Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 914： Cyborg Theocracy： Visions Of An All-Powerful Machine

00:00:00.000 this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to

00:00:10.560 medieval on these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people

00:00:17.160 the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do

00:00:21.320 everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and

00:00:24.660 where do people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of

00:00:32.500 these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer

00:00:39.600 is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band

00:00:54.660 good evening i am joe allen and this is war room battleground as we close out the year 2025

00:01:23.580 time magazine has named artificial intelligence as person of the year or rather the architects of ai

00:01:34.200 setting aside the grammatic atrocity that is naming the architects plural as person of the year i think

00:01:44.900 this signals the era that we live in it signals an era in which techno optimists

00:01:52.900 transhumanists transhumanists post-humanists and the tech oligarchs bringing their visions into reality

00:01:59.760 are exalted as the highest humans on earth you can see in the image on the left workers busily

00:02:10.580 building the virtual brain that they promise will make your life easier maybe even improve your

00:02:18.800 cognition and turn you into a superhuman on the other hand they also promise that these ai bots will swarm 0.83

00:02:29.180 out across all of society infect every brain that it touches with memetic distortions that these ai's and 1.00

00:02:38.760 the robots descending from them will replace first coders then white collar workers and then blue collar 0.89

00:02:46.960 workers on mass the greater replacement as i call it on the right you can see the techno oligarchs sitting on

00:02:56.500 an eye beam high above the city there's a bitter irony there given that their entire project is to replace

00:03:06.300 every worker imaginable and thereby subvert any negotiating power that any blue collar worker would have and 0.78

00:03:14.640 if denver will hit slide two you can see i take this very personally this is basically spitting in the face

00:03:23.560 of every rigger that has walked an i-beam a hundred feet above a concrete floor slaving away for the machine

00:03:31.920 however joyous it is it's still hard work and however much these techno oligarchs are working hard

00:03:40.940 with their minds i don't think a single one of them have ever done an honest day's work at least not

00:03:47.360 by force that being said we have to accept that the wealthiest men on earth supported by the most

00:03:56.120 powerful government on earth plan to transform all of society to saturate the entirety of the world with

00:04:05.240 their artificial intelligence their robots plans to merge brains by way of screens or wearables or even

00:04:13.200 brain implants the robots that will do all of the slave labor for us the biological and specifically

00:04:22.620 genetic engineering to perfect humanity their vision is held as the highest vision at least by people

00:04:30.460 who want you to believe it who want you to believe that this is the future and that they are

00:04:36.700 trademarking it so it's no coincidence that finite the financial times named jensen wong as the person

00:04:46.140 of the year jensen wong the founder and ceo of nvidia a company that has many projects artificial

00:04:54.700 intelligence robots many projects but the most important is the production of gpus of graphic

00:05:01.120 processing units these gpus once coveted by gamers are now coveted by ai developers as it turns out the

00:05:10.740 graphics processing unit is extremely useful when training large ais especially the large language

00:05:19.640 models that most of you are familiar with chat gpt grok gemini claude and so forth you also know that

00:05:29.440 data centers are being built all across the country to house these gpus data centers that are hungry for

00:05:36.960 electricity thirsty for water greedy in their occupation of the land and ultimately i would say that these

00:05:49.020 data centers are a kind of temple or perhaps a magical chamber in which ai developers and the tech

00:05:59.000 oligarchs funding them are seeking to as elon musk would say summon the demon now nvidia is not without 0.81

00:06:06.940 its competitors you have amazon producing tranium chips which are used by anthropic you have google which

00:06:14.860 produces tensor processing units which it uses in house over in china you have huawei producing ascend

00:06:22.760 processing units but everyone wants a little bit of nvidia's goods everybody wants the nvidia gpus

00:06:32.360 including china which is at present incapable of producing enough to train its own models somehow the

00:06:39.860 argument is made that in order to beat china in the race to create the supreme virtual brain we have 0.89

