7 HORRIFYING new AI technologies: Number 5 will give you the creeps

May 22, 2023

It’s no secret that Glenn has a less-than-optimistic view of emerging AI and when you look at the horrifying new technologies that utilize the power of AI it’s hard not to agree.

Here’s a look at 7 new AI technologies that will HORRIFY you:

AI Brainwave Monitoring

Earlier this year during the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, Nita Robinson, a professor of law and philosophy at Duke, presented a video that depicted a “hypothetical” situation where a person's brainwaves are monitored by their earbuds, which have the ability to record brainwaves, decode them with AI, and then send brain reports to their boss and are accessible by government agencies. When the video ends, Robinson makes the terrifying announcement that this AI technology already exists! It's just a matter of time before it's implemented.

If you want to learn more about Brainwave tracking and the WEF, you can watch this clip from the Glenn Beck Program.

AI Voice Cloning

Last month, Glenn covered a terrifying story involving a scammer who created an AI clone of a child's voice in order to scam money out of her terrified parents. While this might sound advanced, a quick Google search reveals that this technology is remarkably accessible and is easily able to replicate the voice of anyone. Imagine the havoc that could be inflicted on your life with an AI clone of your voice.

AI Mind Reader

Left shows stories read to user and right shows what the AI was able to decode from users brain activity

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Like something out of Star Trek, a team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin developed a new AI that is able to decode brain activity and produce a transcript of a person's thoughts with reasonable accuracy, all without the need for implants or other invasive measures. While the researchers assure us that the technology has major limitations, including the need to train this AI extensively on each subject's brain, it’s only a matter of time before the AI is able to overcome these limitations, and it may be sooner than we would like…

Snapchat's new AI “Friend”

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Snapchat

In April the popular social media messaging app Snapchat released a controversial new feature known as “My AI”—an AI chatbot powered by ChatGPT. The new feature acts much like other chatbots. It can answer questions, converse with the user, and offer recommendations. However, unlike other chatbots, it is integrated in such a way that it can be difficult to distinguish from a human user, complete with a customizable avatar and name. Many parents are worried that the friendly appearance of “My AI” will make it hard for their teens to differentiate the bot from a real human. Moreover, the only way to remove the bot is by paying for Snapchat’s premium service, giving parents little recourse for protecting their children.

AI "Big Brother"

In a recent TED talk, former Apple Designer Imran Chaudhri introduced the concept for a new wearable AI device connected to a camera and microphone, enabling the AI to hear and see everything you do. Chaudhri assures us that the device is “privacy-first and safe,” but how safe would you feel with an all-seeing AI accompanying you all day every day?

AI Meddling with Elections

AI generated image of Trump's arrest

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One terrifying potential use for AI could be meddling with elections. The last few years have seen a decline in faith in our elections, and the emergence of AI will only serve to muddy the waters. As previously mentioned, AI voice clones are here and have been proven to have the ability to create compelling facsimiles of political figures. Combined with AI image technology the threat of an AI-generated scandal is high.

If you want to learn more about AI interference with elections you can watch this clip from the Glenn Beck Program.

AI Dating

Another disturbing development is the creation of “Dating AIs”—AI chatbots designed as a replacement for a boyfriend or girlfriend. There is already a variety of options available with prices ranging from free all the way up to $1 a minute, like some sort of dystopian "call girl." There are already reports of people developing genuine emotional attachments to these bots and others who have married or have tried to marry their artificial lovers.

Why the media is obsessed with the death of America

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Tomorrow, the United States of America will have its 247th birthday, and the activists in corporate media couldn’t be more miserable about it.

Their joylessness is always the same. So, if you’re looking for a way to be miserable on the 4th of July, a holiday devoted to vibrant, breathtaking explosions in the sky, then scroll through mainstream media. You’ll find tons of editorials by people who will spend tomorrow full of hatred for BBQs, pools, parties, and, well, fun.

