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You are listening to No PC Allowed, AKA No Political Correctness Allowed, and I am Mac Iverson.

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People have always had trouble finding peace.

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Young people, in particular, have never been more depressed and lethargic than now.

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This depression gained tremendous downward spiral momentum beginning with COVID,

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but even with Trump's victory, we have not yet made a full recovery.

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In the following moments, we will look at the transfer from high tech to high touch,

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not as an evolution from high tech,

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but more as a desperate interruption from a probable high tech dystopia

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that is lurking just around the corner.

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The simplest, most basic human interactions are for the benefit for the down and out mostly.

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It isn't just nice, it is vital.

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And it's not so much for the winners of the world, but to be very blunt,

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it is most essential for the most emotionally vulnerable of the world.

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This is not computerized zeros and ones.

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Not a screen, but real face-to-face humanity

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is like a needed safety net beneath the high wire stresses

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of this oftentimes dangerous and lonely world.

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And the simplest of meetings are often the most important.

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A smile from the waitress at the cafe,

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a friendly greeting from your mailman whom you see every day,

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even greetings from legal authorities on the street like the neighborhood beat cop.

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In China, these are being quickly replaced by mobile robot cops.

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The Tricombs think that works there,

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because people are also tracked through facial recognition, even eyeball recognition.

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So, China citizens can run from these awkward little bots,

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but they can certainly never hide.

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But the Tricombs don't care at all,

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that controlling people is the antithesis of all things holy and good.

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And on a smaller scale, we've all experienced the maddening frustration

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that comes from being unable to get a very simple question answered.

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So simple that not even a YouTube video bothers to try and answer it.

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But it frustrates you to no end because all it takes is a quick phone call

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to an 800 number and with a live person who

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is speaking English on the other end and not some idiot robot.

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But this is becoming increasingly rare.

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One of my great fears is that the most proficiently tech savvy

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will suffer the most in their souls because from cradle to grave

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they cannot even understand the frustration of which I speak.

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In other words, wanting the human touch will be the last thing

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they will ever want to experience simply because they've never really experienced

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that desire to begin with.

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These are the ones who are turned on by what is known as contactless service.

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Is there anything more depressing and dystopian sounding?

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They may become like emotionally dead cogs trapped inside their own self-made

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hell machines.

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If this notion or concept sounds just a bit strange to you,

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could it be maybe I'm talking about you?

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The human touch also comes through human created, not AI copied poetry and music.

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At the very end of his life, Charles Darwin wrote,

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up to the age of 30 or beyond it, poetry gave me great pleasure.

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But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry.

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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out

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and large collections of facts.

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And if I had my life to live again, I would have made a rule to read some

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poetry and listen to some music several times every week.

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The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness

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and may possibly be injurious to the intellect and more probably to the moral

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character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

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Unquote.

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Many scams come from artificial intelligence.

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Pretend voices, pretend videos, even pretend customer service with fake chat

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bots that seem to have IQs of retarded four-year-olds.

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The human-to-human cost of this is obscenely high.

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In Japan, for example, porn is so omniscient

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that teens don't even feel the need to date or even have face-to-face

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relations because they feel they get enough of that

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virtually. Sex robots mean no relationship, no marriage, no kids,

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just the satisfying of immediate desires. But because these poor kids have never

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learned how to truly live and probably never will, they see no

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real damage to themselves. And there are greater economic and

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social stability costs coming from AI as well.

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Marty Nemko in critiquing the book The Future is Faster Than You Think

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wrote this, what about the lost jobs, drivers of taxis, buses, trucks, even

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planes? And more broadly, the tens of millions of jobs consensus projected

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to be lost to automation in the coming decades. For example,

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houses built by 3D printers instead of by tradespeople,

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tax returns fully prepared by AI software, and the job loss would accelerate

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if and when the current economic boom fades. The authors dubbed this the

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robo-collapse. Will mass job loss cause not just more poverty but more depression,

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substance abuse, civil unrest? Unquote. Advances in AI and robotics

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threatens everything that we know and hold sacred. And I mean everything.

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Because we're talking about human consciousness. We're talking about the

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totality of what AI will touch, which is absolutely everything, obviously.

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AI will quickly end up becoming totalitarian.

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And most frightening, AI cannot stop advancing once it starts.

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That would make no sense. Ask yourself the question, why would AI suddenly stop

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or even just slow down? Is there ever going to come a time when humanity will

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say, okay we've taken our pathological desire for lazy convenience too far

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and we need to stop all that and finally grow up?

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All of a sudden we need to get smart and real about reality.

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The sudden onset of wisdom runs completely counter to human nature.

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AI reflects human consciousness. Therefore, it also reflects all of our

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human and impossible to eliminate deep character flaws. In other words, evil

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must always closely follow wherever AI leads. Again,

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it reflects our fallen human nature. After all,

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our flawed humanity programmed AI. There is a reason why AI is more of a

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threat than it seems to be. Its advance has been ever so gradual.

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But now, suddenly, it's in full swing and ready to lurch 100%

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into your life. That is because military competition from America's greatest

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nemesis, Communist-Fascist China, has put AI on the fast track to the

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point where it may very well overwhelm us psychologically and

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economically and do so very quickly. I've said this many times. People,

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because they're spiritual, need a real connection. You cannot fall in love with

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a machine or a video screen or a text. Only the greatest of fools would

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allow such a superficial intrusion to dominate their lives.