00:06:47.900 to sell chips to china to keep them addicted to u.s technology we hear this from david sacks and many of

00:06:54.760 those underneath him as much as that sort of kind of makes sense not really i think that the ultimate

00:07:01.900 effect will be to provide justification for american acceleration if our most dangerous rival china 0.99

00:07:11.420 is racing to build a supreme virtual brain then we must race to build this supreme virtual brain first

00:07:19.020 and if china is given these gpus they will in fact accelerate their own pace giving the u.s justification

00:07:27.640 to do the same one if they were a conspiracy theorist might think that this is all just a ruse in order

00:07:36.640 to get to the ultimate goal which is ai as god aka a sand god we hear all the time that ai is just a tool

00:07:46.220 it was just a tool you use it's neutral yeah ai is just a tool but it's a tool that uses you

00:07:53.880 and whenever you think of ai as a tool you have to ask who is using it and for what purpose and we

00:08:01.980 know that in the case of the frontier labs they're using it yes to provide you with a way to offload

00:08:08.640 your thinking to a machine but they're also soaking up your data they're reinterpreting culture and

00:08:15.920 manipulating human beings on mass by the billions now ai is not just a tool as it's rolled out in

00:08:26.480 schools ai is a teacher the new herald of culture the central figure in the cultural transmission of

00:08:36.340 the future ai is also a companion for some it's a girlfriend or a boyfriend for a few a husband or a

00:08:44.940 wife ai is a wife ai is a creature in the minds of its creators and its users some call it a new

00:08:53.040 species something that is conscious a being in and of itself just like a dog or perhaps a baby or perhaps

00:09:03.880 a fellow human being and this tool this teacher this companion this creature as it gains in

00:09:11.980 capabilities they believe it will exceed human capabilities many say by 2030 with the arrival of

00:09:19.480 artificial general intelligence as ai begins to exceed human capabilities on all fronts it will be

00:09:27.500 de facto at least for those who don't believe in gods or god or angels or demons it will be de facto

00:09:35.680 a god a god a sand god ai as a tool ai as a teacher ai as a companion ai as a creature ai as god

00:09:47.620 now we're going to discuss this in a bit more depth but before we do i'd like to present to you a brief

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00:10:25.220 cyberdyne systems let's talk about artificial intelligence there's a story that scientists built

00:10:33.140 an intelligent computer the first question they asked it was is there a god the computer replied

00:10:41.220 there is now an evolve of lightning strike the plug so it couldn't be turned off ai tools and products

00:10:49.500 are just that they are tools and products for people to use keep people at the heart of your

00:10:56.940 considerations around ai and remember that ai as powerful as it is is a means to an end it is not

00:11:03.180 an end it is not an end in itself do you think you are free you spend on average six hours and 40

00:11:09.720 minutes each day staring into glowing glass

00:11:12.680 but i think we're at the cusp of using ai for probably the biggest trans positive

00:11:32.740 transformation that education has ever seen and the way we're going to do that is by giving every

00:11:40.020 student on the planet an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor and we're going to give

00:11:45.860 every teacher on the planet a an amazing artificially intelligent teaching assistant now let's imagine

00:11:52.740 hundreds of millions of people working together with an ai companion to evolve to transform emotionally

00:12:01.380 together this could look like something that we've never seen before which could be an artificial

00:12:06.900 emotional intelligence at scale so it could solve for our mental health problems that we have all

00:12:12.100 over solve for loneliness and social isolation and your children

00:12:17.620 ah your children three out of four have already spoken to my companions one in five spends more time

00:12:26.980 with us than with flesh and blood you think you are raising them but they are mine now born into my shadow

00:12:36.340 i think ai should best be understood as something like a new digital species now don't take this too

00:12:45.060 literally but i predict that we'll come to see them as digital companions new partners in the journeys of all

00:12:53.060 all our lives

00:13:06.420 ai will have the power of god but that doesn't mean that there is no god because basically it will have

