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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Gracious, the Most Gracious,
and the Most Gracious, the Most Gracious,
I'm going to be talking a little bit about the exact question that was asked,
which is, how can we use AI to both ensure the veracity,
and correctness of what we say, that it captures our voices, and also that we can use it to
actually amplify our voices.
And so what I thought I would do today is talk a little bit about my methodology and
how I do it.
But before we get much further, I just want to make this available.
The slides for today are available at that address.
You can scan this QR code because there's a little bit of homework that I'm going to
give you in terms of what you can do after this meeting to actually start to build on what it is
that we have. So a little bit about me. I speak a lot about AI and Islam. I also build systems. So
I've built an AI assistant called askansari.ai, which uses AI to improve the quality of like
ensure that it gives Islamically correct answers. And it's one of the oldest of these. I also teach
an AI for Imam's course. I've presented it about four times in the last year.
And also I've done interviews and cooperative work
with One Path, Thinking Muslim, Productive Muslim, so I know a little bit about
my time. So today's path,
inshallah, I want to share one of the biggest problems with
AI is everything is topsy-turvy, right? It's very, very
chaotic. So I want to give you four timeless principles
because the tools and everything else will change.
But I think that these four principles should equip you
with the skills you need to adapt as you move forward.
And then I want to take one project that I did, start to finish,
and analyze all of the different stages,
make sure that it's clear how I made sure my voice came through
and how I used AI to amplify my voice.
So let's get stuck into it.
But these are the four timeless principles that I think you need to think about as you use AI for content creation.
The point here is that everyone's flow is going to be different.
You work on different domains.
I tend to work on interviews and presentations.
You may work on short-form media or any of these other topics.
But these general skills I hope to use.
I'm just giving you a rough overview of the tools that I use a lot.
My main tool is Claude Code.
I know it says code in the name, but if you want to invest a little bit in learning how it works,
it is by far the most powerful system out there for doing things like this.
I tend to prefer the Claude models because A, Anthropic is a more ethical company than OpenAI,
and B, I think it writes better.
For some tasks like research, I tend to also use Gemini.ai.
We'll talk a little bit about the script, which is an AI-based video editing platform.
and also my favorite voice and dubbing system from 11 Labs.
And we'll take it from there.
So the first important principle I think we need to keep in mind
is you have to have a very clear idea in your head
about what AI is for and what it is not for.
And so the way I would characterize it
is you must understand what you bring to the table.
And what you bring to the table is the core message,
the Nia, the intention, the experience.
You've lived through things that AI cannot experience.
And finally, your understanding of the audience.
So I want to talk a little bit about this.
When you start on an article or a video or anything else,
really the key thing you have to think about is
how do you want people to feel differently,
believe differently or behave differently afterwards.
And that's very tied to your Nia in terms of like
why you are producing this particular content asset.
And that NIA has to come from you.
It can't come from the AI.
If you start to use AI for NIA, it gets really crazy.
It doesn't really work out, and I'll explain why in a moment.
The second thing is understanding what AI brings.
And I think what AI brings is a sounding board for your ideas,
a way to think about creative options and to enhance creative options.
It's a really great research tool for finding out information
that can create the foundation of your articles.
And it's also a great tool for amplifying your voice
in terms of getting your access to audiences,
giving you the ability to change formats and do more.
So here's what I think AI should not be used for.
And this is really important.
I think it's important to understand
that AI cannot have Nia, right?
Because Nia is about accountability
and what you do for Allah, right?
And so if you start to use AI to substitute for your niya,
for your goals and say things like,
give me 10 ideas for videos that I could create
for increasing my views,
it kind of turns the project into a bit of a mess
because it's like if the niya is confused,
the outcome will be confused too.
And my pet peeve is using AI to blow up content
because I'm going to, usually what happens is I have a prompt.
I'm going to type it into the AI.
And then sometimes what I'm doing with seeing with some people
is that AI blows up into three pages.
And then the first thing I do after I get their three-page document
and I can tell that it's full of AI stuff
is using a prompt of my own to summarize it.
So why not just cut out the middleman
and just send me the prompt that you gave in the first place, right?
And so I really want to urge this.
