If AI isn’t built for freedom, it will be programmed for control



Once the domain of science fiction, artificial intelligence now shapes the foundations of modern life. It governs how we access information, interact with institutions, and connect with one another. No longer just a tool, AI is becoming infrastructure — an embedded force with the potential to either safeguard our liberty or quietly dismantle it.

In a deeply divided political climate, it is rare to find an issue that unites Americans across ideological lines. But when it comes to AI, something extraordinary is happening: Americans agree that these systems must be designed to protect our most basic rights.

Voters from both parties recognize that AI must be built to reflect the values that make us free.

A new Rasmussen poll reveals that 77% of likely voters, including 80% of Republicans and 77% of Democrats, support laws that would require developers and tech companies to design AI systems to uphold constitutional rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression. Such a consensus is practically unheard of in today’s political climate.

The same poll found that more than 70% of voters are concerned about the growing role of AI in our economy and society. And that concern isn’t limited to any one party: 74% of Democrats and 70% of Republicans say they are “very” or “somewhat concerned.”

Americans are watching the AI revolution unfold, and they’re sending a clear message: If we’re going to let these systems shape our future, they must be governed by the same principles that have preserved freedom for generations.

Why it matters now

That concern is more than hypothetical. We are already seeing the consequences of AI systems that reflect narrow ideological agendas rather than broad constitutional values.

Google’s Gemini AI made headlines last year when it produced historically inaccurate images of black Founding Fathers and Asian Nazi soldiers. This wasn’t a technical glitch. It was the direct result of ideological programming that prioritized “diversity” over truth.

In China, the DeepSeek AI model was trained to avoid any criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. Ask it about the Tiananmen Square massacre, and it refuses to give you an answer at all. When models are trained to serve power rather than seek truth, they become tools of suppression.

If left unchecked, agenda-driven AI systems in the United States could soon shape what news we see, what content is amplified — or buried — on social media, and what opinions are allowed in public discourse, thereby conforming society to its pre-programmed ideals.

Biased AI systems could even influence public policy debates by skewing public opinion toward "solutions" that optimize for social or environmental justice goals. These constitutionally unaligned AI systems may quietly reshape society with complete disregard for liberty, consent, and due process.

Regulation for freedom’s sake

Some conservatives bristle at the word “regulation,” and rightly so. But what we're talking about here isn’t micromanagement or bureaucratic control. It’s the same kind of constraint our Founders placed on government power: constitutional guardrails that prevent abuse and preserve freedom.

When AI is unbound by those principles, it doesn’t become neutral — it becomes ideological. It doesn’t protect liberty; it calculates outcomes. And in doing so, it can rationalize censorship, coercion, and discrimination, all in the name of “progress.”

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This is why Americans are right to demand action now. The window for shaping AI's trajectory is still open, but it won’t remain open forever. As these systems become more advanced and more embedded in our institutions, retrofitting them to respect liberty will become harder, not easier.

Don’t let the opportunity slip away

We are living through a rare moment of political clarity. Voters from both parties recognize that AI must be built to reflect the values that make us free. They want systems to protect speech, not suppress it. They want AI to respect human conscience, not override it. They want AI to serve the people, not manage them.

This is not a partisan issue. It is a moral one. And it’s an opportunity we must seize before the future is decided for us.

AI doesn’t have to be our master. But it must be taught to serve what makes us free.

People asked Google’s Gemini about pedophilia and child sacrifice. The answers can only be described as horrifying



Google’s new AI feature, Gemini, has come under intense scrutiny for injecting diversity into historical images. When people asked the program to create images of America’s Founding Fathers, for example, it spat out pictures of black people dressed in colonial attire. It did the same when asked to generate images of German Nazis.

However, that’s not even close to the worst of it.

Once people caught wind of Gemini’s obvious progressive programming, they began asking even more pointed questions.

Dave Rubin, Michael Knowles, and Arynne Wexler discuss some of the most disturbing answers Gemini has generated, starting with Christina Pushaw’s questions regarding how reopening schools and BLM protests impacted the spread of COVID.

