...then Alexa will make your vacuum cleaner trip you on the stairs

Maybe don't point it at the sticky notes on your screen or the bottom of your keyboard

The proper use of AI is in science and engineering
It's also valuable to general public as a source of information.
It's a mistake to push it for creating "art" and "music". We already have artists and musicians who do what they do perfectly.
The problem is that AI CEOs want to be the next Apple
I would prefer that they focus on solving intractable problems, not pop culture.

AI tools should be used to increase quality.
I'm waiting for a report that demonstrates AI tools being used to create code that's bug free, secure, efficient, maintainable, well documented and correctly handles all edge cases

Or more than one? I don't count M-X Doctor.

If and only if you can touch type

Simply stating: We Do Not Accept DOCx or XLSx formats, forces compliance. Since MS can produce ODF (allegedly), that's how you get compliance.

There's always going to be a few people who won't do it, mostly because they're afraid to upset some important customer. How you get around that isn't obvious. However, you can start by making it a requirement that anything that comes in that's in an MS format is sent back with some boilerplate added telling the sender why it's rejected and a list of acceptable formats. Making that automatic, so that the chicken droids can't ignore the policy may be all you need.

Ads are just pissing on your brain, so fuck them for this in the first place.

No no no. You're mad at the wrong thing. I'm pissed, because now "Chocolate Rain" is going to be stuck in my head for the next 4 - 5 days.

There are many countries where everyone can go and vote - even illegals and tourists. The voter needs to dip his hand in a UV glow ink to prevent multiple voting, that is all. For example South Africa and India.

In Africa, people steal entice trains - locomotive, wagons, containers, the lot

Gone up to the big nuclear wessel in the sky.

I also hate rust, so this is putting all the bad things in one basket. Next step: drop basket.

You're right, and I thought about this about a half hour after making this assertion. Of course, I'll have to crack the book and learn whatever new thing displaces Rust, or whatever.

...they weren't so incredibly stupid
If I was in the market for a product or service, I would love to see sales pitches from all suppliers of the product or service. I would not want pitches from stuff that may be vaguely related to my search or stuff completely unrelated.
If I decided to buy or decided not to buy, the pitches should stop, all of them.

Today, it's a mess.
I go to a tool site and look at a tool, decide that I don't need it, then get bombarded with ads for it.
I buy a tool, and then get bombarded with ads for it.
Then it gets crazier.
Somehow, the Facebook ad robot decided that I was a dentist (I'm not). Now I get bombarded with ads for dental equipment including 3D printers for making teeth.
I'm almost amused by the stupidity.

AI can definitely be useful for writing code but you need to give it very clear prompts and properly verify that the code it wrote is correct and accurate.

As for my own code, considering that the stuff I am working on at this point (personal projects, not paid work) relies on a bunch of reference materials where feeding that stuff into an AI would probably violate various NDAs 6 ways from Sunday, the answer is no, an AI bot probably can't write the code I am currently working on.