really clicked for me.

If someone got access to that, they wouldn't just see what you've made.

They'd see half-built ideas, dead ends, intentions you've never shown anyone.

They'd see your complete process.

On the creativity side, they're seeing how you create things.

And that's not just content.

That literally is your thought process and how you deduct and come to conclusions.

So it's really you.

If someone understands that and gets access to it, they don't need to steal your finished work.

They can rebuild something pretty close to what you already thought, because they have the history, the patterns, the little nuggets of ideas that passed through your head.

With AI, they can reconstruct things from those little proofs of ideas.

And it would be almost impossible to prove it came from you.

They can pass it off as their own.

So think about a song, a movie, a book, an app.

And this goes deeper than creativity.

This isn't just notes or drafts.

If you're using these tools a lot, they become a compressed version of you.

Not perfect and definitely not complete, but close enough that someone could understand how you think, predict what you might do, steal your identity, misrepresent you, pretend to be you.

05:53 — AI Versions of Ourselves

Now with the latest Google changes, I was redoing images of myself last night and they looked exactly like me: younger, older, current.

It was like looking at an actual picture of me.

So you could take that, throw it into a video, combine it with AI, and basically create yourself.

You can do a video interview.

I'm sure voice is possible.

I haven't tried it.

But writing style, thoughts, maybe it could probably even guess your passwords and get into whatever.

Maybe Face ID is the best way to go, and make sure you have multi-factor auth on.

06:31 — The Outside Version of Us

And there's another layer that I don't think people consider much.

For years, companies and governments and platforms have been collecting data about you.

Google searches, visited sites, YouTube, Android, Facebook tracking, how long you look at things, Amazon tracking what you buy.

Basically every single thing we do is online.

From surveillance cameras to GPS.

Our lives are online.

So everything is somewhere.

That stuff has existed for a long time.

On its own, it always felt scattered and not connected.

A receipt here, a browser search there, a quick message, a random photo, app logins.

It was data, but not always a full story.

Just fragmented pieces.

07:36 — What AI Changes

But AI changes that.

AI doesn't just store information.

It translates it, finds patterns, connects dots.

It makes unrelated information become related into a full picture.

And it starts to feel different because location data now shows where you went and what you were doing.

Your bank account shows what you paid for and how.

Your search history shows what you looked up.

And your AI chats on top of that may explain why.

They connect patterns and make a complete story of you.

Not just "he went here," but "he was thinking about leaving this job."

Not just "she bought this," but "she was scared about money."

Not just "they searched this," but what they were trying to figure out.

Now it has context of before, after, and how it all connects.

09:00 — The Rosetta Stone

Maybe that sounds dramatic, but it's the best way I can describe it.

AI might become the translator later, the thing that turns the outside version of your life into something readable.

Almost like a Rosetta Stone for your patterns.

Receipts, locations, searches, habits.

Those are fragments, but AI chats can give those fragments meaning.

And beyond that, once it has a memory of your interactions and thoughts, it's also building what we can call your AI avatar.

A simulation of you.

Then you can feed it scenarios and ask what you should do.

Based on everything you've done, it'll make a decision and you can evaluate it, use it, or not.

But if someone else had that, they could come pretty close to what you would have done.

And even if it wasn't exact, it might be close enough that people would say, "Yeah, that seems like something he would do."

10:39 — Pulling It Back

I want to be careful here.

I'm not saying someone's in a room reading all this.

I'm not saying this is happening in some perfect organized way.

But the capability is moving in that direction.

And the uncomfortable part is that we are building this intent layer willingly.

We're typing it out because it helps.

It's useful.

It reduces stress.

It takes weight off our processing.

It helps us reanalyze.

It helps us evaluate and come up with options.

That's what makes this complicated.

I don't want to frame AI as just dangerous.

I use it constantly.

It helps me organize, think, build, and get unstuck.

But that's exactly why the record it creates matters.

The more useful it becomes, the more personal it becomes.

And the more personal it becomes, the harder it is to treat it like just another app.

12:11 — Treat It Like Something Valuable

It's something that has to be locked down and secured.

You can't just use it carelessly everywhere.

In my mind, treat it like your bank account.

Protect it with everything you have.

Passwords, authentication, Face ID, all of it.

You need to treat this with just as much importance.

People still treat it like a search bar.

Phones unlocked.

Accounts logged in everywhere.

Personal and work mixed together.

Private thoughts, code, plans, money questions, family stress, business ideas.

Everything is in some note somewhere.

And we can't treat this lightly.

We need extra security because of how it can be used against you, and because it helps you so much too.

13:48 — The Rough Draft of Ourselves

I think we're leaving behind something much more detailed.

It's way more than search history.

We're leaving rough drafts of ourselves.

Unfinished versions.

All our thoughts.

The version that asks questions before it knows what it believes.

And maybe that's the part we haven't caught up to yet.

We learned how to protect money, accounts, passwords, and access.

I'm not sure we've learned how to protect how we think.

If AI chats become the place where our thoughts get stored, shaped, connected, and understood, then the question isn't just whether someone can access our data.

It's whether someday someone can read our pattern before we even understand ourselves.

14:56 — The Bigger Security Question

Right now courts and lawyers subpoena search history and laptops because it's important.

Then they have to decipher it and connect location data and search history.

But if you throw in the AI layer, it can make much more sense of all of it.

There's a lot to unpack there.

And there are going to be more videos around this.

I really don't believe people are treating AI with enough protection in mind.

This is more important than just "someone got my Google account."

This is your life patterns, your random questions, your answers, and the shape of who you are.

That needs to be protected more than I think people are doing right now.

16:14 — Closing

I'm going to finish this one because I want to unpack it more.

I'm going to make more videos that continue this line of thought because I think this is too important.

People really need to treat this as more than just some random app.

I think a lot of people are still underestimating this level.

Some people are thinking about it, especially the people creating the systems and the people working on policy and regulation.

But I don't think enough average people are thinking about how much information is being captured and tracked, and how much they need to protect it.

All right, thanks for watching.

Bye.