MUST READ: How you survive the impending AI takeover (you’ve never heard this one before)



One thing most people agree on is that an artificial intelligence takeover is inevitable. Whether or not that will be beneficial for society, however, continues to be divisive.

Author, professor, and activist Jon Askonas joins James Poulos to discuss the harrowing implications of artificial intelligence when it comes to our future and what we must do when the takeover arrives.

Skeptics are highly suspicious of AI and immediately write it off as inherently evil, while proponents believe that it will solve all our problems and essentially save us.

But Jon and James do not fall into either camp.

They rather believe that thriving in a world dominated by AI will require a unique approach that neither entirely rejects nor submits to technology.

They also agree that people, especially Christians, must accept that AI is not just a super-science; it’s also a deeply spiritual matter.

“It's a powerful technology that will be used in spiritual warfare for good and for evil … but it’s still part of creation and so, like any part of creation, has to be grasped for its good uses,” Jon explains.

James agrees, adding, “One of the things that really sort of bums me out the most about this whole experience we’re going through is people who look at technology … as an evil god.”

The best way to survive the impending AI takeover is to “pray and pay attention to the world that surrounds you … cultivate [technology] and curate it intentionally as a site of spiritual warfare,” adds Jon.

To hear more of their fascinating conversation, watch the full episode below.


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New artificial intelligence will allow REGULAR PEOPLE to star in movies — Hollywood actors are TERRIFIED



Artificial intelligence has long been a polarizing concept, with some finding it exciting and innovative, while others remain leery of the technology’s potential to make humans obsolete.

As time moves on, it seems more and more people are joining the latter group.

Ironically, Hollywood — a paradigm of progressivism — seems to be growing increasingly fearful of what AI could mean for the actors and writers in the industry.

Glenn Beck notes that one of the things that makes "Mission Impossible" special is that “[Tom Cruise] was really in … the helicopter,” and he really rode an actual motorcycle off an actual cliff.

“That adds something” that can’t be replicated by AI, he says.

Stu Burguiere references a tweet from Justine Bateman, actor, writer, producer, and sister of famous actor Jason Bateman, in which she warned against the use of “AI-written scripts” and “digitally scanned actors — image and/or voice.”

“Some talent agencies,” Bateman says, “are already recruiting actors to be scanned.”

Not only does this degrade the actors’ talents and abilities, but it also opens a Pandora’s box of possibilities.

With this new technology, viewers can request a film starring “Billy Murray” that’s “about a panda and a unicorn who saved the world in a rocket ship,” Bateman writes.

But it doesn’t stop there.

According to Bateman’s statement, viewers can also request to have themselves scanned and inserted into movies so that “their face [is] on Luke Skywalker’s body and their ex-wife’s face [is] on Darth Vader’s body.”

“This is going to be a really weird world,” Stu says.


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