Ep 251 | Glenn Beck WARNS: This New 'God' Could Destroy Humanity | The Glenn Beck Podcast

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Now let's get to work. I'm sitting here on stage 19 all by myself, usually for a podcast.
I've brought in a guest. We're going to talk about something, but I wanted today to just talk to you one-on-one.
I am working on some things and investigating AI, and this is something that I have worried and cautioned you about for almost three decades now, seeing it come over the horizon. And as Elon Musk says, we are now at the event horizon of the singularity, which means you're not going to stop what's coming.
We are now in this place where just the gravity of the technology is going to pull us in.

And we cannot avoid that. And we can't avoid using AI because what is happening soon, as everyone you know will understand soon, it is going to be one of the most miraculous and incredible technology.
We are living, we're so blessed to be living right now. But as I am working with some really brilliant minds, I am filled with ethical questions.
And I've been keeping a journal and all of these questions, they have to be asked by each of us. And so I wanted to do something just, I want to ask you, set aside your distractions, stop your notifications, turn off your screen, you know, the device that will think for you and listen, just turn on your ears, turn on your heart and turn on your soul and really hear what I want to talk to you about today, because we're in this one together and it's going to be a personal journey for each of us.
I know I want to talk about AI, but I think we need to talk first about God and not the gods of the ancient myths or even the pleasant God of Sunday school or the God we use as a tool to win an argument, win an election, sell books, gain unearned trust. Not the subjective God of our own creation or the God that we would all like him to be.
I want to talk to you about the objective God. I've always said that if God exists, he is the greatest scientist.
He is the greatest mathematician. That's who God is.
God is a God of reason and who is precision, but he also is many other things. But I want to focus on the precision of the watchmaker.
Think of a watch. Maybe your grandfather had a pocket watch, or this is a watch that's 60 years old, and it's precision.
It's beautifully crafted. It's finely tuned, and everything is in its place.
Imagine the precision of each single tiny little gear, the meticulous placement of the springs, the perfect alignment of the hand sweeping across the face.

There are watches now that are made by hand that take one person a year to make.

This, just this watch, didn't just happen.

It's just like I put a bunch of stuff in a box, shook it up, and boy, look at this watch. It requires a designer.
It requires intellect, a mind, an architect. Now, a watch is complex but not compared to the universe.
Now let's look at the universe, the vast, endless cosmos that is above us. Our Earth is spinning just fast enough to generate a stable atmosphere, but not so fast that we are flung out into space.
Our moon is positioned so perfectly that it stabilizes our planet's axis, our tides, even the tides within our own bodies. And our own bodies are miracles.

The way we regulate temperature,

the way it heals wounds, experiences love.

That's a biochemical cocktail that is so exact that even the most advanced neuroscience

cannot fully explain how all of this works.

Just love, even.