Last year, the New York Times celebrated the 4th of July with an article by Paul Krugman, one of the few people smug enough to blame “right-wing” America for the “Climate Apocalypse.” The media is obsessed with apocalyptic language. They love to fantasize about the “end of America.”

The media is obsessed with apocalyptic language.

Way back in 2010, the publication Salonpredicted America would collapse by 2025. These days, they’ve shifted to blaming Christianity and “American fascism.”

The Washington Post has declared the “end of white Christian America.” Christianity, they tell us, is part of the reason America is “racist.” They’ve fantasized about “All the ways America could come to an end.” Over the last six years, they have published multiple articles announcing “the end of American Exceptionalism.” The most recent one came out the day after the January 6th incident.

They have blamed guns, Republicans, comedy, “transphobia.” They have blamed the “ignorance and irrationality” of people who disagreed with vaccine mandates. They’ve repeatedly blamed anyone who dislikes woke culture. But most of all, they have blamed Trump. They swore he would cause “the end of America’s role as a defender of freedom.” In that article, they actually portrayed Woodrow Wilson as a defender of Democracy.

They’ve repeatedly blamed anyone who dislikes woke culture.

An article in the Guardianargued that the repeal of Roe v Wade brought America one step closer to civil war and that “the left-democratic wing of America is the productive and educated part of the country.” Ahead of the 2020 election, Rolling Stonepredicted Covid would cause the end of the American Era and America would be replaced by Scandinavian socialism and Chinese authoritarianism. During Trump’s presidency, the Atlantic devoted all their energy to proving Trump would cause the end of America, with an endless flow of articles about “How Trump is Ending the American Era.”

Rolling Stone predicted that America would be replaced by Scandinavian socialism and Chinese authoritarianism.

David Brooks loves accusing conservatives of having an “apocalyptic tone” and inventing “apocalyptic menaces,” as he put it in his article, “The Terrifying Future of the American Right.” Despite the fact that he has boosted his career by depicting Trump as the AntiChrist. Or his article about how “The nuclear family was a mistake” for America. Or his article for the New York Timeswarning about “The Coming GOP Apocalypse.”

The Atlantic has devoted entire issues to the inevitable collapse of America, like this one from December of 2021. For the one-year anniversary of January 6th, the theme was “January 6 Was Only Practice.” In it, George Packer wrote, “Are We Doomed?” He argued that “the Republican Party now functions like an insurgency.” Describing Republicans’ election laws, he said “the danger is that the express will of the American people could be overthrown.”

The Atlantic has devoted entire issues to the inevitable collapse of America.

The New York Times is obsessed with the apocalypse of America. On the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election to the White House, Michelle Goldberg wrote about the “Anniversary of the Apocalypse.” She asked:

How can America ever return from this level of systematic derangement and corruption? I wish there was someone I could ask, but we know more about how countries slide into autocracy than how they might climb out of it. It’s been a year, and sometimes I’m still poleaxed by grief at the destruction of our civic inheritance.

In a series devoted to attacking Tucker Carlson, they described Tucker’s worldview as “apocalyptic," only to turn around and push the idea that the apocalypse is everywhere.

They have warned about “The Academic Apocalypse.” They’ve asked, “How Do You Invest in the Face of an Apocalypse?” They’ve described plays and fashion shows as “post-apocalyptic.” In July of last year, the New York Times declared “Apocalypse Right Now.” In February of 2022 they ran an article titled “Apocalypse When?” The author wrote:

I can’t say precisely when the end began, just that in the past several years, "the end of the world" stopped referring to a future cataclysmic event and started to describe our present situation.

They even ran a guide called “How to Survive the Apocalypse.” By the way, you can even find a similar guide on National Geographic Kids, “7 Steps To Surviving An Apocalypse (According To Science!) What would YOU do if the world was ending?”

Remember that one kid when you were growing up who always made up the rules on the fly? Usually because they couldn’t win any other way. The media is that annoying kid—because they only talk about the end of America when things aren't going their way.