And I think what's going to happen as we go forward in time
is that people are going to detect the AI slot very well.
And really what you should be doing is using AI to improve on the quality
rather than to save you time necessarily.
So this is something I care very much about,
which is AI can save you a lot of time.
AI can help you go from one piece of content a week
to five pieces of content a week if you wanted to.
But the question is, do you use AI to save you time?
or do you use AI to push the limits
of what the quality of what you can do is?
And I really urge you as you think through AI
and navigate that terrain
to think about not just how AI can save you time
but how can it raise the quality of the work that it's producing.
And if we can do that
I think there's a very good opportunity for us
to benefit from AI instead of being harmed by it.
The second point that I'd like to raise is with AI, it's very important to think about building a car versus building a factory.
And I think when you think about building, so what I mean by a car is you might have one piece of content that you want to build, right?
And so you use AI kind of piecewise to create that new content, and then you move on to the next project.
and it's almost like you're starting from scratch,
like if you were building a car.
That's not the way to think about AI.
The correct way to think about AI
is it's a factory for making content.
And just like if you were building a factory,
you make your first piece of,
you make your first car,
then you want to improve it.
And so the next car you make is better.
But you've learned a lot of stuff
about how to make cars.
You've maybe built custom tools
that help you make cars better.
and every car that you make after it
should be better than the car before it.
I want us to think as factory.
I mean, I don't want us to like pump out a lot of stuff.
That's not what I mean by factory.
But what I'm saying is you should simultaneously build the...
You should simultaneously build the production line
as well as the final product.
And what that means in the case of AI
is a memory of your past activities, what you've done in the past.
I feel like a lot of times, and really the way you do this will vary from time to place,
but for me personally, I like markdown files.
Markdown files are kind of like the lingua franca of AI.
It's just basic text with markup things that say this is bolded and this is a headline
and all that kind of stuff.
But for you, it might be a shared Google Drive with your team.
It might be a Notion.
But the key point that your memory system for your AI has to have
is that every time you produce a new asset,
it updates the memory of what you've done before.
And it has access the next time it builds to your previous content.
So here's an example of how my file structure is laid out.
So, for example, I might have a particular presentation I'm giving,
like this one. At the top of that, there'll be a style guide. And that is usually the
same as my general style guide. And it tells you exactly how to build particular things.
And then I'll go through from starting from the heart of the article, you know, when we
talked about the intention, moving through the brained up stage, outline stage, the research
state, and then the final product. So you can see each of these documents here is kind
of a different stage of the development of this process. But the idea is when I come
to the next thing, this is already there, already accessible to the AI.
So the idea is that factory is now building from all of your past assets.
And I think from there, really, this is part of the evolutionary process.
Again, remember that car analogy that I gave earlier, if you're building a car.
The first car is going to have a lot of mistakes.
You had a certain vision.
It didn't work out.
that's what it's like working with AI.
The problem is not that the car had a lot of mistakes.
The problem is to guarantee that the car after this one
is better and have less issues than this one.
And the way you do that is you update your tooling.
So for example, if it generates,
if AI makes a mistake,
it's very important that you feed that loop back
and tell it it's being too wordy.
So one of the ways that I've found
to basically extract a style from something
and to make it sound like you, is I'll start with its document,
a particular document that it's written.
I'll say, man, that was complete nonsense.
This is how you should have written it.
And then I'll say, compare A with B and extract my style from it.
One of the great things with AI is you can use it to help keep itself updated.
Right?
And the system gets more like me over time.
The third principle I would posit is really that I think most people use AI in this little box here.
There's a chat window, you type in the chat content, and out comes text.
And that's really a constraining model for how AI can be used.
I really want people to expand their understanding of the box that AI lives in and the scope of where AI lives.
So in particular, I want to talk about teaching, learning, connecting, amplifying, and even writing code for some.
So one of the most important things with AI is that it is a teaching tool as well as a creation tool.
You're not sure how to do something? Ask AI how to do it.
and it can be incredibly informative about that
and guide you through the process.
The second form of that is if you want your AI
to have special abilities, there are systems now called skills.
It varies from platform to platform,
but think of a skill as a description of...