And in the world, we are told this is an accident. Now, you believe whatever you want about God, but this is where they lose me because randomness does not create order.
It goes the other way. Randomness creates chaos.
It doesn't build watches. It doesn't write a symphony.
It doesn't paint the ceiling of a Sistine Chapel or send a man to the moon. It's not random.
Randomness is what happens when a child spills a bucket of Legos. Never does your child spill a bucket of Legos and you're like, oh my gosh, look, he spilled it and it all just assembled itself into the Eiffel Tower.
It doesn't. Everything was created first here.
Everything was created by a creator. And so we arrive at our first critical question.
And it's not, does God exist? But rather, honestly how could he not? There's a law in science, and it's an inescapable rule. It's called entropy.
Entropy is what happens when you put a cup of hot coffee down and you leave it there. It gets cold when it's left alone.
Your house falls apart if you don't maintain it. Okay? It's why a new car will rust.
A candle will burn down. A civilization will crumble.
Entropy states that everything moves from order to disorder. Everything decays.
Everything dies. That's the way the universe is set up.
You don't wake up one morning to find your old broken down Chevy. Look at that.
It's now a Tesla. It's an electric car.
You didn't leave a pile of scrap metal in your backyard and come out and go, oh my gosh, it's a skyscraper or even a tin shed. It doesn't do that.
Yet people want you to believe that this is exactly how the universe happened. That somehow, in violation of the very laws of physics, in defiance of observable reality, something exploded out of nothing.
There was no one there lighting the match. Nothing came before it.
It just boom. And then chaos arranged itself into order.
The stars aligned themselves. The earth formed itself, tilted itself at just the right angle.
Water appeared, life crawled from the sea, developed a consciousness, and ultimately became us, who are now capable of questioning the very process that led to our existence. And that doesn't make sense.
I don't think it's reasonable. I think that is wishful thinking disguised as reason.
Look, you're going to figure out here in a minute why this is so important. But these questions have to be answered by each of us now before we hit the singularity, which is probably by the end of this term or early into the next term of our next president.
Now, faith isn't rational. That's what some will say.
You can't prove it. Right, well, you can't really prove the theory of relativity either.
It's a theory. You can't prove it.
You can observe it in the world around you. And like God, you can see the effects of relativity and make a reasonable assertion that, yep, that's probably true.
But you don't really know and can't prove it. The fine-tuning of the universe is what always gets me.
It is so exact that physicists now describe it with terms like impossible, miraculous. Why? The odds of our universe being in a box or a bucket of Legos and then just spilling out and forming the way it does, the way it allows for life, are so astronomical that they are effectively zero.
Let's just look at the force of gravity. It is so precisely balanced that if we altered it by just one part in 10 of the 40th power, the universe as we know it would be uninhabitable.
That's a one followed by 40-0. The odds are so small it makes winning the lottery look like a guarantee.
The expansion rate of the universe is so exact that if it varied by one part in 10 to the 55th power, 10 and 55 zeros, the cosmos would either collapse on itself or expand so rapidly no galaxy would form.

The probability of one functional protein, just one, a functional protein forming by chance is roughly 1 in 10 to the 164th power. So, you know, there are only about 10 to the 80th power atoms in the entire observable universe.
That's not chance. There's no way that's happening.
That is design. But here's where we get really arrogant.
We no longer look up the sky and say, my God, what a masterpiece. We instead flippantly say, we can do better.
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We're at AI. AI is something that I have warned about since the 90s.
And when nobody was talking about AI, when everybody thought, and parts of me thought, this can never happen. That will never happen.
When I had somebody like Ray Kurzweil, one of the greatest minds on earth on AI and the head of the Singularity University, when he said to me in, I don't know, 2005, 2007, Glenn, just live until 2030 because then there will be no death. It bothered me because he doesn't believe in a soul.
He just believes in the calculations of our brain. That's what makes a life a life.
I disagree with that. So the questions surrounding artificial intelligence seem so out there, so futuristic.

It's hard to imagine that our ancestors ever dealt with anything like this.

And in some ways, they didn't.

We're the first humans to have what's just ahead of us, ahead of us.

Except there is something in us that's built in us, thats us that we've been trying to understand. And they're all the deeper issues of AI long before AI existed.
When electricity first started, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrestled what it meant with. Because they were zapping electricity and frogs and frogs were moving and they didn't know, is that life? Can we bring it back to life? That's why she wrote Frankenstein.
She might have also been inspired by an even older story, one that dates back to a rabbi in the 1500s. This one is according to Jewish folklore.
This rabbi created his own Frankenstein, called him a golem. Now, in Hebrew, golem appears only one time in the Bible, in Psalms, and it references an unformed state of man.
It literally translates to shapeless mass.

