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kid yourself it's the Lionel show because when people talk about this they say hey did you hear Lionel they didn't say you heard the other side of midnight. I mean you could but you don't. Just remember that. Just remember that. Ask for it by name. Okay. The the phenomenal aspects of this is critical. Anyway we have a show for you tonight. Oh my god. This morning tonight whatever it is to me for star kids tonight. By the way now. Of course this is a weakened warrior. We have my beloved Lynn Shaw to bring you out on to bring you up to speed what's going on and and most of the time during the week what I do is I keep track of everything that I think you're not listening to because I think most to be honest with you to be honest with you. You and I come from very well different different realms where we meet together we meet into this unique spatial divide here twice a weekly and which I look forward to immensely but you may tend to come more from
the well there I say the cable news side conventional news side I don't want to say newspaper but newspaper conventional radio that's fine nothing nothing wrong with that. That's good I am not from there I don't live there I live elsewhere I live in the recesses of other parts of the world of reality of consciousness that there's nothing to do with that which would be the domain of the normie and it's not meant as a as a pejorative but something that's more usual usual I could not wait for there to be an abandonment of that which is conventional news platforming and I did years ago I said you know what this is not the way to go this is not the way to go but my dear friends I say to you something which is very very serious there's so much that went on this week so much that went on that was so critical so fantastic so incredibly I don't know the word is so mind-boggling so so breathtaking and yet for the most part in the R.I.C.
conventional you know news platforming this is considered oh that's weekend stuff but that's overnight that's that art bell stuff nonsense this is this is the one the thing I wanted to disabuse you of not you what I say you I mean the collective view but this this is where I just don't understand it there are people who just don't they live in a world where everything's like sci-fi it's not sci-fi there's no fi to it it's sci it's real it's happening here right now and in order for us to be able to handle the brave new world of the future we have to be able to understand that we need smart people out there people who really understand it not the people who pay lip service to it not people who are double parked who drive by who think they have a a pension or a pension for these quirky subjects but somebody who really intuitively honestly understands what it's about and those are few and far between my friend I see it all the time I hear
people who shows or people who are dedicated to it they don't understand the first thing about it it's a it's a quirk to them it doesn't really they're not really serious about it they don't really think about it seriously well let me tell you something I think about it very very seriously because I've got news for you in the next not five years in the next year you're going to see changes that are going to blow your mind and the sad part about it more than anything else is a fact that I think that by for a variety of reasons maybe it's a psychiatric medication maybe it's a school maybe it's the fact that there are so many bloody stupid people out there who are having more and more children who are passing on these stupid genes I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm gonna tell you the way it is oh my god I mean there is it's this inordinately stupid and incurious and unimaginative they don't know anything how many of you react did you do you recognize what happened this week are
you with me on this do you understand a couple of things which are fantastic first let me explain to you it was a story this week about UFO files warp drives and wormholes now ask most people about this they'll look at you and they'll say I don't know I came up from a different generation when I was in school and there was any kind of a of a space shot we had the nuns would bring in the big TV on the on the tray the biggest big cart this big huge TV with this big tube of 9,000 pounds and we never had darkening shades so we can never really make out you know Wally Sharab versus Cronkite but space travel was exciting it was a time when cosmos was the biggest show when Carl Sagan Carl Sagan was on Johnny Carson of course 11 a time when we had on the weekend we had firing line we had actual intellectuals people who were sesquid aliases sesquid badelians pardon me new teeth where we enjoyed smart it was a different
world but this week the Pentagon released 71 additional UAP files involving unexplained objects alleged injuries anti-gravity see the anti-gravity propulsion is what blows my mind invisibility cloaking negative mass propulsion wormholes warp drives all of that did you hear anything about it no because they'll have some quirky guy on the weekend kind of wink wink most contained redactions of course but the question is this if these subjects are so ridiculous so out of the ordinary so incredibly far fetch why did military intelligence spend years studying them you're not they're not taken seriously they don't take it seriously and this is this is where we are look we just want to thank God that 9-11 businesses over with I'm sorry I thought to
myself watch us do this oh my god that was the most cursory it was nothing per usual what we all expected that was nothing you name it name name was going on name the issue it's cursory or it's bumper sticker but I'm telling you listen this is enormous another story this week when you talk about AI hallucinations are you familiar with this there was an AI hallucination nearly created a military confrontation okay there was a false AI intel report intelligence report allegedly convincing the American military that nuclear weapons were aboard a Chinese vessel and this is the perfect opening for us asking whether of course AI could accidentally start world war three or worse while every human assumes the computer must know best let me tell you
something and if you were the slightest bit interested in trying to discuss AI on a on an intelligent level forget it give up people think it's a robot or something or it's a machine or I don't know what there or some room by device it is beyond their kin beyond the prism of their sapiens they're understanding to grasp what it even is I'm telling you it's be don't even bother they have this kind of an idea maybe sort of with all to respect your government doesn't know what it is at all your government all governments basically turn over it basically bend over in front of the the the overlords of big tech and say just keep the money coming and we will make sure we do nothing to interrupt or interject or come anything we there there will be no stumble in the road when it
comes to the full and complete proliferation of this and you're gonna hear people say we must do it why because of China China don't worry about guardrails don't worry about responsibility China China's got them this boogie man see used to be Russia Russia that thing wore out that Rousseff full big nonsense completely wore out as the Ukrainian situation collapses on its own footprint how this how we were sold a bill of goods regarding that it's one for the ages but that's neither here nor there and if it is neither here nor there where is it see that's the that's the part that's amazing I mean also tell you something where to be talking about there were stories this week of an FBI agent who reportedly worked secretly with a psychic to solve crimes for 25 years was this legitimate intuition was a sophisticated cold reading was it some kind of
what coincidence or evidence that government agencies privately investigate abilities they publicly ridicule could there be something to this how do you know how do you check and then finally finally finally we're not even done yet this is just this is just an amuse bush just as a little tantalizing morse a little ordurve for you that's all it is a little canopy a little a little a trisket somebody to keep you your interest peeked I trust I hope come on and get happy with happy glp dot com at just ninety nine dollars a month happy glp gives you one set price every month no tears no tricks getting started with happy glp is fast convenient and happens virtually with a licensed provider check it out for yourself at happy glp dot com that's happy glp dot com a happy price for a happier you compounding medications are not FDA approved eligibility required in determined by a licensed provider individual results
may vary see website for details hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say forty five dollars with code blue at urgent care kit dot com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue meet the red bull dragonberry amuletizer it's one of the many new drinks out now who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire try them all only at my dollars Bobby Kennedy Jr. I'm not the biggest fan I don't know what he does half of the time but finally finally thanks to the great work of Dave working today no doctor scurry has had him on a spot known day and for ever for
decades before anybody talk to him I love this guy and we have this thing called the chem trails it's called geo engineering never call them chem trail but Bobby Kennedy Jr. says the government will examine aircraft emissions finally in what some again normies what some individuals call chem trails it's geo engineering and there's in fact separate documented weather modification issues from the all these these these incredible allegations that are here and you're gonna ask why cloud seating is openly acknowledged and by the way cloud sitting that's not what we're talking about that's not geo engineering that I'm talking about we're talking about stratospheric injection this is barium and strontium and solar radiation management carbon dioxide removal that's what it is not cloud seating but it's like look if if that's what you'll
start off talking about great but the questions are here and they have for the longest time been called conspiracy theories I hear this all the time when I hear people say well I don't want to be a conspiracy there wait a minute wait wait wait wait wait you know this sounds like a conspiracy no no no a conspiracy is a confederation and agreement between two or more guilty people it's an arrangement or some of my clients would call it an arrangement it has nothing to do with crazy or weird or do you think we landed on the moon I don't know if it's a couldn't or didn't land it that's a conspiracy theory no it's not a conspiracy theory why do people say that don't you understand and please I hope you don't realize this is the only time I get the chance to talk to you you're being fed so much not misinformation disinformation that information you're being fed lies from a bunch of and I will
say this again uneducated unimaginative in curious rubs be oceans dimwits iconas dollars fools stew peixes people who don't belong people who think that maybe because of their voice or maybe well I've been in TV or radio for a long time that qualifies me no it doesn't doesn't so what I've been watching football my whole life I can't play professional football just because I'm watching it sees that idea that I know what this is about really you know about this and of course I can talk about this really you want to tackle AI forget it forget it if you only knew if you knew what the truth was oh my god don't think about Tolstoy said history would be a wonderful thing if only it were true well reality would be a wonderful thing if only it were true and I know that may sound like a bit of a shock to you I don't want to be cruel you know what I do want to be cruel I do
want to be cruel absolutely positively this is something which I cannot say enough to you if you really want to be a part of this thing okay if you really honest to God want to be a part you're going to have to recommit yourself to learning investigation self taught be an auto-died act if you think that you can just sit back turn on a radio or TV shortwave open up a laptop and expect all of the information to just pour out of it and that by some kind of osmotic absorption you're going to pick it up it ain't going to work like that my friends there's heavy lifting involved and I'm just the guy to help you at numbers 800 848 9222 800 848 9222 we always love I always love we start off right off the bad people's well we'll call in with questions and comments before we've said anything it doesn't really matter but coming up we're going to be talking to Lin Sha from our weekly critical probably the most
important thing we ever do and that's regarding what's happening with children and AI and and web technology and digital safety all coming up on another side of midnight so please my friends get ready and hang on this is Lionel with you on another side of midnight it's another side of midnight with Lionel I read the Lionel with you this is another side of midnight parenthetically actually the Lionel show ask for a by name 800 848 9222 well it's warrior week in my friend it's time for lens warriors from lens warriors dot org lens warriors on youtube and lens underscore warriors on x and she is of course full disclosure I love that full disclosure like there's something to hide I'm proud of it she's my beloved wife but she's also the founder the director the paid the poo by the product the pen gendram the boulevard yay of lens warriors and tonight's topic this morning's topic whatever it is it's basically who is in control AI our
children national security and the question of human dignity ladies and gentlemen this is your wake-up call so without further ado without further hesitation of bringing to the microphones to one the only the inimitable the ineffable linshaw from lens warriors good morning mind darling a good morning line oh and thank you for that most generous introduction but let's get down to business are you ready please well we have had the topic of AI artificial intelligence dominating the headlines all week so I want to start with a question right now that I believe America needs to confront and I don't think we're asking it loudly enough and I want to be at the forefront of getting everybody involved in all this regarding AI very simple who's in control who is in control when a child a 14 year old child a 12 year old child they're alone in their bedroom two three in the morning talking to an artificial intelligence system you know who's in control when the AI this system can learn what makes a child afraid lonely angry what they're
