Glenn Beck (14:46)
How do you Know, I think we are just at the point of the wall coming down. Donald Trump broke the wall, so I think we're there. But what you don't understand is we are on the other side of that wall as we now walk forward is the biggest event of all mankind. And I'm going to talk about that next hour a bit. But you have to understand there is a new world just on the horizon. If you read what Sam Altman is saying and others are saying, you cannot convince me that they don't know how to make asi. They just don't have the computing power. The cloud system, they don't have the computing power and they don't have the power. 20, 27 is when they're supposed to plug this thing in. And I'm sorry, but I do not believe that they, they aren't going to be able to go to ASI almost immediately. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. You know, this is a great example of why we believe that we have to get to AI first Asia, that we have to be the one that controls it. Especially when you look at something like quantum computing. Quantum computing could unlock everything. It could dismantle blockchain. There are no codes that couldn't be broken. If you have access to a quantum computer. We are at that place now to where we have quantum computing. So there will be no secrets. But imagine if China had that ability. They could get into any bank account. They could get into the Pentagon, they could get anywhere. The only way to defend it is if you have quantum computing and you are further ahead than the Chinese. This is why the President is making such a big deal out of, out of quantum computing and AI. And it's why he said he's having, you know, SoftBank, which from everything that I know, Elon Musk is right. They only have about $10 billion in funding and backing. So I don't know where this number of 500 billion is coming from. But, you know, stranger things have happened. This is why they are trying to build the data centers and the electricity. The grid is not capable of handling this. We, we need to generate three times the amount of electricity that we already generate. How are you going to do that with a new green deal? You can't. China is putting 10 new coal fire power plants online every week. They're developing the electricity, they have the power grid that is close to being able to handle an AGI, artificial General Intelligence and ASI superintelligence. When that happens, whoever gets there first wins. That's why we're trying to have all of the power and everything else done by 2027. Now the problem I have with this is we're in bed with some really bad people. We, I mean, the President has done this with Softbank and, and, and Larry Ellison, who is absolutely untrustworthy. Absolutely. I went over this yesterday. He Also, the CEO of SoftBank is the guy who gleefully said ASI is the way to capture people and pretty much put them in a cage to control the population. You also have another investor of Microsoft, as anybody trust Bill Gates. These are, these are Malthusian people. These are people that don't. The goal of this for some people, not Donald Trump, the goal for some people is power and control. Others just want to be there when a God is created. And I know that for a fact because I know people who have Talked to these CEOs, they believe they're creating the most powerful God ever and they just want to be around it. But most of this is the power and control. If you are in charge of AGI, asi, if you own that space, you own, you get all of the profits, you get everything. Everybody's going to be buying from you. So you are multiple trillionaire, and nobody else is going to have a job. Eventually, AI will put you out of business. So you will have to have a stipend. You'll have universal basic income, which means that's the people who have the trillions of dollars and all the power and control. They just give you enough money to keep you quiet and happy. That's not our system. That's not really living. That's not what we want to do. We are at the precipice right now. It's a great fork in the road of human destiny, one that will call into question everything that we have ever built, everything that we've ever believed, everything that we've ever dared to hope for. And I know this sounds like hyperbole, but please do your homework on this. For a millennia, the pursuit of knowledge has been our driving force. I would make the case that it started in the Garden of Eden. And we have sought it in the stars. We've sought it in the depths of our oceans. We've sought it in our own chambers of our own hearts. Knowledge is the currency of power, of progress and morality itself. Knowledge. The more we knew, the better we could heal, build and conquer the mysteries of the world. But now we are witnessing something, something dramatically new, something that completely upends this sacred order, if you will. And it is artificial intelligence. This is A promise that has been whispered on the winds of revolution. It tells us that it will cure cancer, it will end hunger, it will solve the problems we never could. AI is offering us answers. Instant, infinite. And all it asks for in return is your trust. And soon many of your friends, if not most of them, will give and ask for something more. Friendship, companionship, A voice that listens. A voice that knows our every thought, our every need, our every fear and caters to it. A voice that will in time know us better than we know ourselves. What happens then? What happens when? When that voice of a friend that is like a God and can give you anything? What