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The John Batchelor Show

AI/Quantum: Bubble chat. Brandon Weichert, National Interest

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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AI/Quantum: Bubble chat. Brandon Weichert, National Interest
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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing.

0:08.9

I welcome Brandon Wyker of National Interest, a national security reporter for national interest,

0:14.5

as well as a fellow of the National Interest Institute, to comment on AI in several directions. One is Hollywood, of course.

0:24.0

There's a new movie called Her, Joaquin Phoenix Stars, as a young man who falls in love with

0:30.3

Ara of Grock or Claude, who's actually sounding like Charlotte in Anthropic.

0:37.9

I could go on, but in any event, the headline, Microsoft AI CEO, Mustafa Silliman.

0:44.6

Chatbots are causing psychosis.

0:47.4

Subhead.

0:49.0

This is London reporting.

0:51.5

Reports of people believing an artificial companion has become sentient

0:55.4

or even given them superhuman powers are becoming more common, according to the tech boss of

1:02.1

Microsoft.

1:03.6

Brendan, I'm out of this. I aged out of any competition for a female. However, your generation

1:10.2

is inside of it. Do you hear chatter about the fact

1:14.5

that people are spending more time with chatbots and they are with other human beings? Good evening

1:19.8

to you. Good evening, John. Thanks for having me as always. Yes, unfortunately, this is becoming a real

1:25.5

epidemic. Notably, now, I'm on the older side of millennials.

1:29.5

It's really bad with Gen Z and whatever the generation is coming up behind them.

1:34.6

But I know a lot of people in Gen Z, and I follow this stuff.

1:37.6

So it is becoming epidemic the younger the generation is.

1:42.6

And in fact, I'm going to make a prediction here, and I'm going to say

1:45.5

the AI girl bot or chat bot, whatever you want to call it, as it progresses, it will probably

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