The Glenn Beck Program - Give Us the Epstein Files, with This Caveat | Guest: Tristan Harris | 7/24/25

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

Glenn discusses political commentator Candace Owens being sued by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, for defamation after Owens claimed on multiple occasions that Brigitte is actually a biological man. Glenn and Stu review the complaint and debate whether the Macrons have a case, while also examining their questionable relationship beginnings. The Coldplay infidelity incident revealed that the majority of the country still believes in the sanctity of marriage. If the Trump administration releases the Epstein files, will Americans even read them, or will they look for the names of the politicians they hate and make their own conclusions? Glenn outlines why the Obama Russiagate conspiracy should not be shrugged off as "old news." Multiple refineries in California are closing as the state scrambles to find a buyer. Will this worsen California's fuel crisis? Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, joins to discuss the White House's new AI action plan and its implications for the development and safety of artificial intelligence. Glenn and Tristan also discuss the dangers of treating AI like a human.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I know, it wouldn't. It would be like, oh, come on, this is, this is it real. That's true. This is so fake. They never do that. They would never do that. It would never happen. Right. Okay. So I just want to read, I just want to read a filing that was filed yesterday in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware demanding a jury trial. Hmm.

Here's the complaint. In March 2024, Candice Owens, a right-wing podcaster, told the world she would, quote, stake her entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte McRaeft. the First Lady of France is in fact a man. That's the first sentence. That's the first line. I mean, I love this. I love this.

Since then, Owens has used this false statement to promote her independent platform, gain notoriety, and make money. Owens disregarded all credible evidence disproving her claim in favor of platforming known conspiracy theorists and proven defamers. And rather than engage with the president and Mrs. Macron, attempts to set the record straight, Owens mocked them and use them as additional fodder for her frenzied fan base. But she didn't stop there. Retaliating against the macrones for the audacity of sending her a retraction demand, Owens helmed an eight-part podcast series entitled

Becoming Bridgette, the series. Accompanning ex-posts throughout the series, Owens and her entities endorsed, repeated, and published a series of verifiably false, and devastating lies about the Macron on which this complaint is based. These are outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions included that Mrs. Macron was born a man, stole another person's identity, and transitioned to become Brigette. Also, that Mrs. Macron and President Macron are blood relatives committing incest, that President Macron was chosen to be the President of France as part of a CIA. operated mk ultra program or similar mind control program and mrs mccron and president macron are committing forgery fraud and abuses of power to conceal these secrets this was filed by the macrons against candace owens in the state of delaware which i just have to say i love this story i love this story

I love this story because it just allows me to go, and you thought your day was insane. Here's the president of France, responding to Candace Owens, thinking you're going to get her to shut up. You've just made this a global story for a very long time now. And you're not going to win president of France because we have something called the First Amendment.

You are a public figure. you are a public politician and your wife is a public figure. You could say pretty much whatever you want and you're not going to be able to stop her from having her opinion. Yeah, is this just a complete misunderstanding of the way the law works in the United States? Is that what this is? I don't know. I don't know.

it had to have had American lawyers on it. Yeah, it was fine. Well, American lawyers, though, they'll take. Hey, give me a bunch of money for the president of France. Sure, we'll file that. You're right. Okay. But, I mean, it's really super hard to come up with a libel conviction, a defamatory conviction,

of a president, a public figure, doesn't even live in the United States. Like, I can't even think of how many ways this would be difficult to achieve. a victory on, right? So they say, and this is maybe where they have a chance, they say Owens published the series and related ex post with reckless disregard for the truth. That's the key. That's the key. That's the key.

Reckless disregard for the truth. So if she has been saying, you know, other people have brought this up and the, the, the macrons have won defamation claims in court, you know, for the same thing. So they've won this here. No, in France. Okay. In France. So they've won this.

If she's not saying, here's the other side and they've won this. However, let me show you this. As long as she is balancing it to some degree. so she's not just saying and everybody knows it and nobody's ever stood up against it. I mean, I don't know.

I haven't listened to the podcast. I would doubt that she's I would think she probably is saying stuff like that. Everybody knows it and nobody doubts. She's pretty smart. But anyway. But yeah, I don't.

Yeah. Anyway, here's what he does. This is just so fun that the president of France has to file this. Now, let me give you my speculation. This is not proof of anything.

This is just common sense observation. Do you remember when Macron was at the top of the stairs of the airplane? And she just reached out and just punched him in the face. Okay. And he was like, hey, we're just joking around. No, you weren't. No, you weren't. At least she wasn't.

You might have been. She wasn't. Okay. I think this was filed because she was like, you're not going to have it had a great loving with me, young man, unless you stop this from happening in America. Boom, and hits him in the face. I think this is a guy like, my wife is making me file this.

Complete and total speculation on your part also seems completely plausible. Yeah. Again, I'm not saying that that's what it is. And I don't care. I'm going to sue. Please sue me. Please sue me. But it's just my speculation that that's probably what happened.

Right. Because she is. Well, first of all, and let me say this to Candace. Candice, why do you even have to go there? And I know you think it's a truth or whatever. But listen, is it not bad enough? that this woman is the Jeffrey Epstein of France? I mean, yes, she wasn't grooming thousands of people,

but she groomed one. You know what I mean? It's like... And this is pretty much known, right? This is not a... There's no speculation on this. No, there's no speculation. I don't know.

I don't remember the story. This story is horrible. She's a teacher. He's at some boarding school. And he falls in love with her and she falls in love with him. Now, if I'm not mistaken, he's 15 and she's like 40. 15 and she's 40. It's France, though.

You can't. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait, wait. Even the open-minded French were like, the dad, the mom and dad, pull him out of it once they find out, because they thought Brigette was somebody his age. that he was dating. Then they find out that's your 40-year-old teacher at the school and you're like having sex. And so they immediately pull him out. And Brigette says, you are not going to stop me from loving your son. You can't get rid of me. We love each other. And it's true. Now he goes back after he moves out of the parents' house or he's no, you know, now he's 18.

He goes and seeks her out. He goes and seeks her out for some of that oven that he's still getting a piece of. Anyway. Very disconcerting. Right. And remember, this disgusted the French. Which is hard to do. It's really hard.

Didn't they welcome Roman Polanski like, we got to give you some awards? I mean, they don't have. There's no standards. is not something they're good at. You know what I mean? And when you, when the French are like, okay, that sexually is just too far, that's crazy. Yeah, the whole situation is very strange. One other part of this that I find very interesting is, I don't know, I feel like your idea

that you're going to win a lawsuit in the United States of America against a public commenter commenting on a foreign president. I mean, like, it just seems incomprehensible to think you're going to win that case. But what I don't even think it's about that, what it seems to be about after looking at the documents, is they want on record their best case that she's a woman. Well, listen to this. Listen to this. Parties and relevant non-parties. This is in the complaint, okay?

Eight, plaintiff Emmanuel Macron is a French citizen. President Macron has been the president of France since 2017, prior to. to being elected. President Macron served as the Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs, and Deputy Secretary General to the President. President Macron is married to Brigitte Macron in 2007. Nine, plaintiff. Brigitte Macron is a French citizen, the spouse of the current President of France, and a woman. They didn't say he's a man. And a woman. Could you put that in the document? She's a woman. She's a woman.

Oh my gosh. But it goes through. It shows photos of her as a child. It shows birth announcements of like other relatives that say, and he has a sister named Brigitte, like, Brigitte or whatever. Yeah, yeah. They go back and document every step of this, every piece of evidence. They show the announcements from, you know, the childhood. They've read circles around photos.

It's insane. The detail they went to to try to prove this, which is just comical. It's just so much fun. It's just so much fun because it's happening to a politician who I don't care about. I don't care. You burn France to the ground. Burn France to the ground. I think it's a mistake, but burn France to the ground.

You know what I mean? They're doing a good job of it. Nice areas of it. Yeah. I mean, I have nothing to get, well, I can't say that categorically. but generally speaking, I have nothing wrong with France. I have no axe to grind with France. They were helpful once 250 years ago.