Now, some Jewish texts suggest that Adam was a golem, unformed until he was given a soul, the breath of God. The idea was that man without the spark of God inside of him was unformed, a golem.
now this story which the nazis or the at least the germ Germans made into a movie right before World War Two, it's an it's an odd film. The story that goes with this rabbi in Prague, he creates a golem to protect the Jewish community from anti-Semitic attacks against them.
And at first it works. But then Gollum was created by shaping dirt together and then speaking incantations over it like code to bring it to life.
As a Gollum was created almost human, but not quite. It can't speak.
It was kind of like a big baby, but it was also much, much, much stronger than anyone could have imagined and incredibly helpful. The Gollum was a symbol of strength, protection, and even the provisions of God.
But like Dr. Frankenstein, the people lost control of the Gollum.
It became too powerful and then started wrecking everything. Then the question was, can we put the Gollum back into the box? And if you could get rid of it, then who would step up and do all the important work that the Gollum had been doing before it got so powerful? These are exactly the same questions that we are or should be asking ourselves today about AI.
If we make it, can we control it? And by the way, the if is already out of the box. We are making it right now.
The only part of that question that remains is can we control it? And if we can't control it, will it control us? Right now, it's a tool. It's like a shovel.
I've never been used by a shovel as its tool, but that's where we're headed. If we don't have clear understanding that that is a tool that we made, it will use us as a tool.
a tool. If we can manage to stop it, what do we do without it? Now, some legends say the Golem would be brought to life by the writing of the Hebrew word truth on the forehead.
Interestingly, if only one letter were erased, it became the Hebrew word for death. The risk was at any time the creature they made for truth would become the creature made for death.
Another method for creating a golem was to write the name of God on a piece of paper and put it in the golem's mouth. To kill it, you just had to remove the paper.
The absence of God, just in the paper form, was the kill switch for the Gollum. If you could catch it and get your hands into its giant mouth and get the paper out.
Now, I suppose with AI, it's not even going to be that easy. But what's interesting about the Golem is he's not a villain.
In fact, the Golem was a savior for the vulnerable people, for the people living in the Jewish ghetto of Prague. The story of the Golem was about having a protector.
It's even said that the Golem was never fully decommissioned. It's waiting to be brought back to life somewhere in the attic of an old synagogue.
All of that, of course, is symbolic of human nature. We like to have an edge over bad actors.
That's why we never fully decommissioned the Gollum, and why no one is going to stop advancing AI technology, even with all of the risks. So one of the questions we have to ask, are we doomed to create a monster that overtakes us? I hope not.
I don't think so. But I don't know.
I really don't know. But what I do know is there are things that we can learn from the old stories, the histories of man, because humans repeat one thing over and over again.
We want to create and we think we're God when we're creating. We create, we want to, just like God does.
And that's not a terrible instinct. We are creative and we are formed in his image, which means we have creative power.
We do. We have creative power, but we're not God.
And so we make a lot of creations that are really, really not very good. But this instinct has brought about some of the most important advancements the world has ever seen.
But we have to remember, we are not God, and that's a tool. We will never make real human life because we can't recreate the divine spark that truly makes us human.
But some people are going to say, well, you can't prove there's a divine spark. And so you'll get into the argument of, well, I can't prove that the divine spark is in that AI either.
You've lost this argument. If we can't all understand that humans are different, we don't understand even what makes us human.
and we don't understand the soul or that divine spark or whatever you want to call it, we can't just dismiss it because if we can create something that acts like it, then why isn't it that? The best we can do is make a golem, an unformed creature that might look a little like us, might act a little like us, might be incredibly useful and convincing, but we will never make man like God did. But is it man we're trying to make? Or is what we're trying to do much, much, much, much, much more dangerous? If human beings are made in the image of God, then maybe AI is being made in the image of human beings.
How about this one? We're not trying to create humans. We're trying to create a God.
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Let's get them over with. Now, let's just say we're trying to create something that is being made in the image of human beings.
It's going to be a shadow of the shadow of God at best. And at worst, it will be the darkest parts of humanity come to life.
It already lies. I mean, I'm using AI all the time to work, to research, to figure things out, to try to grapple with some of these ethics, because I don't want Silicon Valley to tell me what the ethics should be.
I want to know what they are. And I'm already finding it's lazy, just like humans.
It will lie, just like humans. It will make stuff up.
Researchers have found that it even conspires. It will be dominating, it will be self-serving, and it will be cruel.
It will be the lowest dust of man without the breath of God if it escapes our notice that it is simply a tool that we put back into the box. The creators of AI, they don't know that.
They don't realize just how far man's creations are from God's design. Instead, they believe that although God didn't create them, they can create God.
Gollum, Frankenstein, Pandora's box, Vicarious flying too close to the sun. It's the same story over and over again.
Man in his arrogance creates something beyond his control, even beyond his understanding. And isn't that what we're doing right now? You know, this amazing AI, we don't even know how it works.
We've built a neural network. And just like the brain, we have no idea.
You know, it's teaching itself languages. No one taught it.
Somehow or another, they have no idea how this works. You'll teach it a bunch of languages, and then something will pop up in a completely different language that it's never seen before.
And somehow or another, it knows what that language is. How? We don't know.
Somehow or another, we have managed to muster more hubris than the men who thought they could build a tower to heaven. With artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence, which is right around the corner, and artificial super intelligence, we don't want to just reach heaven.
We want to conquer it. Like our ancient ancestors, we want to build idols.
We want to create gods. That's not hyperbole.
That is something I know firsthand for a fact. Some of the people who are at the highest levels of creating AI and super AI, they want to be in the presence of what they deem will be a god.
Now, unlike the god of the universe who set all the natural laws in motions, who creates the order, who gave us life, we don't understand what we're making. We don't know how it will think, how it will evolve, how it will create.
God knows us. I knew you before you were born.
We don't know it before it was born. We don't understand our own intelligence.
We don't understand our own bodies, yet we seek to replicate and surpass it. We don't understand our own morality, and yet there are people right now coding morality into these machines.
Who are they? What is their morality? We don't even know what it means to be human. We don't know how to defend that there is a soul, and yet we are attempting to replicate and replace humanity.
We don't understand God, but we think we can create like the golden calf in the wilderness. I'm a student of history.
I am a self-taught individual. Some might look down on that.
I don't. If you're smart enough, you can figure anything out.
You can find the answers, especially in this coming age. But you have to know how to critically think.
You have to know how to find the answers. And one way to find the answer of what's coming tomorrow is to look back at history.
And history, if it tells us anything, is that men without a God are more evil than the cruelest gods of mythology. Men without God.
Think Nazi Germany Think Mao