As Christians, we talk about the apocalypse, but it’s completely different. In fact, it’s the opposite of what the media is saying, and they can’t see the difference. For us, it’s a matter of faith. We trust in God, in the eternal Light that is bigger and deeper and brighter than we could know. We believe in Truth, in the Truth that moves through us. We believe that the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

We trust in God, in the eternal Light that is bigger and deeper and brighter than we could know.

The word “apocalypse” comes from the Ancient Greek word meaning “revelation” or “unveiling,” the discovery of something new that has been hidden or invisible. Christians used the term to describe the Second Coming, when “everything that is hidden will eventually be brought into the open, and every secret will be brought to light.” (Mark 4:22)

The media's religion is everything they accuse Christianity of—a religion of superstition and fear. Only, for them, there is no redemption. Only total destruction. I think we’ll find that we’ve been right all along. I just hope America survives all of the media's doom and violence.

In the face of death, any light counts as survival.

'Jesus Revolution' director joins Glenn to announce Founding Fathers series

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If you're like Glenn, The Chosen completely changed the way you read the Bible. The characters, the apostles, the scenes that you learned over and over again in Sunday school, jump up from the pages in an entirely new way after coming to life on screen. Seeing the humanity of these heroes of the faith renewed the significance of what Christ did during his earthly ministry for many of the millions of people who have watched the award-winning series.

What if there were such a series that brought the Founding Fathers to life in a similar way? Jon Erwin, the producer behind Jesus Revolution and I Can Only Imagine, is trying to do just that.

Jon joined Glenn on The Glenn Beck Program this week talking about his "multi-season TV series" that puts the flesh and bones on the history of the Founding Fathers, bringing our country's founding to life.

Irwin said he wants to create an "accurate and visceral and entertaining account of the founding of the country." With George Washington as the central character, the series will—in the same style as The Chosen—show the humanity of the Founding Fathers, delving into their individual personalities, perspectives, gifts, and flaws.

Erwin described the Founding Fathers as "complex people; flawed people." However, he goes on to say:

But it's an amazing story about a group of ordinary, flawed people, some with extraordinary gifts, [came] together at a unique moment in time, doing something that would outlive them all. I think we can all learn from them.

Erwin says that these stories are going "to come at just the right time," pointing to how our divided nation is at a crisis point:

The Founding Father's greatest fear was, 'Can this country endure?' [...] That has been the question. Can we hold the nation together, and can we stay together as a people? I have not felt more in my lifetime, a time when we're just as divided as we are, [...] that stories [...] will bring us back together.

Our nation is in yet another time of crisis in which the original vision of the Founding Fathers is fading into the obscure recesses of history. Many Americans don't even know who many of the Founding Fathers were, not to mention what their beliefs and principles were. Would you join Jon Erwin and his vision to reignite America's love for the Founding Fathers and bring our nation's history back to life?

To help support Jon Erwin's project and to learn more, click HERE.

Go BEHIND THE SCENES with Glenn at the Blueprints of Liberty event

Glenn and his museum are on the road in St. George, Utah for the one-of-a-kind "Blueprints of Liberty" event. The museum features the good, the bad, and the ugly of history, from documents from the Pilgrims and Founding Fathers to the shackles worn by Africans kidnapped and shipped to the American slave trade, documents signed by Hitler and Stalin, and artifacts from the Holocaust.

Glenn believes history preserves the truth, and through learning from history's truths, we can gain wisdom and learn from the victories and atrocities of the past.

On this NEW EXCLUSIVE, Glenn walks BlazeTV subscribers through his museum exhibit in Utah and shows YOU his most prized historic artifacts in his collection. He explains the victories and atrocities of history—the good, the bad, and the ugly—so that we can learn from our history and preserve the principles and freedoms that we hold dear. This is Glenn in his element that you will NOT want to miss!

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We retrieved THIS from our mountain vault to expose the HARD TRUTHS of history

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I promised in 2008 that I would do everything I could to preserve our American history.