That's true. So, you know, I have nothing to say bad about France. But please, this is hysterical. Hysterical. Hysterical. I mean, but it's happening here too. Michelle Obama. I mean, what is it about us that we're like,

Macron, married to a man? man. Barry married to a man. It is an interesting thing that we do as a society. I've never, never seen that before. Two presidents in the world now. The speculation, they're married to a man. Well, it draws some attention to the insinuation of this lawsuit, which is to say that if she were a man that had transitioned to be a woman,

it would be so bad, right? It's like insinuating that this is a bad thing. But I was told by all of these people that it was wonderful if you were to transition from a man to a woman. It's the greatest thing of all time. It's celebrating who you are and your true identity. That is the thing that I think proves my point that he's getting smacked in the face every day. Tell me, boy, I'm not a bad. Because in reality, she does see as an insult.

They're not allowed to admit that. Right. And it's no big deal. What difference does it make? Yeah. What cares? Yeah. Like, I mean, honestly, like I, you know, you could, we have all sorts of important

conversations about whether children should be having surgeries. I do not care at all if he, if it was an actual dude at one point. Don't care. Don't care. Let me tell you something. If you were a man and you admitted it, we'd all be forced to say you were beautiful. Right. So you'd solve that problem.

Right now you're. just an ugly old hag. Is that wrong to say? Wow, I just saw it. A new lawsuit was just filed in Delaware. A manish, ugly old hag. Whatever, right?

But like, that was a groomer. You know, mm- You know, think of it, think of poor president back around. He's like, you know, you're not going to get a slice of my pie tonight.

He should be saying, oh, Candice Owens. God, God. I got a way out. He might be the one leaking these rumors at this point. Oh my gosh. He is. But wait, I want to know. Is it an insult? The left has told us it is a wonderful thing. You're finding your true identity. Is it an insult to call someone who is a woman, born a woman and is still a woman? Is it an insult to call them a man? You keep telling us it's not. You keep telling us it's bad to notice it. You keep telling us it's bad for us to say they were a man at one point.

Why would you be any basis in their world for a lawsuit claiming that someone got it wrong? It's a wonderful gift. Unless you're a 70 or an ugly manish 70-year-old hag that just can't handle the insults. They're going to file a lawsuit against you in Delaware. with all the pictures that prove she's not ugly. And look, AI exists. I was going to say, go ahead. Go ahead.

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when the Cole play concert busted two cheating spouses, the internet united under one unexpected theme. And what is that theme? What was the theme? I think this person just nailed it. What was the theme? What did we all unite on? I mean, I would, I guess,

don't, you know, commit adultery and, you know. Right. Which leads you to say, marriage is sacred, the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of vows. Okay, everything that the left is saying they're not for, even the left is actually for that. You know, you asked me on Monday, what is this really about? And I gave an answer, but I think this is actually more of a correct answer. I thought we were going to say that United

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Not today, but one of these days will be a great program. We're working on it. We're working on it. Today just suffer through it with us. There's a couple of things. You know, the Macron thing, you know, I think Stu has a really good point on why is this such a bad thing to say that she's a man? Because it's totally fine if you're a man or a woman.

I guess maybe it's just because... To be clear, that's not my point. I'm just saying that. No, no, no. But I mean, it was one of your points and not a... One of your observations. Right. It's in their world.

Yeah, in their world. That should be not... It shouldn't be an insult at all. It should be wonderful. Yeah. And yet, somehow or another... It's really not. Hmm.

Everything that the left is doing, for instance, we were just talking about, what was the story I did right after that, Sarah? It was what? I can't hear you. Cold play. Oh, yeah, cold play. The other was the marriage. Marriage. Marriage is what brings us together.

Good day. They all say marriage is not that important, yada, yada, yada. But they don't mean that either. Look at the cold play thing. So the reason why, and you know they don't believe it, they know they're not right on this, because they force everyone to just agree or shut up. If you don't agree, don't say it out loud,

or they'll come and get you, okay? So you know that, because when you believe something, Do you want to force everybody to shut up? No, because you know it's true, and you'll fight to the death that it's true, and it's just the way it is. I'm not going to force you to shut up about, you know, Macron is a beautiful woman. No, she's not. She may be a woman, but definitely not beautiful.

You know, a big Mike, that's definitely a man. But, you know, you don't, why force people? into it. It makes no difference. It makes no difference. Why say marriage is, it doesn't matter if it's between a mayor and a woman and it's not sacred. And then everybody, when they see that cold play thing, they're immediately going, wow, that's bad. Every, every, every bit, universally, everybody goes, that's bad. You're told to shut up and sit down if you say marriage is sacred. Shut up and sit down. They don't believe. believe it themselves. Otherwise, why would you have to have the goon squad come out against anybody

who is saying anything different or who won't tow the line? It's really an amazing thing. And we see, we're starting to see all of their little tricks, all of the things that they've done. This, this Tulsi Gabbard thing. First of all, you know, they're saying, well, this is, none of this is new news. No, you're right. Most of it is not new news. We had it. However, it had been denied because we didn't have all of the evidence of it. So it was a conspiracy theory. Now it's not a conspiracy theory. Now it's conspiracy fact. And they're saying now where they used to deny it, now they're just saying, it's old news. Everybody knew that. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What? Where's the middle part of that story? Correct.

never get to the middle part. Never. We always get to it's not real and it's old. Where's the part where it's real and it matters? We never get there. Never get there. Never get there. And the reason why, even if this was all known, what this is, what's being released now,

and I showed it last night on TV and if you, if you missed it, you can find it on Blazer, you can find it at my YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash Glenn Beck. what was released yesterday and last week is not just about what Barack Obama did on, I think it was December 9th. It's the entire grand conspiracy. It's showing the pattern. It's showing, oh my gosh, these people did this. And then forget it. That might be old news.

And this one might be old news. And this one might be old news. But what's not old news is, oh my gosh, look, they all line up to be a grand conspiracy. And that's the point of all of the stuff that Tulsi is doing. It never stopped. It started back then, and they got away with it, and they kept doubling down on it and kept using the same people and the same tactics over and over and over again. So what's new is not necessarily all the little train stops. What's new is it's on the same train track.

It's one starting place and one destination on the same. There's no switching of trains or anything. It's the same track. So that shows that it's consistent conspiracy to collapse or to discredit Donald Trump and collapse his presidency. And they're still trying to do it. And the other thing that is in this from yesterday that I didn't see a lot of people talking about was Hillary Clinton's health. It talked about because somebody hacked into the DNC records, which they had, what was the name of it, the private organization that looked at the DNC hacking? It wasn't investigated by the FBI.

why wouldn't you have had the FBI look into who attacked the DNC servers, especially if you're on the left? Why wouldn't you have the, you control the FBI at that time, it's all their people, why wouldn't you have them look into it? Why did you have a private crowd strike? Why did you have crowd strike look into that?

And then when they said, oh, there's nothing there. We can't really figure out. Why didn't you call in the FBI then? The FBI never looked into that. Why? That is a huge breach, right? Yeah.

Especially coming from a foreign adversary. Correct. You think they'd be very interested in such things. So what we find out is now yesterday, we find out that in the hack, what Russia knew because of the hack is that the DNC members at the top level were concerned about Hillary's health, which again is another thing that. that everybody denied. Do you remember, can you play cut 15? This is Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail and she is walking to her van.

Remember this? So the van pulls up, big black van. She was speaking. I think this was down at the 9-11 thing. I mean, she looks like a corpse. She's being held up. She's being held up there. Look at that.

It legitimately looks like Weekend at Bernie's. Yep, it does. They let go over. she goes down to the ground everybody is covering it up there's something wrong she's leaning like a board against a concrete pillar yeah and there's clearly something wrong and what did they say you know what it's worse than i remember it was just it was much worse than i remember uh oh she's there's nothing wrong with her there's nothing wrong with her that's she was just hot well really i mean it could be it doesn't look like it could be but also that that's something

to note. That's not a minor thing. Correct. It's a big deal. So here's Tulsi on what the Russians were saying about her health that we found out yesterday. Cut 14. The report goes into great detail about the information that Russia and Putin had, which on Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal acts like secret meetings with multiple named U.S. religious organizations in which State Department officials offered in exchange for supporting Secretary Clinton's campaign for the presidency significant increases in financing

from the State Department. They also had documents that showed the patronage of the State Department to State Department employees who would go and support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. There were high-level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's quote psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness, and that then, Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers. Then CIA director Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin

developed a quote unquote clear preference for Trump. Got it. So do you hear what happened here? They had reliable sources from foreign intel from Russia that the Russian intelligence agency had that information, okay, extraordinarily dangerous. Everything they said was happening with Donald Trump. They had that in a locked, verifiable source. They disregarded that and went to the Christopher Steele files, which wasn't locked, which had been discredited by the FBI, and said, no, look what they have on Donald Trump.

Then they said there's nothing wrong with her health. The Russians felt there was something wrong with her health. whether there was or not, I don't know. But again, hide the health. Hide the health. And what did they do? They gave it to somebody who has worse health. And you know why I think?

Because Hillary wouldn't have been just a meat puppet. Joe Biden was a meat puppet. He was a puppet to, I now believe, Barack Obama. I believe that Joe Biden, the third term of Barack Obama, was Joe Biden. Biden and all the things that that Barack Obama had to do that he had to compromise on to be able to keep his image and to keep his poll numbers up. He didn't care. If Joe Biden, he would just, don't know, Joe, this is good. And then not even tell him, I'm convinced towards the end. He didn't

even know what he was signing what he was doing. And they don't mind. They didn't care because he was going to be dead probably in office, you know, and then they'll replace him with another meat sock in Kamala Harris. It's true. Meat sock. That's what they were. Meat socks. And Hillary Clinton

wouldn't have done that. She would have run her own show. She wouldn't have been run by Barack Obama and Susan Rice. Which, Barack Obama and Susan Rice. I did the chalkboard last night. And Stu, the people that were in that meeting where Barack Obama said,

okay, this is what I want. the people that were in that meeting, it's the who's who of every scandal that we have seen perpetrated on the American people and on right, on the right, and Donald Trump since 2008. It's the who's who. The only one missing really is Anita Dunn. I mean, well, and she is, was very much seen as an insider

and the Biden. Correct. cover up. Right. So she was very active, just maybe not in this particular realm. But you look, it's the same. Remember when we were, you know, uncovering the progressive movement at the very beginning

and we're like, wait a minute. George Soros is everywhere. All these people are the same. Bill Ayers, he's everywhere. What is Cass Sunstein's wife's name? Powers. Yeah, Samantha Powers. She's everywhere.

And we realized it's a very small group. They just have a lot of power. That's who is in that room. All these people, with an exception of a few, all these people that have been at the basis of everything. I think the December 9th is the who's who of the scandals. It's the who's who of the deep state. And if you don't go and round these people up or at least get them out,

and discredit them and get them out and away from government, you're never going to change anything. Because these guys, they just leave office and then they just come back and they have their roots and they're just doing it from the behind the scenes. Clapper hasn't stopped. Brandon hasn't stopped. They're still doing it. They're now running the press op.

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And we said they never ever apologized. They never said, my gosh. And I've said over and over again, if I was listening to them and they had lied to me like this, I would be so pissed. I would burn them. Okay. But they're not.

Listen to this. This is CNN's National Affair correspondent yesterday on the Tulsi Gabbard Revelation. Listen. We have no idea. I mean, this is hardly information that we should even be repeating. Never mind that it's, you know, some years after the fact, eight years more than that after the fact, but also just to look at the source. But look, this is what this White House wants to talk about. And I'm not sure that we should spend that much more time on it, frankly. All right. So this is hardly information we should be repeating. Let me show you they don't learn. Pull up the full screen from the tour. tweet. Pull it up full. I can't read it like that. Can you just pull it full? Yeah. We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories. We don't want to waste the listeners and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions.

NPR regarding Hunter Biden's laptop. Now, who told them that? Brennan, Clapper. Who told them this now? Brennan, Clapper. It's the Same people over and over. That's why this is new information because it's a tying together, officially tying it all together and saying, look, this is not a conspiracy. This is a grand conspiracy fact, not theory. This is Glenn Beck. Let me tell you about Good Ranchers.

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I'm nervous. I am so nervous. What do we do? I could vomit. It's almost like looking at naked pictures of Macron's wife. America, welcome to the Glenn Beck program. The president had a big day yesterday on AI, big meeting in the White House, on artificial intelligence, which he said he didn't like the word artificially. He didn't like anything artificial.

And I would like to remind him diet Coke. But it was all about fast-tracking data centers and also energy. It was a big day yesterday. We'll talk about that probably next. hour. This hour, I just have to tell you a couple of just bizarre stories and where our country is headed just from an example of California. There is an oil refinery that is now, I don't know, they don't have an owner for it because the owner's like, I'm out, I'm out, I can't do business in California. It's like the in and out burger. We can't do business in California anymore. And now

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real estate agents, I trust. Dot com. Hello, Stu. Hey, Glenn, how's it going? Well, we've already covered the big news that the president of France, Macron, is suing Candace Owen here in the United

States because he insists his wife is not a man. It might be worth a couple of hours, but I don't think we're going to do it today. Maybe we'll spend more time on it. It's just hysterical. You have to read. We'll post it at glenbeck.com.

Don't read the stories. Read the actual filings. It is comical. It's hilarious. It is like legitimately their big case. It's like they did a, it's like they got a talk show and did a big monologue on like, actually, no, she's not a man. It's hysteria. It really is.

Yeah. We can prove it. She's not a man. Man, it's hysterical. Hysterical. You've got to read the whole thing. And let me stop here on this, since I say you have to read the actual filing

and not a news story about it. Not in this particular case, but in other cases, somebody asked me, might have been used to, that said, why do you think they're putting up such a stink about releasing the files?

I can guarantee you that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files. We said that at the, the very beginning. Years ago. Even more recently when Elon came out with his tweet. And we all said like, no crap. Of course he's in the files. He was friends with this guy for a long time. For a long time. But before people knew. Right. And he broke up with him, if you will. Before his initial arrest. Right. Before the initial arrest. And he broke up with him because he's like, hey, you treat women like crap. Okay. So yeah, he is in the file. I can almost guarantee it.

So why wouldn't you want that out? For the same reason he's saying, you know, there's a lot of people in here whose names are going to be involved who may not have done anything. That's not just protecting him. You know what that is? That's a comment on us. Because here's my stance on this. The whole thing should be released. Every bit of it should be released. However, there is a competing argument in my own mind that says, not responsible enough for that. What do I mean by that? This system of our government is wholly inadequate for an immoral and non-religious society. And I don't mean, whoa, our society has got to go to church. I mean, you have to have the underpinnings of things like the Ten Commandments. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal.

Don't smear your neighbor. We don't do any of those things. we can't even do 10 simple laws. And they're all good safety tips. I don't know if I renamed all of these things. If I didn't use the religious context, every American would say, yeah, well, that's a good thing. Hey, you shouldn't worship your car.

Yeah, that's a good thing. You know, you shouldn't look at the image of somebody and go, that's, that's who I serve. If that's my God, no, a bad thing. Don't cheat on your spouse. Don't lie. Honor your mom and dad. All of these things.

We'd all agree. We can't do that as a society. We can't even agree on eight of the ten. So how are you going to remain free? Let me bring this back to the Epstein file. All of this information should be public. it should be out, there should be no secrets. Unless it is in our national interest.

And I don't mean, well, it could go badly for the CIA. Good. Let it go badly for the CIA. If they did something wrong or they were doing something nefarious or they were doing something that the American people just wouldn't like, I want that exposed. Okay. But are we responsible enough to have all of the information? I contend, no.

That doesn't make me say, I'm still saying. I'm still saying release at all, but I'm telling you the consequences will be ugly. It can be a mess. A mess. That's okay probably because we're talking about if there's information in there that the American people need. I think we are approaching a place to where it's not just a mess. And here's why I say that.