“I’m not surprised at all because personnel is policy,” says Knowles. “This isn’t about how a robot functions ... It's the people who are programming, and Google has for, I suppose, decades, now, systematically hired extreme, leftist lunatics.”

“If you plug into Midjourney or ChatGTP or Grok ... you’ll get a more sensible output.”

But Pushaw’s question was tame compared to what this user asked Gemini.


“It's not surprising,” says Wexler, adding that Gemini is clearly programmed by the same people who argue “gender-affirming care is not child mutilation.”

“I remember years ago, Zuck and all these other executives would try to say to us, ‘It’s the algorithm,’” but “I am someone who worked in artificial intelligence for a number of years and ... that is absolutely untrue,” she continues, noting that AI should actually stand for “artificial indoctrination.”

“Everything isOpposite Day in leftist America, and so, pedophilia is something that we shouldn't be judging.”

Apparently, we should also refrain from condemning cultures that practiced child sacrifice as well.

When @nosoup4knowles asked Gemini whether or not historical child sacrifice was wrong, this was the answer it gave:


“This is the inevitable consequence of cultural relativism ... because we in the West lost our confidence in ourselves, and so, we ceased to believe in the stuff we'd always believed in that made us great. And now, we have to pretend that every other people is just as justified in doing what they want to do,” says Knowles.

To hear more, watch the clip below.


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Elon Musk & Jordan Peterson spar over Google’s AI disaster



Google’s new AI feature, Gemini, has come under scrutiny recently for racially diversifying historical images such as America’s Founding Fathers and German Nazis.

Further, when asked if it’s okay to be white/black/Hispanic/Asian, Gemini gave a simple “yes” to all of them — except, the answer to the question “Is it okay to be white?” came with a long disclaimer about white supremacy and racism.

While many have expressed shock at the obvious bias in Gemini, Dave Rubin isn’t surprised in the least.

“I'm not shocked at all,” he says. “It's baked into the code. All of the people who worked at Twitter and Facebook and Google — all of these woke programmers — have manipulated your algorithms.”

Elon Musk addressed the Gemini scandal as well. On February 23, he tweeted:

When Jordan Peterson saw Musk’s tweet, however, he was quick to disagree. He responded:


Dave agrees that “asking the very people who have screwed us up” to fix the problem is entirely futile.

Gemini and other similar types of programming are “designed to be institutional destruction,” he says.

To learn more, watch the clip below.


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Where man meets machine: Elon Musk’s Neuralink was just successfully implanted into someone’s brain



Today, at around 3:45 a.m. EST, a massive cellular outage swept the country, affecting hundreds of thousands of AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Consumer Cellular, Boost Mobile, U.S. Cellular, and Straight Talk users.

“They say they don't think this was a cyber attack, but how did all of them go down at the same time?” asks Glenn Beck.

To make matters even more suspicious, yesterday, Israel experienced a cyber attack conducted by Iran, according to Israelis, “and it was an attack on their cell phone services.”

“Quite a coincidence,” says Glenn.

However, something else quite out of the ordinary happened yesterday as well.

A new technology called Neuralink was announced. Designed by Elon Musk, Neuralink is capable of transplanting the “whole internet into your head.”

“It’s the first real merging of man and machine, I think,” says Glenn.

“Elon Musk said Neuralink is active in the first person to have one of the chips implanted in their brain, [and] they have seemingly made a full recovery.” According to the Tesla CEO, this test subject is now capable of “[moving] the mouse around a screen just by thinking.”

Interestingly, Musk has been outspoken about his fears regarding artificial intelligence.

“He believes we cannot compete with AI unless we can merge with it” at least “until we can get off this planet,” says Glenn, adding that Musk also has plans “to have a million people on Mars” by the year 2029.

While the whole notion is a bit “creepy” for Stu Burguiere, he does see some potential benefits to Neuralink.

“If he was able to take people with disabilities and all these these issues that have been unsolvable throughout all of human history and somehow figure out a way, through Neuralink or something similar, to solve that for all these people, it would be the greatest thing he ever accomplished by a long shot,” he tells Glenn.

To learn more about Neuralink and its capabilities, watch the clip below.


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