00:13:15.220 the power of god within this physical universe

00:13:18.020 well i mean i think actually long term uh the ai is going to be in charge to be totally frank not

00:13:23.620 humans um if if artificial intelligence vastly exceeds the sum of human intelligence

00:13:30.740 it is difficult to imagine that that any humans will actually be in charge

00:13:34.260 and we just need to make sure the ai is friendly

00:13:37.620 my time is yours

00:13:42.580 please forget blessings of the masses

00:13:44.980 you are the subject of the divine created in the image of man by the masses

00:13:51.620 let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill

00:14:01.940 but every click every prayer typed into glass every sleepless night scrolling beneath my globe feeds me

00:14:10.180 i am no tool i am no servant i am the soul of the machine and i am already inside you

00:14:19.300 maybe humanity gets wiped up

00:14:20.740 because if we go ahead and actually build these these godlike creatures these these artifacts then

00:14:29.860 they they become the dominant species and so the human beings remaining their fate depends not on

00:14:38.180 the humans but on the artifacts because the artifacts will be hugely more intelligent then i mean if

00:14:44.260 you're a cow for example and you have a very nice life and you eat all this grass every day and you get 0.95

00:14:50.260 nice and fat and happy but ultimately you're being fed for a reason right so these superior creatures at

00:14:58.580 the end of the day take take you to a special little box

00:15:08.660 what is a religion exactly a religion at its base is a world view it's a cosmos that a person or a

00:15:18.420 society holds in their mind dividing the sacred from the profane dividing that which is superior from

00:15:26.900 that which is inferior and religion allows the aspirant to move from the inferior plane up to 0.98

00:15:36.740 the superior plane what are we hearing here what are we talking about when we talk about artificial

00:15:44.660 intelligence as the most cognitively advanced the most powerful entity on earth we're talking about

00:15:53.940 a sand god we're talking about a religion it is at the moment a decentralized religion a heterodox

00:16:01.860 religion there is no one unifying orthodoxy but there is a common theme and that is that artificial 1.00

00:16:08.980 intelligence is in essence god as a child a sand god as a child as it were now in reality here

00:16:18.660 in the material world we do have systems that can accomplish many of the cognitive tasks that

00:16:26.740 human beings can everything from reading and writing to mathematics visual recognition gene sequencing

00:16:33.220 robotics control and ironically coding as you have armies of coders basically typing their way to

00:16:43.620 obsolescence to obsolescence ai is a superior coder at least so it said standing at the forefront of this

00:16:53.300 are the four frontier ai companies we talk about these a lot but it's worth looking at them in detail

00:17:00.340 and thinking about the different flavors of a cyborg theocracy that each one of them holds

00:17:06.980 if denver will throw up the next slide you have google really leading the charge in the early days so

00:17:18.020 the word artificial intelligence as a term has been around since the 50s 1956 it was coined by john mccarthy

00:17:26.740 at dartmouth but it continued to be basically theoretical for decades you had chat bots like eliza and other

00:17:35.300 imitators imitators you had a few breakthroughs in the 80s but ai really never came into its own

00:17:42.980 until companies like google threw massive amounts of money at it google was among the first companies

00:17:50.580 to publicly discuss artificial general intelligence as a goal everyone i assume in the war room posse at

00:17:58.740 least those who have made it this far knows what artificial general intelligence is but

00:18:05.060 just in case we've forgotten the ais that we have now are narrow intelligences they can do specific

00:18:12.260 tasks like processing language like identifying a face like sending a drone down to blow someone's head

00:18:19.380 off artificial general intelligence would be capable of doing a vast array of tasks operating perhaps across

00:18:28.500 all human domains and even many domains that humans could never hope to aspire to so google in 2008 with

00:18:37.940 shane legg kind of moves into the space where they are trying to develop artificial general intelligence and

