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The way I look at artificial intelligence, it's both like, it could be a threat for sure, and it could be a massive opportunity. What I don't understand is when I walk around this city or you talk to lawmakers, why people aren't obsessed with this. It is going to reorder society over the next decade. And almost any person who's studied it at any level has come to that exact same conclusion. I sometimes joke to Mikey and others that I feel like I'm living in a simulation where, like, you see so clearly where the world's going over the next five years, and yet Washington pays very little attention to it. Jim Vande Hei is getting a lot of attention for a piece he wrote for Axios about AI. There's a big one in the New Yorker also, in which they have two AI experts, one arguing it's going to change society more than anything ever has and very soon. And another expert arguing that now it's way, way, way overblown and any of the effects are years off. Which I hope that that guy's right. Although I tend to think the other guy's right, that it's happening sooner and going to be a big deal.
Ryan Seacrest
I've been reading James Vande hey piece in which, among other things, he interviews Dario Amaday. Is that how you pronounce it? And he's the CEO of Anthropic, one of the most powerful AI companies in the world. And it occurred to me, the perfect metaphor. I don't know why I see the world in metaphors. I do. But it's as if Dr. Frankenstein, you.
Jim Vande Hei
Seeing the world in metaphors is like an ox needing something.
Ryan Seacrest
It's like if Dr. Frankenstein was designing his monster, but it was going to be like 50ft tall. But Dr. Frankenstein was perfectly sane and was saying, now reanimating a corpse is going to be an incredible scientific breakthrough, but it could rampage down to and through the village and kill many, many people, and we're really not sure which. So, Igor, if you would fire up the lightning positron, please. Let's get this started. Anyway. What a powerful metaphor. Thank you, dear. More with Jim Vande Hei Just pay attention.
Jim Vande Hei
Get way more familiar with this technology. If you are about to be a graduate, figure out, are you in the right field? If you are in the right field, how would you utilize this technology for it to be a force multiplier of the work that you do? How can you help it 10x2x, whatever the number is your productivity so that you can do really creative, interesting things. And I think if society prepares for it, if the companies prepare for it, it doesn't have to be a massive upheaval. Again, I hope he's. I just, I just don't know. It's, it's not, it's not like, you know, accept the fact that the car is coming, learn how to fix a car, because nobody's going to need horseshoes anymore.
Ryan Seacrest
Right.
Jim Vande Hei
You know, made sense. Makes sense. I'm not sure if it works the way the, you know, the, the people on the extreme end of all the jobs AI can take, if they're right, there are going to be so many millions of people out of work. There's, there's no, like. Well, I guess if you're young, pick a career that AI can enhance. But boy, there's a be a lot of guessing involved in that.
Ryan Seacrest
Let me set the table a little bit, then we can discuss. So, Mr. Amaday, and again, forgive me if I'm mispronouncing it, the CEO of Anthropic, talking to Jim Vandehay, has a blunt, scary warning for the US government and all of us. AI could wipe out half of all entry level white collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10 to 20% in the next one to five years.
Jim Vande Hei
Five percent of jobs white wiped out. Interesting. No, wait, wait, you said half.
Ryan Seacrest
10. Half of all entry level white collar jobs and 10 to 20% unemployment in general in the next one to five years. And Amaday said AI companies and government need to stop sugarcoating what's coming. This is Dr. Frankenstein standing there. I'm picturing on the drawbridge of his moat saying to the villagers with the pitchforks and the torches, guys, you gotta be ready in case the monster goes on a rampage.
Jim Vande Hei
Well, the first clip we played from Jim Vanaheim makes the most. Well, it's not hard to explain. Makes the most sense to me. How is this such a giant topic everywhere but in Washington D.C. i wonder if it has anything to do with the average person in any leadership position being 80 years old.
