Apple turned off a feature that allowed people in China to communicate with each other outside of the company's borders. The Chinese Communist Party is now able to track and kill anyone who tries to do so. It's not hard to imagine a situation like this happening in the future, and it's even worse than it is in the here and now. Apple is a fascist dictator, and by removing this feature, they are making it harder and harder for people to do what they need to do in order to push back against oppressive regimes like China's Communist Party. And that's why Apple's decision to turn off the "permanent air drop" feature is so troubling to people who are seeking basic freedom, basic democracy, basic liberty, and all the things that we as Americans hold dear, although so many are seemingly willing to squander. That's why what Apple did this week is so disgusting, and why we should all be worried about what Apple is up to right now in China, and how they are going to deal with the situation. Today's episode is about artificial intelligence and a conversation I had with a tech billionaire I had a few years ago about the dangers of artificial intelligence, and the dangers it poses to freedom and democracy in the 21st century. Tweet me if you have any thoughts on this! Timestamps: 1:00 - Is this a good or bad move by Apple? 2:30 - What are you worried about? 3:15 - How will China deal with this? 4:20 - What will China do with this situation? 5:10 - What does it mean for the Chinese people? 6:40 - Is China going to do next? 7:15 8:00 9:00 -- What will Apple do now? 11:30 -- How will the Chinese government be able to stop the protests in China? 12:40 -- What is the impact of AI? 13:15 -- What does Apple have in store for the future? 14:30 15:40 16: What does China have to do with artificial intelligence 17:20 -- Will China do in response to the situation in China ? 18:00 | What will they do in the problem? 19:10 21:10 -- Is China have a way to stop an uprising in China 22:30 | What are they going to stop a revolution?
00:00:00.000Well, guys, today we're going to talk about artificial intelligence and a really interesting conversation I had with a very young tech billionaire a couple of years ago.
00:00:08.000And it talks about really essentially what's happening right now in China.
00:00:12.000It's what makes Apple's deciding to turn off the permanent airdrop feature all the more troubling.
00:00:19.000To people who are seeking basic freedom, basic democracy, liberty, all the things that we as Americans hold dear, although so many are seemingly willing to squander.
00:00:30.000And it has to do with this. What makes what Apple did more disgusting is that as artificial intelligence develops, It'll be a lot harder for people to protest, for people to stand up for themselves and to push back against dictatorial regimes like the Chinese Communist Party.
00:00:47.000The reason is that it's simple, right?
00:00:49.000In the past, if someone wanted to start a revolution, they could start talking and they talk to their neighbor and they talk to their next friend and they build up a little momentum.
00:00:59.000As technology progressed and as we developed, that got harder and harder to do, right?
00:01:04.000We used communications, things that could get hacked, etc., etc.
00:01:07.000But now, with artificial intelligence, the technology is getting so good that China can find the first person.
00:01:16.000The second there's a little bit of an uprising, they hear a conversation on a telephone, you know, they identify them by facial recognition walking down the street with someone else that had a similar conversation.
00:01:26.000They can pull them out of the herd and prevent them from talking to anyone else.
00:01:30.000I don't want to know what happens to those people.
00:01:32.000If we understand the Chinese Communist Party, it doesn't end well for them.
00:01:36.000But the reality is this, because of the advent of these technologies, you never get the critical mass, the momentum that you need for these people to be able to gather together, to push back against the repressive The oppressive regimes that are looking to stymie them.
00:01:54.000Once you get to a certain point, there's a point of no return where you could never actually create enough momentum to get this happening.
00:02:02.000And that's why what Apple did this week is so disgusting.
00:02:05.000It's why when they turned off the permanent airdrop feature, which allowed people basically in passing to communicate with each other, not through the internet, right?
00:02:15.000Not through all of the things that China controls and would be able to pick out And crush these people before they created a critical mass.
00:02:25.000Apple maybe did one of the great disservices to freedom and democracy that we've ever seen, certainly in recent times, by preventing people from being able to communicate.
00:02:35.000Now they did that only in China, and of course they answer to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:02:40.000That's always probably been clear, but never more flagrant than it was now.
00:02:45.000Okay, so as these technologies evolve, it'll be harder and harder for people to do what's going on right now in China, which is absolutely historic.
00:02:54.000And Apple functioning like a fascist dictator cut off perhaps the only lines of communication that they would have left.
00:03:05.000And it's over. With the rest of the technology that's developing and the Chinese probably coming up with a way to eventually get through the permanent air drop feature, I'm sure Apple will give them whatever they need to do that.
00:03:17.000What we're seeing right now, the historic protests, not since Tiananmen Square, Will likely never be able to happen against because they'll be able to pick them out.
00:03:27.000They'll find the one guy that's actually starting to build momentum.
00:03:30.000They'll pull them out and they'll probably execute them.
00:03:32.000That's exactly what's going on right now.