Free Will, AGI, and the Scavengers Ruining America's Future. Ben Shapiro - #512

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0	Ben Shapiro just told me that society's greatest threat isn't global warning or AGI.
0:05.6	It's ending.
0:06.4	Viral influencers are weaponizing or enragment for their engagement.
0:10.8	Shapiro calls us the scavenger mentality.
0:12.8	People can't create so they destroy.
0:15.1	And social media has given scavengers the biggest megaphone in human history.
0:18.8	We've got moon landing deniers with millions of followers,
0:22.4	rage merchants making fortunes by convincing kids
0:25.0	that America's greatest achievements are lies
0:26.9	and influencers building empires by teaching people
0:29.5	that anyone who succeeds must have cheated the system.
0:32.5	I think that there is a mentality that is now set in
0:34.6	on pretty much all sides of the political aisle
0:36.2	that says that the world is out of my control, burn it all down. One of the most successful and media savvy pundits in the
0:42.6	world today shows us how to defeat our inner scavenger and unleash our inner life. Along the way,
0:48.1	we explore how we can use our own free will to defeat AI algorithms meant to keep us apart,
0:53.8	and his prescription might just save human civilization.
0:57.3	Ben, Chabira, welcome back to the show.
0:58.8	Hey, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
1:00.0	Ben, I love this new book. And I want to ask you, the phrase that most resonated with me
1:04.9	was that you said that every human being carries within himself a lion and a scavenger.
1:10.6	And I want to ask you, now that artificial
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