Unlike Seattle, in Los Angeles there are few software engineers but I would not utter AI at all here

Its an infinite moving goalpost of hate, if its an actor, "creative", writer, AI is a monolithic doom, next its theoretical public policy or the lack thereof, and if they have nothing that affects them about it then it's about the energy use and environment

nobody is going to hear about what your AI does, so don't mention anything about AI unless you're trying to earn or raise money. Its a double life