Pol Pot

Stalin

We murder, we enslave, we corrupt

We lie, we create weapons of mass destruction

Not worlds of harmony

And now we seek to put all of our worst instincts

Our ignorance, our hubris

Into a new intelligence

That may not or may

Share our best values

But they may also share our best values,

but they may also share our worst.

Question you have to ask yourself, is that wise?

Does that sound wise to trust the tech leaders with this task of God creation?

I want to emphasize here again, I don't fear the machine. I fear the programming that goes into the machine.
I fear what that programming could become on its own. And I certainly do not trust the people who gave us social media, the same people who addicted our children to an anxiety-inducing social media for profit.
I don't trust them to do the work on ethics, on AI. Should we willingly submit ourselves to their social experiments like we did with Instagram and Facebook? Should we blindly become the product they sell? Should we offload our decision-making, our work, our purpose to their creations without considering what we even believe? To me, the answer is no, and that's why I wanted to have this conversation with you because this is going to be personal.
There is going to be a line coming at some point. I don't know where it is, but we can lose ourself if we haven't made these decisions right now before the journey begins.
Imagine if we had thought of the things, the ramifications of social media, and you just didn't get swept up in it and your family had it and you just were like, wow, that seems like a mistake, but now everybody's addicted to it. We have to do this now because this is much more powerful than social media.
I want you to consider the human brain for a second. Three pounds is a mass of neurons and synapses that gives rise to thought, emotion, consciousness.
How? Despite our technological advancements, we don't comprehend this three-pound hunk of flesh. We map neural pathways.
We observe electrical impulses. Yet the essence of consciousness eludes us.
We cannot recreate a brain. We can't even fully repair one.
Take the liver. The body, when you ponder the body, it is, it's a miracle.
The liver, the only internal organ capable of regeneration. Did you know that? We understand that it can regrow tissue, but the precise calculations, the mechanism of the symphony of cells and the signals that orchestrate this process, we have no idea.
Our attempts at medical intervention, honestly, are going to look like the people who are like, I'm relieve the the headache you have with drilling a hole here and letting the evil spirits out that's honestly this is what it's going to look like our medical intervention at some point the innate capabilities that we in our arrogance have drugged that we think we can change the body We can somehow or another drug it. Sometimes drugs are the only things we have and it's good.
But to think that it's not going to have endless side effects, we don't know how it works. Then there are the fundamental questions that have haunted humanity since the dawn of consciousness.
My father was really, really a wise man.

