The Dangers Lurking Within ’Seductive AI’

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🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, the Beauchamp Brogan distinguished professor of law at the University of Tennessee, joins Federalist Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to diagnose the immediate threats posed by artificial intelligence and explain the detrimental effects programming designed to capitalize on salaciousness has on humans.

You can read Reynolds' book Seductive AI here.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:21.1	I'm Matt Kittal's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience
0:25.9	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:28.8	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:33.7	Follow us on X at FBRLST.
0:36.9	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well.
0:43.7	Our guest today is legal scholar Glenn Harlan Reynolds.
0:47.5	His new book is Seductive AI.
0:51.4	Do we have to put an R rating on this?
0:54.0	I don't think so, but we'll certainly deal with
0:57.2	a few salacious things, no doubt about it. The book, by the way, is out now and available
1:04.3	wherever you get your books. It is an exploration of how artificial intelligence need only take advantage of innate human characteristics,
1:14.9	exactly as we programmed it to do, to wreak havoc on society as the most subtle of overlords.
1:24.4	That's an interesting concept, but it's more than a concept.
1:29.1	It is real life and artificial intelligence.
1:33.5	Thank you so much for joining us, Glenn, in this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:37.7	Well, I'm happy to be here.
1:38.8	Happy to be here.
1:40.0	You bet.
1:40.6	Well, I told you offline before we got into our conversation this morning,
1:46.2	that I am probably like most Americans. I have a good deal of ignorance when it comes to
1:54.3	AI artificial intelligence. And at the same time, it scares the hell out of me. Is that pretty much the sense of most Americans right now?
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