Ryan Seacrest
I think so. And also there are so many unknowns, it's difficult to know what to do legislatively, particularly if, for instance, I don't know, your legislature is utterly cowardly and afraid of doing anything, lest they do the wrong thing. So they just let the executive branch do anything, Everything. But let me, let me finish the thought. EM said AI companies and government need to stop sugarcoating what's Coming. I'm sorry, what's coming? The possible mass elimination of jobs across technology, finance, law, consulting and other white collar professions, especially entry level gigs. I got a kid who just kicked butt in her first year of law school. I'm very proud of her. But we're going to have a serious talk and part of me doesn't want to say this on the air because I want as few people to come to this realization as possible. We're going to have a serious talk about. There's a very good chance you're either going to be the person eliminated by AI or you're going to be the person who's become so adept at using it, you're the one out of eight that is kept on well that get good at this stuff.
Jim Vande Hei
That's exactly what Vande Hei was saying. Accept the fact that it's going to be here and figure out a way to, you know, use AI. So you're one of the people that can continue to make a living.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. So Amade says he's speaking out in hopes of jarring government and fellow AI companies into preparing and protecting the nation. Hardly anyone is paying attention. Lawmakers don't get it or don't believe it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. Many workers won't realize the risks posed by the possible job apocalypse until after it hits. And by the way, if you're a newish listener to the show, thank you for being here, first of all. Secondly, we're not clickbait hyperbole. We try very hard to stay away from trying to scare you all the time or making you angry all the time. There are plenty of reasons to be scared and, or angry. We just try not to go over the top. I don't think it's hyperbole at all to, you know, have the weight on the balls of your feet and your feet at shoulder position, leaning forward at the waist. Getting ready for this could be very, very disruptive.
Jim Vande Hei
Well, I've read several of the long leading books on the topic, Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, which is fantastic. And then a newer one from Nick Bostrom, who wrote an AI book that got tons of attention several years ago. But this deep Utopia book, which he gets really into, if it does what some people claim it's going to do, what the hell is mankind going to do? What is society going to be? How is humanity? Even if you, even if you come up with a way for people to have food and shelter, what do human beings become if they have, they don't have to work. It's an experiment that's never been run before, really, other than, like the super rich and you see how they often end up.
Ryan Seacrest
Give us the 10 second version of. You're working on the song yesterday after.
Jim Vande Hei
This commercial or right now?
Ryan Seacrest
No, right. Right now. Okay. It's not like I'm ordering you to do anything, but I think it would fit in well. And then coming up after the commercial, Jack referenced the hey, don't worry, it's gonna be okay argument.
Jim Vande Hei
So I was working on this song yesterday. I'd come up these lyrics in my head, and then I picked out a key I could sing and some chord structure and stuff like that.
Ryan Seacrest
The working title is Joe's an A hole. But it's very tuneful, very nice.
Jim Vande Hei
I'd like to hear that song. But I thought, you know, I need a bridge for this song. And I almost feel guilty for even having done this. But I thought it'd be kind of fun to see what it did. I went to chat GBT and I said, what's a. What's a good bridge for, like, a country style song? And it presented me, like, with five different options immediately, by the way, of if you want something that's kind of uplifting, go with this. If you want something that is good for setting up a more poignant ending, go with this. And it just gave me the chords.
Ryan Seacrest
In that gave you all the chord.
Jim Vande Hei
Structures for doing it. This is the most popular currently in, like, country pop. And it was.
Ryan Seacrest
It.
Jim Vande Hei
I mean, you wouldn't even know. You didn't know anything about music to craft song that way.
Ryan Seacrest
So instead of experimenting and struggling and listening to it and trying to figure out, all right, how do I get back to the verse chords? And that's a little uncomfortable. And then finally, after, you know, minutes or hours of effort coming up with something you're proud of. No, the computer just told you what to do. How does that change songwriting? I've got to admit, I heard that and thought, wow, that's a cool tool. But I also thought, what the hell's the point? Right?
Jim Vande Hei
Yeah, that's what I felt like, too.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Jim Vande Hei
I haven't used one of them because I thought, do I want that? Do I want it to not be something I came up with? What am I doing here?
Ryan Seacrest
Right, Right.
Jim Vande Hei
Why don't I just go to the end, write a song about this topic, and then. Okay, now produce it. Okay, now I'll listen to it. Well, that was fun. What am I doing?