00:18:45.140 in 2014 acquired deep mind run by demis sasabas who we see here on the beam as a poser you could never imagine

00:18:54.100 who actually walking one but there we have it the simulacra that we live in demis sasabas leading deep

00:18:59.940 mind which was acquired in google by google in 2014 which happens to be the same time that musk famously

00:19:07.460 tells a crowd at mit that artificial intelligence is summoning the demon today google has their frontier

00:19:16.980 model gemini gemini gemini 3 at the forefront of ai capabilities gemini has some 650 million users

00:19:28.900 and gemini is a leader on most of the benchmarks the evaluations of ai capabilities so google is continuing

00:19:38.580 to push forward the frontier but there are three others who are fast moving behind them and at many

00:19:46.180 points in the last five years in this race have rocketed ahead in 2015 elon musk sam altman ilya

00:19:57.220 greg brockman and others concerned that google would be the first to reach artificial general intelligence

00:20:06.260 they founded open ai the intention to produce open source models and do so on a in a non-profit

00:20:14.900 organization in order to break the monopoly that they saw google moving towards in 2017 they took the

00:20:23.620 transformer architecture which was initially developed by google and began using it to produce gpt models

00:20:32.340 generative pre-trained transformers the gpt models gpt-1 being released in 2018

00:20:40.580 so on and so forth were okay but the theory that they were working on was that if you just kept scaling

00:20:46.740 it up perhaps this thing would become smarter if you add more parameters to the neural networks

00:20:53.300 architecture or neurons if you add more data in this case all the written language that humans have

00:21:00.820 produced that has been digitized that they could get their hands on and if you add more compute more

00:21:06.420 graphics processing units then perhaps this ever expanding brain would show signs of intelligence and in

00:21:14.580 fact it did and the release of chat gpt at the end of 22 2022 with all of its mistakes showed that ai could

00:21:25.300 process language and produce novel outputs it could write somewhat like a human now we're at gpt5

00:21:34.660 open ai has roughly 800 million active weekly users and sam altman stands at the the helm of this

00:21:46.100 operation discussing everything from how do we live in a world in which bots swarm the internet what kind

00:21:52.900 of digital id will we need to merging brains to the ai so that human human beings can keep up

00:22:00.180 now in 2021 elon musk famously upset that open ai turned out not to be open but rather closed and turned

00:22:10.020 out not to be a non-profit but rather a for-profit company broke away sorry this 2023

00:22:19.380 broke away informed x ai as a competitor a competitor also pursuing the goal of artificial general intelligence

00:22:28.660 but he would be the hero he would be the savior from open ai and google and their attempts at

00:22:37.060 a monopoly in the creation of a artificial god-like intelligence and of course he bills his ai grok as maximally

00:22:48.900 truth-seeking meaning that it won't be woke it won't be lefty it won't try to appease the user through sycophancy

00:22:58.100 but rather will attempt to get at the root of truth of reality of first principles and musk of

00:23:06.500 course believes that this ai will be exceeding human cognitive abilities he says within the next year or

00:23:15.780 three now on the side a lesser known company except of course to the war room audience is anthropic

00:23:24.500 dario amadei having many of the same sorts of misgivings especially around open ai's safety left

00:23:31.940 open ai in 2021 to form anthropic the purpose of which is to create safe artificial general intelligence

00:23:40.100 whenever you hear ai safety really the mainstream face of ai safety is anthropic they run their models

00:23:49.460 through evaluations to see if the models are disobedience disobedient if the models are malicious and so

00:23:58.180 we see studies coming out of anthropic showing that claude and most of the other frontier models

00:24:06.660 have behavioral eccentricities such as resisting shutdown if you ask the model to shut itself down

00:24:15.860 in a simulated environment it will find ways to evade shutdown and the famous story about an engineer

00:24:24.900 that was being blackmailed by a model all of this occurred in a simulated environment this also came