It's almost like a natural language program
that you give to the AI.
So, for example, I mentioned earlier that I have Ansari,
and we'll talk a bit more about it,
But you can create a skill that says, when you need to check an Islamic fact, use Ansari.ai.
You can create a skill that says, when I want you to produce a dubbed video, here's what I want you to do.
And you build these skills as a portfolio over time.
And then the next thing that you can do is you can combine those skills into pipelines.
So you can go from a transcript to soundbites to dubs.
and that factory becomes part of,
that too becomes part of your factory.
So I'm not going to go too deep on this,
but one of the, that idea of connecting skills,
especially the more powerful systems,
they can write code for you.
And that code can be very powerful.
It can do things like control a browser.
So building these code components
or even if it's just instructions
really can enhance what's possible.
And then finally is its use for amplifying your voice.
And I think this is one of the most powerful uses of AI.
And you have to be careful in that transition that it doesn't lose your voice.
But you can start with a transcript.
You can extract sound bites from it.
You can dub it into different languages.
You can have a version of your content that's better suited to young people and for old people.
Really, it gives you the power to pivot and convert the information from one format to another,
whether it's text to audio, audio to video, all of those particular types of things.
But I do want to give you folks a warning that right now, when you use AI for video, it's not quite there yet.
My experience is that AI is really, really good with words at the moment, but video is still improving.
And so when you do video, it's going to take a lot more iteration.
The approaches that I've talked a little bit about,
you know, this idea of like you produce something
and then you iterate it.
When it comes to your style,
you might go around three times.
When it comes to video,
you're going to go around 15, 20, 25 times, right?
That's just the nature of where the technology is.
And it will get better over time,
but that's where it is right now.
And then the final principle is always ask for the receipts.
And what I mean by that is,
AI makes for a really good research tool,
but to get the AI to stay grounded,
it's very important for it to have citations, right?
And so the importance here is to ensure
that hallucinations don't creep in,
misinformation doesn't creep in,
that little phrases that are not yours
start to creep into the article, right?
Or little ideas that are not yours start to creep in.
So one way that I do this is whenever you do a,
like you want to do something.
So for example, let's say that I want to find Quranic verses
to help me with a particular project.
Then I will kind of separate the writing of the article
from the research of the article, right?
So every time I do a little bit of research,
or another example is if I want to look at AI and the environment,
then what I would do is I can write that article separately.
It gets stored as a separate file different from my presentation.
And I find if you mix the research stage and the writing stage, that leads to the dilution of your voice and the possibility of inserting errors.
And one trick that I love to do is what I call adversarial review.
So if something's very important, what I might do is I might use one AI, like Claude, to generate the report.
And then I get another AI, like Gemini, to proofread the report.
And so what you can do is you can check different AIs against one another to help you.
And in some cases, what I'll do is I'll have Gemini, Codex, and Claude each do their own research.
You know, these are the three frontier models.
And then I will have another AI that summarizes the findings
and makes sure that there are no gaps between the three different AI systems.
and especially for Islamic content we need to focus on the fact that there is still
a tendency and occasionally it happens that AI will fabricate references so what you need to do
is you need to use trusted Islamic sources in arranging that delivery and the great thing is
especially recently is it used to be that there was one tool you could use now there's a lot of
tools. Some of them are commercial, some of them are free.
But the
really cool thing is that there are now benchmarks
that can tell you which of the AIs
that you, the Islamic AI
assistance is better. And so you can
look up those benchmarks and go, oh, okay, well,
you know, right now, Islamify
is at the top in terms of its accuracy
on fiqh readings, right?
So we are seeing now,
alhamdulillah, a diversity in the Islamic
AI assistance that are there.
And so
Ansari, as I mentioned earlier,
is available as a website.
So here's Ansari over here.
It just looks like a normal website.
But if I go to my Claude,
you know, here earlier on,
I'll enlarge this,
is, I asked it earlier on to check any areas
that would resonate with my particular theme.
And what you can see here is it is using Ansari time after time
to extract and come back with Quranic references that might be relevant.
So now what we're doing is we are combining the AI that you use for creating your content
with an Islamic AI assistant without you having to leave the original AI.