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Get to the optimistic side of the AI thing next. But I just on the music thing, as you mentioned it, what is. What is the point? Art wise, certainly Hemingway famously said a writer writes for himself and others me. But you're doing it a lot for yourself. And the reason I sat down to craft a song yesterday, which I hadn't done in a long time, is I was in emotional turmoil about a certain thing and all these thoughts were in my head and I just was compelled to write a song about it. Well, if I have a I do it, doesn't that negate the whole artistic, you know, getting your feelings out of you onto paper or music or painting or whatever?
Ryan Seacrest
Well, right, to summarize again, what are we doing here exactly?
Jim Vande Hei
So if I was going to have him write the bridge, we'll write the whole damn thing, write the lyrics, produce it. You know, tell me in five minutes what to listen to and I'll listen to it.
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Five seconds.
Jim Vande Hei
Five seconds. Then I'll listen to it and think, well, now I feel like I've expunged my demons. I'll guess I'll go about my life.
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Well, right. And so the great conundrum is, okay, AI is going to free us all up to become poets and songwriters, which the AI will do so.
Jim Vande Hei
Right. Excellent point. And then there's also the one if it's way better than what I would have come up with, which it probably.
Ryan Seacrest
Would be, I'd say that's immaterial to me.
Jim Vande Hei
Well, it is, but who wants that?
Ryan Seacrest
It's very discouraging. Don't worry about it. The positive optimistic argument is coming up in moments. Stay with us, friends Armstrong and Getty.
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Talking about AI, Both Axios and the New Yorker right now have big pieces on the Is this going to change in the world? Is in ways we can't even imagine, maybe for the worse, or is it not going to be that big a deal? I, I, I certainly don't know which. I'm hoping for the latter actually.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, and the guys who are designing all this stuff don't know either, which is scary. Back to my Dr. Frankenstein metaphor. But, but I will say this openly admitting the monster might rampage through the village and kill everybody.
Jim Vande Hei
It's impossible that it. Well, it's not impossible, but obviously Google, Elon, all kinds of people think it's going to be a big deal. Bill Gates, they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars on this because they think it's going to be that big a deal.
Ryan Seacrest
Rich Lowry in the National Review has expressed the counter argument that many of you fine folks have expressed. Certainly worth considering, Rich writes. ChatGPT is coming for your job. That's the fear about the rapid advances in intelligence artificial intelligence. They mentioned the headline Axios who warned of a white collar bloodbath. CEO Vanthropic we've been quoting in the last segment, told the publication AI could destroy up to half. Well, destroy half of all entry level white collar jobs in the next one to five years. That's like right around the corner and drive the employment rate up to 10 to 20% or roughly great Depression levels. This sounds dire, but we've been here before. In the 30s, John Maynard Keynes thought that labor saving, saving devices were, quote, outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labor. Analysts thought the same thing in the 60s when John F. Kennedy warned that, quote, the automation problem is as important as any we face. And in our era too, if a prediction has been consistently wrong, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will forever be wrong. Still, we shouldn't have much confidence in the same alarmism repeated for the same reasons. That's the gives a few examples.
Jim Vande Hei
That's the pushback a lot of people have and I hope it's absolutely holds true for AI. It has been true in the past, but God, AI could reach into so many different areas of life at the same time.
Ryan Seacrest
A little more to Rich's argument and then perhaps we'll counter it. If technological advance was really a net killer of jobs, the labor market should have been in decline since the invention of the wheel. Instead, we live in a time of technological marvels and the unemployment rate is 4.2%. Rob Atkinson of the Information Technology and Innovation foundation points out that the average unemployment rate in the US has not changed much over the last century, despite an increase in productivity by almost 10 times. Technology increases productivity, driving down costs and making it possible to invest and spend on other things, creating new jobs that replace the old. This is the process of society becoming wealthier. And it's why nations that innovate are better off than those who don't. Good powerful argument. The rise of personal computers collapsed the demand for typists and word processors. These positions were often held by women. Did this decimate the economic prospects of women in America? No, they got different and frequently better jobs. It goes into some bookkeeping and accounting parallels. It's a good solid argument. The only thing I would throw Rich is and we've seen this in a lot of different aspects of the modern age. There are two questions, two challenges. The amount of change and the pace of change. Right. And it could be that this given the rapidity with which it'll drown us all or beat us to death like Frankenstein's monster in my metaphor. It's going to be so fast and so huge. The jarring adjustment period is going to be very ugly and volatile.
