A Moment Of Clarity: "We should be concerned about who own's the AI platform." - Michael Steele

The Michael Steele Podcast

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Politics, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Should AI Superintelligence be banned? From the shocking calls for a moratorium on AI development to the alarming pace of job displacement, Michael Steele breaks down what this rapid advancement truly means for your future. He unpacks the benefits, the complex risks, the critical need for responsible governance, and the guardrails we must establish to ensure AI serves, rather than surpasses, humanity.

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0:00.0	And now for a moment of clarity.
0:05.0	Prince Harry, Megan Markle, Steve Bannon, hundreds of others called for a ban on developing AI superintelligence that would be smarter than humans.
0:15.0	Are they right to be alarmed? Well, it's a little late. I mean, isn't this horse out of the barn?
0:21.6	I think that trains out of the station.
0:23.6	Yeah.
0:24.6	Yeah, we should be alarmed, but, you know, at this point, the expectation is that our Congress
0:30.6	needs to get into the conversation, but we saw how they handled the conversation with Facebook
0:35.6	and all of that back in the day, and it didn't
0:37.9	go well. Does this come up in your state? It does, and I think AI can be a tool, but it can't be
0:43.6	the answer. And the answer to every challenge created by AI can't be solved by AI. This can't be
0:49.9	just a circular discussion. So I think it's recognizing that it's coming, recognizing that it's going
0:55.7	to cause a lot of changes, but then creating the right guardrails to try to handle it responsibly.
1:01.4	But didn't they already pass a law? Didn't Trump pass a law that said no guardrails?
1:06.1	Isn't that where we are? Yeah. And they took in the one big beautiful bill, right? They took out some of the state-specific gargills, too. So it's... And I read this week like 45% of what it's asked, it gets wrong. Well, yeah, well, it's... So you're saying it's human. You're right. Right. It is. It's human intelligence. It's strong wearing by humans.
1:28.3	It's BS is basically.
1:30.3	It does exactly what humans do.
1:32.3	It tells you it does exactly what humans do.
1:35.3	But there is something I think to be concerned about about the consolidation of who owns the AI platform.
1:43.3	And that consolidation is something that's going to wind up in the hands of very, very few people
1:49.7	who are going to have control over what it does.
1:52.0	And then, of course, the impact on jobs.
1:53.9	I mean...
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