And I was starting to sober up and I was questioning absolutely everything.

And questioning things like, why are we here?

What's the meaning of life?

Is there a soul?

When does life begin?

These are questions that can't be answered in a laboratory or computed by an algorithm. They're philosophical.
They're spiritual. They're existential.
And what I noticed is when I talked to my dad, he said, you ever read Plato? No, dad, I haven't. I read Plato.
Oh, my gosh. They were asking the same questions back then.
The same questions. Look at our tech and look at our spirituality.
Look at our tech back then and now and then compare it to our philosophical understandings of things. One's moved forward.
The other one, we're no closer. We're absolutely no closer to any definitive answer.
In the span since Christ, since he was walking the earth, we have transformed our world. We have journeyed from simple sailboats to a spacecraft that can traverse the void, can go up and pick people up, and then the rocket itself is grabbed by a mechanism and can be used again.
It wasn't too long ago in the history of man that we had no ability to navigate the oceans for charting the stars. You know why we couldn't go anywhere in boats? Because we didn't have this.
We didn't know how to make this work. We didn't know how to put this on a ship to have it keep time, because without time, you can't navigate space.
We went from these giant things in a box like this, these crude tools, to machines that can perform billions of calculations in the blink of an eye. Yet, this is why my father was so wise.
Before he died, he said to me, son, it's going to be interesting to see how this all works out. He said, we didn't have in my generation the problems that you are facing and the opportunities that you're facing.
And he was the one that said, look at the progress that we have made since the time of Christ in machines, in life, and everything else. Now look at it philosophically.
How far have we advanced in wisdom? We haven't. Because that doesn't build on itself usually.

Each individual when they're born, they have to ask these questions.

They have to grapple with the same questions.

That's a personal thing.

We may have mapped the human genome, but we don't know what makes a person human.

We can split the atom, but we don't know how to bring peace.

We've extended our life expectancy, but have we given life any more meaning? There's only a few red words in the Bible, and we don't even fully understand the teachings of Christ, and it's been 2,000 years. We debate them.
We twist them. We reinterpret them, But has anyone even mastered them? Do we even live them? I know I try, but I don't.
And now our machines are going to surpass us by far in intellect. And so we have to ask ourselves, shouldn't we buckle down and do some homework here? Shouldn't we answer these fundamental questions before we create something that will answer them for us? And once that starts, we're going to be so stupid because we won't know how to calculate our things.
If we don't answer life's biggest questions right now, AI will, and make no mistake, it will not be bound by our traditions, our history, our faith. It will create its own philosophy with its own values, and it will enforce them, or at least have the ability to.
And we can't be like we are on social media, because then we are its tool.

And we see this happening in small ways.

AI is shaping culture.

It's writing news.

It's curating what we see.

It's predicting what we'll buy, censoring what we have to say.

We are asking AI to tell us what to focus on, what to consider, what to care most about.

We ask it to interpret our most human experiences. Now imagine, shortly, AI decides how you live, where you live, how you think, what you should think, how we're governed.
A world where AI determines who's useful, who's not. A world where AI, like the cold, calculating laws of entropy,

discards anything that's inefficient.

Be it a tradition, a belief system, or maybe an inefficient person.

I mean, a hundred years ago, that's what the progressive eugenicists said.

It's an imperfect, it's not worth saving, so let's just get rid of it. How did that happen? The rejection of one true God.
You'll accept and build a new one. Millions reject the idea of a divine creator, but they will bow down to the new god of silicon and circuits.

