In this episode of Nerding Out with That Nerdy Catholic, hosts Seth Paine and Cesar Rios sit down with guest Lee Sondeno, Director of Young Adult Ministry at St. Victoria and an IT veteran with 18 years of tech industry experience. Together, they bring their backgrounds in programming, engineering, and IT to tackle one of the most talked-about topics today: Artificial Intelligence and its real-world impact on work.

The guys separate the tech industry hype from reality, discussing:

• The “Test but Verify” Rule: Lee shares a wild story about a company that used an AI agent to draft an AI policy based on Vatican documents, only to discover that the AI completely fabricated the quotes and URLs.
• The Hallucination Problem: Why even ChatGPT creator Sam Altman warns that you shouldn’t blindly trust the technology.
• Workplace Efficiency vs. Complexity: How AI can sometimes double or triple your workload when you have to spend time correcting inefficient code or wrong prompts.
• Mass Layoffs vs. Corporate Bubbles: A closer look at recent layoffs at tech giants like Meta and Microsoft, and why blaming AI might just be corporate hype for shareholders.
• The “Magic Box” Illusion: Treating AI like a “person in a box” versus using it properly as an automation tool that still requires human knowledge and experience to guide it.

As tech-minded nerds looking through a Catholic lens, the team breaks down how to responsibly use AI as a tool without falling for the blind trust that is causing so many workplace headaches.

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