With Bill Walton, Twila Brase & Rod Martin

Bill Walton, Host of The Bill Walton Show

Bill Walton and I discussed Franken-AI. That's what I call the monster that seems to be aborning at the moment at the hands of big tech. And it appears a US government that, well, in the interest of competing with China, is determined to allow them to pursue whatever innovations they see fit, including advanced general intelligence that sounds like it will be a monster indeed. We also talked about developments in China, why foreign direct investment is drying up, and what it might mean for Xi Jinping and his future control of the CCP.

Twila Brase, President, Citizens Council for Health Freedom

I spoke with Twila Brase about real IDs and what the plan is for their use as a means of surveilling and controlling the population of the United States in a way that if not from the get-go, in due course, predictably will render us subject to arrangement like that in Communist China, where a social credit system is used not simply to monitor the people of China, but also to restrict their activities, punish them, or reward them for being good communists.

Rod Martin, Chairman of the Board, Institute for the American Future, Public Intellectual

Rod Martin visited with me about his thoughts on artificial intelligence and is not as alarmed as I am at the prospect of the kind of advanced artificial intelligence that might well be dictating our future. Good news if true, we'll find out in due course.

In the meantime, we had a very bracing conversation about the validity of Harry Truman's decision to bomb both Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II decisively and oppose the kind of unconditional surrender on the Japanese empire that produced the important ally and democratic nation of Japan that we value today.