Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman for Wednesday, July 12th, including guests Tom Blocker with news of improving automobile sales, Theresa Payton talking about the US Senate getting a classified briefing on the potential and dangers of AI, Brett Winterble with his take on a Georgia Dem flipping to the GOP, Dr. Ashley Lucas of PHD Weight Loss talking about her new podcast "The Dr. Ashley Show," Breaking Brett Jensen live from Spain enjoying free food and drink at the Madrid Airport private lounge, and Pat McCrory with a No Label update and a McCrory Top Five!

Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman talking about the new Threads social media platform, word of a widespread US government email attack linked to China, an important Apple iOs update, a classified US Senate briefing on Artificial Intelligence, and a warning about scammers who are using Amazon Prime Days to take advantage of consumers.

Cyber security expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo & Beth with her take on the debut of Meta's "Threads" social media platform, a new competitor to Twitter.

Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman with her take on widespread airline delays due to 5G technology, the "Affordable Connectivity Program" in which the government subsidizes broadband internet, and the criminalization of deep-fake pornography overseas, but not yet in the U.S.

Our cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman with her take on preparing for the era of widespread artificial intelligence (A.I.) applications, the possibility that court judges could be replaced by robots, and a warning about cyber criminals and child predators using the popular Discord app.

Cyber security expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman with her take on recent Congressional hearings where OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other artificial intelligence (AI) experts asked Congress to regulate and manage AI for the ethical and proper uses of it, and a new scam on Twitter in which a bot tags a user and claims that the user has been doxxed.

Our cyber security expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman with a warning about using the free charging stations and Wi-Fi in public places as they can put your data at risk if you use them through a process called "Juice Jacking," reaction to the leaking of classified US intelligence documents, and her take on an article that says A.I. bot ChatGPT tweeted a threat against humanity.

Our cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman with reaction to the Nashville school shooting and more about how the assailant left digital clues leading up to the tragic killings, Americans' overwhelming preference for downloading apps of Chinese origin, and Senate Bill 396, dubbed "The Social Media Safety Act," under which social media users younger than 18 would have to seek parental permission to have an account.

Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman talking about claims made by a former Google engineer that there is a sentient artificial intelligence system that can do bad things, and a lost USB drive that may have compromised the personal information of the residents of an entire city.

Our cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman talking about a major Zoom outage, password security, and the widespread impact of the Cloudflare outage.