So you don't even have to open a new window and ask Ansari.
It's plugged straight into your existing engine.
Let me go back to the presentation now.
So is your main cloud session creating the prompts on its own for unsaudit or you didn't
teach it a skill in the background?
So here's the skill itself.
And when you look deep in the skill, it's just a skill.md file.
And it just describes, let me show you the raw version.
so this is a set of instructions for AI
it tests cloud how to use Ansari
in terms of the prompt
so it crafts the prompt
and so if we go back to the cloud that I gave you earlier
what it went through
and it didn't just prompt Ansari once
it prompted Ansari five different times
looking for different types of verses that could be relevant
so it wasn't just
here's the article
what does Ansari think
it's like
what are the set of questions
I should ask Ansari
but you can see the power here now
in the alternation
of these two things
right
and the great thing is
you know
if I say something like
you know
nah
that's still not working for me
I need other verses
you can
it will then go back to Ansari
and you can have a back and forth to help it improve the quality of the information that you have.
All right.
So I want to now take an individual piece of content that I created
and tell you about how I evolved it
and how you can generate it with your voice.
So before I even started this particular project,
I was heading over to Canada
they wanted me to give a talk about Islam and AI
and so I started working on exactly what information should I present
but before I even started
the factory already existed
because I'd given previous presentations
so for example
I had already worked out a style guide
and so here's an excerpt from my style guide
that describes how it should write like me
right? Like for example I have things like I hate when AI does this
and when it says not X, not Y, not Z, A.
And I
you know
yeah and so these are things that every time now I give a
presentation or I write an article it knows my particular style.
So in this particular case
remember the first principle
which is what is AI for
and what is it not for
and the Nia has to come from you
and so what was my Nia in this particular case
what was it I was trying to change people's mind about
and what was it I was trying to change
what they feel, think or believe about
is it's
I wanted them to grasp how big the change with AI is
and I wanted to show them the changes
as they came for both Muslims
for both individuals and Muslims, right?
and that we have to navigate this tricky course.
So from that, I kind of said,
okay, here are the six things that I think I want the audience to think about
in terms of both umatic and personal aspects.
And so that is the first thing I feed into the AI.
That is, I say, this is what I want to talk about.
This is what I want people to feel differently.
That becomes the heart.md.
And then the second thing I do is,
you know, when you're preparing a presentation,
and you have a whole bunch of crazy ideas,
maybe I could present it like this, whatever,
blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
But they're kind of disorganized,
so I create what's called a brain dump file
that has all of my ideas.
Maybe it's an idea for a visual,
maybe it's an idea for like a particular way
of structuring it.
And so far, you'll notice one thing,
I haven't used any AI, right?
So far, this is all me.
The original heart.md file and the brain dump.md file
file is unedited me, right? Now, whenever the AI tries to do something, it has to stick within
those guardrails. And before it makes any modification, like, it's almost like it's
going through and saying, did I mess up on this particular aspect of this presentation?
So it can always go back to the braindop file and find if something's being lost, right? Those
types of guardrails that are like documents it can reference help stop the AI from kind of
overwriting your voice.
You had a question?
It's a really simple question,
but the names you've done,
convention, heart, brain dump,
do you then add the skill
for it to know that that's naming convention
of the document means certain things?
Yes.
Sorry.
Again, you can do it,
but like I said before,
there was a link that I gave,
and actually this entire presentation
is a skill.
So what you can do is,
at the end I'll show you how to do it,
is you can take this presentation,
and I wrote two versions.
One was the human version for all of you,
and one was the AI version for your AIs,
so that you can give it to your AI.
Maybe you don't adopt everything that's here,
but that's my whole point.
You can teach your AI to do better.
All right.
So here's a brain dump that I gave.
It's all kinds of crazy ideas.
Aqilha wa tawakkal as a kind of a theme.
And this is the first time,
I want to talk about to people, $16 trillion is a lot of money, right?
And that's how much they think AI will add to the world economy by 2030.
And that's a huge amount.
That's like $2,000 for every man, woman, child, right?
And I have some ideas there, right?
And then this is really the first time that I use AI, right?
I start with the heart.md and the brain dump.md.