Jim Vande Hei
Yeah, we're pretty. We're being pretty loose and fast with the term AI. Also, it's all about AGI, artifact, artificial general intelligence. Whether that happens or not. And I've read enough of these books to know there are people that think it will never happen. There are people that think we're 20 years away. There are people that think we're five years away. But if artificial general intelligence happens where computers are as smart as human beings, smarter than human beings can learn everything instantly, then it's impossible. Anything that you come up with that human beings can do that are that come off of the technological technological advancement can also be done by artificial and general intelligence.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, that's too much for a person like me to even contemplate. I can't. I'm stuck in the halfway between period where you know all the or 80% of lawyers will be replaced by a nap that's going to be dislocating enough. Your thing, please. I don't even want to think about it.
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If AGI happens, I can't imagine how that doesn't doom society. But anyway, who knows?
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Jim Vande Hei
Oh boy, I gotta be vague.
Ryan Seacrest
You're good at that. I just at some point, the theme being people are way crazier than you were told as a kid. As a kid, you think, you know, grownups have it more or less buttoned up and they can at least perceive reality. A lot of people cannot. They live in a world of delusion.
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I never thought when I was younger that rich, smart people could be this dumb.
Ryan Seacrest
Right. Okay, well, you're good at it. You have a particular skill set that makes you a lot of money. That doesn't mean you have generalized intelligence or wisdom.
Jim Vande Hei
Anyway, I will tell that story in a little bit. But first, executive producer Mike Hanson, who rarely comes on the air. Why are you here? Hanson I was inspired, really by our AI conversation. Yeah, I mean, you guys are talking about trying to form up a song. And see, I've been picking up my guitar more lately as well. I don't really concern myself with a lot of, you know, song structure in the bridge. And I just kind of fiddle around, bang around on it.
Ryan Seacrest
I bang around.
Jim Vande Hei
I make a lot of. A lot of noise. But I was inspired. So I turned to my AI tool, thinking I should craft a tune this morning. So I quickly jotted down some lyrics and I wrote all the lyrics on this. I didn't ask AI to help me. I wrote them in about 20, 20 seconds.
Ryan Seacrest
Way to put in the time.
Jim Vande Hei
Well, a lot of great songs have been inspired. I was inspired. I mean, come on now. Don't tell me about my art.
Ryan Seacrest
I'm done.
Jim Vande Hei
This was my art. So anyway, I came up with this song.
Ryan Seacrest
He gets up every morning.
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And everyone loves to hear him laugh. He's a master of metaphor and a wordsmith. Tammy Wynette. He's got kind of a.
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Jim Vande Hei
He's the king. This is awesome. This is my kind of music, too. Michelangelo's got his phone up with the light on. Oh, God. Swaying back and forth. This is the sort of song that was on Hee Haw or the Glen Campbell show every. Every Saturday night when I was a kid.
Ryan Seacrest
Or if you're an old country, 90s guy like me, it was just revved up a little bit. And the electric guitars and. Yeah, I love that music.
Jim Vande Hei
Because of leisure.
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He's the king. I am a man who craves leisure.
Jim Vande Hei
Yes.
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As I've made clear through the years.
Jim Vande Hei
Oh, my God. The fact that you can do that in like, how long did it take you total. I'm telling you, it was 20 seconds.
Ryan Seacrest
That is amazing. Amusing and horrifying.
Jim Vande Hei
Yeah. There are people that used to make six figure salaries back when that really meant something doing that for radio shows back in the day.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, never mind the streets doing that. Right, right. Yeah.
Jim Vande Hei
So I gotta put together a Rush.
Ryan Seacrest
Limbaugh, you know, the famous song parodies and stuff everybody enjoyed. Yeah, Go ahead.
Jim Vande Hei
I gotta put together a Jack song now, too. I've got some ideas. Something comes to the top of your mind right now, just spit it out and I'll try to incorporate that into my belligerence.
