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Against A.I. Doomerism: Marlow's Culture and Christianity Address · The Alex Marlow Show

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  Speaker 1: Okay, everyone, I've been looking forward to this. Finally, at
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  Speaker 1: long last, this is my address on AI to the
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  Speaker 1: Culture and Christianity Conference, which is run by the one
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  Speaker 1: and only Pastor Alan Jackson, who's got a massive international following.
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  Speaker 1: He runs the World Outreach Church just outside of Nashville, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: with a congregation that is enormous. He's got an international
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  Speaker 1: reach and an incredible congregation. I spoke to them about
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  Speaker 1: AI and tech and where we are. You'll find out
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  Speaker 1: if I'm a doomer, if I'm an optimist, if I'm
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in between. And I think we have some fun
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  Speaker 1: along the way thinking about the most important issues of
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  Speaker 1: the day. So I hope you enjoy this. I've been
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to this. Check it out. I'm Alex Marlow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the editor-in-chief of Breitbart News. I'm also author, radio,
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  Speaker 1: and podcast host. And today I'm going to be taking
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  Speaker 1: on the subject of AI and the culture and where
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  Speaker 1: we fit into this as a church corpus. But I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to begin, of course, with a land acknowledgment. So
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit of this morning's conversation, I've asked ChatGPT
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  Speaker 1: to write it for me. I did edit it a
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  Speaker 1: little so it will suck a little bit less. Before
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  Speaker 1: we begin, I want to take a moment to acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: the land on which we gather today. We're gathered here
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  Speaker 1: in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on land that's been home to indigenous
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  Speaker 1: peoples for thousands of years. In particular, we recognize the
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  Speaker 1: Cherokee people and their historic connection to this region, while
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  Speaker 1: also honoring the Creek, the Chickasaw, the Shawnee, and other
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  Speaker 1: indigenous peoples who have lived here, traveled, traveled. hunted and
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  Speaker 1: cares for these lands. As people of faith, may this
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  Speaker 1: acknowledgement remind us that this land is not simply a
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  Speaker 1: place where we meet, but a gift entrusted to us.
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  Speaker 1: That was pretty lame, I gotta say. That was lame.
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  Speaker 1: So what I did... I had decided that that's no good.
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  Speaker 1: So I went over to Grok a little bit better,
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  Speaker 1: and I asked them to write me a land acknowledgement
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  Speaker 1: for Alan Jackson's World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and
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  Speaker 1: focus on historical Americans. And once again, I edited a
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  Speaker 1: little bit so it's not quite as stupid. But it's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better. Let's see how it goes. We
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  Speaker 1: gather on this ground in Murfreesboro where Americans made a town,
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  Speaker 1: a state, and a nation. Revolutionary war veterans came west
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  Speaker 1: on land grants and built farms here. Colonel William Little
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  Speaker 1: gave the track that became the county seat. In 1811,
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  Speaker 1: the town was laid out and named for Colonel Hardy Murfrey.
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  Speaker 1: For a time, Murfreesboro was the capital of Tennessee. The
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  Speaker 1: countryside saw the Battle of Stones River in 1892 and 1893.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, 1862 and 1863. The Union forces built fortress rosecrans, soldiers, townspeople,
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  Speaker 1: and freedmen endured occupation and the long work of putting
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  Speaker 1: the country back together. Americans later planted churches, schools, homes
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  Speaker 1: on this ground. One such church, a small congregation erected
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  Speaker 1: in 1980, met in a rented hotel room on Easter
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  Speaker 1: Sunday and became World Outreach Church. Now that congregation is
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  Speaker 1: over 15,000 strong and Pastor Alan Jackson's message reaches 3
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  Speaker 1: million people every week. We remember the settlers, the soldiers,
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  Speaker 1: the citizens, and the church members who lived and worshipped
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  Speaker 1: here and we meet as their heirs under the same
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  Speaker 1: constitution and give thanks for the liberty that still lets
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  Speaker 1: a church gather in Murfreesboro. Not bad, right? A little better?
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  Speaker 1: So this actually is the story of AI summed up
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  Speaker 1: in two land acknowledgements. And I think you'll understand why
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  Speaker 1: during the course of my talk today. But since we
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  Speaker 1: had a fun opening, now it's time to get real
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  Speaker 1: and start sorting out, is the world about to end?
