We're in a fight right now for the future of Western civilization and for the preservation of free speech.

And I view all of my commentary work and all of my interests in the American political system through that lens.

CNN political analyst Scott Jennings talking about his presentation at this year's issues, etc., making the case conference.

We have to preserve Western civilization. We have to preserve Western civilization.

We have to preserve free speech.

And I think most issues and most politics comes down to those two fundamental issues.

I think it's good for audiences to have their bubbles popped.

I think it's all too easy in American political culture right now

to get yourself in a silo or in a bubble where only the

information that you want to hear that confirms your priors is what you see. And I think it's detrimental

to the average citizen to be stuck in a silo or a bubble like that. You can meet and hear Scott Jennings

at the 2025 making the case conference Friday, July 18th and Saturday, July 19th at Concordia University, Chicago.

Find out more at Issuesetc.org.

Artificial intelligence is one of those technologies that we're only recently hearing about, in fact, rather than science fiction, but it is already inescapable.

If you go online, if you've chatted with a helpful chat bot online to get you through tech support or to deal with your phone plan,

well, then you've dealt with AI. If you have a device, anything like a smartphone, you have dealt with AI. And now, coming more to the fore is generative AI. And it seems to be able to do anything and is advancing very quickly.

Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about artificial intelligence.

Dr. Scott Stigemeyer, he's Associate Professor of Theology and Bioethics at Concordia University, Irvine, California.

He has a doctorate in bioethics from Loyola University.

Scott, welcome back.

It's good to be here, Todd.

How would you respond to someone who says that AI is just a neutral technology?

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