Ryan Seacrest
Maybe we can take suggestions from listeners.
Jim Vande Hei
I like that. Let's open the text line. In fact, let's take live calls. Okay. So you Work on that and we'll get to that. Maybe an hour four. So back to my story. I was looking at the Twitter feed and the TV and everything like that. And I expressed to Joe during the commercial break, I don't quite get the hatred for Elon Musk. Actually, I was looking at a friend of ours and his, his, his tweet. I don't get the hatred for Elon Musk. I can fully understand, like, if you think Doge didn't do enough or you thought these cuts were wrong or whatever it is. But I don't get the, like, you know, deep hatred for him or whatever. But I do know a couple that's leaving the country, the whole family, there are children involved. They're leaving the country because they don't want to live in Trump and Elon's America. And what, what the straw that broke the camel's back was Elon's Nazi salute when he, when. At that convention or whatever he did.
Ryan Seacrest
Whatever he said, when the autistic fellow waved at the crowd and his arm was out like that for a fraction of a second. Yes. That they, they have believed and internalized that that was an actual Nazi salute and Nazism is coming to America. I didn't know.
Jim Vande Hei
I didn't have the firsthand conversation with them, but I've talked to the person that did, and yes, they can't believe that. You don't realize that was obviously a Nazi salute to me.
Ryan Seacrest
I would like to hear more. And therefore Kristallnacht is coming. It's the left that's abusing Jews. But anyway, back to you. Right.
Jim Vande Hei
I think that's so dumb. I can't even. It's hard to even engage in conversation. This is a very wealthy couple, by the way. Incredibly successful, both of them, like, really successful. And I don't. What do you do with that? How, how could you possibly think that.
Ryan Seacrest
I would like to spend the rest of my life studying in between long periods of leisure, obviously, but studying the relationship and lack of relationship between intelligence, skill at a particular skill set and the concept of wisdom, because they can be completely unrelated. I mean, we have all known. I mean, the classic example, I guess, would be the brilliant, brilliant musician who is just unspeakably talented. But these people replaced by AI but cannot manage their life at all and dies a drug addiction and is miserable.
Jim Vande Hei
And I understand anybody in the world of art more being that way as a musician or whatever is so different. But these are like business people, one scientist adjacent, the other one just flat out business person. Like. Like, so successful, and I just.
Ryan Seacrest
I can't.
Jim Vande Hei
So you think Elon is secretly a Nazi and slipped, or you think that was the signal to start something, or. I can't even imagine what the. What the scenario would be.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, Yeah. I find this so interesting and troubling.
Jim Vande Hei
And you would pick up your family and move across the ocean because of it.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yeah.
Jim Vande Hei
Nuts. You're nuts.
Ryan Seacrest
On the other hand, you told me where they're going, and it's a pleasant place. Yeah, yeah, that. That's. Again, I. I have a million comments. I just. I'm so blown away. And it takes money to indulge that sort of mania. I mean, that's part of it. Because Joe Schmo, you know, struggling to get by, and his wife and two little kids might want desperately to go to Uruguay, for instance, where I've been convinced if I ever go somewhere, that's where I'm going. Uruguay?
Jim Vande Hei
You're sure it's not Paraguay?
Ryan Seacrest
No, I'm. I'm half. I'm like 60% sure. But I was hearing about how interesting a country that is and a little more American terms of freedom and that sort of thing than sometimes America. But you can only indulge that impulse if you've got a hell of a lot of money or you're willing to live extremely modestly. So, anyway, that's why celebrities are always doing it or talking about doing it, because they can.
Jim Vande Hei
Well, and this family, I assume, is surrounded by people that say, I understand, or that's a good idea, or we're gonna do that too, which is so craz.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. I am so fascinated by the idea of getting in, of understanding how other people's psyches work, which, you know, you never can fully. But the sort of person who processes all of the inputs of life, everything they see, they hear, they perceive through an emotional lens, and then they structure it, quote, unquote, logically, to make it sound like it makes sense. But it's all emotionalism, and you can't talk them away. It's like the classic example is, I don't care what you say. That's what I believe you're stating. Wait a minute. I have presented rock solid, irrefutable evidence to your conclusion being wrong, but you are shouting at me that you have no interest in it. That sort of person's psyche operates way differently than mine, for instance, and I think my way is better. But they probably think exactly the same thing. I just don't want them in charge of anything. So I've said a million times. I love songwriters and poets and dreamers. We would be lost without them. I don't want them in charge.