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  Speaker 1: That's the topic today. So since we're talking about AI
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  Speaker 1: and culture and faith, I was thinking I should name
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  Speaker 1: the speech, How I Found God in an AI Data Center.
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  Speaker 1: But that's actually not what the speech is about. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get smited or smote. Is it smited
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  Speaker 1: or smote? You guys can help me with that. But
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  Speaker 1: I do want to frame up the debate for people
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  Speaker 1: of faith. Hopefully I accomplish that today. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to say I think we're doomed. I'm not. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm also not going to say I know we're not.
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  Speaker 1: We are in a new age where this technology is
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  Speaker 1: very powerful. It's poorly understood. It's both over and undersold.
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  Speaker 1: And most apropos, the power is concentrated in the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the too few. And I think you're going to
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  Speaker 1: find it's the wrong people as of now. Yet still,
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  Speaker 1: if we treat this as a tool and not as
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  Speaker 1: a destiny, it's not a destiny. And we use this
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  Speaker 1: incredible technological moment, we can advance the kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: So let me start with what AI is. It's a
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  Speaker 1: statistical machine that sorts, categorizes, curates, organizes an enormous amount
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  Speaker 1: of information, data, text, images, code. And what it is not,
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  Speaker 1: it's not conscious. It's not understanding. It has no wisdom
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  Speaker 1: to offer you. sometimes it's right sometimes it is confidently
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  Speaker 1: wrong emphasis on the confidence but it's almost always fluent
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  Speaker 1: which in and of itself is pretty impressive so far
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  Speaker 1: but fluence of course is not reliability and for obvious
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  Speaker 1: reasons we become very skeptical of this for example for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason i still cannot get a clean zoom call
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  Speaker 1: connection in the middle of my kitchen but i'm told
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  Speaker 1: that this technology is going to destroy the world imminently Also,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, when I do the dictation thing into
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  Speaker 1: my phone, I think it's about 21% accurate. Did you
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  Speaker 1: guys have this experience still? Seriously, I tried to text
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  Speaker 1: my wife the other night, I'm going to bed. You
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  Speaker 1: know what the AI said? I'm going to Biden. What
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  Speaker 1: does that say about me that that's what the AI
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  Speaker 1: thinks I'm thinking? Okay. I tried to ask Jana on
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  Speaker 1: Pastor Jackson's team, can you send me a dress? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of stuff to do this week.
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  Speaker 1: The phone thought I said I was asking for a
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  Speaker 1: lady's dress. And I said, you got the wrong guy.
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  Speaker 1: That's not me. That's not my thing. So the AI
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  Speaker 1: revolution has had its share of headwinds. So first of all,
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  Speaker 1: it's expensive. It's going to take a lot of energy.
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  Speaker 1: Did you notice how all the greenies, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: the climate change freaks started to shut up as they
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  Speaker 1: started making all this money off this technology? You guys
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  Speaker 1: notice that? Kind of a funny coincidence, isn't it? And
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  Speaker 1: it's scary that AI really could take our jobs. And
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  Speaker 1: in some cases, it will. If you're one of those
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  Speaker 1: folks who passed on the welding or the engineering 10
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  Speaker 1: years ago and instead learned to code, remember that? You
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  Speaker 1: probably are out of luck. Hashtag learn to drill, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. But right now, and we have great reporting
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  Speaker 1: on this at Breitbart News with John Carney, who's the
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  Speaker 1: best in the game, who writes our economic and finance
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  Speaker 1: business newsletter. It is the most stable job market in
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  Speaker 1: America in this century. So if these doomer predictions are
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  Speaker 1: coming true, they haven't even started yet, not even a little.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, there are the data centers. They
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  Speaker 1: are large. They are loud. They are ugly. And all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, they are seemingly everywhere, which is a
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  Speaker 1: lot like the transgenders. I kid, but I also don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want these things near me, and neither do you.
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  Speaker 1: And this time, I actually am talking about the transgenders,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm also talking about the data centers, too. So
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  Speaker 1: this is an 80-20 issue. Americans don't like data centers,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the fault of the same tech geniuses
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  Speaker 1: who are creating this technology. Who could have possibly seen
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  Speaker 1: a PR crisis like this coming? Well, not these geniuses.
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  Speaker 1: So finally, there is a long-term risk. Today's models, these
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  Speaker 1: versions of AI, are the worst you'll ever use. Future
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  Speaker 1: models are going to have more training. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: have more compute, which is raw processing power. They're better hardware,
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  Speaker 1: more autonomy. And they're going to be able to pursue
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  Speaker 1: objectives that they don't even know they're intending on. And
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be used by people that could intend
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  Speaker 1: harm at a large scale. And that is bad. And
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  Speaker 1: that is a real threat. That is the whole ballgame.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone agrees that is a legitimate concern. So in fact,
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  Speaker 1: that's what's overwhelmed the news cycle over the past week.
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  Speaker 1: With this alleged anthropic open AI whistleblower. You guys up
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  Speaker 1: in the store, you guys have seen this? Okay, so well,
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  Speaker 1: it's a hoax, by the way, but I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: why the hoax matters, and I'll tell you the story
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  Speaker 1: of it to catch some of you up if you're
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  Speaker 1: not clear. It starts with a guy named Jacob Coxon.
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  Speaker 1: He's a 27-year-old researcher who'd worked at Anthropic, which is Claude,
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  Speaker 1: and OpenAI, which is ChatGPT. This is an AI duopoly,
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  Speaker 1: and they run in a closed-weight system. I'll try to
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  Speaker 1: keep the technical jargon out of it, but that basically
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  Speaker 1: means a model that none of you guys can see.
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  Speaker 1: You can use it, but they don't see the data
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  Speaker 1: they're scraping. You can't see the models. You can't see
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  Speaker 1: the algorithm. And this whistleblower is a little different than
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  Speaker 1: others who typically get the whistleblower moniker in that he
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  Speaker 1: actually didn't say anything new. He didn't say anything we
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. But he put out to a few followers
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  Speaker 1: on X the Everything app a three-tweet thread, which is
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  Speaker 1: a tongue twister. I'm happy I said that clean. Three-tweet thread.
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  Speaker 1: You're all muttering it to yourself. I can see you.
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  Speaker 1: So he posted to X, and it got 200 million views,
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  Speaker 1: which is a lot, right? And that's still going up.
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  Speaker 1: So the key phrase here, the people building AI earnestly
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  Speaker 1: believe that it could kill us all by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt, right? So,
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  Speaker 1: this is a guy who works at Anthropic, or did
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  Speaker 1: for a time being and then quit, and then said,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to kill us in a decade. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, he'd already reached out to the Wall Street Journal,
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  Speaker 1: who backed him up with a story, making it look
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  Speaker 1: more legit. So naturally, you would think Anthropic would rush
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  Speaker 1: out and say, that's ridiculous. This is just a low-level guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's only been here for a while. five minutes. What
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  Speaker 1: does he know? Oh no, that's not what they did. Next,
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  Speaker 1: a guy named Evan Hoopinger, a scientist for Anthropic, who's
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  Speaker 1: also followed by virtually no one online, posted about the
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  Speaker 1: crazy tweet that we're all about to die in the affirmative.
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  Speaker 1: Hoopinger said, Jacob is correct here. We really do earnestly
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  Speaker 1: believe AI could kill all humans. I personally think it
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  Speaker 1: is over 10% within the next decade. What? And as
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  Speaker 1: of now, that tweet's been viewed more than 42 million
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  Speaker 1: times and counting. So if your BS detector is going off,
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  Speaker 1: mine is too, because days later, Dario Amadei, the co-founder
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  Speaker 1: of Anthropic, comes out and he says, not only are
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  Speaker 1: these guys not nuts, we actually need to slow down
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  Speaker 1: the progress of AI before it's too late. And he's
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  Speaker 1: backed up by Sam Altman, the co-founder of ChatGPT OpenAI.
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  Speaker 1: So now Dario, Sam, if you guys are watching, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you are. If you guys want to slow down,
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  Speaker 1: you're the boss. You can do that whenever you want.
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  Speaker 1: No one is stopping you from slowing down. I run
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  Speaker 1: a newsroom and a podcast. If I want to print
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  Speaker 1: fewer articles or put out fewer shows, I don't need
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  Speaker 1: to write essays about it and call for international government
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  Speaker 1: agencies to regulate me. I can just not do as much. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what Dario Amadei called for. He called for, one,
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  Speaker 1: an independent third-party monitoring of models, two, industry-wide standards, and three,
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  Speaker 1: government and global regulation. You're starting to see what's going
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  Speaker 1: on here, right? Of course, he's backed up by Altman.
