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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Obama proposes 'digital fingerprints' to combat 'misinformation' — and cites 'vaccination stuff' as justification



Former President Barack Obama proposed last week that "digital fingerprints" should be used to combat "misinformation."

Speaking with David Axelrod about the rise of artificial intelligence technology, Obama predicted that "misinformation" will plague the 2024 presidential campaign and stressed a need to police digital authenticity.

"Because I was the first digital president, when I left office, I was probably the most recorded, filmed, photographed human in history, which is kind of a weird thing. But just the odds are that I was," Obama said. "As a consequence, there's a lot of raw material there. So usually all the deepfakes start with like some version of Obama doing something, dancing, saying dirty limericks, or whatever. Right?

"That technology's here now. So most immediately we're going to have all the problems we had with misinformation before — this next election cycle will be worse," Obama predicted.

The proliferation of AI technology, Obama went on to say, creates critical needs.

"The need for us, for the general public, I think, to be more discriminating consumers of news and information, the need for us to, over time, develop technologies to create watermarks or digital fingerprints so we know what is true and what is not true," Obama said.

Obama said the ability for Americans to discern between what is true and what is not true is critical because the digital ecosystem has created echo chambers and feedback loops that reaffirm what people already believe. He cited the "vaccination stuff" as evidence that authenticity must be policed.

The problem is: Who is defining what is true and not true? The government? That's a hard sell considering what happened during the COVID pandemic.

Obama has been on a crusade against so-called "misinformation" and "disinformation" — terms used very broadly and almost never defined — in the run-up to the 2024 election season.

Last year, Obama said the government should step in to regulate "clearly dangerous content." And last month on World Press Freedom Day, Obama declared that "widespread disinformation" is a clear and present threat to democracy.

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