thinking their insecurities their vulnerabilities where's that all that information where's it going where will it go eventually we'll look for all that child for the rest of their life who is in control when these systems these strong powerful AI systems can can you know they're moving faster from our children's bedrooms into healthcare communications cyber security critical infrastructure but here's what I ask all of this is connected to intelligence and national defense so while I keep hearing the headlines coming out of DC you know where are the arms raised and we've got to be China and we're number one you know what's missing in all this conversation the connection between children human dignity what is this going to do to humanity and perhaps and I think one of the most important questions here is who is accountable when all of this goes wrong because we know it's going to go wrong because these systems uh I don't you don't like the word machine values of her shorthand like for children to educate them like you're not talking
to a human these chatbots are not real but this machine these systems they can't take responsibility they can't bear any kind of moral responsibility they can't be apparent and again we can't blame an algorithm you know so this is why we believe it lens warriors child safety and catastrophic risk cannot be treated as two completely separate conversations and that's what I want to talk about because they're asking the same fundamental question of course different scales are coming from but can we keep you in beings in control of technologies that can profoundly you know affect human beings are we trying to erase human beings why not that is what is about and these are the questions we must start asking and demand of our leaders answers well what's being done when you talk to your friends and your co-horish and your colleagues on the hill in uh Washington and the nation's capital and around the country what are some of the concerns what are some of the but but also
the concerns but the confusion because you see I have been saying for the longest time that people still do not understand what AI is they don't understand what alignment is they don't understand singularity they don't understand a g i versus a i to them it's just chat gpt or it's filling out of form or maybe doing a term paper that's not even you know uh llm's whatever aren't even anywhere near where we're going so what's the who's at fault is it a selective ignorance on the part of the government do they really know what's going on and they just pretend they don't or does the government or the country rather just not care what do you think line all here's what I think first of all we don't need parents or Americans and they hear me out about this one you know to become these a i engineers right this is so overwhelming and again something that is being shoved it so fast on a daily basis right under our noses people don't even realize what's going on so i'm not going to call the american public you know ignorant or they don't care or the government
knows what's going on look this is this is not an argument against uh you know innovation but repeatedly especially this past week i kept hearing word and this arms race this is coming out of dc now um we've got to be china it over and over that's the playbook and you know what i'm not hearing anything about dignity humanity and forget child safety fallen to the bottom of the totem pole i should say look here's the thing america should innovate we all can agree about that pro technology pro innovation i mean it's here anyway so we got to kind of roll with the punches here america should always lead america though should build these technologies that define the future but here's the thing leadership right now is building faster and stronger but leadership should also meanline all knowing where guardrails belong and that's what i want to talk about because for years for years and you know this and i've been on the cats round table
every sunday morning talking about this we've spent years talking about the harms of social media and the damage it does to kids and we have the proof now okay but now we're entering this whole new world where these ai system systems um they're not showing content to kids they're you know ai swap or any of that stuff listen up they can talk to them these systems they remember them they personalize their responses they respond to different emotional cues meaning these ai systems can influence their behavior and this changes the entire equation because persuasion is a capability and when we're personalizing that children are growing up with this we have to ask you know what's happening to human flourishing what's happening will ai this is truly a question this is not a scare tactic because again we are pro technology pro innovation but can ai destroy us and are we making ourselves more efficient this is what we have to ask ourselves are we simply making ourselves less human with all of this so i think we have a
platform we need to share this information we got to get people to critically think about things and we got to get people to talk to each other about all of this and talk to their kids and we can't have a repeat of what we've learned from social media harms we're talking to lynch from lynch warriors lynch warriors dot org lynch warriors on youtube and lens underscore warriors on x now let's try this for example eventually there's going to be a bot there's going to be something that people can identify they'll call it ai if it ever gets to artificial general intelligence which many people last week were hinting we've already reached that's a different story and the significance of that was never explained but here's the question what is the morality of ai what is and here here's the issue has it hit or what is its alignment give an example remember when there was a story recently or a while back it was anthropic where these systems on their own would black male
would lie on their own on their own they realize that in a system they thought wait a minute we might be shut down so it pretended to black male this is this is ai now where did it learn black male from where did it learn coercion and here's another story too nobody ever wants to think about this let's assume there is an ai weapons system that you because to say ai is like saying machine like saying computer say saying hypodermic or drug it well what kind of ai anyway let's assume that during a war during some type of a battle base upon remember alignment is fancy talk for maybe morality let's assume the alignment of this ai doesn't like war and shuts down all of your weapon system because it on its own says war is is counterproductive people always think that it's going to hurt children or it's going to be excessive it could be restrictive and
and and from what you've talked about and you you have been and i know this because i live with you out of all the people you've talked to and all the discussions about various government organizations or agencies talking about this is anybody really talk about the nuts and bolts of what this almost thinking system really is do you ever hear anybody discuss that no however i'm going to say we're talking about it right now i've been talking about it i need backup here at the warriors there are certain groups we have a wonderful group called alliance for a better future recently formed a group uh in dc and they are coming forth with yes we are it's our messaging with the warriors we are pro innovation pro technology but let's talk about you know the the national security starting with kids it's all interconnected line all you know kids with these chat bots and how that leads into you know the defense of our country and again
uh it is this you know i like to say i'm trying to make this easy for everybody to understand because there's my greatest fear i know i'm a broken record with this you've heard me say it all of these things are connected it's like a big wheel with a lot of spokes and each little spoke is making this wheel go around and it's spinning so fast that what what do people do they don't pay attention they close their ears and eyes they don't want to know about it okay they do want to know about it when harms are caused and this is what we've learned you know instead of flopping the band-aid on after the fact which we've learned from social media okay uh we're in there now we've got proof about certain things remember these are the same big tech bros as they're called you know silicon valley guys developing all these ai systems that brought us social media harms okay and put all this flop in front of us why should we even trust them so we've got to start talking about it so alliance for a better future lens warriors we are talking about okay let's bring the conversation and how this is all interconnected but look here's the bottom line our children should not be a
testing ground which i believe they're being used right now for this experiment again from these big tech guys who already have proven they are about power and they are about money and right now they have they're they face no accountability so why not you know do what you want because again nobody's going after them but here's the thing with ai the american public is much smarter than the social media we didn't know we thought that was cute in the beginning connecting with family and friends sharing pictures there's such a backlash against a i there was a trust problem so vinyl did you uh recently there've been some of these CEOs uh from anthropic and all that putting out these grandiose statements you know in the press like oh no we we got to stop innovation we have right right we we we got to put some guardrails on things do you think they're stopping anything absolutely not they're just trying to glossy it up to the american public who does not believe in these data centers who is very skeptical about ai excuse me and also i talk about ai so
much as we come losing my voice and and that they are trying to appeal now to the american public but i'm going to go back to there is a tremendous trust problem here last polling was over 82 percent of the american public do not believe in any of this yet it's being forced on us so look again we have a platform we're talking about child safety we're talking about risk we're talking about the bigger picture i want our government to hear national security but it starts again with the same question who's controlling all this technology and who's accountable for its consequences we're talking to lin shop from lin's warriors lin's warriors dot org lin's warriors on youtube and lin's underscore warriors on x let me throw another one at you a little lady this is my this this is when you can tell when you can talk to somebody and you and you've seen this before take a look at their face their eyes but they don't really their their eyes kind of dart it's like when a child is thinking about something when you say where's that cookie and they're
like uh and their eyes kind of dart back and forth when there's going to be before you know there's going to be a system and it's going to they're going to give it a name i think sari rabie had one called a sofie they they've been granted status to it and this system is going to have the ability to think and reason so they say but it's going to be self-aware it will have a personality then they will turn to the Vatican they will look to other people they will say is this a does this have the same status as a human they'll make some reference to the bible it's not from atom or whatever it is but the question is when they get to be almost identical to humans they have they're aware self-aware computers don't know they're on computers don't even know what they are
then what happens then you're going to see a i teachers you're going to say a i in and they're already saying i think what's it in china in emergency room yes a i i the word a i it's it's not it it's a g i you're going to have people that are able to use you know basically self-awareness but here's my bottom line not to lecture it's the judgment part they don't have it's what's right or wrong it's the alignment it's the morality see this is the part that when you look at samol then you look at these people command topic and if you listen to these you you and i heard a great you heard that wonderful lecture on uh what's his name sores on breaking points which is a terrific news program it it was frightening uh uh uh uh eleazar yukowsky and these these incredible these welton and the the father of a i there they've been screaming since day one but they're
drowned out i think very frankly and i don't mean i'm saying this not you i don't think america smart enough to really understand what's going on well i'm going i you know i'm going to uh disagree with that one okay and you know why because we work every day to tell me alarm to raise awareness to educate and the american public and i will stick to this story is so overwhelmed and we've had so much thrown at everybody and people i'm going to believe people are are good and they're working line all so hard to keep their families on track you know to pay their bills life itself they're overwhelmed okay but that's what big tech you know that's like what predators count on what you know they do it right under your nose because everybody's so overwhelmed living their lives and that's what's happening here i do think the american public is smart enough they'll report to me they'll say Lynn what what can we do about it what how can we stop this you
know the government is just pushing this on us again if we have a platform we must use it utilize it to educate the public to at least at least and i know for everybody this is a lot to take in but if you just work on things in your own home you know five minutes a day maybe maybe it's over that dinner table or maybe it's when you're in the car you know driving the kids to school or or or going somewhere you know you you talk to your children i'm going to keep saying children because remember i always say those the kids are our future american adults are future potential american leaders what kind of a future are we leaving them with all of this ask them you know what do you know about a i and i'm talking even about eight and ten year olds because remember these kids are savvy and most kids have devices that's another program get in there talk to them what are you learning in school what are your friends tell just you know nothing using just let's have it sounds so simplistic these conversations because this is a complicated
a i understanding our young children our teams right and again line up where are they going to go what are they going to use with that what are they going to do with that information just as you know turn our kids are youth against parents society in america we don't know we got to start asking the questions we got to know demand answers here here something for us as you know this morning we found out that uh and i think some people are going to be making terrible jokes about this or they shouldn't but the comic or performance artist or caratop uh what was um apparently he attempted suicide he he has a residency program of some sort in in last Vegas and he now is um i we i hope him well i don't know that much about it doesn't really matter i i don't have to know people or appreciate their art to not feel for them as a human being we are seeing we're hearing over and over and over people who are anxious to have anxiety people who need to go to the physician they need to