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  Speaker 1: He's calling for a regulator agency to regulate his own company.
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  Speaker 1: That can't make sense. Oh, but it makes perfect sense.
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  Speaker 1: Once you realize who's going to run the AI governing boards,
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  Speaker 1: Amadei proposed a group called Meter, which is a Berkeley-based group.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I went to college. I know the folks
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  Speaker 1: there well. Don't have a lot in common with you
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  Speaker 1: good folks. These same groups have been do-moring about AI forever.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most recognizable names in meter is a
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  Speaker 1: guy named Holden Karnofsky. Karnofsky is married to someone named
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  Speaker 1: Daniela Amadei, who is the co-founder of Anthropic with her brother.
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  Speaker 1: So now Karnofsky works at Anthropic. So Dario's solution to
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  Speaker 1: the deadly AI he created is to appoint a group
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  Speaker 1: tied to his own family. This is like me starting
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  Speaker 1: a group to monitor conservative new media and putting my
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  Speaker 1: parents in charge. So he wants an AI regulator. Dario
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  Speaker 1: Amadei wants an AI regulator controlled by Dario and Dario's
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  Speaker 1: sister so they can create the framework under which all
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  Speaker 1: of us operate. You see what's going on? The reason
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  Speaker 1: these guys want regulation is about power and market capture.
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  Speaker 1: They're not interested in saving humanity. They're not interested in
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  Speaker 1: helping all of you. These people have an opaque model,
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  Speaker 1: and what they want to do is they want to
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  Speaker 1: use it to be able to leverage market capture and,
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  Speaker 1: God forbid, create these international bodies that will control more
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  Speaker 1: of your lives. They get their way when we cede
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  Speaker 1: AI control to some regulatory agency or a foreign tribunal,
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  Speaker 1: and then their competition is going to go out of
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  Speaker 1: business because anyone who wants to get in the game
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  Speaker 1: against them is going to get regulated to death. They're
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  Speaker 1: not going to make it. Very cynical. They are building
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  Speaker 1: a cartel right in front of your face and they're
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  Speaker 1: pretending like they're the altruists in the process. So Dario
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  Speaker 1: Amadei has said that Anthropic might be the only company
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  Speaker 1: in the world at some point. How do you guys
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  Speaker 1: feel about that? He does believe this. And now he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to achieve it. I'm going to go back to
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  Speaker 1: Karnofsky for a second because he'll help us understand the
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  Speaker 1: true threat here. And the true threat is something called
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  Speaker 1: effective altruism. This is essentially a new religion or a
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  Speaker 1: cult that's being created and funded in Silicon Valley by
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  Speaker 1: AI tech gurus. These are the same people who've been
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  Speaker 1: pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Democrat politicians in
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  Speaker 1: their coffers. It's backed by people who you may have
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  Speaker 1: heard of, particularly if you've read any of my research.
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  Speaker 1: A guy named Dustin Moskovitz, who made all this money
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  Speaker 1: from Facebook. His wife, Carrie Tuna. And someone named Reid Hoffman.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to get some groans for Reid Hoffman in
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  Speaker 1: this room. one of the worst guys who funds every
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  Speaker 1: single thing in the lawfare to try to take out
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  Speaker 1: President Trump, all the worst things imaginable, this guy sends
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  Speaker 1: money to it. These are the guys who are funding
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  Speaker 1: this movement. And as it turns out, the effective altruists
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  Speaker 1: are really just dorky perverts. Let me give you an example.
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  Speaker 1: Brace for impact. This is from an article from Time Magazine.
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  Speaker 1: One EA member said, admitted in the Bay Area that
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  Speaker 1: people seem to work together, live together, and sleep together,
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  Speaker 1: often in polyamorous sexual relationships, which are complex for professional dynamics.
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  Speaker 1: Three times in one year, this whistleblower says, men at
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  Speaker 1: informal EA gatherings tried to convince her to join these
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  Speaker 1: so-called polycules. When she said she wasn't interested, she recalls
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  Speaker 1: they would shame her and try to pressure her, casting
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  Speaker 1: monogamy as a lifestyle governed by jealousy and polyamory as
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  Speaker 1: a more enlightened and rational approach. These are very creepy people.
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  Speaker 1: And it's important to realize this is the AI doomer community,
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  Speaker 1: which has quickly amplified the message that imminent death is
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  Speaker 1: upon us. They've been doing this for a decade. We
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  Speaker 1: know the playbook. And the playbook was laid out by
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  Speaker 1: my social media director, Breitbart News, Wynton Hall, who has
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  Speaker 1: written the only New York Times bestselling book from a
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  Speaker 1: conservative perspective on AI. It's called Code Red. Everyone should
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  Speaker 1: read it. It's fantastic. And he laid out the playbook
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  Speaker 1: in an essay for us at Breitbart in February. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: convince the American people that mass AI job loss is inevitable. Two,
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  Speaker 1: channel that fear and ennui into galvanizing support for universal
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  Speaker 1: basic income, as well as wealth redistribution. And then number three,
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  Speaker 1: co-op populist concern your legitimate concerns about AI, driving up
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  Speaker 1: electricity and water costs for everyday people to try to
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  Speaker 1: increase the fear. That's the plan. Use AI to bring
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  Speaker 1: about global governance. Or at a minimum, a federal agency
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  Speaker 1: where it's controlled by the worst people in the world.
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  Speaker 1: So earlier I referred to AI as a tool, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not really a tool just to get your taxes done,
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  Speaker 1: keep track of your fitness goals. My friend John, who's here,
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  Speaker 1: is remodeling his house. He's using some AI. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just for that. This is a tool for the global
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  Speaker 1: left to create political domination. That's what they're doing. And
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  Speaker 1: when you see that, everything starts making sense. But the
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  Speaker 1: good news is people see the op. We've been down
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  Speaker 1: this road before. Doesn't this feel a little bit like
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  Speaker 1: the climate change hoax from the aughts? Doesn't this feel
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  Speaker 1: a little bit like the COVID lockdown panic of five
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  Speaker 1: years ago? People really, really don't like AI. They really don't.
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  Speaker 1: That's genuine. And Americans do see data centers as mausoleums
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  Speaker 1: for their children's job prospects. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's true. We're going to see. But I will tell you,
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  Speaker 1: for the people who are AI optimists, you're not doing
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  Speaker 1: a good job explaining yourselves as well. We've all the money, okay?
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  Speaker 1: So effective altruists, well-funded, lefties, tech elite, billionaires, grumble, grumble, grumble, grumble, grumble.
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  Speaker 1: They're horrible, but bad, bad, bad. Okay, so now what?
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  Speaker 1: What do we do? What are the AI optimists saying?
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  Speaker 1: They're not persuading anyone. When I started to tell people
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  Speaker 1: in Washington that my audience at Breitbart News hates AI
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  Speaker 1: and wants no part of it, I was told by
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  Speaker 1: powerful people they're falling for a Chinese trap. You want
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  Speaker 1: my opinion? You know who I think is falling for
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  Speaker 1: a Chinese trap? These are the people who continue to
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  Speaker 1: allow American tech to be sold to the Chinese. These
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  Speaker 1: are the people who allow Chinese babies to be born
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  Speaker 1: in America to surrogates, raised in China to hate our
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  Speaker 1: guts and come back and become full American citizens. I
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  Speaker 1: think the Chinese propaganda is people who still want Chinese
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  Speaker 1: students trained in American universities in a spot that would
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  Speaker 1: have otherwise gone to your kids. Those people are falling
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  Speaker 1: for Chinese propaganda. It's not us. My people are smart.
