Not content with addicting our kids to their gizmos or a matching fortunes the size of lesser European states, our tech elite has turned with rabid enthusiasm to artificial intelligence.

No only the less cautious articulate the real reason, what many quietly believe,

that AI will reinvent human existence.

Social media changed how kids talk to other kids, dehumanized it.

AI is going to take the human on the other end away and kids are going to grow up talking to artificial creatures. They are not going to learn how to talk to real humans,

which bodes very, very poorly for their own lives, their own work lives, for marriage, for child rearing.

All those are threatened if kids grow up interacting

with AIs rather than humans. This is the most consequential technology in the history of

humanity. It will transform our country. It will transform the world. And we have not had

in Congress in the media, and I'm glad you're doing this show, or among the American people,

the kind of discussion that we need. The eugenicist Julian Huxley predicted this as far back as

1957. I believe in transhumanism, he said. He coined the term. And so do untold numbers of today's

tech class. That is the vision, the religion, the ideology that animates so much of the breathless race for artificial intelligence,

and for general artificial intelligence, and super intelligence, and beyond for the day when humans are no longer embodied beings at all, but live infinitely in the cloud.

Multi-Multi-billionaires are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into implementing and developing this technology.

What is their motive? Do you think they're staying up nights worrying about working people and how this technology will impact those people, they are not.

They are doing it to get richer and even more powerful.

I call it AI exceptionalism as if this is going to be something where it's going to solve

every problem and humans aren't even going to be needed to do.

Everyone can just sit around and play golf all day and you're going to get universal basic income and they're going to cure it. And it's like, no. Like, first of all,

that's not likely to happen. And second of all, I think it raises huge concerns. And so I am,

you know, not an AI exceptionalist. I'm an individual and human exceptionalist. I think new technologies have to be

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