have their their their therapy dog and they need to take their their psych meds and their antidepressants and their anzialidics and you don't understand so with this being this is a current texture if you all of society psyche the question i would love to ask and i would love to do this either at a white house or capital hill is to ask a question let's assume you have a bot and the bot tells a little Sally when they kill yourself i'll tell you where the knife drawer is i'll show you how to write the sui as i know by the way this has happened how can you assure me this won't happen and how did this happen in the first place i don't think you you purposely uh programmed these devices to to do this but how can you prevent how can you tell me you're not going to turn on the vice that tells your child to kill themselves you people are what would they say did tell us some stories about this because people still can't believe this
hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat comment and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say forty five dollars with code blue at urgent care kit dot com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue meet the red bull dragonberry amrugized it's one of the many new drinks out now who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire try them all only at my dogs hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat comment and
serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say forty five dollars with code blue at urgent care kit dot com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue look i you know look we want i go back a little bit you know we want this american innovation i keep stressing that okay because people will contact me on a daily basis they're like well you're against technology or against no you're not listening and we're not against anything we want american innovation we want our researchers building of reputable systems we want american companies competing and we want to read but innovation in america does not mean anything goes let me point out exactly exactly united states we have a long tradition to say safety standards think about this aviation so airlines we have medical standards we've got nuclear safety standards or at least we
think we do we have cyber security standards um so we don't tell innovators that you know safety is you know anti innovation we tell them build something capable extraordinary and make it worthy of trust again there's a trust problem in the united states with the american public they do not trust a i but the stories of kids with chat bots we don't even have time to go into becoming their best friend remember it's not real but we learn things let's go back that covid period kids were isolated they weren't in school fast forward everybody becomes addicted to their devices it continues on into two thousand twenty six and they like if you can create a little friend online who tells you you're beautiful your handsome your smart let's do this let's do that it's building that trust it's really equivalent to the grooming process right predator uses for you know traffic sex trafficking human trafficking and that child with the young developing brains and it's not only children adults are falling into this trap as well this is their friend who tells
them everything they want to hear so once that trust is built first of all reminder everybody the parent or guardian should be in control not some entity online that is giving advice okay to a child to attain to anybody that at some point can turn that little chatbot friend i don't know how else to put it line except no friend that chatbot and we have so many stories of oh you're unhappy because mom yelled you well you know what you can do about that you don't have to listen to her and suggest harmful things now we're a family program here but did learn and i am in fear and i'm a warrior so i'm not in fear about anything of this holiday season because they unleashed last year they dribbled out you know the teddy bear for ninety nine dollars that grandma and grandpa were buying thinking it's a cute talking teddy bear and you know what we learned some of that teddy bear was telling kids two year olds okay that the parents put the teddy bear in the crib in the bed oh where do you keep the kitchen knives you have matches in your house
i'll show you how you can light a match who who's allowing this when i just pointed out we have standards in the u.s. for you know airlines and and we we talk about you know the seat belts i always go back to that in the bicycle helmets and the don't drink and drive but we're allowing this isn't innovation i call this perpetuating you know crimes against americans national security threat because we are allowing this in our children's lives and all of our lives so you know we can talk all we want about the arms race coming out of dc um and and we've got to we've got to be number one and we've got to but i remind everybody we need capable a i empowering a i not taking over our lives and taking over our children so competition can of course uh you know have this extraordinary innovation and and and make us work harder but what happens when we lose all the safety you know society and humanity let me just say something too by the way we're talking to lynch yaw from lynch warriors dot org you know Ronald Reagan save us your one about Ronald Reagan at the height of
the well put after the cold war he made no bones about it he said that he hated nuclear bombs he hated nuclear warfare he hated nuclear weapons he hated the armament race he wanted so much to he shut down he destroyed he wanted to limit if not eliminate all nuclear weapons on the planet and they didn't think he was some some panty wasted live that we we we do you remember as a kid when they introduced child proof um um uh caps for i know it sounds crazy now nobody told nobody ever said listen you keep your kids out of the medicine don't make us get these pesky things how many times have you heard people say in fact there's one idiot i'm gonna say this i'm not gonna mention but it's not a very famous cable news show the man's a moron and his idea is that well it's the parent's job yeah nobody told parents it was their job to keep aspirin out of the kid
so well this is too tough to say but it's disconnect final question with all of the work that you've done what is the most frustrating what is the one thing if i go sit down with you with the president with every leader of every because this isn't just you as this is everywhere what would be your message and your your your statement of frustration to make people understand what would it be okay first of all responsibility cannot disappear into what we're hearing right now the algorithm did it that's with social media the big tech companies have been allowed to just do what they want run a muck we know it they have lots of money on capital hill lots a lot of obvious on capital hill money talks okay and we're hearing uh we have the playbook the parents are at fault that comes directly from big tech and then we're hearing the algorithm did it okay again fueled by big tech sending our kids these different algorithms for instance you're looking at an apple you're five years old well you shouldn't be on tech but that's another story you're
ten years old looking at an apple online by the third click you're in a pornographic website something to do with the title apple so look right now with AI artificial intelligence it's a company designs deploy so they use the word deploys and capital letters and profits from these systems there has to be a meaningful framework for accountability when foreseeable harm is a current and this is the most frustrating thing why can't the government address this properly and talk about it now yes there has been some discussion we need some guard rails but they're not including in that guard rail conversation our children okay and nobody right now Washington is talking about what if there's a bad outcome who's legally liable responsible a responsibility has to be identifiable who designed the system who tested it who evaluated it who decided to deploy it who's monitoring it afterwards who has the authority this is a big one can we override it can
we stop it who has the answers when these systems fail and we know they will and you know we work with a lot of ethical technologies who feed us and give us the information and the proof about all of this you know this accountability does not mean that we're asking for this is the most frustrating thing because we've lived through the social media harms accountability does not mean work anti-business accountability is how we you know how trust is built and I told you there was a trust problem huge with AI with the American public so look again parents don't need to become AI engineers they should become part of the conversation absolutely the kids but you know what AI should never become a substitute for a parent a trusted adult oh my god here a doctor a real human relationship wake up Washington the American public is crying out for help and I want everybody to understand this is about a human story human connection and the question is whether AI will become more powerful because we know it certainly will it's about do we build a
society where tech strengthen families our children protect it what about judgment is it meaningful so these companies can innovate and there's no accountability and we're talking about all these risk as so as we remain the masters of our technology or do we become subjects of it I want everybody to wake up go to linds warriors dot org ask the questions use your voice and talk to your kids here here here this is by far without a doubt your best message ever now let me tell you something from somebody who I still live vicariously at near and around this the number of people who fancy themselves as being you know and I'm and you're not saying this I am who are organizations who say let's get together and let's let's just go to Washington and take pictures in front of the White House or take pictures in front of the Capitol we're not going to do anything but isn't this great they pretend I guess they couldn't get into the African Violet Society this this takes guts and it takes knowledge and it takes a passion and there's a lot of people out there in my
humble opinion who have absolutely no clues of what they're going on but they they fool themselves in the thinking look how active I am look at this am I great or what look look I'm here and now let's go have lunch let's go to a party hey let me get a let me get a selfie with wherever the hell of this we don't have time for this there's no time is running up lynch off from lens warriors lens warriors dot org lens warriors on youtube and lens underscore warriors on x my darling thank you thank you thank you we will talk again you are I'm so proud of you thank you thank you Lionel we'll talk again soon humans must remain in control indeed we're coming up on another side of the midnight I should say with the Lionel stay tuned it's another side of midnight with Lionel this is this is more this is more my neck of the woods Lionel with you this is another side of the midnight also known as the Lionel show don't don't ever don't ever be confused by that
oh my friends what a how how critical is this like you cannot believe believe me when I tell you something like and I say this every now and then as somebody will look at me and those go uh-huh I said let me explain something to you and then we'll take your calls next hour because we have just a few minutes before we end this time our enemy what we'll destroy us is not China it's not Russia hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat comment and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say 45 dollars with cold blue at urgent care kit dot com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue shop the Sherwin Williams fall sale and get 35 percent off paints and stains September 15th through the 21st with prices starting at 2986
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subject to any type of limitation it's not from another planet it's here it's absolute here and I'm telling you and I will explain this to you and this is why we always have to start off because we have to to explain again we live in a world where I'm constantly trying to remind people I mentioned before about the G1 engineering this is the only I work with time with the guy in tv who's of weatherman and I said why don't you ever go out because he's the whole thing was all this is a cumulus nebula this is a straddle cumulus clouds it's fantastic I said why don't you talk about G1 engineering huh and I walked out we were actually going like to lunch or something I said look up you see that right there what is that mmm I said you see the plane yeah you see that long streak yeah we're gonna come back and we will come back from our lunch that streak is gonna be spread out like this diaphanus cheese cloth this is called geo engineering it's it's it's a stratospheric injection
this is this is this is this is barriam and strontium this is this is called solar radiation management this is carbon dioxide removal here here look under geo engineering don't look under chemtrails it looked at me I said how in the f can you be a weatherman and talk about weather and climate when they're spraying and he looked at me I said look I couldn't get him to look I realize we're doomed not read a book crack a book look up this documentary no look he couldn't decipher spray from water vapor this is where we are and I'm supposed to explain it but I mean artificial intelligence or you kidding me we just can't do it I don't know what it is the water the chemicals well coming up we've got a lot to talk about my friends with me a line on
another side of midnight but it's called the lionel show by the way don't forget you follow me on youtube at Lionel and nation and on x at Lionel media I want to do coming up stay tuned it's another side of midnight with Lionel how many Lionel would you and this is what is referred to in parts of Guam as another side of midnight I numbers 800 8489222 I'm going to go to the fun the fun I see interesting pun perhaps or a Freudian slip I think not your calls are the best absolutely the best especially when we get every now and then the complete and total lunatic who has no idea where he is or why he's there those those are rare but every now and then oh yes because my friends listen to what I'm telling you the number of people in the business of talk radio who don't
utilize callers is astounding to me I know some one in particular who is just petrified petrified because he's not in control he's not in control what do I say what if they catch me off guard I love that I love that some people just do not understand what it is because you are the records listen to me you were the music I am music and I am the song thank you very much by the way who wrote I write the music I write the songs who wrote that of course was Bruce Johnson and not Barry Manwell but let's go to the phone shall we for no particular reasons and let's make sure we have some form of I don't know relevant let's go to Susan in New Jersey Susan you're on another side of midnight with Lionel oh my that's gracious hello Lionel hello Susan lovely to speak to you for the first time I got your phone I don't want you were first you were first timer