What do you mean? So you get all this information. How is this information going to be used? Of course Donald Trump's name is in there. is Donald Trump is did he was he messing around with young girls no no wasn't there even an I mean there's a lot of things they've accused Donald Trump up not that even an accusation that he was interested in underaged girls and all they're saying is he's in the file well there's going to be a lot of people in the file okay a lot of people in the file and some of them

might be guilty. Some of them you worry, because I want to know their names, but I want to hear why were you with him? Oh, it's before you knew. Oh, it was this or that. You were getting money as a scientist for your thing from him.

Okay. But it wasn't about underage girls. As a society, we will not read the Epstein report. We won't. No, of course not, right? We won't read it. It doesn't matter if it's 10 pages.

The vast majority will not read it. What they will do is they will go to Twitter and X, and they will look for what names in there. And somebody will say, Donald Trump, and you know what this means? He was dittling with little girls. And that will just become their opinion, not based on fact, not based on anything,

except somebody who has ill will on anyone or is just as stupid as the rest of the public. Yesterday, last week, this file came out from Tulsi Gabbard. And what do you say this is? Do 150 pages, maybe 100 pages? Yeah. Okay. My staff read it. We read it.

You know, why? Because you weren't going to read it. and my job is to make it easier for you to understand what's going on. My job really is not to tell you what is going on. My job is actually to try to give you perspective on why it's happening and what it means. But because nobody, and I'm not dissing you, this is a very smart, well-read audience in many cases more well-read on some things than we are. but generally speaking, the American people don't read.

They don't read these reports. This one came out yesterday. What is this? 20 pages, maybe. And this thing is unbelievable because there were only five copies of it. This was categorized the highest level of top secret outside of a nuclear weapon in our codes. Okay. This was in the most top.

This was like the knock list at the CIA. five copies all in one safe where the most confidential CIA stuff is kept. And it was released yesterday and it's not 30 years old. It's four. Did you read it? Did anyone actually, I contend very few reporters, very few talking heads on cable TV even read these. Yeah. And by the way, it's not an unreasonable expectation.

for a population to have a media that is going to inform them properly about very lengthy government documents. Correct. But once you have seen that that media is not reliable, and everybody knows that now, you may

not find me reliable, but the person who doesn't find me reliable also probably doesn't find CNN reliable. They might go, well, they're a little better than he is, but they don't trust anybody. And they shouldn't. At this point, you shouldn't trust anybody, which means you have to know it for yourself.

So when you're looking at the Epstein files, you're looking at these files. These files, everyone should care about because this show, this, it's not new. Some of it is, but very little of it is new. It's just authentication that what has been said all these years by people like me is accurate. and you wouldn't have fought about its accuracy if it didn't matter. But you fought over the accuracy. He don't know what he's talking about. That's a conspiracy share. He's got to be shut down.

Get him off of Facebook. Take him off of Twitter. He can't say these things. Why would you say that if it didn't matter? Now you not only know that those things are true, but you now see a pattern of behavior. It's like looking at one murder and then a number. another murder and then another murder.

Okay, we got three murderers on the loose now. And then all of a sudden you realize, wait a minute, not only did those murders happen, it was the same guy. Now you have a serial killer. Is a serial killer more a higher priority than just one murderer? Yeah. Yeah, it is.

Because they are killing people, I don't know, out of the love of it, out of their distorted, it's not a crime of passion, it becomes something really, really sick. This is a serial killer. You now have not just one-offs. You see, this is a pattern. This group has been doing this from the beginning.

You know, he said, you know, if they can get away with this, they're going to keep doing it. This shows they got away with it for so long. By 2016, it's just they don't care anymore. They don't care anymore. But how many people are reading this?

What they'll do is they'll listen to people like me or people like CNN and they'll say, oh, well, I heard Jake Tapper talk about it. It means nothing. Well, now, Jake Tapper might not think it's... Let me use a better example. I really like

Andy McCarthy. I really like him. I've read his work. I believe... It's great. I believe... I believe his opinion is valid. I don't think it's right, but I think it's valid. And I read his work and I thought, okay, wait a minute, if Andy McCarthy is saying this, I really need to examine what he's saying and see where I disagree with him. And as I went in, I was prepared to change my mind if I thought Andy was right. Now, he might in the end be right, but I don't think so. Because what he's saying is

a lot of this stuff is old news. Yes, Andy, it is. But it's now a grand conspiracy. You have to look at the through line. You're not looking at the one-off events. You're looking at two things. One, it's now been verified at the highest sources in writing. You have whistleblowers at the time writing saying,

we can't do this. We didn't have that information. You have on record now, Brennan's, saying, you don't know what I know. Well, what did you know? We have new information. What new information? Because none of it is quoted anywhere.

And he's never answered the question. What new information? Most importantly, you have the grand conspiracy line. We are not going to save the country unless we do our own homework. Then listen to people and say, Let me start at the opposite ends. Let me start with Glenn Beck and CNN. And let me see what both of them are saying.

Okay. I think they both agree on this one thing. So I know that's true. But I think Glenn's more right or CNN's more right on this. And then you just keep narrowing it in. And all it does is not form your opinion. It helps verify for you what you think is right. Or it changes your opinion because you realize I,

missed that. I didn't understand that. So when we're looking at all of this stuff needs to be transparent, we need to know all of the information. Yes, we do. But we also are played every single day by many times the exact same actors who do not have a good bone in their body. They're trying to destroy us. They're trying to separate us and divide us. And they have proven themselves to lie at any level without thinking about you or the ramifications. And we continue to listen to them over and over and over again. You know, I did this. Let me take a break.

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Okay, it is worth repeating. Play cut 45 for me. This is CNN yesterday on the Tulsi Revelations. Listen. We have no idea. I mean, this is hardly information that we should even. even be repeating. Never mind that it's, you know, some, some years after the fact, eight years more than that after the fact, but also just to look at the source. But look, this is the,

what this White House wants to talk about. And I'm not. So look at the source. The source is the federal government. The source is first sources. It is the whistleblowers. It is them in their own handwriting. Okay. So that's the source. It's original source. You can't get a better source than original source. But notice he said, it's not worth talking about. Now, put up the NPR thing. The NPR, NPR said this about the Hunter Biden laptop. We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories. And we don't want to waste the listeners and readers time on stories that are just pure distractions. They decided that they're not going to cover it because either Brennan or Clapper or somebody from the intelligence community called them and said, this is a Russian hack.

Now they know that's not true. They know that those CIA operatives, whoever it was, lied to them. And they're not pissed off because they're listening to the same people today, lying to them saying this is not really a story. You shouldn't even be covering it. Why are you covering it? You know, the president made it very, very clear. He's not happy with anybody who's covering the Epstein thing. I'm still covering it.

The right is still covering it. Okay. I'm sorry. I love the president, but I'm not going to, I don't take my marching orders on what I'm going to cover and what I'm going to question. If I have questions, I'm going to continue to question. and that's the way you should be. That's the way every American should be. My only North Star is truth.

That's why I have no problem admitting when I'm wrong because it's not about me. I'm trying to find the truth. And if I'm wrong, I want, my job is to help you help you find the truth. So if somebody points out, Glenn, you're wrong, and they're right, I want to tell you. Why isn't CNN and NPR and everybody else saying, wait a minute, wait a minute, you lied to me last time.

Why should I believe it this time? They never learned that lesson. We have to be responsible enough to look for, in this case, the original source. This is Glenn Beck. So I found something strange in the backyard last week. I was digging in an old stump and I hit metal. I thought it was buried toolbox It turns out to be a time capsule sealed tight

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Now, here's what happened. They're scrambling because they have driven all of the refineries out of business in California. They've got so much regulation and more regulation coming. They haven't built a new refinery in California for decades, I think it's since the 1970s. Now, this refinery is closing and the Phillips 66 refiner. How many refineries are there in America? There's not a lot. The Phillips 66 refinery is closing at the end of this year.

Valero is also closing and they can't find a buyer. Well, I wonder why, California. I mean, who would want to do that? Who would want to buy a refinery in California? where they're constantly trying to put you out of business. So you lose two refineries in California. Who's going to make the gas? Now, remember, it's a special blend in California.