Jim Vande Hei
I was wondering the other day if anybody has recently set the record for doing backflips while on fire. Good news on that front. And maybe that song about me an hour four or soon. And what else?
Ryan Seacrest
Plus Coming up, let's meet some of the young Columbia radicals who were in court the other day.
Jim Vande Hei
Oh boy. I have a guess. Stay tuned for all that Armstrong and.
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Garth at checkout I was freezing. I am wearing a couple of layers that are soaked in a gel and put in a fridge for 24 hours. So it helped protect protect me from the fire. So that's me. I'm on fire. So we're seven seconds in and I've done two backflips. So I'm on good track to beat the previous record and I need to move quickly. The oxygen's burning up around me. If I don't keep moving, I could find it very difficult to breathe and find the heat a bit too overwhelming. There are parts that are actually falling off what I'm wearing and burning. My successful record total was seven backflips in 30 seconds while engaging in a full body burn. It's incredible what human humans can achieve.
Jim Vande Hei
All right, so there's a British man who has set the new record for doing backflips While on fire.
Ryan Seacrest
Sounded Irish to me, but back to you. All right, another back flipping on fire news. Wait a minute. There isn't any.
Jim Vande Hei
But what's the record for doing backflips while on fire? If you're. If you have red hair, whatever.
Ryan Seacrest
So I don't know if you followed this. A group of keffiyeh clad students descended on Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday to face formal arraignment for their roles in the violent takeover of Columbia University's Butler Library. You remember the video at the time, the damage, the injuries, the. They're demanding that the charges be dismissed because they're peace activists and they set up Amir Teachin in the library. You may also recall that the mob injured two security officials, damaged bookshelves, distributed pamphlets praising Hamas, and renamed the library after a terrorist. They were led by the Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a notorious anti Semitic group that wants the Ivy League school to cut all ties with Israel and chance. We want divestment now. Among other things, like globalize the intifada, which means kill Jews wherever you find them. So who are these Globalizing of the cream of the crop of American youth.
Jim Vande Hei
Yes, Jack, globalizing Intifada is exactly what that guy chanted after he killed those two nice people who worked at the embassy.
Ryan Seacrest
Including one of whom was a Christian. Yes, yes. Globalize the intifada, indeed. So who are these brave, angry revolutionaries rising up from the gutter to challenge the man? Jack, let's meet some of them. Like Emma Biswas, who grew up in a life of luxury. She led the robotics team at the Harker School, which bills itself as one of the nation's top college prep schools. And tuition can reach $65,000 a year. That's right. For a high school. While there, she interned with a biotech company that boasts prospective Nobel Prize winners work here. And until she left for Tony Barnard College, Biswas lived in the San Francisco Bay area in a mansion worth $6 million. Moving along.
Jim Vande Hei
That's amazing how often that's the case.
Ryan Seacrest
Interestingly, her dad is with a tech company that does a lot of defense work, including with Israel. But let's not get hung up on that board.
Jim Vande Hei
Rich kids that don't have a purpose because everything has been handed to them, they need to achieve something.
Ryan Seacrest
Falling, you gave it away.
Jim Vande Hei
Fall into these ideologies. So easy.