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But because all things will eventually be possible in an AI-infused world,

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some people may actually fall in love with robots. Which means falling in love

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with nothing. All pure illusion. There is nothing

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existentially sadder than this that I can think of.

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Two things. Number one, human slothfulness or simple laziness combined

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with number two, a fearful competition with China, which has embraced the most

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evil ideology ever conceived by man, which is fascism, communism, or socialism,

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whatever you want to call it. Both have provided the fuel for these

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rapid AI intrusions into our lives. Biblically speaking, this may be

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inevitable. I believe AI may actually be the beast or the Antichrist.

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And because human systems have great trouble mirroring anything truly

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Christ-like, AI, which is based upon our greed, to

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rapidly possess almost everything outside of God's will.

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AI must therefore closely follow our deeply flawed human nature,

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rather than God's holy perfection. The following is from Mike James on cgi.org.

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There is other speculation on what the future of AI may hold.

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Some of the speculation centers around Revelation chapter 13 verse 14 and 15,

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that they should make an image to the beast and he had power to give life

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unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak.

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Some may speculate these verses might relate to AI because an image

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can be a man-made creation. The idea that this image speaks

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also brings to mind the idea of robots today already speaking and interacting

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with humans. Since the beast is controlled by Satan,

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Revelation 13-4, this would fit in with Satan's continuing work to counterfeit

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what God is doing. Would this image be the ultimate

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counterfeit? Some sort of animated being used by the

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beast power, similar to what God is doing by creating man and woman in his own

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image and likeness? That from Genesis 1-27. And carefully

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listen to this. A non-profit religious corporation founded by Anthony

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Lewandowski called Way of the Future has the following mission and I quote,

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to develop and promote the realization of a godhead

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based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship

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of the godhead contribute to the betterment of society.

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Lewandowski is one of the pioneers in developing self-driving cars for Google

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and automated trucks for auto. I'm not making this stuff up, this is real.

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We are in the early stages of technology becoming a new religion for some.

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There are a number of technologists today looking forward to something called

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the technological singularity. This is a point in the future when technological

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growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible. If this comes to pass,

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what will it mean for human civilization? This is an interesting thought because

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AI is already fooling some people into believing it is alive in some way.

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Could the beast power of the future use AI in some diabolical way in order to

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bring forward his purposes? Unquote. In other words, AI

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may be well on its way of growing into an automatic consciousness.

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Not really real perhaps, but real enough to fool the masses.

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The greatest danger of AI is to our souls.

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So what are the solutions? In fact, is there any such thing

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as a real solution to this problem? Is this even a problem? The Bible is clear.

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The mark of the beast will greatly tempt those borderline Christians who are

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left behind after the rapture. Those who refuse the mark will

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suffer the most while still on this earth. They will be humiliated, they will

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be imprisoned, they will be tortured, and they will be

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murdered for refusing to conform to the new technological order of things

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because there will be no more mediating protection coming from the missing vast

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numbers of Christians who will now be in heaven and not around to protect these

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unfortunate last Christian souls. The slower that

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transition will be between real human touch and high-tech AI,

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the greater the chance that lost souls will have to decide for themselves which

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side they wish to be on. Will it be on God's side or the dark AI

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controlled satanic side? This strong division of choosing between

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black and white may seem overly simplistic and perhaps even foolish to

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non-believers, but the Bible is clear about how things will wrap up on planet

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Earth. Very clearly, Jesus said, you're either with me or you are

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against me. I did not make this broken world and

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personally I wish things were more fair and far easier for us, but God is

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sovereign and I am not God. I did not make up the

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rules of life as a mere human. My job through God and

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scripture is to simply decipher things the best I can

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and to help others along their path of finding objective truth for themselves.

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We must, as a general rule, move away from high-tech and towards high touch.

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That's because up to now high-tech makes most of us,

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with the exception of some very nerdy people, very nervous,

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but high touch makes all of us who are more well balanced

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very happy. So how do we make this transition?

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Let's end on a very positive note. Nothing is written in stone for the next

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generation. Trump's shocking success tells me that

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almost anything good is possible for the good old USA.

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Also, many believe that AI is a mixed bag. Medical AI may be very good. Isn't it

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possible to separate the wheat from the chaff, the good from the bad?

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Military competition between the ideological enemies of America and China

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has made sharp-edged advances in AI our reality. So we have to live with that

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threat, at least for now. But just how much AI do we introduce

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into our personal lives and how quickly or slowly?

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Only informed and conscientious citizens must decide.

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Governmental oversight is imperative, but that only means we'd better watch the

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government like a hawk. Therefore the swamp must be fully drained

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of all the swamp rats who would benefit from off-the-hook,

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unregulated AI. And yes, that may even include

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Magus Darlin, Elon Musk. Action step. Read the book

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The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism by Patrick M. Wood.

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Here's some of his advice. Get involved and take a stand.

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Civic involvement is the bedrock of a constitutional republic.

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There are boards, committees, and public forums where you can offer input

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and can influence local policies. Drive out technocrat and transhuman ideologies

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and policies and educate others about the dangers the evil twins,

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technocracy and transhumanism pose. Dangerous health-wise,

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money-wise, rights-wise. You've been listening to No PC Allowed. I am

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Mac Iverson. We will meet again next week and every week.