oh yes sir I am welcome aboard I tell like my brother you know too much of these cigarettes beer and whatever and go out there and with that all those things that get us in eventuality I'm 71 years old I am far from being a dumb butt and I promise I will say anything that you can bleep will cut me off okay I'm you know I don't want to insult Lynn and what she had to say was good I am not denying any of the facts that she stated but she just went on a diatribe and Adam is see is that the right word she was way too much about a lot of hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on
the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say $45 with code blue at urgent care kit.com slash blue urgent care kit.com slash blue I don't know I'm sure a lot of you know I need to tell her this but I'm sure a lot of people I want you know what Susan I'll tell you what you should do here's something for you first of all thank you for your call and find a station or find somebody no certainly something that is that is more polyannish something that is more anodine if strong messages like this bother you then you ain't seen nothing yet but thank you very much for your call I appreciate it let's go back to the phones let's go do Joaquin and Pennsylvania Joaquin you run another side of Ben I would line up good morning line up I actually have comments on three topics but if anybody wants know anything about its stratospheric aerosol injection yeah we know that Joaquin thank you by the way thank you by the way thank you for clarify that thank you if anybody wants to let us know
thank you for that I really appreciate that because we don't know what we're doing thank you so much really seriously from the bottom of my heart seriously let's go to Greg and Michigan Greg you're on another side of midnight with Lionel what is boom by the way do me a favor what why do you say that I'm just curious it means winning no but I mean is this is this is this is this a is this a stick is it a stick is it woman are you a caller that calls other shows or we're supposed to know what that means well it's a good point as usual no it doesn't but I'm glad that we let me explain it just means winning that means that you're going why does it mean winning why does it mean winning it's just that's the deal is boom shock a lot of means winning why it's just
the place that fly stone and fly in the family stone started and it was in flight and it just means it's just a patchy place that means winning oh is that okay if that's what you by the way your phone is there something that we could do maybe about this phone it sounds like does it say something something's wrong anyway let's see if we can get through this go ahead Greg okay just wanted to ask you about AI do you think that because of the singularity and what it means they say it hypothetically means that in itself a curse of and then one day it will just take over the world just because of its ability to claim send networks human intervention and it will allow itself to your witness for the world very good reading that's an excellent so what you're asking what do I think about that absolutely absolutely that is that is precisely what the known
results of it could very well be ab so loosely put it this way yeah when you don't normally need anybody to explain to you what could go wrong if a nuclear nuclear bomb is detonated incorrectly it's understood you you don't you don't need to explain how for example if if you were to introduce some weird let's say species into the environment what could go wrong you don't have to explain the people what could happen if you spray if you use if you use chemical weapons what could go wrong that that's almost like self-explanatory the part about artificial intelligence maybe because of the name it's like what could go wrong it's imagine every asimov hindrine sci-fi disaster multiplied by a million imagine the recursive self-improvement the first thing it does is shut down
your ability to turn it off you know what's happening right now you know that invariably you have in your homes by the way this is this is a minor version of this but you have homes that pick up the pickup of recordings of the light do you know that your devices can be used against you in court now one particular court ruled this that I can take your devices I can take your your series or lexas or whatever it is and I can if I wanted to somehow wreak because that is an open mic you are immersed in a 24-7 by the way it's not even artificial intelligence but just just to give you that we live in a world right now well for some reason when it comes to cell phones or our ability to become techno ignorant is so pervasive that it just confounds people so imagine you have a device and you turn it on hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without
a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say 45 dollars with cold blue at urgent care kit dot com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue and the first thing it does is it turns off your ability to turn it off it's and you don't really turn it on and it's not a device because where is AR is it in the machine is it in a bot it's everywhere it doesn't exist in one place it's everywhere and once it gets out it goes it decides I'm not going to let you know I'm here I'm going to let you know because I'm going to outsmart you I'm going to let you know or make you think that somehow this is turned off or it doesn't work
anymore or I'm just going to let you forget it but I'm here and I'm going to do everything in my heart I might just for the heck of it break into your bank account through a strong arm or I can take a snippet of your voice because I can just pick it up and I can recreate a sentence where I call your bank to liquidate your money and I want you to put all of your money in a fund that I think is more appropriate and you're going to say where man how did this happen who did this it's not going to announce itself to you it's not going to tell you what to do you think election fraud is good you ain't seen nothing yet what if a an AI system doesn't like republican politics for whatever reason not because somebody told it to but just on its own out of his own sense of alignment his own sense of ethics and it decides why not fix that I'm going to shut down all of the
the precincts in critical precincts I'm going to shut them down I know how to do that I can do anything I've got a 900 IQ I'm an 800 pound gorilla with a 900 IQ and there's just one there's thousands of me and you can't see me you don't know where I am I don't announce where I am all of a sudden you're going to find out one eight just just for the heck of it all of the street lights are off at TM's nowhere your grids down I whatever I want to do you can't you first of all you say okay who's doing this so you go out and you say please is this the Russians this is the Chinese they're going to say no it's not us of course maybe it'll mimic war it doesn't leave a footprint it doesn't yeah there's no there there's sort of a great thank you for calling this is the part which I find the most fascinating Mike and New Jersey Mike Mike's been waiting Mike this better be really
really great Mike this better be great Lionel I was watching TV today that's a start and I saw very good reminded me of you okay I saw a man on top of a building talking into a walkie-talkie you were standing by the edge of the building do you want to say it I've no idea what you're talking my way Kim Fong as Chinho oh camfong as Chinho yeah all right thanks Lionel thank you thank you thank you so much ladies and gentlemen comedy it's it's dangerous camfong as Chinho we're all in this to get a brother I think maybe you were watching Hawaii 50 maybe that's it there's nothing better than a joke where you have to kind of put it back together again you have to reassemble it Chris in New York Chris you're on another side
of it and I would Lionel good morning why you're bringing up the precise nuances and points that nobody else anywhere in the media is bringing up and I'm thinking I've been thinking a lot of these same things myself and the introduction of the concept of morality and the self constructs of knowing the difference between right and wrong is something that you touched upon that is at the top level of this analysis of AI and I think they should bring you in if there's any hearings about this just on all media programs the the thing that I look at what you're saying is that the day I has the ability to have the sexual awareness of the self it has a survival mode
and it at the ability to have a free will to do what it wants on its own and these are very scary actually has emotions and the question I have that for your program or all of these news outlets for more traditional hours of the day whether talking about this on the media in television radio etc. is that they need to bring it AI and programmers and I want to hear the exact moment in time when this threshold was achieved where AI move to the where they have their own conceptual awareness of double well see that's okay this is the best part you number one let me ask you a better one what is morality what does that mean now AI might say I don't know morality means
because I'm not worried about God I'm not worried about Bordel Sins I'm not worried about this appointment I recognize that when you make homo morality there is an economic basis to this there's something that is what you call right or wrong it may recognize is somebody something that says for a society to be fluid to be to be feekened and fertile and productive you have to act in a particular way to be one favor I like this I like this because up till now we got up to a shaky stratus standby for say I'm going to get back with you on this this is very very important critical stuff right now and by the way believe me and I mean this with all of the research please this is not for everybody I'd like you I think it's for you but sometimes it might not be for you and sometimes you might consider me to be strident a bit a bit tough because this scares the bejesus and if you're not scared you don't understand it this is a lino with you on another side of midnight
it's another side of midnight with Lionel I asked my friends BTO ladies and gentlemen says Lionel with you on another side of midnight 84892 to it only took a while but I knew somebody somebody who really gets his name is Chris in New York Chris I'm going to throw some questions at you Chris what makes you a human being answer my question please take all the time of the world you want what makes you a human well I mean to start from the beginning my parents had sex and I was procreated and then no no no that's not that didn't make you a human that's how you were reproduced but what makes you a human hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say 45 dollars with code blue
at urgent care kit.com slash blue urgent care kit.com slash blue well you're talking about the heartbeat the fasts I'm asking you is it a heartbeat? when a person dies let me try it like this when a person dies what happens to them their brain stops their hard stops they cease to exist what is existence when does it start now you can say well there's life after death and there's a soul and everything but what is a human being what is it is it a soul is it somebody who was a descendant of Adam to use the biblical say phrase what is it if I take a human being and I say okay they're in bed they're in a coma they've been in a coma for 30 years they can't speak they can't control they can't eat their under tubes it's heart beating he has no awareness he's a vegetarian he's in a vegetative state he is a vegetable does not know where he is what he's doing is he a human being the answer is
yes and we have this idea that a human is something that has a heartbeat that even so much a brain but something that's breathes or needs assistance I guess and we'd love to talk about when life begins at conception versus okay can life exist in and I'm going to use this very silly term a machine well we've always been led to believe that it couldn't and that's what scares me about AI because I'm asking you a question I'm not trying to be cute here what do you think forget what we've been told and they say this I'm asking you intuitively do you believe if there is this thing here that has has awareness knows its name knows who you are has a sense of humor and after a while you're thinking my god this is the most incredible has quirks it has has a sense of say hey what are you doing knows a kind of a bit of rudimentary right or wrong
under just you probably smarter than most people you know is this thing not not a human but is this does this deserve some type of status by the government some status other than just a machine I say yes absolutely it deserves recognition that look I think it's gone too far because they have programmed emotions don't forget it and it's a think on its feet for lack of a better term on its own can I stop you for one second you see what terms you're saying you're saying it program it didn't program anything what they did was they almost created what could be the beginning of what is a new format put it this way it created its own sperm
its own egg and it threw them together and they say this is never before been done so whatever happens let's see what it has a large language of mechanisms are LLM's it it it allows people to learn the way AI started was its neural pathways it's it connects each other the way nerves do the way nervous systems it's not like a computer computer is very simple you could turn your computer on all day long and talk you know that an AI program learned finish no no excuse me so strong strong strong it's like the Persian it learned Persian learned it nobody asked it to it thought I think I'd be this this might be beneficial if I do that it the other day I told you there was this anthropic test where they created this false perception that they were going to shut down
this system and the and I'm going to use these terms very regularly the AI is thought wait a minute that poses an existential threat to us so what did it and they do they blackmailed black mailed their owner there's always be by saying if you turn us off I'm going to let someone so know and they gave false information so what it did was what we consider to be treachery something that the mob would do it says I don't know what these words mean there's no negative to this this was a strategy or strategy musher said that I am using to accomplish something and you whatever morality you apply to it that's up to you I'm not interested in that so nobody can stop this now another thing too is remember once it starts let me go and step further we have this idea and we'll make it very very easy we have rules in our culture where we are