Ryan Seacrest
But Ms. Biswas was just one of eight Barnard and Columbia students who attended swanky and prestigious private schools and were charged with criminal trespassing, among other things. Another was Barnard student Luna Firefly Deerfield Cumming Shaw. How many names is enough, sweetheart? Wow. Luna, Firefly, Deerfield. Cumming Shaw, the granddaughter of Mark Shaw, who describes himself as John F. Kennedy's unofficial family photographer, snapped many, many celebrities. And her grandmother is an actress best known for a role in some show. Anyway, Cumming Shaw attended the Putney School in Vermont, which charges day students $50,000 a year and boarding students over 80,000. Despite the price, it advertises itself as a progressive school that considers inclusivity a fundamental principle of the school. It sports two committees dedicated to the cause, allowing it to remain in the forefront of the drive for racial justice. Her mother is a longtime left wing activist, Barnard alum and Bernie Sanders supporter before Marisol Rojas Cheatham was arrested. The Columbia pre law student grew up in a Berkeley, California home valued at 2 million doll, which honestly in Berkeley isn't that fancy, and attended the Bentley School where tuition reaches nearly $60,000 a year. According to her LinkedIn page, Rojas Cheatham was the captain of the varsity women's soccer team, played lacrosse, president of the student government to name a few of her extracurriculars on Bentley's sprawling 12 acre upper school campus.
Jim Vande Hei
It's Patty Hearst. If you're old enough to remember.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Jim Vande Hei
There is something to that. The whole your life has been, you know, the pathway has been paved for you. It's going to be too easy. You've got no feeling of accomplishment or making a difference in the world because you know you could go to the fancy school and then immediately show up at a job making a lot of money. It was handed to you and you just don't feel like you've done anything. So you fall for these ideologies. I think there's got to be something to it. Osama bin Laden, was that.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yeah, yeah. A couple more just to make the point. Columbia grad student Ava Ambrose Tamascula Y. Garcia. $78,000 boarding school. Her parents both professors at the University of Notre Dame. Accomplished in their fields as a novelist and an artist. Sophie Elizabeth Jones spent 11 years living overseas at the American Community School in Abu Dhabi. Honors student. Identifies as American with Indonesian and Canadian roots. Joined Barnard's Class 2027. Writes frequently about the Palestinian issues for a Columbia student website. Then you got Barnard student Dima Abakkazam, honored guest at Mayor Eric Adams Abate Hate Summit last July. A graduate of the prestigious McDuffie School in Massachusetts where annual boarding tuition exceeds $75,000. Another multi million dollar mansion. All of these very rich young women. Yeah, and it's completely radicalized. The, the, the percentage of these angry keffiyeh wearing, hate spewing nut jobs who are wealthy women, young women, is astounding. Have no purpose in their life.
Jim Vande Hei
Yeah, well, and I'm sure the, you know, the teachers are teaching them all to hate America and Israel and everything also. And if it's a boarding school, then you're really surrounded. I mean, you're, you're, you're immersed in it.
Ryan Seacrest
And then you add to that young women's tendency to really crave belonging and approval of their peers. And if approval of their peers is dependent upon adopting this radical ideology, you get it in spades. It really is amazing. Look at the picture of these very, very rich girls trying to achieve a boho radical look. And the rest of it. Oldest times. Wow.
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Spend all that money sending your kid to school and they end up nut jobs.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Yeah. Well, we have a blockbuster hour four coming up. If you don't get our four or you've got to go off and do something, that's fine. Just grab it later via podcast. You should subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on Demand and listen to it whenever you like.
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Yeah, that's pretty cool. At your own leisure. You're a man who craves leisure, as the song says. We got a big hour four coming. I hope you can enjoy this Armstrong and Getty.
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Podcast Title: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Episode: Re-Animating the Corpse
Release Date: May 30, 2025
Host/Author: iHeartPodcasts
Timestamp: [03:05]
In this episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, hosts Richard Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into the pressing issue of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential ramifications on society. The conversation kicks off with a debate on whether AI represents a monumental threat or a groundbreaking opportunity for humanity.
Timestamp: [03:13]
Jim Vande Hei articulates a balanced perspective on AI, stating, “AI is both like, it could be a threat for sure, and it could be a massive opportunity” ([03:13]). He emphasizes the need for societal obsession with AI’s impact, predicting a significant reshaping of societal structures within the next decade.
Timestamp: [04:15]
The discussion intensifies as Ryan Seacrest references Jim Vande Hei’s piece for Axios, highlighting a startling prediction: “AI could destroy up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years and spike unemployment to 10 to 20%” ([06:54]). This stark forecast raises alarms about widespread job displacement across various sectors including technology, finance, law, and consulting.
