S8 Ep649: ST
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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STREAMING THE MAKING OF THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, FEATURING ALAN TONELSON, JIM MCTAGUE, ANATOL LIEVEN. 3-26-26.
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This transcript from The John Bachelor Show explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, global labor markets, and escalating geopolitical conflicts. The participants first discuss the practical limitations of AI, noting its tendency to provide confident but erroneous information and the resulting need for human oversight. The dialogue then shifts toward a potential class divide between those who master these digital tools and those who are left behind by automation. Turning to international affairs, the speakers analyze how the energy crisis and inflation stemming from Middle Eastern instability are reshaping the war in Ukraine. They suggest that Russia has gained significant economic leverage, potentially forcing Western powers into difficult diplomatic concessions. Ultimately, the source highlights a world grappling with the unpredictable consequences of both emerging technology and transnational warfare.
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| 0:00.0 | One train, you know. One day, One day. The Thank you. |
| 0:43.3 | This is the making of the John Bachelor show. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm joined by my colleagues, Alan Tonelson and Jim McTagg. |
| 0:50.5 | We will begin immediately with our theme of the day, the week, the month, the year, the years left us on planet Earth, and then all those years in eternity watching AI and work. You understand that America loves to work. We've been working since we got here, and we're not quite Americans yet, |
| 1:12.1 | but there's always something to do. We inherited a forest and a continent, and now there's work |
| 1:17.7 | to do in the ether. The AI is a challenge that we three take on routinely, not because we want to, but because we have to. |
| 1:29.9 | It's the nature of AI. |
| 1:31.9 | It dips into your life and says, I'm volunteering to help you. |
| 1:38.3 | Do you want my help? |
| 1:39.2 | And you say no. |
| 1:40.6 | And then you think about it a little bit and go, well, what would that help look like? |
| 1:44.5 | And AI smiles and goes to work. |
| 1:46.7 | And so here we go to work. |
| 1:48.9 | Gentlemen, a very good day to you. |
| 1:51.4 | Alan, we're going to begin with a pastry anecdote updated from Lancaster County to make all of us hungry, |
| 2:00.1 | but also to acknowledge that AI wants to do the right thing. |
| 2:04.9 | But sometimes, Jim, a very good morning to you. |
| 2:08.1 | As I recall, a week past, you and I do our Lancaster report. |
| 2:12.7 | And you had been at the Park City Mall where there was a pastry chef French and his wife, and she had |
| 2:21.3 | a cart that she pushes around the mall for people to buy from very successfully. |
| 2:27.8 | Enormous consumption of pastries under $10. |
| 2:31.9 | So you wanted to know more about the pastry shop, and you went on AI. |
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