AI Will Kill Us or Save Us. Both Sides Are Lying to You. | Ep. 59

Is AI going to kill us all by the end of the decade? A former Anthropic researcher thinks so, and his viral thread has 172 million views. Elon Musk thinks it's a setup. Anthropic's own CEO is calling for government regulation. And President Trump says the whole thing is a hoax cooked up by China to slow us down. Jeremy is joined by retired Army Colonel and trial lawyer Kurt Schlichter, rapper and Oxford-trained computer scientist Zuby, and theologian Nathan Finochio to sort through the AI panic — and to figure out whether regulatory capture, not extinction risk, is the real story here. From there the conversation opens up into everything from the death of rock and roll under Obama, to why the West has stopped believing it has a mission the way Israel, Russia, and China do, to the making of The Pendragon Cycle and why beauty, color, and aspiration still matter in art. Plus: the growing political gender gap between young men and women, why shame culture might be worth bringing back, and what it actually means to be a good man in a culture that keeps telling you not to try. ► Support the show and shave with a company that doesn't hate you: https://www.jeremysrazors.com/ ► Jeremy's The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is the #1 fantasy series on Amazon — watch it now on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0HFH7J5N3 Chapters: (00:00:00) AI Doomsday Panic & Regulatory Capture (00:16:43) AI as Gnostic "Secret Knowledge" (00:27:38) AI, Art & the Coming War With Machines (00:49:04) Feminization & the Consensus Society (00:59:29) Obama's Legacy & Kurt's War Department Controversy (01:15:33) The Pendragon Cycle: Rejecting Nihilism (01:37:31) Every Civilization Has a Mission Except the West (02:03:17) Sydney Sweeney, Modesty & Beauty Standards (02:13:17) Diversity, Meritocracy & Closing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices