Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. The era of unquestioned

U.S. hegemony is undoubtedly on the decline, but the future is much more complicated and uncertain

than the straightforward idea of China rising to take our place that we've been told.

Though Trump is not the cause of U.S. decline, he may help send us out in a tragic blaze of glory.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 45 minutes

today includes the Muckrake Political Podcast, The New Statesman, Al Jazeera English, Times Radio,

the Red Nation podcast, and the Democracy in Europe Movement 25.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in six sections.

Section A, American Decline, Section B, China, Section C, Russia, Section D, France,

Section E, Corporate Control, and Section F, what comes next?

You've been afraid of this for a long time and have been sounding the whistle about AI.

And when you start to see just how good it can be, you know, you start to kind of feel like, yes, we're all going to have our own personal Jarvis like we see in the Marvel movies, which in the movie version supposedly makes life easier.

But I think we're going to be able to list a few things here why this is so dangerous.

Well, I have a lot of things that I need to sort of set the table with it.

I don't think it's good.

I think it's actually really bad.

I think it's been marketed to us as this sort of world-changing sort of technology.

But it's just bells and whistles.

It's just regurgitated stuff that has been stolen and then sort of gets repackaged and sold

back to us.

One of the things that tech insiders have been telling us for a while now is that we've probably

already reached peak AI as we know it.

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