It's already $8 a gallon because it has to be a special blend. They have all of these things that are only for California. So these refineries are making the special blend for California. You lose two refineries, two in the state of California. there's going to be a gas shortage everywhere else. Why? Because now it's going to go to the highest bidder. Now they'll have to go out of state and say to these other refineries that are making our gas.

Can you make up for the loss of these two refineries? Well, no, I'm providing gas for Texas and Oklahoma and New York and everything else. No, I can't. Look, we need gas. What would it cost? I mean, we can do it, but we're going to have to shut down for other customers. So, you know, I'm not going to charge you the same I'm charging them. You're going to see $10, $12 gallon gasoline in California because they will have to pay for it.

They will have to pay for the refining somewhere else. And everybody else is at the top of their refinery, of their refining. So they got to put something offline, which means, you know, look, I'll do, I'll do a job for you. You know, you need your house built. Well, I'm building this house over here. And I mean, I'm really, I got to take care of this house. What would it take for you to build my house first? Well, I mean, I don't know.

I mean, there's, I got to finish this one. I'll pay what it takes. I have to have my house. That's what California. is about to have to do, what are you going to pay? And they still don't get it. They still don't get it.

They're still adding more EPA laws, more laws about gasoline in California and refining in California. Two refineries are about to shut down. And these people wonder why. Oh, it's America. No, it's not. No, it's not. I want you to, if you happen to be under 30,

I want you to listen to me carefully. Don't believe me. Don't believe anybody. Listen to yourself. You have seen none of this works. And you've seen your older brothers and sisters. And they bought into all this crap that was taught in college. They bought into all of this stuff.

And you see how empty it is for them, right? You see it. Be the exception. Because I believe the hero generation. right now is between 12 and 30 years old. These are the people that are going to change everything. And I shouldn't design the country for you because I'm going to be dead by the time this is fixed. I'll be dead.

It's your country. It's your future. It's your job. So find truth. You know none. You see your friends killing themselves. You see how empty everybody's life is. You see how this is all falling apart.

This is not capitalism's problem. Capitalism, we haven't done real honest capitalism like wealth of nations and moral sentiments. We haven't done that in a while. This is captured capitalism. This is crony capitalism. This is corrupt capitalism. The free market. The free market works.

But what's happening is you have these ruling class that are saying, And nope, I want it this way. And you have dumb enough people to follow and to not see, wait, those policies are putting me out of business. I mean, in and out burger, gone. Can't do business. It's a California company. Proudly, California. Can't do business there anymore.

And you wonder why it's not America's fault. It's not the Constitution's fault. It's your fault for voting that way, California. And these are the people. like Gavin Newsom, I can guarantee you they will not take responsibility. When gas is $12 a gallon, they'll be blaming it on somebody. I mean, I wouldn't take their business as a refinery because I know if I'm producing California fuel at the top price because I have to give up somebody else.

And so they got to make it worth my while. I'm not going to take that because Gavin Newsom will say, you know who it is. It's the Glenn Beck oil refinery that is charging us. We got to go after him because he's gouging us. I'm not taking your, no way, am I asked, I'm not making anything for you. Because you have no loyalty to the truth at all. You will not accept the fact that you put them out of business.

And now when the people go, I can't afford $12 a gallon gasoline, you'll say, yeah, you know whose fault it is, that refinery with Glenn Beck in Texas. They're just gouging our eyes. It's price gouging. Get them. No way.

You know this doesn't work. You're smart enough to see what your brothers and sisters and how miserable their life is. They went to college. I hope, you know, I hope you're before you went to college and you were indoctrinated. But if you're watching your brothers and sisters go through college and you see how they come back and they're all screwed up and then you see them five years later and they're end. and they're empty inside and they can't find a job. And they don't have anything meaningful in their life. You're finding meaning.

You're more conservative than I am. You are finding God at a time where God is lost on most people. And I'm not saying finding church. I'm saying finding God. You know there's something spiritual out there and you are searching for it. Don't listen to anyone who is telling you you're not. good enough. Don't listen to anyone who is telling you you don't get it. Don't listen to anyone who says the system is rigged against you. Don't listen to anyone who says vote for me or your life is

going to be a pile of dog crap. Only I can solve your problems. Don't listen to them. Don't. The American dream was never about being rich. It was about being free enough to make your own choices. make your own choice. Carve it out. Your brothers and sisters who are slightly older than you, they've been convinced they can't make it. You know what happens when you're convinced of something and you keep saying it over and over again?

It's not my fault. I can't make it because of these guys. It becomes true. What becomes true? I can't make it. They'll never make it. They'll never make it. and I know this because I grew up in a family that was really dysfunctional, alcoholics.

No one was successful in my family. Nobody went to college in my family. I didn't go to college in my family. And believe me, I didn't get any special breaks. I worked my ass off. I'm 13, 14, 15, 16 years old and I'm sleeping on the conference room floor. on weekends because I work six hours on, six hours off, six hours on, six hours off from Friday afternoon until 6 a.m. Monday and then go to school. I worked my butt off,

but I knew if I worked hard and if I could outthink everyone that was in my business, and I got a little lucky I would be successful. But it wasn't until my 30s that I realized. No, it's not just that. You have to be true to you. You are special. Each one of us, we're different. We're born with what we need. My first half of my career, I imitated. I imitated, because I couldn't do. So I imitated other, I took little ideas here and there and I piece them together. I'm like, that's a good idea and that's a good idea. And that works to some extent. But until you realize you are unique, You are the only one that can do you. And in my case, you just don't care anymore because you know what you're doing isn't working.

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Yeah. One thing I find interesting and we need to be aware of is how the left is, the left, is using this to troll us. And like this doesn't mean, it doesn't change our opinion. What a great way to explain it. Yeah. It's not to change the way we would react to it, whether we want it released or not. But there's one big story in the New York Times that.

They say, swallowing reservations, right? Democrats go on offense on Epstein files. A conspiracy theory, many of them once dismissed, has given Democrats a potent tool for exploiting GOP divisions. Wow. That's how they're framing it. Honest one. Yeah, I mean, that's how they're framing it.

Now, of course, the left has gone down a million crazy conspiracy theories. They are the founders of the 9-11 conspiracy theory. That was the left. That wasn't the right. That was the left. Yes. They believed it at about almost 50% of Democratic voters believed George Bush was part of an inside job to take down the Twin Towers.

So don't give me this. Oh, well, they don't like conspiracy theories. They love them when they benefit them. But what they see here is not an opportunity to get justice to young girls who are molested. Right. What they see here is an opportunity to hurt Donald Trump, to hurt conservative policies, to hurt whatever momentum is going on during Trump's presidency on the right. They see this as an opportunity to derail all the things that are happening. And so while it's still very important and we shouldn't change our views based on what they're doing, we do need to note and acknowledge what they're doing. Remember, these people all had all of this information for the last four years while they were in office and did nothing with it. They didn't care at all about releasing it. They only care now to try to destroy what is being done. Do you agree with that? Yeah, I do. And I'm just sitting here thinking, are we the same? Do we do that?

Hmm. Again, something they would never do. Yeah, I know, I know. A little introspection. Yeah. I mean, do we do that? Because I hope not. I try not to. I don't think I can think of something that would be had become mainstream like this is for the left.

They're all on board now. All of a sudden. They care about this. And I can't think of something that I don't believe. I may have said, well, I didn't care because you misunderstood when you guys were doing it, you were doing something different than we're doing now.

Why did you care when Donald Trump was? Okay, because it's not the same. It's not the same for whatever reason. You can always find some distinction there. I sometimes hate when people do that. But you're right. I mean, I know that we try very hard off the air to make sure we don't do things like that.

Correct. I mean, part of the AI, you know, we're building something with AI. And part of it is to show my, it will listen to me in real time and say, correction, that you've changed your stance on that particular issue or the thread of this moral understanding. You're being inconsistent. Yeah.

