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This is your final warning. Now here's your host, Mr. Thrill Ride himself. Eric Mataxas.

Hey, hey, hey. Folks, we often talk about very important things on this show. And one of them

is the future of work in an age of smart machines. That is the subtitle of a book by my friend,

Jay Richards of the Discovery Institute. The book is called The Human Advantage, the human

advantage, the future of American work in an age of smart machines. Jay Richards, welcome to the

program. Great to meet you, right? I have to say this is good news in this book. I don't want to

steal your thunder. So you've written many, many books. You're definitely somebody that I think

of as prolific. You're an executive editor at the stream. We almost every week we have John's Miracan

pushing people to go to the stream. You've written a book called Money, Greed, and God. And just

you've done many, many, many things. This to me though is a book that very few people are writing

about what you're writing about. So what's the basic thesis before we get into it? The basic thesis

is really a pushback against this claim that machines are going to replace us, take all the jobs

and leave us with nothing to do. And unfortunately, Eric, been about a dozen books like that in the

last two or three years, making more or less that argument. My argument is that yes, there's major

disruption happening. A lot of the types of work we're doing right now will be replaced or

transformed. But that doesn't mean we're going to be replaced. It means that we are just simply

need to prepare into adapt to information economy in which we're doing things in a different way.

And because the fact that human beings are persons made in the image of God and machines are not,

there is absolutely no reason to think that machines are ever literally going to replace us.

Well, I have to say I've been saying this. I've not written about it, but I've been saying this

for years. The idea that artificial intelligence is some kind of threat. Well, I think the problem

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