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Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

AI Is Not a Substitute for Human Thinking | 2/12/26

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

Blaze Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Artificial intelligence is transforming everything from writing and research to medicine and productivity — or at least it appears to be doing so. But are we gaining only illusory efficiency at the cost of something deeper and more long-term? Are anti-market forces and government and industry gaslighting steering capital to the wrong uses of AI based on the assumption that we will achieve “general intelligence”? What responsibility do we have as humans to make sure we approach available LLMs in a way that won’t supplant human cognition? In this thought-provoking conversation, I sit down with leading innovation theorist John Nosta, author of "The Borrowed Mind: Reclaiming Human Thought in the Age of AI," to explore one of the most important questions of our time: Are we using AI as a tool to augment human thought, or are we slowly outsourcing our thinking to it? From "frictionless intelligence" being a trap and the myth of AGI to the danger of "cognitive obsolescence," Nosta reveals why the struggle to think is a feature, not a bug, of humanity. Learn how to reclaim your agency and use technology as a tool — without becoming a tool yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Politics without the soap opera with unfiltered constitutional conservative truth.

0:06.2

The Conservative Review with Daniel Burns.

0:09.4

And welcome back fellow American patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew

0:14.5

for the issues that matter on this cold February Thursday.

0:19.9

Your host, Daniel Harowitz, back here today at Blaze Media.

0:22.9

Make sure you subscribe here at Hurwitz show,

0:26.3

our substack, Liberating Truths.

0:28.7

And of all issues that are posing existential threats

0:32.5

to our economy, society, humanity,

0:35.4

what greater threat than the government-induced gaslighting and

0:41.7

misallocation of capital to the forms and usage of AI, not all AI, but the forms of

0:49.1

generative AI that are rotting out the human brain supplanting the human experience rather than enhancing it.

0:57.9

And I am not here to tell you, oh my gosh, you know, AI is sentient and it's going to take, do everything that humans get, no, just the opposite.

1:07.5

If it could do things so well, we would have greater productivity.

1:11.5

It's not that it doesn't have any use. But the way it's unnaturally, anti-market, by the way, being greased with corporate

1:19.1

welfare and government favors, with unsustainable debt that's going to lead to guaranteed bailouts,

1:26.7

with a very little ROI, very little profit

1:30.1

for the sheer magnitude of investments that dwarf the highways, the railroads, the Apollo missions,

1:36.8

you name it. That is the problem here. Things that would not be able to supplant humans without government

1:47.8

gaslighting, and it's not giving us the benefits of other technology while settling us with

1:54.8

all the liabilities. How do we think as humans? How do we preserve human thought, the human experience in this era?

2:04.2

So we're going to have a very, very special guest coming up in a few moments that I've never

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