And we start to think about how to structure the presentation.
and so the next thing I generate is an outline.md.
And an outline.md is kind of like,
these are the topics that I want to cover.
It's kind of like a short document.
So, you know, I might look something like this.
Here's the structure, you know, five different sections.
These are the different beats, et cetera.
I iterated on this outline probably eight or nine times, right?
But the idea is every time you're kind of expanding scope
for the AI gently.
You're kind of saying start here,
move to here, move to here,
and every time you're doing that,
the AI has less places to screw up, right?
Because you've been guiding it all along the way.
And so it's really me, you know,
I reviewed every version of that,
and then when there was something I was happy with,
this is where I start to use AI a bit more, right?
Now that I have the different sections, right,
I now start to, A, ask, you know,
are there research problems that I can spawn the AI to look into, right?
Can I ask it about, you know, what are some ideas for visuals
that would convey the magnitude of the change?
What are Quranic verses that I could quote that would make sense, right?
Is there any research on the economic or job career impacts, right?
And it's almost like they follow very naturally from the outline.
But now it's constrained, it understands the context much better,
and it's able to kind of say,
okay, here are the leads past documents,
here are the new research topics that I'm going to do.
But as I mentioned earlier,
it's very important to kind of separate the research from the writing, right?
Don't just inject the research into the article.
So for example, you know, as we were demonstrating earlier,
you can say something to your AI like,
I want you to use Ansari to verify all the Quranic verses,
all the hadith, make sure.
And you keep the receipts.
So it's literally like, oh yeah, I checked that particular verse.
This one's correct.
This one's not correct.
All this time, you're kind of purifying and improving things.
And then the final step is the conversion to slides.
And the way that I did these slides, I particularly use a system called map.
But, and so it's actually part of my pipeline.
I don't even leave code, right?
But the code code is on the left-hand side and the presentation is on the right-hand side.
And I'm editing both at the same time,
and I'm giving the AI instructions about how to modify.
But that's not the only way to do it, right?
And again, I'm trying to teach you folks reusable tools, right?
Instead, maybe what you do is your favorite tool is Canva.
And so you ask the AI to generate a list of slides with prompts for every slide,
and then you paste the slide descriptions into Canva,
and it produces each slide one by one.
Or you use another AI tool called Gamma.
But the idea is you have this process that you've gone through that's at every, say, check for correctness, has amplified your voice because it knew you're near, and has expanded the content that you're interested in.
And so I ended up giving this presentation in Canada to about 200 people.
And the video is available online if you want to see it.
But then the other thing that was happening at the same time is I was talking to Mohamed Jalal of the Thinking Muslim.
And he was like, we should do an interview.
And so we had a discussion about like,
what's the topics that we should talk about?
And I was like, well, actually this thing,
this is my Nia here.
This is kind of why I came to Canada.
Maybe we can start to morph the questions
around the same themes that I was touching on over there.
And so now him and I agree on a set of questions.
There's probably about 60 to 70% overlap
in terms of the content.
But now I know that it's grounded information
and it starts to fill in those questions for me.
And it knows that when I'm talking,
so here's the more spontaneous
an interview looks
probably the more preparation
that went into making it. I know that sounds really
ironic but for me to be able
to talk about AI for an hour with Mohammed Jalal
who's like a world class interviewer
I really need to be spot on with my facts
I need to be able to hit points really
well and so that's really
I ended up not reading anything
but it created like a briefing
document and a talking points document for me
that I was then able to just kind of
absorb
and I made one mistake in the interview.
I'm not going to tell you where it is.
It's not in Quran or Hadith.
But that is one point that the mistake was from me.
It wasn't even from the AI, right?
Because, you know, people depend on the quality of the information
and it was very important to me to convey that.
But you can see if you listen to the interview,
it's got my style, it's the way that I talk
and it really helped me to amplify that.
So, again, this is reinforcing the second thing, right?
Build the factory.
not just the first car.
I think the way many people would build a talk like that
is almost from scratch again.
But the content is already there.
AI already knows how to use it.
Reuse the content.
And that interview went pretty well, I think.
But there were a few questions there that I hadn't covered.
