We can't even get our act together on something that simple.

We need to do that with AI. A moratorium isn't necessarily a good idea,

but I'm not sure how we do that in a country that can't even decide what it stands for as a country anymore.

What is our position as a global leader?

We're in a state of anxious identity right now as a country and I think the AI stuff has created more anxiety in part because we are feeling a little bit

uncertain coming out of the pandemic coming out of a political system and a sort of polarized political

culture that doesn't let us have debates very reasonably anymore. On this podcast our guests usually offer up a healthy dose of doom and gloom on everything

from geopolitics to economics and

popular culture. But a recent guest Tyler Cowan, who I thoroughly enjoyed, was

surprisingly upbeat about the world. He thinks America, even its major cities.

He also applies this to Europe as well, can rebound.

And a big factor in his optimism

is the revolution in artificial intelligence that we're about to live through.

That conversation generated a lot of heat from some of our listeners.

I mean some found it interesting and illuminating, but others not so much. of our So I invited Christine on to give us her, let's call it her techno pessimist's view of the AI revolution.

Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where she focuses on American

history, culture, technology, and feminism. where she's also a columnist for Commentary magazine and one of the co-hosts of the

Commentary magazine podcast. Christine is also a fellow at the University of Virginia's

Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a senior editor in an advisory role

at the New Atlantis. We've had guests on associated with the new Atlantis in the past including

Ericone one of its founders. Previously Christine was a distinguished visiting

scholar at the Library of Congress she's the author of numerous books and the co-author of many books.

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