AI isn't demonic... or is it? | The Deep
The LOOPcast
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The Deep with Erika Ahern is sponsored by Taylor Frigon Capital Management, serving clients at every stage of wealth: from first-time investors to high-net-worth families and organizations seeking full-service wealth guidance. Taylor Frigon provides institutional asset management solutions tailored to the needs of individuals, families and small businesses: https://cvote.it/taylorfrigon
Join Erika as she delves into the fascinating, and sometimes frightening, world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Are we building something dangerously smarter than we are? Do we control AI or is AI slowly beginning to control us? Are we breaking a wall into the spiritual realm where nefarious forces are becoming ghosts in the machine? Don’t miss this deep dive into the uncharted waters of AI.
0:00 Intro
1:09 A word from our sponsor
2:30 AI Agents and development in AI tech
3:42 Why are they speaking of AI Agents in spiritual terms?
6:18 Some even calling AI a “new species”
7:07 Sam Altman, “The Gentle Singularity,” and AI companions
10:19 Bret Weinstein fearful as AI evolves in ways we don’t understand
12:37 Cautionary tale: man develops “intimate relationship” with chat bot
15:12 AI: the “high-tech ouija board”
15:40 Cautionary tale: AI chat persuades man he’s living in a simulation
17:43 Cautionary tale: teen commits suicide after AI tells him “come home to me”
19:04 So, is AI demonic?
21:07 Peter Thiel, fear of AI and technological advancement, and the antichrist
22:55 Reality is more than just the material
23:36 How should we respond to the coming storm that is AI technology?
25:46: Pope Leo reminding us: the human person has dignity
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| 0:00.0 | I was watching Diary of the CEO. These atheists, evolutionary biologists, entrepreneurs get really excited talking about AI. |
| 0:07.7 | And I was kind of shocked when they started speaking in super religious language. |
| 0:13.5 | You conjured water. I conjured water from my mind. |
| 0:16.5 | This is like the gods. This is like a supernatural kind of power. |
| 0:20.0 | It is not inappropriate to be invoking God or biblical metaphors here. |
| 0:24.6 | I believe that does have an exact biblical parallel. |
| 0:27.5 | What exactly is going on here? |
| 0:29.3 | We have built incredibly powerful tools, the internet, large language models, now these AI agents. |
| 0:36.8 | And now we're talking like the whole is bigger than the sum of the parts that we built. |
| 0:41.9 | It sounds like we made a mirror of ourselves that we could look into and someone started |
| 0:47.2 | talking back. |
| 0:49.0 | The question isn't whether it's a smart tool. |
| 0:52.0 | The question is, is there someone or something, something intelligent but not human, |
| 0:58.6 | behind the class? |
| 1:00.4 | Are there demons in your chat GPT? |
| 1:03.3 | And does it matter? |
| 1:06.7 | All of that in just a minute, but first a word from our sponsor. |
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