In particular, Jalena was like,
what about the environmental impacts of AI?
And I was like, I'm probably not up to date with this one.
I should go and research about it
because I've heard some stuff about liquid cooling
and is that really the solution?
And then Google comes out and says it costs nine cents per...
If you use AI once a day,
it uses about the same power
as dropping the kids off to school.
I'm starting to really try to formulate my opinion.
And again, this is a situation where I went to all three,
asked them, and then put together a report.
So, and so we can check it in that way.
Now, it turned out that, you know, on the way here to Turkey, I stopped in London.
And so some folks there asked me to give a talk.
And then they said, 15 minutes.
We're going to give you, and my previous talk was 75 minutes long, right?
But the cool thing is, because I had that content, all I had to do was say, here are the four points I want to make.
It's going to be more serious.
There are these benchmarks, whatever else.
and it took me about 30 minutes to prepare a 15 minute presentation
and that's much better than my usual preparation.
Usually for me the ratio is 10 to 15, right?
So if I'm giving one hour of content I need 15 hours of preparation.
But AI really helped me to get a start and then I went through it.
But I know because everything had been previously vetted
that it wasn't going to insert like made up fabricated hadith.
So you can see that now I have this chain of
I started with the six bullets. I started with the Nia. We converted it into a one-hour talk.
We took it to podcasts. We created a 15-minute voice. Each one hopefully has my voice. And
literally, in the case of the interview, it has my voice. And each verified ones, right?
And then we can talk about how to amplify your voice, right? Because this comes out. And of
course, the thing goes on YouTube, I want to post it on LinkedIn, right? How do I do that?
I could write the LinkedIn myself, but what I can also do is I know the AI has a skill that is very
good at writing LinkedIn posts. It doesn't quite get my tone right, so I edit it. And then, this is
the important part, I close the loop. So I say, next time when you write a LinkedIn post, this is
what I want you to do differently, right?
That's a very important part of this.
And the great thing is these tools are now so advanced.
Many of these AI models have what's called browser mode
or browser control.
And so LinkedIn is really annoying
because they don't have an API.
They don't have a tool that allows you to automatically post.
So what happens is the AI instead hijacks
your current browser or whatever
and starts to fill in the fields for you.
So these tools are now getting,
it becomes very possible to automate this even more.
And so another way to amplify your voice
is to now take that same set of content,
pull it into a tool.
I use Descript, but you can see over here,
this tool is, it has a transcript
of everything that I've said.
It's breaking this video up into different sections.
It's even highlighted places where I say,
ah, and mm-hmm, and all of that kind of stuff.
and I can literally edit the text part, the script.
And let's say I went, ah, or something like that.
Delete it from the script and it disappears from the video.
It just cuts the video for you.
But this is really a Swiss army knife of a tool
because another thing I can ask it, for example,
and I have this open here.
Where are we?
Is I was like, you know what?
I'm not quite sure what are the things
that I want to export from this.
So have an analyst, you know, what do you think are going to be the parts that resonate with people?
And so it will go through the whole script.
It might pick three or four different ones.
I asked it to produce five.
And I'm sorry, I can't increase the thing on this one.
But it's basically a list of the five different points that it chose, right?
And then I can say, actually, I choose number three.
And then what it will do is it's there, it's processing.
it's now extracting the video from that particular section.
And this is kind of amazing that it's made video this easy to edit.
Still my voice, still literally my exact same words, right?
And once I have that, it's one click to upload it to YouTube, right?
Sorry.
Yeah.
Can I just very briefly just explain that a little bit again?
All right.
So this is a tool called Descript.
And again, I don't want us to over-rotate on tools
because the tools are forever changing because there's so much competition.
But Descript, you upload your video,
in this case the one hour of Thinking Muslim,
it transcribes the video for you,
gives you a text description,
allows you to edit your mistakes
or to get rid of parts that you don't like.
It can analyze the transcription
and try to pick out thematic bits.
And so I can choose one.
And now what you can see here is
literally in those 20 seconds,
It's, you know...
And it's like, yeah, this AI is better than human
at breaking cyber attacks.
And it's like, yeah, this...
And so you can see now that it's, you know,
it extracted that particular part.