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  Speaker 1: We know when we're getting marketed. We're skeptical of AI,
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  Speaker 1: but don't tell us it's just because China told us
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  Speaker 1: to be. Convince us that AI is the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: hyperdrive the American economy, accelerate to historic levels, or sell
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  Speaker 1: us on why we have to stop now. No one's
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  Speaker 1: doing a very good job. So I've given all these
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: reasons today on why to be skeptical of AI, and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I could keep going on. It's going to create legitimate
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: cybersecurity threats. It's going to create more global government to
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  Speaker 1: censor us. We've been inundated with all this slop, all
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: this horrible AI images and deep fakes and cheap propaganda
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and very confident misinformation, all that we have to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: But it's got opportunity, massive opportunity for entrepreneurs, learning skills
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  Speaker 1: for pennies on the dollar. It is great at pattern recognition.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to accelerate the ability for you to get
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: your work done. It's going to reduce time on paperwork.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: It's going to reduce time on administrative tasks. Advances in
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: science and medicine are hitting warp speed. My wife's an oncologist,
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  Speaker 1: and there's never been a more exciting time to be
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: able to treat cancer. There's never been more hope in
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: what's usually a pretty bleak field. So where does this
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  Speaker 1: leave us? That's the question for the church today. And
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  Speaker 1: the answer is, I don't know. I honestly don't know,
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  Speaker 1: and neither do you, and neither do those freaks in
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  Speaker 1: Berkeley who want to control your lives. What I do
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  Speaker 1: know is that the people in this church, people of faith,
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  Speaker 1: have a vitally important role in all this. We are
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: all using AI whether we like it or not. It's everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So we can't blithely act like we're above it all.
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  Speaker 1: Because this discussion today isn't about AI. What did I
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: say it was about? It's about power. And sometimes power
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: is a zero-sum game. It's a simple question. Will AI
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: be controlled by the effective altruist freaks from Berkeley? Will
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: AI be controlled by the CCP? Or will the AI
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: be controlled by God-fearing American citizens? That's the challenge. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not magic, AI. It's the collective work of all
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  Speaker 1: of mankind. It's a tool that was created by human
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: beings collecting the work of billions of humans who walk
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  Speaker 1: before them. It's fallible, and it's not going to make
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you eternal, ever. If you seek that, there's only one way,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: and that's through Christ. We want these tools to be open.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: We want algorithms, data sets, computation. We want to democratize it.
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  Speaker 1: We want to let all of us get rich and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: prosperous together if that's what's meant to be. And how
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you stop the open AI and the anthropic cartel, we
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: need to get engaged. Yes, these systems have risks, but
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: they're happening. And we're not going to worship the machine
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: like they do. But we're not going to smash it.
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  Speaker 1: We have to insist that it works for us on
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: terms that we can inspect. And when it fails, we
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: need to be able to hold the people who are
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: responsible accountable. That's the system we need. So I'm going
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: to wind up today back where I started at the
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  Speaker 1: land acknowledgment. Which was funny, right? It was funny. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm disrespecting not just the woke left, who does
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the land acknowledgements everywhere, but I'm disrespecting AI. Because I'll
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: never respect it. It's a computer. It's a machine. It's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: not going to get my respect. It's not going to
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: get your respect either. But one other thing is not
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: going to get your allegiance. You're only going to have
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: allegiance to God and country. And AI is smart now
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and it's going to get smarter and that can be
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: a good thing. But even in the best case scenario,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: as lives have gotten easier for Americans, as technologies evolved,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: we've actually gotten less godly and less happy. And that
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: is truly a dire warning. But the conversation is not
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: about AI. It's about power itself. You've all heard of
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the golden rule. Not that one. I'm thinking the other one.
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  Speaker 1: He who makes the gold has the gold makes the rules.
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  Speaker 1: He who has the gold makes the rules. That's AI.
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  Speaker 1: That's the reality. He who controls AI controls the rules.
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  Speaker 1: That's the fear. There is no God in the machine,
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  Speaker 1: but there are men with God complexes who have their
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: hands on the gears right now and they can control it.
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  Speaker 1: That's not democracy. That's not freedom. And that certainly isn't
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: effective altruism, whatever that is. That's tyranny. And we're not
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: going to be afraid. As Christians, we all know we
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: are held securely in the grasp of Almighty God. And
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: AI is not immoral. It's amoral. Humans are not in
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: need of a reinvention or an augmentation. We're in need
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: of redemption. And that's why we're not going to be
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Luddites here. We're not going to put our heads in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the sand. We're not going to get demoralized. We're going
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to lead. We're going to seek the truth. We're going
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to separate the good from the bad. Church, I'm calling
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: you today to get off the sidelines. The Lord calls
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: his people to put on his armor and contend for
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  Speaker 1: the faith and fight the good fight until victory is his.
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  Speaker 1: Then we'll have used this fraught, perilous moment to enhance
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of God. God bless you and thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much. Thank you.