Timestamp: [20:16]
Addressing counterarguments, Ryan Seacrest brings up historical instances where technological advancements initially feared to eliminate jobs ultimately led to new opportunities. Referencing economist John Maynard Keynes from the 1930s and similar sentiments from the 1960s, he argues, “Technology increases productivity, driving down costs and making it possible to invest and spend on other things, creating new jobs that replace the old” ([20:16]). However, he acknowledges the unique challenge posed by the rapid pace of AI advancement today.
Timestamp: [04:35]
To illustrate the potential dangers of AI, Jim Vande Hei uses the metaphor of Dr. Frankenstein: “It's as if Dr. Frankenstein was designing his monster, but it was going to be like 50ft tall...” ([04:35]). This vivid analogy underscores the unpredictable and potentially uncontrollable nature of AI development.
Timestamp: [10:51]
Demonstrating AI’s role in creativity, Jim Vande Hei shares his experience with composing a song using an AI tool: “I went to chat GBT and I said, what's a good bridge for, like, a country style song?” ([11:19]). The ease with which the AI generated chord structures and lyrics prompts a reflection on the essence of artistic creation and the role of human emotion and effort in the creative process.
Timestamp: [21:29]
Jim Vande Hei and Ryan Seacrest acknowledge the pushback against AI alarmism, noting that past technological fears have not materialized as disastrously as predicted. Jim expresses hope that AI will be managed effectively: “I hope it's absolutely holds true for AI. It has been true in the past...” ([21:29]). However, he also cautions about the unprecedented scale and speed of AI’s integration into various facets of life.
Timestamp: [38:12]
Shifting focus, the hosts discuss a controversial incident involving wealthy young women from prestigious backgrounds who orchestrated a violent takeover of Columbia University's Butler Library. Ryan Seacrest describes the participants as “keffiyeh clad students” from elite schools, highlighting their affluent upbringings and questioning the root causes of their radicalization ([38:12]).
Timestamp: [45:31]
Jim Vande Hei probes deeper into the issue, suggesting that the lack of purpose and the ease of privileged lifestyles may lead to susceptibility to extremist ideologies: “Rich kids that don't have a purpose because everything has been handed to them, they need to achieve something” ([45:31]). This segment explores the intersection of privilege, education, and the search for meaning in young adults.
Timestamp: [49:58]
As the episode wraps up, Armstrong and Getty emphasize the need for proactive measures in addressing both the challenges posed by AI and the societal issues exemplified by the radicalized students. They advocate for awareness, adaptability, and thoughtful integration of AI into the workforce to mitigate potential disruptions.
Jim Vande Hei [03:13]: “AI is both like, it could be a threat for sure, and it could be a massive opportunity.”
Ryan Seacrest [06:54]: “AI could destroy up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years and spike unemployment to 10 to 20%.”
Jim Vande Hei [04:35]: “It's as if Dr. Frankenstein was designing his monster, but it was going to be like 50ft tall...”
Jim Vande Hei [11:19]: “I went to chat GBT and I said, what's a good bridge for, like, a country style song?”
Jim Vande Hei [21:29]: “I hope it's absolutely holds true for AI. It has been true in the past...”
AI as a Double-Edged Sword: The episode underscores AI’s potential to both revolutionize industries and disrupt job markets, necessitating a balanced approach to its integration.
Historical Context Matters: Drawing parallels with past technological fears highlights that while job displacement is a concern, history shows new opportunities often emerge from such shifts.
Creative Collaboration with AI: The use of AI in songwriting serves as a microcosm for broader debates on the role of AI in creative and professional fields.
Privilege and Radicalization: The case of affluent students turning to extremism points to deeper societal issues, including the impact of privilege on purpose and ideological susceptibility.
Call to Action: The hosts advocate for proactive measures in education, policy-making, and personal adaptability to navigate the challenges posed by AI and societal changes.
This comprehensive summary captures the essence of the "Re-Animating the Corpse" episode, providing insights into the multifaceted discussions on AI's impact and the socio-cultural challenges facing today's youth. Whether you're a seasoned listener or new to the podcast, this overview offers a thorough understanding of the critical issues explored in this episode.