E176 - #557 ART -Fear Versus Reality In The AI Age

Fear spreads faster than facts, and right now AI is the perfect vehicle for it. From my studio in Texas, I walk through why the loudest “AI will end the world” voices can be selling something else entirely: tighter control, slower competition, and a public primed to beg for regulation. We pull apart the idea that tech elites who sneer at faith still want a messiah and an apocalypse, so they elevate a computer program into a kind of substitute religion and demand the state enforce the creed.

Then we ground it in the real world: inflation, Fede...