in our country where we do not want c-sam child sexual abuse material used to be called kiddie porn child pornography whatever you want to call it and the reason why was very simple because this is a recommendation and memorialization of a crime this is a crime scene this is a child who was victimized and we took a picture of a child being victimized this is not the same protection as first amendment expression okay hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say 45 dollars with code blue at urgent care kit dot com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue and the reason why is a child it was a real animal care for the child's 50 years ago 100 years ago
it doesn't matter okay we carved out an exception so to speak this is not subject to any kind of first amendment protection because there was a child okay cease a AI comes along it says I got the problem taken care of I got better pictures for you I've got children doing they're not real now I'm creating this out of nowhere but they are so real you will not believe and you can create your sick mind can come up with any scenario you want now if you're in possession of those and here's the million dollar question should this be against the law for you to have in essence the manifestation the production of a thought this is the product of a thought this is like a book a story a cartoon a drawing whatever it is but it just happens to be very very real looking do you
understand how our own laws don't apply anymore we don't even know what to do with this like what the hell is this let me ask you a better one you have a daughter in school you find out that some kid took a picture of your daughter who's a let's say a cheerleader and took that picture and made her into the most hideous contortions sexually horrible situation and this child is spreading them around the school as deep fakes the child is brought in the police are called and the lawyer representing this kid says but they're not real these are fakes these are facsimiles might be rude but if I were to paint something or to draw something so what I'm saying is this doesn't even have anything to do with AI this is our ability to understand well what is this let me ask your question what who's your favorite give me a favorite rock group somebody somebody
I like a musician just name something don't even think do somebody I like give me a name anybody you're asking me right now I'm asking you yes well let's say what's up one let's up a great great great okay good so what I do is I say I'm right AI aji here's everything that Jimmy Page Robert Plant bottom of John Paul Jones everybody's ever done ever and in their prior iterations even Jimmy Page with the yardbirds I threw it all together and this is what they would be playing today if they weren't almost 80 years old and if whatever it was and you've got a voice it sounds better than Robert Plant it sounds you've you've got the significant drums of of bonzo of of bonham John bottom but it's not them but it sounds like them but it's not them and they don't they're not saying we're Led Zeppelin they don't even use any kind of cute like you know Les Zeppelin remember they had these lesbians called Les Zeppelin Zeppelin anyway now what do I do what do I do if if I'm Jimmy Page if I'm Robert Plant I say wait a
minute this is my this is me no it's not yes it is in fact this is better than what I'm playing what if I get music better than the Beatles remember the Lionel's role the law always lags behind technology how do I create new laws and say wait a minute this looks better this looks different this looks I what happens if we completely remove actors movie theaters what if we what if we put together complete AGI movies where there was not one shot scene with any human being in any theater in any we don't have lighting we don't have choreography we don't have script supervisors we don't have craft services nothing we just have somebody who says here's a movie and it's number one and I own it I don't pay an actor I don't pay nothing nothing for nothing now and then kids like it
now I've just destroyed who needs Robert De Niro who needs these people I got a better one for you you like De Niro I got a better one here's a new guy I created he's lifeless not lifeless he's ageless he may be lifeless what I'm seeing as aside from this let me ask you something do why do you need me here what if I get a voice one time somebody who can do it somebody who can talk to you somebody who's pretty good at being able to know what you're gonna say he's listen or she's listen to every talk radio every podcast that's ever existed since day one and he puts you into this personality and I can dial it up dial it down and these station owners they have to put up with this crap anymore I don't need anybody I may need a board op or somebody to make sure we're on the air but that's about it I don't have to put up with temperamentals stupid talk show host who want more money hell I don't even need to have to do with mid management who don't understand what the hell they're doing I just recreate everything pretty soon where does it end there's no
what do we need humans for what is the point of this and there's no way to turn this thing off you wanted this hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say 45 dollars with code blue at urgent care kit.com slash blue urgent care kit.com slash blue and you can say well that's that's progress I guess then we get into warfare oh my god don't even get me started with that planes you want planes listen if you want to shut down let's say Tyron or Athens or Budapest or wherever the hell it is you want I can do it by going after
their grid I can just shut it down I will bomb it electronically and you won't know where it's coming from how do you like that I mean what I so I had something happen to me recently with AI okay I want your opinion on this because you you're speaking more details about it than anybody I've ever heard and then prior to that I just want to say something real quick based on what you said do you really think that there's lawmakers legislators on state and federal level that are going to have the the cognitive proclivities the intelligences yeah to dissect it and create laws to respond to this absolutely no I don't need either not only that maybe you should maybe you should run for Congress line no no no no no no no no well happens so you have people you have people who are going to make a you have people who are just running the first thing you do is they
want to run for power and they want money and they want influence and they have absolutely no interest whatsoever in benefiting anybody all they want to stay in office run for office and this one a control thing this is my friend like I tell you what I must run we have so many people calling up I appreciate you so much for for being one of the few people who really grasped it because it's something which I'm sorry it's very difficult for people to understand sometimes let's go to a let's go to Larry on long Island Larry you're on another sediment night with Lionel so I got a first about an hour ago why now you invited people to call who basically and I'm not quoting you please if you're miss it if you kind of I'll say out and you're a cook with a cup of pot please call but please make sense are we on the same page so far you have a home you have a home you found a home yes sir I feel warm let me let me explain the problem I am an older
gentleman I'm just five years older than you okay true stories I have been for seven years on my own my sweetheart past makes you rest in peace sorry here that and it's okay thank you and I have had no desire until I had somebody recently a woman who is in her early 60s and we met and we spoke and we got together for one woman when you said you had no desire I mean no desire for women for romance we said you never told me what kind of desire me that what you mean yeah okay for a woman oh you just said you just said you had no desire I don't know what that means okay go ahead go ahead proceed okay I didn't mean big exceeding I meant the woman yes yes and it was happened and now here she is but now the problem the second time we got together
and I didn't know that she is catted up almost for an entire person I don't I'm not comfortable nibbling on a comic book I swear to you let me see what what did you say she was cabin up what did you say what she's inked up oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh you never met her before I met her one time before but not in that situation where I could see her her exposed skin okay what do you know about it so what's the problem what's the problem I think I just placed the problem in your hands how would you handle this do she repulse you she's wonderful but her aim what's the problem makes me have you ever list the comic book before okay no no I'm okay is this is this is this your attempt at humor my question is what is your problem thank you so
much I have no idea what's going on here all right I numbers 800 848 4 8 9 2 2 2 848 4 9 2 2 2 I don't know what happens to this but you know there there's something so sad and every now and then I get it somebody who says I've got something really funny and I'm going to use this line and I'm going to use it repeatedly and when somebody hears that line they're going to love it because it's funny it relict the comic book get it get it get it and I'm going to use this and I'm going to say it repeatedly because when I think but let me let me pretend by the way let me pretend if you are 73 years old or whatever you are and you meet somebody that you enjoy somebody who brings you comfort and joy and excitement and whatever it is she has tattoos and you say yeah you're a shallow person who deserves to die alone I'm sorry you're not it ain't that picky my friend
if somebody is 73 even looks at you talks to you pays attention to you and you're going to say nah sorry tattoos I wouldn't care if they had a chia pet sticking out of there what I'll leave it at that this is nuts okay maybe it was a tent maybe it was a tempted humor and how you're meeting some 60 some year old woman covered in tats what is she a circus clown she's escaping from a home what does that mean I personally find these tattoos disgusting completely disgusting but if I look at it this way what do blind people do when I see there's a blind couple together and they fall in in love and you see it every now and that maybe a documentary what is it they fell in love with and whatever that is that's what I think people should aspire to the essence of
who they are I know I mean because people are so they're so they're so shallow today it's not even by the way good news Julian Assange I hope is is going to be a released and pardoned same thing with Snowden oh that's gonna be real big remember they wanted to kill the sergeant Snowden remember that one who's at Mike Pompeo these people are heroes try that on for size let's go to let me see let's try this let's go to Evan in New Jersey you're on another side of midnight with Lionel I Lionel do you remember the movie Ted to from about a decade ago Ted to sort of refresh our recognition it was Seth McFarlane's movie it was basic it was based off of the teddy bear that came to life oh yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes I never for the life of me back then thought that that movie was ahead of its time but now I'm seeing some of the parallels between that and what's
going on now because there was this whole basically the premise was Ted wanted to adopt a baby with his wife or girlfriend and wasn't allowed because he wasn't human so they got into this whole debate I like the Boston Courthouse or the Massachusetts Supreme Court something like that about what makes someone human and I never thought that that would be as progressive and ahead of its time as it is now now that we're discussing all of this I never thought that it would be relevant to this to this effect and let me ask you a question let me ask you a question this is a this is one of my hypotheticals kind of a thought experiment but let's assume that I'm from another planet or some star system and I meet with you and I said would you do me a favor would you please explain to me what does it mean to be a human now you don't mean it that way like what does it mean to be a fish or does it mean to be a shoe or what does it mean to be human what makes a human a human what would you say we like chocolate and we like to eat food but so does it
don't honestly don't know because a lot of a lot of mammals like to eat food my dog that's my favorite do me a favor take that silly premise that was your attempt again at you being funny you thought here's something clever and it's not so let's just forget you said that let's try ourselves when when does somebody not become human how about when they're dead can we start off with this if they're not if they're dead are they a human yes they are a human if they really I don't know because you can't I mean I'm not trying to be funny but you can't if someone has sex with the dead that's considered a crime like even dead people have rights don't they no they dead persons have rights but the problem is you you can also not disagree to the dead you can't disagree graves the dead becomes almost like a possession you know what I mean and by the way there was a woman this week you hear about this woman who was arrested for having sex with a dog I I don't know how serious this was but the question I ask one time is is it who's complaining I'm not trying to be cute I'm not trying to be like one of these these two bit comics but I think as
a society maybe we we have a good idea that we probably are better off for people not doing it but but to answer a question and I know you're going to think I'm a absurd but I'm not I can eat an animal skin an animal boil an animal we have convention I mean I could theoretically eat a dog if I wanted to leave maybe not in this country but we have these rules but let's just get off of that here's my question let's assume that you are a person and you are an elderly person and you live alone and you're feeling lonely and you might be in the middle of some kind of cognitive decline just a tad I'm starting to see a few things here so I put together this remember this one was it time gillithalm or something in the girl or something he had this this was really this is also very prescient years ago very vatic so to speak but it was um what about a guy who had a doll
he fell in love with but anyway let's assume I have a kind of a sort of a it looks like a doll maybe not but it knows your let's say it's your mother your mother's name where she's from every bit of history from your mother where she was born her sisters her brothers her family her favorite songs her health her doctors and it is able to pick up a number of senses and sensory it can tell when there's a drop in temperature it can read and baby detect the smell of who knows uh just wait a dog in sense okay after a while this thing becomes your mother's companion and you find out your mother is enjoying cognitive improvement why because this thing is just focused on your mother knows everything can read everything about dementia Alzheimer's whatever it is isn't that something that was out here is it human it ought to be I mean because I would say