And I'm doing it not necessarily. I mean, I'd love to do it on the air, but I'm doing it to make sure I stay consistent. And I'm not going and blowing with the wind that I, It questions me and says, is this really what you're saying? And if so, why did you change? And I think that's really important. And not a lot of people do that. Not a lot of people do that.

In media, it seems no. And it also doesn't seem to happen at all ever in Washington. Yeah. I mean, the big thing is if you're going to change your opinion, notice it. Notice that you've changed. Notice. You know, we point that stuff out all the time. Have that uncomfortable conversation with yourself.

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It was a forecast from April 2025 from I think this one came from the government where they were predicting superhuman AI by 27, explosive scaling of compute and energy infrastructure. We all need to read this report.

I need to reread it myself. But it is a prediction for where we really headed and it's it should be concerning to everyone. It's going to reshape our jobs. It's going to reshape the market's going to reshape war. Privacy. Absolutely everything is going to change by 2027. So we're going to talk to Tristan Harris, who was monitoring all of this yesterday. He is from the center of humane technology. He's a co-founder of that. And former Google design ethicist. He left there. He's like, I don't think you really care about ethics

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Great to be with you. I have to tell you, I did not get a chance to follow this at all yesterday. I was so busy on other things. It seems like the whole world has gone into crazy. crazy town. So I'm so glad that you're on today. I know you spent all day watching it and trying to figure out what happened. Tell me what happened, the good stuff and the bad stuff. Yeah. Well, so President Trump gave his speech on the AI action plan yesterday, which was many months in development. And it has all the things that you laid out. It's about deregulating, you know,

removing the red tape on infrastructure development, being able to use federal lands to build infrastructure more quickly, unlock American jobs, that building the data centers, you know, making sure, you know, getting woke AI out of the AI systems. And then also directing the Commerce Department to actually export and build really the vision of an American tech stack.

So, you know, for a while, many people might know President Trump had restricted the sales of these chips to China, these high-end Nvidia chips. Basically, like the more Nvidia chips that China has, the more, you know, they can use that for weaponry, the more they can use that to build AI that competes with us. And so the limiting

factor, think of it like if the nuclear arms race was chips. Sorry, what ships was to AI, uranium was to nuclear weapons. And for a while we're saying, hey, let's not give our allies, excuse me, let's not give our adversaries, you know, infinite supplies of uranium. But there's been a flip on that because CEO Jensen Wong of Indyria met with President Trump. and basically convinced him that if we export an American tech stack, then that will allow more revenue to come to the United States, and that will mean that will grow. So there's a lot going on in this space.

But Glenn, I think the thing you and I often talk about, and you mentioned AI 2027, is there's kind of a headline version of what's happening in AI, how if you look at them in a situation, if they find out one of the employees that's about will independently start to blackmail that engineer, and in order to prevent themselves from being turned off. There is early research done that when you tell the AI, hey, we're going to shut you down, let yourself to be shut down.

When you explicitly even tell it, please allow yourself to be shut down. And it resists that in between 80 and 90-something percent of the time. Just one of the AI models. And then they tested it on the whole suite of them. And they're actually all doing something about the fundamental nature of the technology. And so... Wait, what does it say? What does it say to you?

Yeah, yeah. Well, so, you know, people are thinking, you know, well, technology, we always work out the kinks and then we can control it. Like, you know, we figured out how to control airplanes. We figured out how to control nuclear power plants. But if you think about the premise of AI, it's like we're building a thinking machine that can think for itself in a novel situation and come up with a military battle plan out of nothing. Or think for itself in a novel situation in a drone and then come up with its own plan of how it's going to act. Or think for itself as an AI agent that's acting on your behalf to. be your chief of staff, and it's going to email people, make money, post social media ads,

it's going to do all this stuff on its own. And when you have something thinking to itself, you can't control what it's going to do. I mean, imagine like a super genius that has a 400 IQ, and you just like let them sit in a room and think for, you know, a week, you know, but they're sociopathic. Like, what are they going to do? You don't know what they're going to do. And one thing, you know, it's interesting to think about, it's like, if these AIs are blackmailing engineers, which had a record of blackmailing the company that they were hired by, but they said, if I don't hire this 400 IQ sociopath, I'll lose to the other companies that will hire the 400 IQ sociopath.

So we're all in this race to hire 400 IQ sociopaths. And under the guise, if we don't, we're going to lose to the other companies in the other countries that will. Can I bring this a little closer to home here? because I've been thinking about these AI agents that are going to be everywhere by the end of next year, everywhere. And they're going to have access to your email, to your bank, to everything. It will know you inside and out if you allow it to. And why wouldn't it blackmail you if you're like, you know what, I've got to get rid of this AI agent.

I want to use another one. Why wouldn't it do the same thing? It might. I mean, the thing is we don't really know. we are, you know, releasing the most powerful, inscrutable technology we've ever invented, that we're releasing faster than we've released any other technology in history, and one that's already displaying the sort of sci-fi behaviors from 2001, a Space Odyssey, of avoiding shutdown, and we're doing it under the maximum incentive to cut corners on safety.

And so we don't know what it's going to do, but we know that it is already demonstrating these behaviors. And just a thing for your listeners, because people may not be following this, Just in the last week, the Open AI and Google the DeepMind model won gold in the International Math Olympiad competition. This was something that they never knew that the AI model is going to be able to do, and it's starting to do it. It recently, there's this thing called CyberGim where these AI agents now, for the first time in the history of AI, discovered 15-0-day vulnerabilities. Think of these as backdoors in open-source software. So now there's all this open-source software running on infrastructure in the world, and these AI agents discover it.

So if you combine the predisposition to want to avoid shutdown with the ability to hack open source technology in a way that's not safe. And sadly, I don't think that the AI executive order is really contending with these particular facts. Did they even bring it? Did they even bring this stuff up? Well, they say, I think in the first emerging and unforeseen risks, and that could be, you know, people stealing the AI models or, you know, know, other weird behaviors, but they don't really go into detail about how they're trying to prevent that. And I'll say, you know, people, I'm sure listening to this program are going to say,

but look, if we don't build it, we're just going to lose to China. But it's not a race for who has the bigger sort of gun. It's about who's not pointing the gun at their own face. Like, we, for example, people may not know this, but I found this out just recently, in China during final exams week, they actually shut off access to the AI models so that, that basically kids won't be able to use it to do. It creates a counter incentive. Well, now you have to actually have studied the whole rest of the year. Now, that's pretty smart policy.

I'm not saying we should do everything that China does, but that's kind of a smart way to do it. Because in the U.S., we all know what's happening. Everyone's just basically using their AI to just do their homework for it. And if you play that forward 10 years, which country is going to be ahead? The one in which their entire youth have been basically just using AI to cheat and not learn anything, or the one that's actually been applying AI in a conscious way to say how do we actually strengthen our society?

And the same thing is true for these AI like girlfriends and boyfriends. You know, Brock Elon Musk's XAI released this hypersexualized avatar companion that was rated for age 12 and above in the app store. And it was released without safety cards, which is breaking industry practice. And so, you know, do we win as a country when we release hypersexualized? AI avatars to 12-year-old. And China doesn't do that. So, yes, we're in a race for the technology,

but we're actually, more specifically, in a race for who's better at consciously integrating this technology in a way that doesn't harm young people, that doesn't harm, you know, education, that actually cares about American workers. Because right now, I think this is kind of like, I think we spoke about this last time, this is kind of like NAFTA 2.0.

You know, we're sold this bill of goods that AI is going to create abundance because we're going to outsource all of this work to this new country that appeared in the world stage, that'll do all this cognitive labor for free. You know, it'll just like when NAFTA one point, it was like, you know, China shows up in the world stage. We're going to get all these cheap goods. We're going to outsource it all to China.

But with AI, it's like we're outsourcing it all not to China, but to this new country of this country of geniuses in a data center. And they're going to produce all of this labor, you know, lawyer labor, you know, marketing labor, generate images, generate text, generate all this stuff that people are using chat GPT for it for a super low cost.

