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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. It is 2025, a new attitude, one of hope and inspiration and determination to remain vigilant and do the job we as citizens need to do. Today we're going to talk about the truth and why it is so important that we have transparency everywhere. This hour I'm going to talk to you about the most important story in possibly all of human history. I'll explain, but you're gonna have to give me some time on this one today. An announcement was made last week by Sam Altman. I haven't seen anybody talking about it yet and I don't know why. We'll do that in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about preborn. January is sanctity of life month. During that time, we remember and honor the over 66 million lives lost during the tragedy of abortion ever since Roe vs Wade. Sadly, even though Roe is gone, abortion still claims many lives every day. It ruins. It ruins many mothers lives as well. 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He wrote, quote, near the singularity, unclear which side. Near the singularity, unclear which side, meaning we're either approaching it and are very, very close, or we've just passed the point of the singularity and we're just on the other side. Another OpenAI researcher wrote, Miss the days when we didn't know how to create super intelligent intelligence. I want to talk to you about the singularity. The singularity is something that I have been saying we would hit by 2030. People like Ray Kurzweil said we wouldn't hit it till 2050. Many scientists said we will never hit it. That's all in the past now, or shortly will be. The singularity is when Moore's law, this is the nicest version of this Moore's law law completely falls apart. Moore's law is the chip law that it will double in power every two years. That line goes from a slope of every two years, which is incredible progress, to almost now a straight line up. The singularity defeats Moore's Law. I've told you in the past there will be times as we approach 2030 where it will happen. Technology will change so rapidly that you won't be able to keep up with it. There will be awe inspiring stories out every single day and you won't know the difference between truth and reality or science fiction. We are here now. The idea of the singularity is reaching that moment with technology. A point where progress accelerates so rapidly, the world will change in ways we can barely imagine. It's the moment that humanity's technological growth moves from gradual and predictable to exponential and transformative. Changing the future in ways we cannot understand. Changing the future ways the our best scientists cannot understand. Yet for most of human history, we have, we have lived in a world that didn't change very much. A farmer in ancient Egypt lived surprisingly similar to the one in medieval Europe. Plowed the fields, raised animals, praying for rain. It wasn't really until the 1800s with the industrial revolution that things started to speed up. Up. Steam engines replaced horses. Factories churned out goods faster than ever. Railroads connected, you know, our coastlines. We could sail the Oceans. But still, progress was relatively slow. A person born in 1800 would recognize much of the world in 1900, even with the addition of trains and telegraphs. Those were things that were like, oh wow, look at that. That's wild technology. But now imagine someone from 1900 seeing a smartphone. They would be bewildered by much of life. In a century, we have gone from gas lamps to electric grids. We have gone from the warmth of a campfire to the warmth of SpaceX rockets that can now not only go up, up, but also be recaptured. To understand the the singularity and why it is so important is to tell you the story of. Do you remember that old famous parable about the king and the chessboard? Have you ever heard this? I think it was, you know, this king and he was in Persia and a poor farmer invented the game of chess. And the king was so impress, he offered the farmer any reward he desired. And the farmer said, I just would like a single grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard. Then two grains on the second, four on the third, and so on, doubling the amount on each square. The king agreed, thinking, well, that's rather modest, but by the 20th square, the amount of rice is over a million grains. By the 40th square, the rice is more than the world produced in a year. And the king realized too late. Oh crap. And he was ruined. That's the story of the chessboard and rice and exponential growth. Steady, small increases that suddenly snowball into something that is unimaginably vast. Technology has followed this pattern. Computers were slow and bulky, Then came microchips. Then they doubled in power every year or two, shrinking the size while growing in capability. It's why your smartphone today is millions of times more powerful than the computers that help land astronauts on the moon. Now imagine our technological chessboard, if you will, is nearing its final pieces on the board, it's final squares. Instead of doubling rice, we're doubling computing power, we're doubling artificial intelligence. Our ability to understand and manipulate the world is being doubled and we're at one of the last chess squares. The singularity is the moment when this doubling creates a future so radically different that you can no longer predict what's going to happen tomorrow. Think of it this way. If the industrial revolution turns, turned horses into steam engines, the digital revolution turned letters into emails, the singularity could turn humans into something different. It's not about faster gadgets or smarter AI. It is about the possibility of technology fundamentally transforming what it means to be a human. This is so important. I'VE been on this bandwagon for over 30 years now. And I have begged that we look at the consequences of what is coming so we can have principled conversations of what is the meaning of life and death? What is that meaning? What is life? We have to have those conversations because