Free new product idea.

So, I’m talking to the remarkable Bob Brihn, who mentions data showing that slightly more than half of the US is now torn between disliking and utterly despising AI (the actual current number, per Pew, is like 53%) — in fact, the younger you are, the more you both fear and loathe it. 

Understandable, at least when you consider what the tech is doing to Z and Alpha career hopes. Bonus points: as a group, they’re likely highly aware of all the ugly personal data theft and IP ripoff issues that come along for the ride.

He then points out there’s only one generation that seems to be welcoming AI — Boomers.  Makes perfect sense when you think about their life stage and priorities. Can’t you just picture the classic geezer, just after shouting at the kids to get off the damn lawn, welcoming AI into his home while grumbling under his breath, “can always use the extra damned help.”

And, hell, maybe that’s how you sell AI to younger people: it’s something to take care of M and D, so you don’t have to.  Which, come to think of it, might be exactly what OpenAI had in mind with their spokesgranny: https://lnkd.in/gCnZJi5J

Of course this gets me thinking deeper. As in six feet deeper, which is where I imagine what the funeral directors like to call a “casket enhancement” that promises to provide the dearly departed with companionship through eternity — playing favorite music, updating the news, and, if for some odd reason you happen to wake up, giving you someone to talk to.

All you’d need is a duplex voice unit in the box wired to a solar panel on the surface. Piece of cake.  You know, the kind they serve after the memorial service at your cousin’s house.

Instant GoFundMe hit?