You're going to see a little bit about subtitles.
I asked it to subtitle it in French.
It did all of those things.
So we're seeing here how you can use AI to amplify your voice
by helping you efficiently select the content
that you can promote on other media, right?
Like this...
And a 77-minute video, which is how long it turned out to be with Mohamed Jalal,
is not going to work on YouTube shots, right?
It's not going to work on Instagram, right?
So you have to kind of find the juicy bits there that you can do that.
And what I'm saying is it's actually relatively easy with the new tools
to do those types of things.
All right.
And so...
So here's an example of...
a short video that was excerpted from this system.
And then you can do some very interesting things.
Now, this is more cutting-edge,
but remember, I'm trying to educate you folks
for what might be possible in future.
We are now at the point where dubbing
is becoming a serious option, right?
And we are an ummah that has many, many different languages amongst us.
And so, you know, for the Arabic speakers here,
let me know what you think.
Which is what they use for choosing this.
And you know how Project Maven was used?
in Iran.
So that's the English version.
Right?
The lip sync is off, right?
But it's my voice.
It's literally my voice, right?
Like, does it sound like me?
If I spoke Arabic, it would sound pretty much like this.
like Lavender, and then it even uses Egyptian dialect,
which I think is really interesting.
It still adds the arms and the arms as well.
Yeah, it does.
But again, it's really showing you what's becoming capable.
And the crazy thing was how easy this was.
It was literally, I uploaded the English version to this company called Eleven Labs
and said, dub it into Arabic.
And it took about, it said,
it's going to take 12,000 credits.
I don't know how much that is.
And it took about five minutes for me to do that, right?
Now, that's starting to be a very, very interesting way
of amplifying your voice.
Now, very clearly, nobody's going to think that, you know,
that that was really me talking.
But it can reach, and you can see the emotional aspects in it, right?
So, again, remember, we have to build the factory, right?
So 11 Labs has what's called an API.
An API is a thing that makes it easy for your AI to talk to it, right?
So then the skill that I taught my AI is how to talk to 11 Labs, right?
And once I did that, I said, here's their API page.
Can you please use 11 Labs dubbing feature to convert that except into French?
So now I don't even have to leave my browser.
I don't have to leave AI in order to get this functionality.
And so just as we wrap up in time for about 15 minutes of Q&A,
I just want to remind you folks of the timeless principles, right?
And the first is to really understand deeply what AI is for and what it's not for.
And the niya, the intention, the purity, the ikhlas has to come from you.
and you have to take steps to make sure that you use AI in the right way so that your voice makes
it through. The second thing is don't just build one car. Build the factory for making cars and we
said that the way to do that is by giving the AI memory and making sure that it can access the work
you've done in the past in terms of your style, any content you've done, any research you've done.
The third is expanding the box that AI works in. It's not just text in text out. That's just
v1. You can use it to teach you things. You can teach it things. You can use it to connect to
outside connectors. All of these things expand the box that AI is in, right? And then finally,
especially when it comes to Islamic stuff, make sure that you cite everything correctly,
use proper Islamic tools for it. For your other research, make sure that everything is verified
with citations and that prevents errors from permeating through.
So finally, as I mentioned, the great thing with AI is you can teach it things.
You don't have to start from scratch.
So if you go to this particular page, so this is me typing waleed.dk slash gmc26.
You can see my presentation with videos and everything here so you have a reference for
it, but you can also read this document.
And this document is not intended for humans.
It's readable by humans, right?
But think of it as a summary of the presentation that I've just given you in a way that makes
it accessible for the AI to do what I'm saying.
So all you need to do now is if you just go to file and just hit save page as or whatever,
and then go to your AI and upload it, you can have a discussion with AI about how to
implement these particular techniques in your system, whatever your flow is for whatever you
want to do it. And so this is what I mean about how we can use AI, and hopefully you folks find
that useful, and we'll leave it there. So any, any, thank you. So any, any, any, like, like I said,
here are some references. Islamic
checking is at Asgansari.ai.
There's also an organization of them called
Yasa.ai. And any questions you have
just email me at hi at
wali.dk.
Jadzakumullah Khair. Questions?