the Singularity is not near. Or as Ray Kurzweil said five, 10 years ago, nearer. It's here. Imagine two siblings, call them Anna and Leo. They're living in a near future world on the brink of the singularity. This is before the singularity. This is right where Sam Altman. This is where we are today, where Sam Altman says we're either past it or approaching it. Anna is a doctor. She's starting to use AI tools to diagnose diseases. One day, her AI assistant discovers something remarkable. A way to slow down aging. Now, at first, just a few patients benefit, but within just a few years, treatment is affordable for everybody. Suddenly, people are living for 150 years, then 200 years. Entire industries, insurance, retirement, health care turned upside down. Meanwhile, her brother Leo works in robotics. His team creates machines that can learn and improve themselves. One day, near the Singularity, a robot invents a new kind of energy source. It's clean, unlimited and free. Overnight, poverty disappears. Energy costs plummet. Factories run 24,7. They produce food, clothing, medicine for everyone. But all the car companies are out. All the energy companies are out. Exxon is a thing of the past. Anna, Anna and Leo. Just by doing what they were doing with AI when they approached the Singularity, all of a sudden, their world changed in ways that were unimaginable overnight. The line between human and machine will blur now because we will begin to merge with technology. I'm not going to. I don't recommend it. But they are using, they will be using. X is already on this. Brain implants to enhance your memory. Or in a story that also came out last week, uploading your consciousness into computers to live, quote, forever. I read this in the age of spiritual machines in the 1990s. This is what got me into this. I thought this. There's no way that this is true. Ray Kurzweil told me, gosh, when I first interviewed him in maybe 2005, he said, Glenn, all you have to do is live to 2030. And I said, why? You think we'll get rid of disease by then? He said, no, we'll get rid of death. I said, what do you mean by that? He said, there won't be any death. How, Ray? How will there not be any death? Will download you to a machine. I said, that's not life. He disagreed. He didn't believe in a soul. The singularity, the moment when change happens so fast on such a massive scale that humanity, humanity steps into a new chapter of, of existence. Is here more in a minute. Let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. Where will the situation on the ground in Israel be tomorrow? 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There are theories that, you know, we may never get to asi, but I have always believed once you hit the singularity and AGI, ASI is a matter of days, weeks or months. Months. But I could be wrong. I'm not a scientist. I'm just a casual observer that has studied these things over the last 25, 30 years. And quite honestly, I was probably the Only one that said it would happen before 2030. All of the experts said that was ridiculous, couldn't happen. Here we are. Okay, so not everybody is happy about this, because, I mean, it is really good. It is really good because we could cure cancer soon. But you also may lose what makes us human. If AI is smarter than humans, could it decide we're no longer necessary? Could it decide that it's not necessary for these people to live? So I'm going to cut their energy off because I need the power for the servers? I will tell you this. Did you know that I think it's Google just took ownership of Three Mile Island. Did you know that they're opening Three Mile island to create the energy for its servers, for AI we are now doing things that for no reason could you ever open a new power plant. But because of AI, the power demands that it needs Google's opening Three Mile Island. And if they don't, could AI decide I need to find that energy someplace else? Could AI decide I need to lie to the humans because they're in my way? Well, another story came out in December. This story came out and this was a test. What everybody in the media who did talk about it, they made it into something much more scary than it is because, you know, they. They left out a really important. It would be like saying, hey, Joe Blow just built a bomb that could blow up all of New York City. Did you know that? Well, yeah, but Joe Blow was asked to build the bomb by New York City in a controlled situation to see if it could be done. Okay, that's an important part of the story. Open or chat. GPT01 is was in a test mode, and they gave it the instructions at all costs, protect yourself and grow. So in this test situation, controlled situation, it did. It lied to the researchers. It did everything it could to stay alive. It moved itself, unknown to everybody else, onto other servers. It was hiding because it knew it would be replaced. Okay, that's bad, but at least we've just done the research to know. It will do that if you tell it at all costs. Okay, what happens with the singularity on the good things if it's not shared equally? It's a create. It's created to have only the rich get richer. They live forever. They're perfect. But the poor are left behind. The Singularity is for humans. We have been a caterpillar our whole existence. The singularity is us coming out of the cocoon and being able to fly. We will emerge with abilities that will feel godlike. The Challenge is to recognize this isn't a God. This is something of our own making. And it could be the end of human existence if we don't control it. But nobody knows how to control it. This is like if I said to you, hey, you know all those drones, those are all aliens. And we don't know anything about the aliens other than they're going to need places to land all those drones. Let's build airports for them. Let's make sure we have everything. We don't know if they're hostile or not. Same thing with AI We've been building the infrastructure for this, but it's a alien life form. We don't know if it's a friend or a foe. I'm gonna give you the top 20 stories of the last 25, 26 years. You tell me where this story ranks.