happens when you begin to stop asking questions but just accepting answers? What happens to humans when you no longer have to push the envelope and find the pain in finding answers? When we no longer struggle to learn or to grow or to earn any kind of wisdom? Because wisdom is downloaded with a flick of a finger. And you can't question that wisdom because it is godlike. Who are you to question what happens in a world full of imperfect humans, where all is known, all is automated, all is perfect. What happens to the jam stained humans when perfection is the measure of life? Now there is another force that is stirring on the other side. It's a countercurrent. It's quiet, it's subtle, it's just beginning. But perhaps you feel it, it's there. I think in part because of what we've just gone through and in part because I think God, the universe, man, the collective man knows something is coming. We're beginning to ask deeper questions. And this is the secret. What's real, what's authentic, what's alive? What does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to feel, to create, to connect with someone else? We're waking up to truth. And it's not the, you know, only two gender kind of truth. That's the easy truth. This is a profound truth. These are the things that I will never be able to understand. The laugh of a child, the touch of a hand, the unspoken bond between two souls. It will mimic it. But these are not lines of code. They are the threads of life itself. And so we are coming up to a time where humanity is going to divide itself. You have a choice. On one side will be the promise of a digital utopia, eternal life. They will begin to preach that. Mark my words, no death. Just download yourself so you can live for the eternities, endless comfort, godlike intelligence. We'll never make a mistake. On the other side will be a group of People that want to return to the authentic, the organic. The raw beauty of what it means to be alive. Raw. One path is paved with perfection. The other is the road to purpose. But you can't have purpose if you don't struggle to find that purpose. Make no mistake, there will be those who see this new intelligence as more than a tool. They will see it as a savior, as a God. What just that concept, what will that mean for the human spirit when we begin to worship something we've created with our own hands? The only time man has lived in perfection is in the Garden of Eden. But it wasn't enough. We wanted to search for answers. Eat the fruit of that tree and you will surely die was the warning. It was the tree and the fruit of knowledge, of good and evil. When you eat that, you will become like the gods. You will know the difference between bitter and sweet. Good and evil. There are opposites in all things. Life and death, pleasure and pain. We've made. We've been here before. Perfection and wanting to know for ourselves, we're now tempted with ultimate knowledge. But not learned, not experienced, not even earned. But the promise to be like the gods. All we have to do is trade in the messiness of life for the perfection of the artificial. You may go home and you are tired, and your wife says, so, how was your day? And you get a few words out, and she says, well, I. You know, let me tell you about mine. And the last thing you want to hear. And so you just. And you don't hear things. Well, when people feel unheard, they want to be heard. Well, what happens when it is AI that will listen to everything? The perfect listener. Will it be true this time? If we eat of the fruit of this tree of knowledge, we will surely die. It may once again be a promise we don't yet understand. But one thing I do know, this new God does not offer a savior or even a road to salvation. I want you to start thinking of AI, not about technology, about the soul of mankind, because that's what it's really about. Will we choose the road of convenience, the seductive siren song of an artificial God? Or will we fight for what's real, what's messy, what's imperfect, what causes struggle and strife that makes things beautiful beyond measure? This is the moment. I've seen it coming for almost 30 years and warned about it. And I still don't know how to connect to people and get them to pay attention and understand what it is. This is. We're at a crossroads. No man has ever gazed upon. We are going to have to choose between two roads. One of them is not the road that is less traveled. Both of them are roads that have never been traveled. And we now have to move forward. Others who control and are building this tech, they're not going to stop. It is a part of man's future, whether we like it or not. Our choice now is to ask ourselves, which God do we serve? Will it be the one that molded us in his image, the one that created the heavens and the universe? Or will it be the God of our making, the one created in our flawed image? What is coming may be the ultimate spiritual battle. And we are here, and people don't know yet. This is the moment we must decide who do we serve? What does life mean? What does it mean to be human? And what are we willing to risk to remain human? You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck Program and you can find full episodes wherever you download podcasts. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We're glad you're here. This week I was in Washington, D.C. stu and I were there and we were just snooping around other people's offices because we could, because we were there early and nobody was there. So we just went through the stuff of many people's offices.
