Guessing that Code.org's mission of "everyone needs to learn how to code" is adversely affected by declining number of 5 to 25 year olds and AI hyping the reduced need for software developers.

Simply pointing out that the large tech companies are heavily pushing AI for everything don't trust it themselves enough on critical government filings when there are legal consequences.

Software is a different level of safety for many areas, except for medical devices, airplane and transport vehicles, air traffic control, power plant systems, etc.

The question needed to be asked by the media, wall street analysts, and social organizations is "What are some things which your company does not recommend its AI product be used for?"

That question is missing.

We can start very slowly walking back the inputs which have made it more convenient for the product manufacturing companies.

It's going to take social requests for large companies, such as Kroger and other national grocers, to encourage their suppliers to reduce plastic packaging, not for pollution reason, but for for introducing chemicals into food products.

Campbell's soup Australia has information on this - https://www.campbellsanz.com/a...

"The Australia and New Zealand Food Standards Code does not require manufacturers to label a food with a ‘best before’ date if the food has a shelf life greater than two years. As such, we do not label our canned soups and pasta sauces with a ‘best before’ date."

"The cans are heated under high pressure. This naturally preserves the soup for a long time. "

From https://www.thecampbellscompan...

Mar. 28, 2016– Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) today disclosed its plan to complete a transition to cans which do not use Bisphenol A (BPA) linings by the middle of 2017. The company began using cans with linings made from acrylic or polyester materials in March 2016 and will continue to introduce the new linings across its U.S. and Canadian portfolio through 2017.

No one wants to take on the largest vector which is the packages and the weakest link in the chain.

This is the same issue across technology stacks, there are thousands of highly used packages and every one of them adds a small security risk.

If the risk is small, even 0.01% per package, you get a ~10% risk if there are 1000 packages used.

A 0.05% risk per package needs ~200 packages to get a 10% risk.

0.10% risk per package needs ~100 packages to get a 10% risk.

Looking at the past moral panics and media labeled harmful content genres, there seems to be a pattern of moral policing of genres consumed by boys and men...

- rock and roll music
- 1950s horror and science fiction movies
- heavy metal music
- rap music
- dungeons and dragons
- graphic horror movies ....

58% decline in Code.org's income (from donations) - $42 million in donations in 2023 and $18 million in 2024.

And a net loss of$1.2 million in 2024.

From Propublica nonprofit explorer's nonprofit IRS tax filings for Code.org

https://projects.propublica.or...

Going to call this AIDOS or AI Denial of Service (DOS) here and already expecting it is being used for bad purposes.

Examples being using a DOS to flood a company's job application process.

Sonara's (not linking here) advertised product has this tag "Our AI-powered job search automation platform continuously finds and applies to relevant job openings until you're hired"

So, just about any contact page, internet facing form submit, code repository, etc. is now a possible risk.

The net result is that when a remote remote risk has such dire consequences (life changing government prosecution), the risk-reward shifts far into the "too risky' category.

The same is happening in many other areas, turning what was once everyday regular actions into possible, remote, life threatening or life ending risks.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...
Good Samaritan spends two weeks in a maximum security prison after woman whose car he helped fix falsely accused him of indecent assault

Mr Basic spent two weeks in prison, lost his job and is going through a divorce

All charges were dropped against him after woman admitted to lying

Published: 06:51 EST, 6 May 2019

Are the executives willing to have the AI write the text and numbers in their next government required financial filing?

The executives are legally required to certify those numbers in the USA by law:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"Title III consists of eight sections and mandates that senior executives take individual responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of corporate financial reports. It defines the interaction of external auditors and corporate audit committees, and specifies the responsibility of corporate officers for the accuracy and validity of corporate financial reports. It enumerates specific limits on the behaviors of corporate officers and describes specific forfeitures of benefits and civil penalties for non-compliance. For example, Section 302 requires that the company's "principal officers" (typically the chief executive officer and chief financial officer) certify and approve the integrity of their company financial reports quarterly.[10]"

Excluding writing software, what AI products are bringing billions in revenue? Are there any billion+ revenue products outside of writing code?

That is a billion in revenue and not a billion in company or product valuation.

It's a billion in yearly revenue today and not an extrapolation of 500% monthly subscriber growth for the next 4 years.

Expect to see these multinationals to

- Incorporate a company to own the chemical or drug product in the Bahamas (you have to sue them there and not in the USA)
- Lease property, vehicles, etc. to said Bahamas company to extract the revenue and profits
- Wind down and let any companies heading for lawsuit problems go nearly bankrupt
- Have a replacement product ready to go with a newly minted Bahamas company

The net result,

- You can't sue the deep pocket company since the owner of the product is independent and in the Bahamas.
- Regulators can fine the company all they want, there are no assets to take and a 30 year pay from profits or revenue would result in the company just shutting down
- The deep pocket company gets the revenue and profits and none of the liability
- The contingency based US lawsuits won't happen as much as the lawyers know that there are no US based assets to get a hold of. Lawyers will not take the case on a contingency basis.

Longer term, large companies in general will split into many smaller companies to isolate risk, shift plants and property ownership to one company and the risks/liability to another company, ...

Venture capital will get in there and sell bonds backed by an income stream of 10% of the company revenue for 20 years to further offset risk and cash out up front.

It's highly likely that KPMG is using the test taker's entries to train an AI.

Here is the same business case given to 500 people, write answers to these X questions, write a business plan, give a staffing plan, budget, timeline, milestones, success criteria, etc.

Do this enough times and you have an AI which can pre-work inbound consulting jobs and need less or lower paid staff to do the work.

Why even quote someone touting their own product and downplaying possible negative effects?

At what point does Europe, the USA, Canada, NZ, Australia and Japan starting using coordinated trade policy to get large polluting countries by total tons of airborne pollution released and total plastic dumped in the ocean (India is amongst the largest) to reduce their pollution emissions?

It is a per country total emissions. It is not a per-capita or less stringent for "developing" economies measure.

A simpler measure would be to measure air quality in the 10 largest metropolitan areas weekly with Europe, US, Canada, Japan, Australia, and NZ making a small cut every year while India and other high polluting third-world countries making a large cut in airborne pollution every year.

It is that the corporate control cannot prevent a solo person working on their own from creating a song and making it available to the world's music listening audience.

They could control, shape and extract fees from millions of want to be star musicians every year, now the self publishing skips the gatekeeper corporations.

It doesn't mean that more artists will become wealthy. It means that a lot less music industry, music venue, music publishers, producers, etc. will have a lot less work and money to make.

Then there is the "music tickets" vs "eating for a week" economic question for a lot of people.