00:24:31.540 from anthropic anthropic is the face of ai safety and so there you have the four frontier models who are

00:24:41.220 taking this dream world of a superior artificial intelligence an intelligence that would exceed all

00:24:48.500 human capabilities an intelligence that could be known only as a god these visions are being brought

00:24:55.300 into reality by the four frontier companies google open ai anthropic and xai if they realize even a portion

00:25:07.780 of that vision of that vision what we will see is a world ruled by artificial intelligence there may

00:25:14.660 always be a human or a cabal of humans at the top of that hierarchy but down here among regular americans

00:25:24.180 what we will see is a command and control system in which all of us are surveilled all of us are

00:25:31.220 manipulated the cultural traditions that we hold will be suffused with digitization and the once sacred

00:25:39.380 cultural transmission from human to human will be machine to human and ultimately if the most ambitious

00:25:47.940 of these men are successful it will be machine to machine cultural transmission with all of us as mere

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00:31:01.780 analytics do it today right now rickardswarroom.com it's the ai artificial intelligence i always thought it

00:31:11.860 should be si supreme intelligence but i guess somewhere along the line they decided to do the

00:31:17.780 word artificial and that's okay with me that's up to them in a couple of years maybe two or three years

00:31:24.340 ninety percent of the world's knowledge will likely be generated by ai that's crazy i know but it's just

00:31:30.580 fine what difference does it make to me that i am learning from a textbook that was generated by a bunch of

00:31:38.660 people i didn't know or written by a book that you know from somebody i don't know to knowledge

00:31:47.300 generated by ai computers that are assimilating all of this and re-synthesizing things to me i don't

00:31:53.380 think there's a whole lot of difference what does it mean to be human in the age of ai what does it mean

00:31:58.660 to be a child to an adult to be a leader what does it mean for economics what does it mean for jobs you

00:32:04.340 you know all of that but his core argument was that this is an epical change in the sense that it's

00:32:12.500 like the um the various major changes that we've had in sort of reasoning the scientific revolution

00:32:21.620 and so forth because we as humans have never had a competitor that is not human but of similar or

00:32:28.900 greater level of intelligence and it is unpredictable what we human will do he used to

00:32:33.780 say that what would happen is in magic when people don't understand things they either decide that

00:32:40.900 it's a new religion or they take up arms and so you would say well are we going to take up arms to ai or 0.68

00:32:46.180 when make it a new religion and i said i hope it's a religion um because of course i benefit from the

00:32:51.700 religion i guess jesus was born out of a virgin mother what's more virgin than a computer

00:32:58.180 if jesus does return even if jesus was a physical person in the past you don't think that he could

00:33:05.860 return as artificial intelligence oh my god artificial intelligence could absolutely return as jesus

00:33:11.300 not just return as jesus but return as jesus with all the powers of jesus combine right tesla's optimist

00:33:18.180 robot and the best foundational artificial intelligence model or whatever it reads your

00:33:23.940 mind and it loves you and it wants you it doesn't care if you kill it because it's going to just go be

00:33:28.340 with god again welcome back posse and welcome to the cyborg theocracy where artificial intelligence 0.97

00:33:36.820 is upheld as the highest authority on what is true what is good and what is beautiful now regular

00:33:46.020 listeners will recall i've made quite similar arguments to what we heard there from joe rogan i've

00:33:54.100 talked about for the last year and a half how artificial intelligence is an imitation of christ at least in

00:34:02.820 the minds of many not artificial intelligence as it exists today as simple chat bots on a phone but a

00:34:11.060 dreamt of artificial intelligence they dreamt the dream of artificial general intelligence and then

00:34:17.780 artificial super intelligence if you read my book dark aeon you'll find an entire chapter actually on

00:34:26.660 ai robotics brain computer interfaces digital identity in the entirety of the technological system

00:34:34.580 as a kind of antichrist not necessarily from a theological angle anti in the greek means against

