Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Metaxis.

Hey, folks, as you know, this is the Eric Mattaxas show.

And as you also know, whenever you like read one of those websites, it always says terms of service.

Have you seen that?

And I just thought to myself, it's so annoying because it could mean anything.

Nobody reads it.

And I thought, what a great title that would be for a book.

But I don't have time to write a whole book.

So I thought maybe

somebody else would. And they did. His name is Craig Stanfill, and the title of the book is

Terms of Service. Craig, welcome on the program. Thank you, Eric. Okay, this is a great title,

Terms of Service. It sounds ominous. Is this a dystopian novel?

It is an extremely dystopian novel.

It portrays a future that we might be creating where you've got these huge big tech companies that run everything in your life.

And, of course, they're watching everything you do.

And the final sort of turn to the screw is they've got these AIs that are constantly watching over your shoulders and monitoring everything you do.

And that lets them exert an incredible level of control over your life.

Okay, this, I got to tell you, you got your PhD in artificial intelligence in 1983, before I think

there was artificial intelligence practically. So you are at least an expert on this subject.

Most of us, of course, know nothing about artificial intelligence. So why does it seem so scary

to you? And obviously, you put it in the novel

terms of service, which I hope people will get a copy of. But what do you see that the rest of

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