Hello ladies and hello gentlemen. This is the Victor Davis Hanson show on Jack Fowler, the host. Welcome to the wisdom of Victor Davis Hanson. He is the Martin,

Inelianters and Senior Fellow with the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College Victor. We've yet to talk or get some little

preliminary thoughts from you on on AI, which is everywhere artificial intelligence. Everyone's talking about it. One way or another, I must say I am as I am on many issues. Confused.

Should I be afraid? Should I be heartened? It's such a, but we'll get your initial thoughts on that. And we've got, I am Don LeMone to talk about some of these wonderful pieces you've written for your website,

Victor Hanson.com called American Graffiti's the three part series so far. So there's a lot to talk about on today's episode. And we will get to all this and more right after these important messages.

Back with the Victor Davis Hanson show so Victor, I came back to Millford, Connecticut from Washington, DC, where I was the last two days for just was a terrific conference put on by the Calvin Coolidge Foundation.

Coolidge was inaugurated. He was sworn in his presidency began in 1923. So this is his centennial year. So the foundation put on a really wonderful two day conference.

And he's the nominee Shlays, who many of you know, amities, the president of that of the foundation award winning best selling author winner of the Radley prize.

Amity and her team put on a great conference. But you know, what's the, what's the relevance of Coolidge, you know, Calvin Coolidge is a, is a truly diminished man by from the perspective of many historians, but he was truly a great president.

And one pretty much in line with the founders of the country, rather than a, you know, more recent presidents was interested in interests as well as celebrity, et cetera.

But it was, it was really terrific. And one of the interesting thing that that happened Victor and just going to get into AI is your, I met your colleague, John Cochran, when your fellow fellows from the Hoover institution, I chatted with him a little bit.

Maybe something on a panel on economics, comparing the, the economics of the 19, 20s to current times, really quite interesting.

And he was, he made just a short comment, but it was about artificial intelligence and AI. And he said, see, I'm pretty upbeat about that. What it's effect is going to be for the American economy and American society.

He didn't elaborate on it, but got me thinking, you know, when we get back to, on Saturday to the show, I'd like to, you know, just post this to you briefly Victor, because we've never discussed AI.

And so just curious, are you like me, Victor, you're still sorting this out. What do you say?

I am. And it's kind of embarrassing because one of the locus classicus of AI is Stanford University. And, and I work there. And, you know, I, when I'm there, I usually alone, I eat alone, and I go down University Avenue or other places, and I see these robots, right?

I see these on, I was down in Santa Monica the other day and something bumped into me and it turned around, and it was a movable box. And it had an antenna on it, and it was navigating to deliver food for someone.

So I've seen this a lot lately. And also, I talk to people who are still actively teaching, and I teach every year in the fall, if you know what Hillsdale, and I haven't encountered it yet.

And these artificially composed or robotically or artificially intelligence composed essays that professors are getting increasingly. So it's going to be a problem.

John Cochrane is one of the brightest guys I've known, and at the Hoover institution, I've admired him not only as intelligence, but during the whole Scott Atlas tragedy, when the university turned on him. And by the way, Scott was proven correct as we're learning from the Fauci erosion.

John was one of the few people of my colleagues that would speak out on behalf of Scott and Scott's right to speak out freely. So I've always admired John Cochrane, and I respect his work is very accomplished originally at University of Chicago economist, but I guess I'm somewhere in the Terminator state, right?

So when I see when I see all these robotic ideas or I see these things that they're going to replace people or soldiers, you wonder if, if somebody can program into it, a spontaneity.

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