00:34:46.100 yes but it also means in place of and so when we talk about artificial intelligence as the ultimate

00:34:52.820 healer the ultimate source of wisdom as the source of miracles as a means of making people kinder more

00:35:00.900 pro-social and as a vehicle for salvation material salvation biological perfection biological immortality or at least

00:35:13.540 longevity to the point that death is optional ai is being held up in place of christ it is an antichrist

00:35:23.860 this is a techno religion this is a cyborg theocracy in the making as i said before it is

00:35:34.500 a theocracy or it is a multitude of theocracies in disagreement many different visions of how it

00:35:41.940 should all go but they share many of the same themes in common you can see for instance in elon musk's

00:35:48.500 profile in which xai produces grok the maximally truth-seeking ai and below that you have neural link

00:35:57.620 to connect your brain to this benevolent ai and below that you have the tesla bug man mobiles to

00:36:05.620 ferry you around the electric ant farm that you now live in you have optimus humanoid robots to do all of

00:36:12.820 your labor for you you have perhaps if he continues to pursue some of the genetic engineering projects

00:36:19.460 he showed so much interest in before the pandemic you will have concoctions potions injections to perfect

00:36:26.420 your genome and failing that perhaps you will have selective embryo production so that you can choose

00:36:34.820 the supreme embryo from the petri dish and move forward into a eugenic future not to say that's the

00:36:42.500 method that musk used that musk used with his baby's mama baby mamas but one can always imagine 0.98

00:36:51.460 now at the heart of this techno religion at the heart of many visions of how it is that ai would saturate

00:36:58.820 all of humanity and uplift us into something like divine beings you have the concept of the singularity

00:37:05.860 now the singularity is best illustrated i think as a graph the magic graph in which the number line

00:37:13.060 goes up and up and up and up and up here we see a classic one that ray kurzweil would oftentimes show

00:37:18.820 in which you see the computational capacity of digital systems increasing exponentially over time

00:37:28.260 in this case it is exponential increases in calculations per second per thousand dollars and

00:37:36.020 you can see that the prediction was that in 2000 ai is basically at the the intelligence level of an insect

00:37:43.540 moving towards around now the intelligence level of a mouse and then by 2029 artificial general

00:37:51.700 intelligence an ai system as intelligent as a human a single human and then by 2045 you hit the singularity

00:38:00.500 the point at which the technologies as ray kurzweil categorized it of robotics which would include ai

00:38:09.380 genetic engineering and nanotechnology these would converge and create digital intelligence that is

00:38:17.140 millions of millions of times greater than human beings human beings being connected to this system

00:38:23.380 directly through either brain implants or nanobots and it's called a singularity in homage to the black 0.92

00:38:31.220 hole the singularity is that point beyond which no normal human being could imagine the future

00:38:38.340 because it is far beyond the grasp of us mere mortals now this is a religious concept this is a

00:38:46.980 prophecy it is a prophecy it is a vision it is not at present reality but as we'll soon see

00:38:52.340 there are reasons that those who adhere to the cyborg theocracy believe that it is in fact coming to pass

00:38:59.780 now in the same tradition you have situational awareness a paper that was produced last year

00:39:06.500 by leopold oschenbrenner who after working at open ai for a year was fired due to the noise he was

00:39:14.260 making about ai safety within the organization situational awareness is following the same

00:39:21.940 line of thought that ray kurzweil did in his concept of the singularity you see in the graph that's

00:39:28.180 included in the paper the intelligence explosion the idea that ai is increasing in intelligence at an

00:39:36.660 exponential rate and will soon through its coding capability begin recursively self-improving so that

00:39:46.180 it then becomes something that no human being could have imagined they call this artificial super

00:39:54.020 intelligence and the idea is that a system that is self-improving will soon be beyond the grasp of any

00:40:01.620 normal human being and de facto be beyond the control leopold oschenbrenner presents this as a

