Many people worry that their smart technology, despite being incredibly efficient, is spying on them. Apple, Google, Meta, and other mega tech corporations guarantee privacy and security, but how effective are these so-called protection measures?

According to presidential candidate RFK. Jr., not very.

On top of privacy concerns, many are also deeply unnerved by the mass censorship we’ve seen, especially since the Biden administration took office.

“Do you ever feel that we're too deep in it now in some ways to reverse some of the effects of the censorship and what we learned from the Twitter files and the algorithmic tricks?” asks Dave Rubin.

“We can't really afford to be at war right now with Russia and in these kinds of conflicts with China and even Iran,” said RFK Jr. “We need to be sitting down with each other and figuring out how to control AI, and we cannot chase AI out of this country. We cannot make this a hostile environment for AI because superintelligence is coming; it’s terrifying, but we better have it better here than anybody else if we want to protect our national security because if we don't, we're going to be owned by somebody else.”

“We have this kind of turn-key totalitarianism that is waiting there in the wings,” he continued. “If a bad dictator took over, you know, now they’ve got AI [and] GPS that's following you everywhere.” Even “your cell phone is listening to your conversations and recording them and knows everything about you.”

He then tells a story that will likely resound with many. One time, he and his wife were discussing buying a new mattress, and by the next morning, they both had “three mattress ads on [their] phones.”

“It's not just the mattress company who's listening to you; it's the NSA who’s storing all these conversations,” he explains, “so it is terrifying, but I think there are, if we get smart people in a room, like Elon, there are things that we can do to at least mitigate the intrusive impacts and the controlling capacity of this new surveillance technology.”

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