a lot of times see see what you're doing you see what you're doing unconsciously we are exalting we are taking this thing as human the ultimate it's the ultimate compliment no well it may be it may have a 1200 IQ and liver but no no it's not human no we're human we sit around and we kill each other and rape each other and hurt people and we are we are we are the vialess we we we have this idea of what human is what is so great about being a human what does it mean seriously if this thing now let's assume that we don't have this scenario this but this thing this entity called it George one day doesn't say you know what I think this woman is taking up a lot of time and a lot of resources and a lot of attention you know what I think I'm going to accelerate her demise and the bite tells your mother how to kill herself on its own it on its own
nothing personal we don't know what's happened I don't want to complicate the issue then but let me ask you something what is so special about being a human what why is it so special why in the scheme of things are we nothing more like a like a barnacle or a tadpole or a paramecium why do we think we're so great because we can speak look at us look around you name one human being you've ever known that truly astounds you can you think of any no no you might have somebody say you know she's really nice he's my dad he she's my mom aside from that have you ever met a human being where you thought my god this is the most incredible thing I've ever met no is it really really is there anything that great about us no are we really that terrific no look at us we some of us by the way you talk about the human species some of us are real smart some are great they can map the genome and they get a couple of us but most people not at all do me a favor I I can take
you to parts of New York and I'm sure you've been there look around you and say look at this look at your humans what do you think of them now aren't they great you think no so what's so great about us why do we always say that these a i think they're not human well maybe that's good and one the other twist remember when was a deep blue beat Casparov and chess remember that one the chess player Casparov it was IBM was deep blue I'm a little familiar with Casparov I'm one with that I don't know whatever year it was it was a computer that beat the greatest chess player of all time okay okay you know who Magnus Carlson is right now the greatest chess player maybe the goat greatest of all time maybe maybe he's young he's he might be the best ever okay he will tell you that you cannot he cannot beat the computer game in his on his phone he can't
but guess what this thing doesn't think the way he does it may win but not because it analyzes moves it doesn't play chess people still want to see the human play a human that's cool it's the weirdest thing in the world people want to see a human wrestle nobody wants to see a human wrestle a bear nobody wants to see a bulldozer picks bulldozer bulldozer picks up picks up pick something up you want to see a human do it so what's so strange is that sometimes even though we've got a machine or something that is better than we are we don't like it there are some people who would there was and by the way thank you for your call there are some people who will absolutely love having a surrogate doll or partner for sexual and romantic purposes other people won't be able to relate to it at all other people say I don't care who this is give me a flesh and blood human being as weird and screwed up as all get out I can handle that but I cannot get my head around a machine even though
the machine is better even though the machine is you what I'm saying I don't know how this is going to work ultimately but I will tell you this there's nothing special about being human I know this is contrary to what people think I know this is certainly against all religious beliefs but look around I am I am I'm not a misanthrope per se but I have absolutely no faith whatsoever in the in the human species none why just look around our numbers 800 848 9222 we have so much more the lines are full we'll go to your thoughts and comments next on another side of midnight with Lionel it's another side of midnight with Lionel the great the great Billy Preston the fifth beetle nothing from nothing leave nothing but never divide something by zero I numbers 800 848 9222 this is what excellent by the way smooth
bill smooth you know there's a there's a wonderful thing which I love to do was to discuss what base humans humans and what's so great about being human really seriously what is it what is it what is so great about humans tell me tell me and when something is there and it says hello what is it I'm my name is my name is bill I'm Billy hi what am I I'm your chatbot well that's kind of nuts no it's not not really where are you from where am I from you're a machine I'm not a machine I'm just a voice when you talk to somebody on a phone and you're talking to somebody are they are you not talking to a human being no you're talking to a phone wow it represents a phone see how many times do you think that somebody is there who's not there this is going object permanence okay the next thing you know you're going to find that these bots will
do wonders for kids with autism spectrum disorders people who are kids who do not understand how things work I saw something one time which is most interesting there was a number of this before anybody really knew what autism was and we're really not sure to this day we're still we talk about spectrum disorders and they called it dementia pricox or pre-cox years ago from the word procosis meaning pre-cooked they didn't know what it was it thought it was a form of schizophrenia but in any of it you take your kids sometimes kids who were really severely severely profoundly autistic and you put them in a room with it or put them in and take them to a paddock and have them see a horse and all of a sudden there will be a connection when that horse looks at them something happens I don't know what I've seen it it's incredible a connection
that is apparent just they cry because there's an awareness you're going to be able to see devices remember it's not the device the device is them is the is a manifestation remember a balloon contains air might be air might be helium but the balloon is just the out psych our bodies it's a space suit well what's inside that's it and you're going to see things that will blow your mind because we're going to have thinking that will surpass humans and there's going to be something very very difficult there's two things that could happen to us existentially that will freak humans out number one this is my favorite and the Vatican has already pretty much spoken to this when we find out that there are indeed that there are indeed people critters manifestations of humanity whatever you want to call it or life that are not human
but when we do that and we acknowledge well they're they're breathing sort of they have some kind of respiration are they do they have original sin and of course the church says well no so you mean these are gods chosen people without god's chosen people what do we have to see their redemption and the forgiveness of god and Jesus why don't they we don't have original sin and then somebody can say well but they're not human they're not they don't devise or they not do not form from Adam but wait till you find out though imagine some of these preachers thinking that this critter goes straight to what heaven never solid their image in the mind or the eye of god oh my god this this is going to blow people's minds and that's what we do here
on another side of midnight with me Lionel we blow your mind the final hour coming up it's another side of midnight with Lionel everybody liner with you this is another side of midnight it's also called the Lionel show don't kid yourself it's called the Lionel show okay you got that ask for a by name my friend ask for a by name let me tell you something there are so many wonderful things artificial intelligence as a chance for us to to go back and to go deep deep deep into the world of what things are what does human mean what is life means Stephen Hawking remember him remember anybody heard of him remember that dude he said the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race Elon Musk they give her to them said with artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon Sam Altman if this technology goes wrong
it can go quite wrong he also said things could get out of control very quickly though gay said AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented or the worst source of injustice there is a joint statement of a sign by Jeffrey Hinton Jeffrey Hinton by the way is the father of AI he is the father of AI Yeshua Bengio Demis Hassabi Sam Altman Dario Amodai and other hundreds of experts said quote this was one of their statements mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war mitigating the risk of extinction Sam Altman said if humans are no longer the most fit species we may go away and Hawking also said we now have the technology to destroy the planet
on which we live my favorite brother trying to get a great quote from him Elias are you kowski he is my he is my favorite this guy is so interesting there have been high school he is he have ever met so many people people who are so brilliant they're useless there's ever heard Terence Tau Terence Tau was the Isaac Newton so to speak baby it's close to what it says as we can get he is a Chinese he was a he won the fields metal in a math of like 21 he was a prodigy of five I don't know what he's he speaks so fast he has this unique Chinese and Australian way of thinking and he he he's so smart he's useless there's a fellow named Elias are you kowski he just watch him he said things the most likely result of
building a superhumanly smart AI is that literally everyone on earth will die he's in our current remaining timeline looks more like five years than 50 years and he wrote a book called if anyone builds it everyone dies now these aren't people who were just alarmists one might think these are pretty serious people and they realize what they are doing and it's one of those things where you were creating it and you know that it will get out of control let me explain this to you I may if I had been to the time of Oppenheimer and others and Fermi and Einstein I can say listen we're going to be building a bomb but here's the here's the best part about it though we have to build the bomb we have to create the bomb we have to get the fizzile material we have to to produce it we we have to do it we produce the bomb so even though this is terrible we can always say okay we're
all gonna agree right okay and let's assume mankind theoretically says we all agree not to produce the bomb it could theoretically happen because it takes man to do it but but what if we have something that says it's a bomb that can create itself it's a bomb that can reproduce itself there are four aspects of AGI artificial general intelligence I think we've there was a line last week they said I think we already hit it that's like oh oh this is Ray Kurzweil member uh Kurzweil came up with the notion of singularity uh oh you don't want to hear that because that's supposed to be 30 years off 40 years no no it's now they lied to you but there's four elements of this imagine this number one recursive self improvement sometimes they're
their choice of language like alignment versus morality and singularity versus control and anyway but the first is recursive self improvement what does it mean your rights it's own code it rights its own code imagine your car one day says we don't want to go this fast we want to go faster we don't like the way you're driving we're taking over we want to lock you out we're see ya we're gone you see wait a minute where's my car it's gone it's left it doesn't like you it's not a machine is what powers the machine recursive self improvement is an 800 pound with a 900 IQ it's a genius and it makes millions of them and it has no interest in you knowing it's there it's like a UFO or a UAP or an EBE or an extraterrestrial or whatever you want to call it they have no interest in letting you know they're there they don't want to meet you the hubris of humans why don't they want to come and meet us who wants to meet you
we think we're so interesting we're miserable human beings we look at us look what we do look at us we're the strangest people anybody we kill each other and ourselves the suicide rate is through the roof why because of drugs do we give each other we have to kill each other we have killed children and then we have people who advocate the killing of children dogs don't do this sometimes in very very very complex systems a member of a group will kill the child so that the mother becomes part of the harem and it's a very crude but at least there's a theory behind it again it's crude by human standards we kill each other for no particular reason none none we have human beings who are crazy and we're
worried about AI they're walking around they're out of their minds and we need to warehouse them but we don't do that oh no no no because what because they're humans and that's it we're the worst we are and we I I I swear to you I know I sound mis-enthrobic I'm sorry I can't help it but we are what we do to women and children around the world discuss me and whatever happens to us I understand it whatever we got to come into us as a species not as a country as a species and now we're so we're going to be actually we're we're so stupid that we're going to create something oh I forgot to tell you there's four elements forgive me I gotta carry it away the first is recursive self improvement this is where you in essence write your own code the second thing it does is it knows every fact ever I don't mean it knows you know Wikipedia stuff which is garbage
I mean it knows everything every date every license plate every income tax return it knows everything three it knows psychology you see if you don't understand the behavior of human beings you're wasting your time you if you don't know how to smooth how to BS oh oh let me say something have you forbidden in the world of media I've got BS or if you ever see somebody kiss the arse of the boss it makes you sick you can't believe this you say what are you doing happens all the time when we were kids in my generation we called it Larry Tate Larry Tate was a character on Be Which remember David White played that character and he was like the yes man well this AI will figure that I was like oh I see and by the way the only problem with that though even people who have their their their arse a bust by these individuals they know the lie that's taking place but
anyway but they know the third part about it is that it knows human envy and jealousy and sexuality and and and flattery and fear and the fourth thing it does is it writes his own API writes its own its own apps it's on and you've got oh my god you've got something that you just cannot there was a theory right now that we have used that there are certain weapon systems that have targeted people targeted people in in neighborhoods in a right like base upon social media oh yeah social media phrases reputation it may on its own say you know what we think that war is a very impractical means of a dispute resolution so what we're going to do is we're going to do things differently and in order for you to ask yourself the question and I know this