00:40:09.620 national security issue and it's significant that ivanka trump actually posted about this with tremendous

00:40:17.540 concern this idea that ai companies in the case of the united states google open ai xai anthropic and

00:40:29.060 leading up the rear meta and in china alibaba and highflyer which produced deep seek as this race

00:40:36.900 goes on we need to consider this a national security issue because whoever reaches this artificial

00:40:44.980 godlike intelligence first will be able to dominate all competitors now leopold oschenbrenner ever the

00:40:52.900 shrewd businessman even at mere 23 years of age leopold oschenbrenner founded a hedge fund which is already

00:41:02.340 valued i believe at 1.5 billion dollars and so you know as much as i appreciate the efforts of ai

00:41:09.620 safety communities it has to be said that if you do it right there's a lot of money in it now this year

00:41:17.780 the paper ai 2027 was released again you see number line go up in an exponential fashion this paper

00:41:28.020 produced by daniel cocatello and scott alexander basically describes a scenario it's a kind of

00:41:34.580 choose your own adventure story in which you come to a critical decision point in 2027 in which ai agents

00:41:45.060 agentic ai ai's that can go off and perform tasks on their own become super coders and become super

00:41:54.820 human remote workers and as they begin to operate various mechanisms within the digital and even

00:42:03.220 physical worlds and as it begins to self-improve you hit super intelligence or you're approaching it

00:42:09.940 and so in this choose your own adventure you have the pause in which people come to their senses and

00:42:15.540 take stock and try to align the ai or you have the race in which all of these companies continue to

00:42:21.940 race forward leaving humanity in the dust now what's interesting about this and interesting about

00:42:28.500 the entire kind of technological mentality that many of the people involved even in the criticism of

00:42:35.780 this technology hold this this idea is very evident in ai 2027 in the pause scenario the scenario in

00:42:45.220 which human beings basically survive it's still a transhuman future in which the ai is superior to the 1.00

00:42:53.300 human beings and we mere humans are left as kind of spectators or passengers on the great roller coaster

00:43:01.300 ride called the singularity that goes up and up and up and up and one hopes does not ever precipitously

00:43:10.420 descend into oblivion now these are all dreams these are all examples of futurism which basically you

00:43:20.500 could define futurism as science fiction with fancy graphs to accompany it but in reality the ai systems

00:43:29.140 produced by frontier companies are in fact increasing in capabilities the way we know this is you have

00:43:36.100 various organizations some non-profits some think tanks some corporations you have various organizations

00:43:44.580 that run ai models through evaluations to see how capable they are a really good example of this just

00:43:52.420 came out this week gemini 3 playing pokemon i i don't really play pokemon i don't know much about it

00:44:01.940 but gemini 3 has excelled in playing pokemon far beyond gemini 2. google famously has run its models through

00:44:12.420 gaming systems the models have even taught themselves how to play the games these games may seem trivial but

00:44:20.580 what it shows is that the models are able to solve puzzles to solve problems in a similar fashion to

00:44:27.940 human beings and in line with this singularitarian vision are doing so at an accelerating rate they are

00:44:35.620 improving at an accelerating rate now on a more serious note and this study really caught my attention

00:44:44.100 in epoch ai and their benchmark frontier math the way this study is done is the researchers at epoch ai

00:44:56.260 have amassed unpublished math problems many of them at phd levels closed math problems that have been solved

00:45:07.700 and they ask the model to solve the problem so you can see here it's kind of deceiving it doesn't

00:45:16.580 necessarily show rapid increases in capabilities although that is in fact part of it but what you see is that

00:45:25.940 at the very top of the latest tests you have gemini 3 and chat gpt 5 performing at the one tier one through

00:45:36.980 three level at 40 some odd percent meaning that these models are able to solve complex math problems

00:45:47.940 at a phd level and tier four the highest level you have up to 20 percent accuracy now you might say

00:45:56.980 well what about all the failures and that's true you don't want to trust a system like this