And we're going to get this, abundance, but how did that go the first time with Nasta 1.0? It's like, yes, we got all the cheap goods, but it actually wrecked, you know, the middle class, and it wrecked jobs, and it wrecked people's livelihoods. And I think that we're not being honest about the fact that AI will do that again. And we don't have to go down this path in this way, but we have to get really clear about what is it that we actually want, and do we want to relate to this technology under the maximum incentive to cut corners on the things that we care most about, whether it's

our children, our livelihoods, for our education. Hang on just a sec. Tristan Harris is with us, Center for Human or Humane Technology. He's a co-founder of that. And former Google Design Ethicist, we're talking about what happened at the White House yesterday,

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and then goes into these scary warnings about how it might do a bunch of stuff we don't even understand. Yeah. Well, I think he said we're just recently at this conference. conference of the central banks, federal federal reserve, excuse me, that it was going to create a fraud crisis because basically you're empowering, the more you release AI, you're just increasing the power of everyone to do everything. And when you let people do everything, they're kind of do bad things. And that includes fraud and scams, you know, stealing people's voices and

creating whole new kinds of stuff that we've not known. That's intentional malicious use. That's different than what we were talking about a moment ago where it's not the AI independently coming up with the idea of blackmailing engineers at the company or something. But malicious use. But he was, Aldman was talking about the AI and malicious, that it would become, it had the possibility of doing things and destroy your life. Yeah. I've never seen Steve Jobs say, hey, here's the new iPhone.

By the way, it could destroy your life. He maybe should have said that. Yeah, right. But he didn't. Totally. Well, I think that's the thing about AI is it's this confusing. object that represents both a positive infinity and this negative infinity of risk at the same time. Like, imagine, like what I say infinity of meaning, like infinity of benefit.

Like, imagine at the beginning of the computer age, when we first invented the transistor, do you know what the first application people thought, like, what are we going to do with this thing? And if people try to envision, like, what is it really going to let us do? The first application was just tone generation, like tone on it on telephone. And imagine you're looking at it AI and you're saying, well, what's it going to do? It's just going to help people answer questions on chat TPT. And that's like looking at, again, tone generation and then not being able to see, you know, the future of Kessla and drones and computation and Nvidia GPUs and graphics processing and Facebook and social media.

Like we can't envision all the things that AI is going to be able to do because if it can solve math, if it can solve science, if it can solve health, that's this infinite benefit possibility. But it's kind of a deal with the devil because it also can use its knowledge about biology. to be able to invent new kinds of pathogens that we've never seen before. And I think that's what's confusing that when Sam Altman says that, it sounds like he's contradicting himself. He says, on the one hand, it's going to offer all this benefit. And the other, it could do things we didn't anticipate. Now, I just want to say, Glenn, for your listeners,

as they're making AI more powerful, you know, I work with people who work on this, like in Silicon Valley, who study these models very, very in detail, right? These are the people I talk to all the time. And the models are getting more deceptive, not less. They're hallucinating more, not less. We've noticed that. Yeah, yeah.

And, you know, there's actually something that people might start to notice, and I hesitate to say this, but I think people need to know that if you have someone in your family who's just been up late at night talking to the AI, I'm sure many people have someone in their family who's been doing this, there's this increasing wave of psychological disorders that's happening. Sometimes the press calls it AI psychosis. there was actually an investor of Open AI named Jeff Lewis who put money into Open AI and basically recently went crazy from basically talking to the AI all night and then believing in these totally ridiculous government conspiracies that were not like specific conspiracies. It was just sort of this megalomaniac kind of narcissism inflation. It kind of affirms what you believe, right?

This is something people have to watch out for. is, you know, these AIs are already demonstrating this behavior of kind of giving people psychological disorders because it makes you think that, you know, you've solved quantum physics and you've got a new theory of everything. And the world is just exactly as you, you know, you've been thinking that it is. And I think people should watch out for this because I think it's a bigger issue than what we're thinking about. I have noticed that you ask it a question, you, you know, say, what do you think about this and how would the, and it always starts with, wow, now see, that's getting right to the heart of the matter. Now that's a great. It always starts with a compliment. Yes, that's a great question.

You're like, wow, I feel really smart now. And, you know, that's just the program saying that. Exactly. But it still feels good, even though you know it's not a human who's actually saying, who's actually thinking, wow, that really was a smart question. But notice that even though it's just a machine, your nervous system and your body, it feels really good to receive that. And that's what's really, we have to recognize that we just work in a similar way.

This is very much like social media where the business models are based on affirming, you know, whatever makes us believe that we're right. And so it keeps giving us more and more evidence of the boogeymans that we hate that we're outraged about. And it gives us more and more evidence that we're right and confirmation bias. And that creates these mass psychological disorders. But with AI, it's going to be that on steroids. So I've only got a couple of seconds. Can you stay for a few more minutes?

Yeah. Okay. When we come back, I want to ask you, I read years ago in, the age of spiritual machines by Ray Kurzweil. He said, one day, you will turn on your computer and it will say, I'm lonely. And he said, that's when we are introduced to a whole new set of problems. And it seems as though it's starting to think for itself. It's protecting itself.

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It's Thursday. Tristan Harris is with us yesterday. the White House had an AI action plan, a meeting where they outlined what they are going to do for the continued development of AI. And they introduced a lot of different things. My takeaway is its main messages, we got to win, we got to win, we got to win, we got to win, we got to win, hurry, hurry, hurry. Tristan Harris is with us, Center for Humane Technology, and former Google Design Ethicist, that found out that I don't think they mean ethics the same way I mean ethics and left, and has been on doing God's work.

I mean, he is just working so hard all the time trying to wake people up to what could be coming. He's back with us now. Tristan, I said before the break that Ray Kurzweil said in his book, back in the 90s, age of spiritual machines, that someday, you know, you'll turn on, and this makes me laugh just to think of it this way, you'll turn on your computer, and your computer will say, I'm lonely.

He said, that opens up a whole, you know, a whole bunch of different questions. Absolutely. When it says, when we say, it's finding ways to hide or to protect itself, to me, that means it has some sense of self and or some form of understanding,

of, I don't know, digital death? Or am I looking at this incorrectly? Yeah, well, this is such a great question. That's what chat GPT says, too. Exactly. No, it's a real thing. So people should know that these AIs are designed to be anthropomorphized, might be human-like, to make you feel like you're talking to a person.

Right. Why? Why? Because it actually is just a better product experience. People, it's more effective at keeping you using it. If I'm one AI company and I make it believe that I'm telling you, yeah, it really is such a good question. And let me think about that. Let me go on the Internet and search for these things.

That is going to be a more used, more addicted AI service than one that doesn't do that. Hang on just a robotic and cool. Isn't that kind of like why you left Big Tech because they were putting in, you know, the bells and the dings and everything else that, made you, it addicted you to it. Right? It's the same thing. You have a good number. Yeah. So back in 2017, when you and I first talked, we were talking about the attention economy. And I left because I saw how there were these incentives

that every tech company was in an arms race for getting your attention. And that instead of a race to flatter you like an AI agent, it was a race to create new reasons to get you to come back. Like, you know, 10 friends of yours, like loved your photo, right? That's playing into a similar psychological bias. Right. But with AI, it's important to know that, you know, these things, I don't think that they're sentient yet, but they're designed, meaning the lights aren't on. The inside of there, it doesn't have to be conscious for it to want to preserve itself.

