The Patrick Madrid Show: January 28, 2026 - Hour 3

The Patrick Madrid Show

Relevant Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Patrick welcomes listeners into a whirlwind conversation about artificial intelligence, sparking reactions to Elon Musk’s bold predictions and candidly questioning the consequences for human purpose, work, and relationships. Unexpected calls reference pop culture, raise concerns about machines rewriting history, and wonder aloud what happens if robots take over everyday chores. As the dialogue accelerates, Patrick probes whether people will embrace robots or fiercely protect the messy beauty of real life.

Audio: Elon at Davos, Within a year AI will be smarter than any human being - https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2014424307900850512?s=46&t=m_l2itwnFvka2DG8_72nHQ (00:19)
Audio: Elon, “In the future, the robots will make so many robots, that they will actually saturate all human needs - https://x.com/cb_doge/status/2014400490424173041?s=46&t=m_l2itwnFvka2DG8_72nHQ (05:19)
Audio: Elon, "You don’t actually need school to learn anymore – https://x.com/ianmiles/status/2014322727205679426?s=20 (11:28)
Reba - What is to stop AI taking over all of humanity? (13:54)
Stacy - I think we need community with each other, and I think robots taking care of our elderly will only make loneliness worse (21:58)
John - My wife has a severe gluten allergy and can’t receive low gluten host. She can receive the precious blood but our priest doesn’t want to resume giving it. What can I do? (25:17)
John - My concern is that AI is only as good as the input. I think the vast majority of people working on AI will make it liberal based, and it will be socially to the left. I’m also concerned it will be godless. (28:58)
Jackie - I think we need to interact with humans and not robots. (34:19)
Miles - Who will pay for individuals being able to access AI and how will we deal with things like credit scores? (42:49)
Lourdes - I caught a student cheating using AI and she got everything right. I gave her a failing grade for cheating. However, after that I let students do it because they had to read. I followed this person's career and she still did well in life. (44:11)
Esmeralda - Did you ever see the series Apocalypse? I see that this is happening. (47:37)
Courtney - I want a Robot. If we are going to have a robot in our house, she needs to agree with us. She will help us have more family time. (49:26)

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0:00.0	Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations,
0:12.0	encouragement for your day.
0:14.0	It's the Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio.
0:19.0	I don't know what's going to happen in 10 years, but the rate at which AI is progressing,
0:25.1	I think we might have AI that is smarter than any human by the end of this year, and I would say
0:34.2	no later than next year.
0:35.5	Wow.
0:37.6	And then probably by 2030 or 2031, call it five years from now,
0:43.9	AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.
0:50.9	I don't like the sound of that, but I don't think he's wrong.
0:56.4	I don't think he's wrong.
0:57.1	That's Elon Musk, by the way.
0:59.5	I don't think he's wrong.
1:01.8	I wish he were wrong, but I don't see how you avoid it the way AI is growing and expanding right now.
1:10.6	We didn't even think about AI two, three years ago.
1:14.3	Not like this.
1:15.8	Did you even think about or even know about AI as a thing like you could do on your phone two years ago, Cyrus?
1:22.7	Oh, I've been thinking about AI since the first time I saw Terminator.
1:29.9	Okay, well, let me rephrase my question.
1:36.8	Did you two years ago, let's make it three just to be safe, but I think two years is pretty reasonable. Did you ever imagine that you could tap a button on your phone and do with AI like
1:43.3	GROC, for example, what you can do?
1:45.2	Absolutely not.
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