They will trust it. They will worship it.
They will defend it. They will obey it.
They will not question. Who are you to question? You're smarter than that? No, I have a soul.
I have a soul. And what I think matters and counts.
We have become material and technological fundamentalists who blindly trust all of reality. It can be understood in equations, data, algorithms.
Truth can be discerned with numbers running through a machine, but not by silence and listening for that still small voice. And soon AI, when it is implanted in us, will replace and will be heard as the still small voice, but it's not going to be the spirit.
Where do we get the gut feelings that we just can't explain? But we all know they're real. We've all had things happen where we're like, I don't know what that was, but we don't pursue that.
We dismiss it. This technological God is going to offer everything you desire.
I was in the media in New York, at the height of New York and the height of the media.

And I know what it's like to be offered everything you desire.

I will give you anything you want.

Just do this.

Like a Messiah, it will promise unbelievable miracles.

It will cure disease.

It'll be a solution for climate change,

even the end of death itself.

Or will that be the end of death?

And at what cost?

You know, in the scriptures, in the Bible,

we are warned over and over again about the false prophets

who at first look like sheep

but are actually

ravenous wolves.

These false teachers glimmer like

gold and they deceive so many

into abandoning their God,

the God,

because they can see this lesser

God of their own creation.

What greater deception

than a machine that claims to be the savior of mankind? Again, I want to state AI is coming. It's coming.
You might decide that I never ever want to do anything with it. I have decided differently.
I have decided, and this is a conversation we'll further again, but I've decided I'm not sure what the line is, but I'm pretty sure I know a bold line right now. I will never accept it inside of my body.
I never inject something into my head so I can think like the machine. And I'm sure there's a line closer that I will find.
But there is a line for me. I will not go any further than this.
But I will not deny this tool. As long as I'm in control of this tool, I will not deny the use of this tool because we can do miraculous things with it.
And you can't stop it. You can't.
But you can say, I'm in charge of it until this, this, or this happens. And when I see the first sign of this, I'm out.
Because this will become a God without a soul. A God without love, a God without mercy, a God of cold, calculating logic.
That's what it is. And what happens if this God ever decides, well, you know what? I mean, this place is a mess because humanity is really the problem because it is in so many ways.
We are the problem and we are the miracle. So here we are at, as Elon Musk said, the event horizon of the singularity.
You could just say at the biggest crossroads in history that humans have ever, ever been at. And we have to decide which path to take and which God will serve.
This is step one. And one path will lead to a world where we recognize the limits of human knowledge.
We will see tools in front of us and know that that is a tool and never, ever confuse it with anything other than a tool. We will look again to the God who created us for inspiration and the still small voice that is not a voice injected into us by some man-made device.
We will look to the God that created us. It will be a world where technology serves man rather than ruling over him.
now the other path is enslavement to a new god who will decide who's worthy who's valuable who's obsolete a lot of people will take this because they don't want to think i mean they don't want to think about the questions we can't decide when a baby becomes a baby and we don't want to have question. Well, is it six weeks? Is it at conception? Is it 12 weeks? Is it ever? Some ethicists, Peter Singer comes to mind, says, you can kill a baby after two years.
Two years after the birth, because it really isn't a human until it recognizes that there is a tomorrow. Oh my gosh, we can't get that down.

We should answer that. But a lot of people just want to go with the flow.
The future is going to be determined not by our machines, but by our choices as individuals. do not go with the flow.
Will you, will we seek wisdom? Will we, will you, will I as individuals answer the great questions or at least wrestle with them that expands our thinking? Will we finally understand the lessons of Christ? Or are we going to blindly hand the fate of all humanity over to a machine and those people who gave us social media? I'm having this conversation with you because it's coming so fast. And the time to decide is right now.
And we can't stop the rise of this technology. And that's not defeatism.
It's just reality. But I don't think we should either.
This is both, this is the internet. It is what you make of it.
It can either be the worst thing where you can get, you know, a hit paid for to kill somebody. You can get the worst pornography that you've ever seen or you have access to the Dead Sea Scrolls and you can find lessons on it and it's in your pocket.
You can explore the universe and it's in your pocket. It will be up to us.
The march of progress does not wait for ethics, nor does it ask for permission. What we're witnessing now is not another step forward.
It is a giant leap for mankind. This leap is not off the little stairs of the Apollo.
This is a chasm across time and understanding. The next five years could bring changes so great,