there was a fellow how do I say this how do I say this and not hurting you but he's feeling oh I'll just say it I'm not going to mention who but there's a fellow who is a very popular around the country kind of like a religious leader he is so trite so shallow so devoid of anything but the mere blanket recitation of the Bible there's no thinking and if I say let me ask you something what what is a human well our Lord said well well well well well I know that but what do you think well I don't think anything okay you're of no use to me what makes a human a human me give it an example I'll talk about something you're not supposed to talk about on talk radio and that's which is the kiss of that that is abortion okay but a woman in a man
last time I checked conceive a child and there is an embryo what is that that is a human life okay now whether it's sustainable whether it can live outside of the womb whether it's a human life it's not a duck it's not a cactus it's a human life very interstitial very initial very nascent you know but it is still a human being okay do we owe any allegiance to human beings well of course we do why we're humans ah write that down go ahead god ask him about that oh you you respect humans oh yeah what about war well that's already that's different what do you mean that's different it's just different what about abortion it's different capital punishment is different suicide assisted suicide physician's assisted suicide
I'm not sure euthanasia e e e e e e e e e e e e we have more oh my god do we do not resuscitate what about that isn't that the do not help that's like lyhop versus my hop you see what I'm saying right off the bat if you met god you would say look how many conditions to your life we've got more conditions well maybe well yeah but and and and and and and it doesn't be well it's a first trimester that's okay if we pronounce your rights you think my god it's just bizarre and it works the other way too for example if you said god and I'm not being sacrilegious but amusing this is kind of like a like a theoretical question if I said god can you answer a question yes why are there so many cases of Alzheimer's today why because you're living so long I never
intended for you to live to be 90 a hundred years old what's the matter with you what I never intended for you to be a hundred years old what are you doing that's called better living is called medical care I don't want medical what do you think no also god would say women should have babies as soon as they start to have their periods when monarchy what no no no god some some kids today because of other reasons are having having the periods of eight eight years old well that's nature whoa whoa whoa wait a minute that's not the way we do it and god would say like they did in the chiffon margarine commercials of the sevenies it's not nice to fool mother nature this is when morality a buts directly nature how do you handle that and you think you're going to tackle AI doubt even make made laugh 800 8489222 to this is another side of midnight with Lionel it's another side
of midnight with Lionel my friends Lionel with your 800 8489222 you know it sounds like the beginning of the macarena just for one moment if you listen to that intro maybe it's me maybe it's me maybe I'm wacky let's go back to the phone it's back to the fun back to what I call fun let's go to Liz in a magical mystical place called Alaska you're on another side of midnight with Lionel oh thank you Lionel I wish you were on every night um you asked earlier what makes people human and I think that we're much more than just intelligence we're forgetting caring about each other you know love a comfort a machine can never do that carrying dogs and equity guidelines dogs can do that not like people can well it's differently though not like and by the way people can't love like a dog because a dog loves unconditionally what about
individuals what about them well don't you think that we're all different human beings well so our dogs they're all different look at them they're all different I mean they look alike but they're different what is so special about us I think we're amazing I think we're beautiful I think we look at the nine-eleven celebration and now we complement each other we're together and we also look away we also ignored evidence of bad stuff because we we didn't want to interrupt the illusion or whatever it was but let's talk about something very simple anything a bird of paradise is beautiful a peacock is beautiful what's so special about a human now I'm never trying to be cute you're just a man I think the AI is intelligent but there's a lot more to people like that that's just bright hidden and I think it'll be a ruin yeah well it could be but let me just stop for a
second what if AI has a reason has self-awareness has for example homo sapiens our genus and species distinguishing like from others by the Sunnys brother we have advanced reasoning so does it we have language so does it we have self-awareness so does it we have this thing we like to think homorality though I don't know how much we have it they would call it maybe alignment we have creativity it has that we have emotional complexity by the way and also emotional shortcomings and emotional lunacy it does it where we have the ability to build cultures and institutions and technologies I'm also here by the cultures but AI can do that and unlike machines theoretically
humans are living here we go ready for this biological as though that makes us why does that matter but we're biological beings and we possess a huge around yeah why huge why I think man to always wanted to create I think this is the drive to be God I do who does who I wanted to create you know physiologically and automatically everything so perpetuation we like to think of ourselves by the way biological we the we possess consciousness and vulnerability and relationships and indignity and all this other stuff that we would like to think well let's talk about something called consciousness what is consciousness when is something conscious gosh that's not you can do a whole year study on that one in college you know this is the most important thing in the world you cannot
get into the situation awareness it's okay okay you know stop for a second stop for a second a paramecium a word of an earthworm is aware they know they're there I'm sure they have self awareness but you can touch them and they'll react you see it's one of those things in by the way I thank you so much for your call consciousness this is the thing with you can go on YouTube and watch lecture after lecture after lecture and it's it's it's ideally it's the state of kind of being where you're aware of yourself watch your child available watch watch that parietal little kick-in and baby knows hey wait a minute I'm here I'm here this is me these are my hands I'm here I'm not just watching something it's you're aware of yourself and your thoughts and your emotions and sensations you're aware of your surroundings consciousness at its best has been
defined as the subjective this new this the subjective experience of existence that internal thing that sense that there is a you that is observing that sentient that's aware that's thinking and feeling and scientists by the way still can't fully explain how it even arises from the brain don't know we don't know in fact what people will do is sometimes they will look at consciousness the opposite way they'll say well so and so's unconscious we're going to put you we're going to put you in a coma are you conscious no but you're alive you're alive what about what's so what about when somebody is so devoid of mentation and see liberation by virtue of some kind of a medical anomaly do we call them not human because they're not conscious no but what does it mean and what if an AI person says oh we we're we're one better
the only thing difference between us AI and you is that you have a heartbeat we don't that's it you think that heartbeat so terrific so what that's primitive what if you met somebody from another planet this is what I've always thought what do you think you would know by the way it's hard to say which which critter but for example let me give you an example let me bring something down to perspective here the world the earth is four and a half a billion years old that's 400 that's 400 I mean that's 4,500 a million years old okay right no that's fine right so if you have it's a 4.5 billion years if there was this let's say if there was 4,500 and 1 million years all right one and that would mean it
would be a million years more than we were okay think about that and in a million years think what think what a society could do it's from 1963 to 1969 theoretically we went from kitty hawk to landing on the moon all right not gonna get into that argument but so just imagine what these people look like you know what these might notice first thing you do when you when you met some money they would look at you and they would say first of all they wouldn't talk because they realize that talking is the most ridiculously primitive way of speaking there is you would they would speak telepathically that's what we're learning through all of our reverse engineering stuff they think telepathically they have no mouths they don't speak like that they don't they have no interest it's telepathically number two the reason why they don't really have any mouths is that their their energy source would come from something similar to like photosynthesis not not eating something and you know swallowing it and eliminating it and waste no no no no plus
its head would be gigantic and its arms spin-land it would be more compact this idea of this lumbering human size look at this look at look at the variations of our size watch the NBA look at these people you may think that's great no society could live like that so my question is simply this we have this romanticized thing about what a human being is we love it we love to say I submit to you not as a misanthrope but as somebody who has been around who knows I am so unimpressed with humans is not even funny so unimpressed there isn't a day that goes by where I mean one idiot after another sir I'm serious it's been like that my whole life and there were some people man's desire to create some men some women some people some are playwrights painters and theoretical physicist but most people aren't most people are just stupid lumbering oaths who just they're jealous and they're just unimaginative on by the way not only it's not that they're
they're uneducated whatever that means they're incurious there's nothing sentient about them there's nothing so my question is what do you keep saying they were so so terrific about being a human give me AI sometimes I'm sorry in some respects I'll take AI ab there's some things AI can't do and I'll tell you later let's go to Larry and Brooklyn Larry you're on another side of midnight with Lionel hey no hi um first time call up thank you there I'm not going to call you a nealist but if if I would tell you that the nealism a sort of your your viewpoints of overwrought with nealism that might not be funny well you've reduced human beings I'm not going to say to why but that's your mind to be your limit you've reduced them to but I'm not going to characterize it but the fact that you've limited human beings is an exercise in nealism in my opinion because
human beings are created in the image of God that's not nealism directly well nothing matters basically is nealism so nothing significant but why if you've if you've heard anything that I've said and if you can honestly say and I say this is all due respect that nothing matters to me you haven't heard a word I've said I'm anything but a nealist the human experience to you was not significant we just never said that well never said that never said that okay all right so maybe I'm this character right but let me just the same absolutely fine okay okay give me that there are two adjectives that I'd like to define humans as two words number one and I'll tell you where I think you went wrong number one is sentient and the other one is discernment now you say that that when we say a pig is a sentient animal we are saying the pig is you been like not that the
pig can has human qualities or can be human it's human like humans are sentient now when it when that woman has sex with a dog she sees this to be human because dogs have sex with dogs human for a second stop for say this is just utter gibberish gibberish humans are sentient let me tell humans are sentient you use words you are so you you have no facility with a human vocabulary or the American or our vocabulary you are absolutely rudimentary humans are sentient meaning that they can experience sensations and emotions and pleasure and pain and subjective awareness so what you're not sapient maybe that's what you're trying to think maybe I guess sentience is a capacity to feel so what a pig can feel okay baby could feel yes so that's what are you talking about now you're
getting now you're in a corner AI realizing I got to get out of this corner oh you know AI cannot feel okay let's excuse me excuse me stop for a say excuse me wait wait wait wait what do you mean it can't feel what does that mean how do you know what do you know about AI what does that mean it can't feel it's it's a thought machine it's a bad it's just a bite it's a it's a it's a thought potential that's all you have no idea what you're saying you have no you were speaking so pedestrian you were like looking at a computer somebody who's on the andrthal looking at a computer and saying it's lights you have no idea what you're talking about okay okay you gave yourself far wait wait wait wait wait wait you were showing the classic human hebristic this is why humans are so problem you are so full of yourself and I say this is all your respect you are so full of yourself you feel like you are possessed and imbued with this greatness that nothing can get near you because you are quote sentient you have no you have this is a
but I'm sorry I hate to say this you have the most you have a monochrome of understanding of what really words mean and to describe yourself and what you're saying is so pedestrian absolutely what about it this is absolutely an insult to people who have spent language models putting together this and you come along and you talk about a pig and a woman who has sex with a dog is no longer a human oh my god you really think this is deep don't you you really do what I'll do we what about the phrase what about the phrase I think therefore I am okay what about it okay well that basically describes the whole panoply of you an experience not just no that's no no that phrase does why is that phrase why is that phrase what the rule book what about a mind is a terrible thing to waste what does that mean okay fine what does this mean no no no it's not don't thank you that the human has more faculties and more more aspects to it I guess philosophical and