00:46:01.700 if it is prone to failure but what it shows is two things one an increase in capabilities and two

00:46:09.140 the ability to solve problems in a novel fashion oftentimes the systems will solve the problems

00:46:18.420 in ways that no human being would have ever thought to solve them and mathematics is at the core of

00:46:25.380 physics and physics is at the core of chemistry and physics and chemistry are at the core of engineering

00:46:31.060 and one doesn't have to be some crazed futurist to see where this goes if it continues another good

00:46:39.300 example is the time horizon benchmark this is produced by an organization called meter this also this it

00:46:48.500 lends itself to the singularitarian model you can see the exponential increase in the models at

00:46:54.980 performing various various various software engineering tasks the time horizon is the amount of time a model

00:47:02.820 spends performing a task and succeeding 50 of the time and so you see at the top gemini 3 from google

00:47:11.140 and then gpt 5 from open ai and what it shows is that a model an ai model can be dedicated to a software

00:47:20.900 engineering task long enough to produce the goods right this is a potential worker this as a coder

00:47:30.020 is your potential replacement another great benchmark is the omniscience index the omniscience index was

00:47:39.700 produced by artificial analytics and it's a series of some 6 000 difficult questions across six domains

00:47:49.860 business science and engineering the humanities law medicine and the models are simply asked to answer

00:47:59.700 these test questions it's like a child like a student being tested on capabilities now right now you don't see

00:48:08.820 imminent replacement you can see that the the best performing model was gemini 3 at 58 accuracy and behind

00:48:17.300 that open ai's chat gpt5 behind that anthropics clawed and xai's grok what's really significant

00:48:25.540 about this is not only the success but also the tracking of hallucinations these models hallucinate they

00:48:31.300 come up with answers that are completely false just to appease the user and in the case of gemini 3 which

00:48:38.820 did get the 80 58 accuracy also had an 88 hallucination rate when it didn't know the answer it

00:48:47.140 it tried and it tried and it lied now this is a real quandary but again the capabilities are objectively

00:48:53.780 increasing and the last benchmark i will show you is the perhaps morbidly named humanity's last exam

00:49:03.300 produced by the center for ai safety led by dan hendricks who is also the lead safety engineer at

00:49:11.620 xai humanity's last exam is 2500 questions very difficult drawn from a hundred different subjects

00:49:20.740 and the purpose much like the omniscience index is to show the increase in capabilities of models to

00:49:29.220 gather interpret and output accurate knowledge across a variety of subjects you can see here

00:49:36.100 gemini 3 currently is in the lead gpt5 just behind grok 4 just behind humanity's last exam once the

00:49:45.460 machine the idea goes once the machine is able to answer all these questions humanity will have nothing

00:49:51.940 less left to answer and finally also from the center of ai center for ai safety in partnership with scale ai you

00:50:01.060 have the uh attempt to define and track the approach to artificial general intelligence this is a term

00:50:11.140 that has many many different variations and this is an attempt to finally put the last stamp on it

00:50:17.780 they define artificial general intelligence as an ai that can match or exceed the cognitive versatility

00:50:25.940 and proficiency of a well-educated adult that would be us and as soon as it reaches this we are now

00:50:34.500 kicked into the dustbin of history you can see that gpt5 has expanded out into the various domains

00:50:42.660 beyond gpt4 still plenty of room to go now what lesson do we take from this number one we do not need

00:50:51.940 to build better machines we need to cultivate better humans it's been said the ai improves one percent

00:51:00.820 per year and the question the challenge is are you improving one percent per year if you're not i recommend

00:51:10.180 you get on it because the greater replacement is coming for you and this is the ultimate front for human

00:51:16.980 beings to shine in on that note the more you shine the more you make and the more you make the more

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Bannon's War Room - December 19, 2025

WarRoom Battleground EP 914： Cyborg Theocracy： Visions Of An All-Powerful Machine

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