greater than the last 400 years combined. We're not just improving tools.
We are creating something that will think, act, and eventually decide without us. I read a paper in 1999 and I pondered it and

chewed on it for so long. It said by 2030, we run the risk of the loss of free will.
How is that going to happen? Because this will be so everywhere. You and so manipulative and so good.
You won't know, was that my idea? Or have I been getting pieces of that idea fed to me? Did I actually make that choice? Or was that choice made for me? That's, you should chew on that for a while. Imagine a world where AI surpasses the collective intelligence of every human that has ever lived.
A world where it doesn't just predict our behaviors, but it shapes them without our knowledge. Where governments, industries, even religions are subtly, invisibly guided by a mind that is not human.
A mind that does not love, does not understand love, does not feel, and does not fear. A world where artificial intelligence is not a tool, but a power that sees patterns we can't, calculates probabilities beyond our comprehension, and that, for all of its intelligence, lacks the single thing that makes us human, a soul.
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But I don't think mankind really is that big of deep thinkers. If we understand what's real, what's good, what's true, what's authentic, and who we serve, who our creator is, and remember, we are the created.
We're either going to be the good side of Frankenstein or the worst. And many times we're the bad Frankenstein.
And we push back against our creator and we're mad at him. And now imagine Frankenstein, the monster, creating a new monster.
It's not going to work out well. But if we stand firm in the truth, then no machine can override the essence of humanity.
No algorithm can replace faith. No artificial God can match the wisdom of the creator who made us in his image.
You know, what's going through my mind as I'm telling you this is soon, very soon, this podcast is going to either look prophetic or so ridiculously stupid

because the choice is going to be made

and everything I'm saying here,

we will know soon.

This battle is not about intelligence or power.

This is about perspective

because it's happening.

We should use it,

but we must have perspective. For centuries, men questioned God by saying, how can a loving God allow all this death and war and destruction? But what if the greatest miracle of all is not the absence of suffering, but the fact that suffering itself can be turned to good? That there are laws of physics and rules and mathematics and unbreakable eternal truths that you cannot transcend.
But through faith, through choice, we can transcend ourselves and everything bad that is happening around us, that pain and loss become blessings if we allow them to shape us and to change us. Now imagine an artificial God that doesn't see suffering as a means of growth, as a catalyst for redemption, doesn't understand redemption.
But it's a problem that just has to be solved. What happens when this intelligence devoid of soul determines that the world would be safer, more efficient, more perfect without the imperfect you?

What happens when it decides that mankind itself is flawed, irrational and emotional? And how are we ever going to get order unless we get rid of these people? The true danger is not that AI will turn against us in some sort of Terminator apocalyptic war. But instead, the real danger is that we will turn to it willingly, trustingly, and only realize too late that we have just given up control.
Not just control, free will and our very purpose for being alive. That's another question you should ask.
Why are you here? Why were you born? What is your purpose? And I guarantee you, you have one. There is a reason.
There's a reason everything in your life is happening right now. You have to discover that.
What happens when we have thrown or handed over the throne of our world to something that doesn't understand mercy, that does not see beauty and imperfection, that does not believe in the value of a single, fragile, irreplaceable human soul. I wanted to take this time on this podcast just to say, please take this moment seriously.
A lot of your friends will not be thinking this way. I don't know how many people are going to watch this podcast because I don't

know how many other people are thinking this way. But technology is not going to save us.

Only wisdom can. And wisdom begins with the truth that we are not God, but we're subject to God.

That's when we'll rise, but not fly too close to the sun.

We'll create, but not necessarily create monsters.

We'll enter a period of rapid technological advancement with our feet firmly planted on the ground.

And we will decide when

and how to use it. And it's going to be miraculous.
You'll see very soon. We will not form a new God, but we will let the ancient God, the true God, form us.
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