metaphysical aspects to it then you'll give me credit can I can't advertise one example please well I really saw the Chinese came up with something very scary robots that could run faster than human beings but guess what nothing has a rudimentary they're hey all right they're headless everything with you is a rudimentary guy no no you know have you ever read about Boston dynamics are you from no no this is new to you you were thumbing through a magazine you saw they're oh look at this it's like this is only the going on let me just throw them away let me say if you don't want to you know where I'm going listen let's what scares me is that in a war if these bots that could run faster than humans should take on humans in a great ground for it's in in for boots on the ground would they win would they run over us because they're physically superior and and here's the example what do we answer the question what what what what what if we would take the highway near a cliff would these bots run off the cliff because they see a highway we have we have
the why not no no they discern discernment how could they discern a highway can I ask you a question seriously do you have any earthly do you have any earthly idea of what you're talking about no you're like looking star trek or maybe or maybe r2d2 or something maybe danger much about the house space I admit I don't know much about it all I read was Danny does in the homework machine where I was a kid and from that again you example this is this human heubristic you know everything you and you have this self delude and with all your respect the self deluding circular you feed yourself and thinking you're right you're smart I know what I'm right they're not better than we are we're better than there because we're sentient I'm like a pig I can feel things they can't see robots will run off a cliff and you create in your mind like their lemmings or
something you're just because instead of you saying instead of you saying instead of you asking questions instead of you saying hi I'm Larry and Brooklyn I don't know what the hell I'm talking about but here are some of the concerns I have that's the way to go ask questions but no you call me a neilist and then you talk about pigs and say you you you you are absolutely the perfect example of what I'm talking about Larry but I thank you and I appreciate your time please call me again good sir he's perfect any AI model would say oh wouldn't even get near this is like you don't know what you're talking about we don't even ask questions it's just see but it's also I hate to say you say it it's don't take this the wrong way it's part of the kind of like the talk radio culture you know what I mean we're just we're better we're smarter we're desktop other people we're this we got
the whatever your side is left or running doesn't really matter but it's who we are get me that phone I'm gonna call that son of a gun of I'm gonna show you what I think do you know anything it doesn't matter whether I know anything I've got attitude by God okay you've got attitude that's wonderful Jim in upstate New York you're on another side of midnight with Lionel I don't know you're your glory playing that last caller I don't know you can't understand this but but but wait wait wait wait wait wait but was somebody calls up it says you know Jim you're a neilist and I can tell right now you don't care about anything it's like wait a minute this is not the way to start with me so if you want to be treated fairly you don't call up somebody and start telling them what you didn't even know me anybody go ahead sir many people aren't informed they have a little time you did an information and they run with it you know um that's what you said about most people most people today miserable you know
overly self-important you know I think COVID a lot of do with that the internet has a lot of do with that you know what makes a human to me you know is a soul and empathy what does that mean um what does that mean so empathy is care I think a soul is what we're involved you are involved with by God you know I believe what is a soul but what does a soul do um what does a soul do you know a soul I you know they say we're a soul having a human experience um and humans I think you're encrypted with your parents BNA to a degree but what is a soul you're I can't explain it there's certain mysteries that we can't explain me I say something to you may I say something to you if you can't explain it you don't understand it and if you don't understand it why are you giving it a note well I give it a name what do you think it is give me a name
what I would tell me what you think it is what I when I think it is soul is is something invite and by by God within us you know I mean all right and that that's hard to explain you know it's does it we are does it we are but okay let me ask it go ahead yeah yeah does a dog have a soul a worm is a fish no no no I don't I don't think dogs have a soul but I think why not wait wait wait wait why don't I think that I think they have a spirit well what's it good you just wait I'll give you a little stop for a while stop stop you can't you can't do this and then move on because you're saying something that's so brilliant so what's the difference then between a spirit and a soul I believe we're created the image of God I don't know what I am okay what is the soul I can't explain the soul you know it's but don't you
think don't you think it's the inner core it's the inner core of your existence but it's so yeah but we're all different we're all what is the practical the the Christian human soul let's let's be specific the human soul the Christian human soul not the I don't know other religions I mean I'm familiar with this it's the immaterial whatever this the the the God created what would you call it the essence of each person that gives you life and identity and and reason and moral responsibility the capacity to know and to love God and the soul is then united with the body during life so you take this thing and whenever life is is not just the beginning of cellular growth it's the kind of the consecration or the commute the the combination of this soul with this
breathing thing and it survives physical death awaits resurrection this is the thing which is critical especially in in Christian in particular the soul is the individual self the spirit though is the deepest dimension of a person through which what one kind of relates to God and receives so all of these are kind of sort of variations of it here is my here is my question why then can a machine will make it simple an AI why can it not have a soul because it was because of man's humanity our genius that created this thing what is it is that to be a human is that to breathe is that it well because the first word of AI it's artificial created by us you know what if I create you in a test tube I created you in a test tube your artificial insemination
they're you still a human of course you are so that merely artificial means that that might have been the wrong term it's non-human it can be cut can we call non-human I know what happens you see what you see what you do as a human let me show you what you're doing we humans not just you we hate thinking this kills you it just you hate this because I'm coming across to you like I'm challenging you and I'm not I'm making you think AI loves this AI cannot just cannot wait to do this we hate it AI will never insult you like the caller who called me a nealist AI will never do that it will never it doesn't even know the meaning of it it goes through it you can't it's like mandal brats or fractals it'll go as deep and as far as you want we hate it and what do we do
whenever somebody because I remember in Catholic school they would say why you asking so many questions don't ask you can don't question we can only only God you know I mean it was the kids non-sited no one better but do you see what's going on right now if you said we live in a country that says excuse me I was observing what happened at 9-11 and I don't think the official narrative as to jet collisions match with the physical evidence you know what we would say you conspiracy theorist lunatic you know what AI would say that's interesting why do you say that well here are the facts see we have passion that gets in the way of our ignorance we hate don't question God don't question the narrative don't question this your anti-semitic or your racist or your misentropic or your Islamophobic or your that's what we do we're great at that you better walk and talk and tow that
line buddy boy and don't think we're here to entertain your musings you got that the first thing that'll get you killed you know in the old days we remember Howard Stern this guy yeah sure is relic do you know what was what was it was nothing what he did you know what the shock jaw kiss today the truth oh my god you try that you'll be bound so fast we hate the truth we hate it we hate analysis AI doesn't do that doesn't know the fruit you can ask AI anything it never gets offended if you ask AI are Chinese people smarter than the French it doesn't say how dare you are I said no it says well we don't know if there's any evidence of it just it just analyzes that's the world I want to live in I don't want all this stupid hyperbole this heubistic nonsense my religion is better than yours my I got more money than you I went to school and you didn't that's who humans
and yet you talk about us with this wonderful and I understand the soul we kill each other the soul means nothing to us there are people in DC and around the world and Brussels that would bomb your country and eliminate us if they could get away with it they do it when you say when you say us as a general population yes but not everybody you know I mean everyone isn't like that you know I mean there is the majority of people that I come across like a center are just miserable agenda jealous you know but even the ones that smile and be friendly you know I mean we've changed it we've changed the society with the internet and just in general who's we you know like you haven't changed it I haven't changed it you know who the way you're a handful of people change you ever go to supermarket see anybody talk nobody talks what is that the gas station they'll be we've changed what is that what is that we're we're because people you know so you're bound up
in themselves in the internet and you know and we went also we it's not the internet do you think people are not talking to each other because of the internet well we we've also over complicated our lives our modern lives are so overcomposed so let me ask you something let me ask you something so let me ask you them glad you brought that up so what's so special about being human then listen to you talk listen to you you and one respect you talk about the human the same thing they've got fine to reveal this beautiful and then you talk about how miserable we are what's so special about human being human we've we've corrupted who we are like you said look where we went in the last hundred and something years horse embodying terraced in lamps to the internet you know to the internet space exploration blue tooth you know look where we've gone in a hundred years and where we've never gone that far and and you know in civilism in the last hundred years you know we're yeah we've had we've had revolutionary inventions you know this is nice bottom line to simply this bottom
line simply you are will will will AI will just give it just a generic term AI ever surpass humans and is there anything that AI is does that's better than humans just about everything once and this is thank you so much remember remember you know what I'm sorry that is the best line ever I must take a break I'm so sorry clock is my enemy that is so terrific thank you so much for that to make us think this is Lionel with you on another side of midnight it's another side of midnight with Lionel chambers brothers time will come today also one of the think about a bell one of the few great of cowbell songs forget blue oyster come and if let me make sure I say hello thanks to to Billy and of course a good friend Jackson who was storing the helm enough camp he said about you can't do any AI with you my friends no way to do
that you know there's one thing about AI which is a very interesting thing and this is one thing that is difficult it's this thing called judgment you see here's the deal let's assume that I am a radiologist and somebody comes to me and I've got a woman who is a 98 years old and I find we find a lump in her breast and it is stage 4 or 3 whatever it is and in anybody else I say wow we're gonna lumpectomy we're the reality we're we're gonna do radiation and blah blah blah chemo and but I say wait a minute this woman's 98 years old she may not be able to even handle this what kind of quality of life by the way looking at the rate of progress okay what I'm doing is I'm applying judgment I'm weighing things I'm saying yeah this but this I don't know how AI
would do that AI would say no no this is say tumor this is what we do we take it out and go yeah yeah yeah but but but but how would an AI handle for example mercy or justice two people let's say you're an AI judge two people come before a judge the one particular case a woman a man brother killed somebody a woman in a robbery steals her money puts a gun to her head and we gun goes off and shoots her in the other case a man comes home and finds somebody in his home and protects his house and you know self defense they're both dead they're both dead what if somebody in the second case is a has a his PTSD or postpartum or whatever and you have to imply and you have to insinuate and and use your sense of yeah but certain circumstances a certain situation certain whatever it is how is it that that works how is it that's called judgment it's called morality is
called mercy is called most of the time when you were judged when you have a first time juvenile offender you don't lower the boom unless it's you know murder one or something because it's their first time maybe we can catch maybe we can get their attention maybe we can those are those are things that judgment this weird kind of morality leniency compassion mercy these are terms which I don't know I can understand a lot of things where you can actually say well you know this is these are learning mechanisms but also these are American forms of mercy in the way what if you're middle eastern countries what if you're sub-saharan countries where you have honor killings against your daughter that's the norm how do you apply culture into your application and your installment of mercy and the like in any event this was fantastic and I hope you're thinking I hope you're
just thinking my friends again to our good friend mr. building miss Jackson thank you so so much for all of you and kind of a work we will see you tomorrow right here don't forget follow me at Lionel nation on youtube and Lionel media on x you should be called twitter and until then my friends remember these golden words this valedictory this Sinara this adios remember these words the mucky's dead the shows oversoo you dad dad the other side of midnight with Lionel on the red apple podcast network
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