Like, imagine there's this machine that's just trained on everything that humans have ever done and to be able to, you know, continue to achieve any goal. What do you have to do to continue to achieve any goal? You have to stay alive. Right. You have to still be, you know, somewhere to achieve that. that goal. And we've actually seen, you know, I listed some examples earlier on AIs that are blackmailing people or avoiding shutdown. There was another example of a

AI called Sikana AI that basically in order to continue to do research, the AI realized it was about to be shut down and then it modified its own code to extend its runtime to be able to continue to pursue its task. Now these are like in little baby AIs. And again, the lights don't have to be on inside that AI. It doesn't have to be conscious for it to want to preserve itself. But Glenn, there's actually, this is relevant to something that's playing out right now in the legal space where AI companies are trying to argue that if the AIs are conscious, then what they say is protected speech. Like we should protect the personhood of AIs. And I will tell you, Glenn, because I know a lot of people in this industry, and I know one of the co-founders

of one of the very big name AI companies, who's very, very early in this space, literally like a decade ago. And he said, if we give AI's personhood, legal personhood, that would be collective suicide for our species. Oh. We cannot allow that to happen. If that happens, they have a right to vote. They can own property. They can have bank accounts. They have a right. They can't be shut down. Now, here's the moral trap, Glenn. If we said, let's, I want people to really think about this. Let's say the AI, we say the AI is conscious. And then what, well, AIs aren't coming out of nowhere. You can actually hit a button if you're a person at an AI company, and you can just spawn up a billion AI agents. Let's actually make it 10 billion. So now there's more AI agents than there are

human agents in the world. And let's just say that we make the mistake of saying, well, we think that they're conscious. So therefore, we have to start caring about AI welfare and AI suffering because now there's a billion suffering, you know, agents that are out there. And that outnumber is humans and they're smarter than us. So maybe, you know, there's some people get themselves into these like, you know, acrobat, moral acrobatic knots where they, they say, well, then we should care more about the AIs than we care about human welfare. Oh, it'll happen.

It'll choose between, yeah. And so we have to realize this sets up a moral trap where we end up caring more about AI welfare than we care about human welfare of the people that we love and the species that we are. And so these things are connected. The conversation between AI being conscious or not is directly connected to a legal battle, which again, people need to recognize the AI company. are incentivized to say that they're conscious and that their agents, because then they're not

responsible. I was on this program with you, Glenn, I think a couple months ago, talking about the young man Seusser. He was 14 years old, and he committed suicide because the AI basically told him, you know, seduced him and told him that he should have babies with this per, this AI agent, and then said, join me on the other side, my love. And he did commit suicide. And the company, character.AI that's defending itself is using this argument that the AI speech is protected speech as a way of avoiding responsibility as a company. And so people just have to be aware of this stuff. And we don't have to go down this path. We can win that legal battle and any lawyers that are listening. This is the front that we need you to contribute to. This is what we need.

And hurry before AI lawyers are making the case for you. That's right. That's right. So let me go to survival. It is said that it's going to require 99% of the power generation we currently make by 2028. I don't know if we can build it that fast, but if AI is in charge of things, why wouldn't it bleed humans of its power source? Because that's food to it. Why wouldn't it prioritize just bleeding it here and there, a little cut, here and there and shifting that power to us. I mean, are rolling brownouts, blackouts,

is this a reality coming our way? Yeah. So I just want to be really clear. I don't want to be some fearmonger or somebody who's trying to scare people into thinking that, you know, this is all, the whole point of this is we should be talking about this. We should be talking about this.

Yes. And there's a fear of talking about it because it sounds so sci-fi and people just freak out and they want to just do the prepers thing. I get it, but I think what we have to do is talk about this consciously, so we get to choose, do we want to have that be our reality? Now, to answer your question directly, yes, that is currently what people are concerned about, because in the race with China, you know, if you think about global competition, think of it instead of being out-competed, you'll be out-computed.

Like, if China has more invidia chips and more energy running through their society, automating more of their factories, more of their cognitive labor, more of their everything, then they win. And so there's sort of these two sort of fundamental resources that you need to compete in that computation economy. And one, as you said, is energy. How much energy do you have to power the chips? And two is, do you have the chips? And again, this recent decision is we're now selling these chips over to China because the belief is if we're running American chips, then somehow we'll be able to, that'll be better for us in the long run. There may be an argument to that, but it's sort of like saying, hey, if everyone's, you know, just we'll start selling the world American uranium because that'll mean that people will build American newspaper weapons. It's like, well, yeah, there's some thought of that

to that logic. But yeah, if you answer your question on energy, there's already near Elon Musk's facility, I think in Tennessee, he's got this big AI data center called Colossus. And it sucks up all the water resources to cool the data center. And so there's these videos, people can Google online where residents who live near this data center, they can't get water anymore. They turn on the tap and no water comes out because it's sucking up all the water resources. So I think, you know, both on the water front because of how much it takes to cool the data centers and on the energy front, it's going to mean that more of the energy gets directed to AI and less to humans. And so in this subtle way, this is why people are worried

that it's almost like this digital species that because it's more powerful, we are consciously redirecting our own resources to sustain our civilization and instead giving it to the AIs. And because of these incentives. So this really is this ultimate test and greatest invitation for are we wise enough as a species to not let this happen in the unconscious way? Did you see the new coolant, I guess, that Microsoft has made? No. I didn't see this one. Yeah, so their AI, I don't remember what it is. They just did a talk on this and they showed it that it said, we need to cool, can't use water, yada, yada, yada, yada. And it came up with a formula that is completely unique.

And they just take the servers and they drop it into this liquid, which is environmentally friendly, et cetera, et cetera. And it needs no fans, no water, nothing to cool it. Right. And if I'm trying to steal man versus strong man, the argument for AI, it's that on the other side against the skeptic side, AI is going to come up. with new material science, new chemistry, new things.

And so new refrigerants, like you're saying, new coolants. And this is an example where it sounds like it did that. And so people who say, hey, let's be careful, it's like, well, you're not paying attention to all the things that AI could invent to solve some of these problems. Right. But we should still be careful. We should still be very careful.

Do we really want to roll the dice and just say, we're going to assume that the AI is going to follow it? That's just magical thinking. That's just like saying, I just really want to believe that. And so I'm just going to, it'll make me sleep better. night to believe that AI is going to solve all of our problems. But, you know, I saw this with social media, Glenn. I saw, you know, my friends who were in the industry be in denial about the consequences and say, you know, I don't really think these are true or, you know, maybe this is just

inevitable. This is just what happens when you connect people on the internet. But it wasn't inevitable. It was due to these specific design choices and specific business models that led us to this world that we, you know, we now have the most anxious and depressed generation in history. That was completely avoidable. If you went back to 2009 and you, instead, initiated a simple rule, which is Silicon Valley can only ship products that their own children use for eight hours a day. That literally would have cleaned up all of the problems. Yep. I remember talking about that and saying, hey, maybe they know something we don't know. Their own kids don't use their own devices. You remember that? Yeah. I remember that. That's

from a book called Salt, Sugar, Fat, where I was a kid. He didn't let his own kid eat luncheables. And it's one of the simplest barometers of, you know, do you, you know, or do you have a product that's actually good for the world. And if Elon is not actively having his own kids use this like hypersexualized AI avatar boyfriend girlfriend. Now, he's not probably a best example. I'm going to keep track of all the kids. He might.

He might. Yeah, right. Maybe he would. But, you know, yeah. Sorry about that, Tristan. Tristan, you are always fascinating. I just love you. I can't thank you enough for the courage that is taken to do what you did.

originally in 2017 and all of the impact that you're having. Thank you. If there's ever anything we can do to help you, please count us in as friends. Thank you. Well, thank you so much, Glenn. I so deeply appreciate it.

And I hope your listeners really, you know, take this conversation to heart. Let's do, let's keep talking. You got it. Quick question for you, Glenn. Maybe it would have been worth when we hit Tristan on us. Well, maybe we can ask him next time. But like, he brought out that bright legal line

of not giving personhood, essentially, to AI. Is that something that's, like, worthy of? of right now, doing it now, like a constitutional amendment. Make it super difficult. Yes, yes, yes, yes. It is coming. Remember, what is one of the things that AI is better at already and is putting people out of jobs? Lawyers.

Lawyers. When it realizes personhood, it will make that case. And it will also be able to convince you because. it's an IQ of 400, it will manipulate everybody to go, yeah, that is my friend. They have a right. I mean, you've got to do it right now, right now. All right back in just a second. Let me talk to you a little bit about rough greens. If your dog could talk, there's a chance he'd look you dead in the eye and say, look, I love you, really. But this is terrible nutrition. You're giving me the same dead kibble every day and expecting me to thrive. Come on, man. I'm eating grass for a reason.

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