We started with just simple things like George Washington's writings and his personal items and any of the founding documents we could get our hands on. David Barton and I partnered together on this project. We now have the largest private collection of founding documents in the world. We're third behind the National Archives and the Library of Congress.

We now have the largest private collection of founding documents in the world.

Most of the collection is on the side of a mountain, and if need be, it won't be found—not in our lifetimes. It may be a thousand years before it is found. But like the Dead Sea Scrolls, they will survive. As we were preparing for the "Blueprints of Liberty" experience in St. George, Utah, this is the first time I've pulled out so much of our collection from the vault. We're only pulling one percent of it, and I can't believe the stuff that I'm seeing.

A major part of our collection includes primary documents and artifacts from World War II. We own a government document signed by Hitler regarding the Nazi party. We have a prescription signed by Josef Mengele, the Nazi "angel of death," ordering gallons of luminol to be used to exterminate inmates in the newly built concentration camps. We own a painting from an Auschwitz inmate, who signed the painting with his number rather than his name. He never made it out of Auschwitz.

These are only several of the countless artifacts we have collected from this dark era of human history that brought out the best and worst of men—as darkness usually does. Going through these artifacts inevitably made me ask, "How did the German people go mad? How did you convince regular German people that killing millions of people was okay? What has to take place to transform "ordinary people," like you and me, into an evil empire?"

How did you convince regular German people that killing millions of people was okay?

After a lot of reflection and my recent studies into the years leading up to Nazi Germany, I believe there are three steps to transform an "ordinary people" into an evil empire. And we are on the same path.

Step one is to destroy. You have to destroy what it means to be a citizen of your country—what it means to be a German, what it means to be an American. Do you even know what it means to be an American anymore? Once you confuse a people enough, they don't really know their history; they don't really know what it means to be American. You have them fighting over the flag instead of principles. You have them fighting over politicians instead of the Bill of Rights. Soon, you've got them.

Step two requires that you dismantle everything—their institutions, political systems, family, the economy. This has to be carefully curated over at least a decade.

Step three necessitates the perversion and destruction of morals. You have to destroy churches and Judeo-Christian ethics. At its core, you have to destroy the distinction between good and evil. Soon, they will not be able to distinguish between the two. This is the final nail in the coffin.

Do you even know what it means to be an American anymore?

I've been reading a couple of books on Weimar Germany and the years leading up to the Third Reich. One of them is Eric Weitz' book, Weimar Germany: Promises and Tragedy. This is a well-respected book, and it's no wonder why. Weitz outlines the utter deconstruction of German society prior to the rise of the rise of the Nazi party.

The Weimar Republic was one of the most flourishing societies in the modern West. It was one of, if not the intellectual and cultural hub of Europe, rivaling both Paris and London. How did the people of Weimar Germany become Nazis in less than 20 years? Step one kicked in. Weimar Germany underwent its own secular and sexual revolution that eviscerated the people's understanding of right and wrong, good and evil, what it meant to be German—and even to be human.

Weimar Germany was decades ahead of America's sexual revolution. Berlin cabaret clubs were havens of sexual perversion to the degree that even the most "tolerant folk" today would blush. Transgender treatment as a medical practice began in the halls of Weimar hospitals, the first one conducted in 1930. The patient died after his doctor attempted to stuff a uterus in him.

Weimar Germany was decades ahead of America's sexual revolution.

Men attempted to become women. Women attempted to become men. The distinction between "right and wrong" was dissolved to make space for sexual freedom. The churches no longer preached the true Gospel but rather pontificated on the "social Gospel" that tickled everyone's ears but lacked any substance that nourishes a people's souls.

That was step two. Sound familiar?

When you eviscerate people's morals, their ethics, their understanding of right and wrong, it becomes more clear how "ordinary people" could become co-conspirators of the atrocities carried out under the Nazi regime. If you desensitize a person, a church, a nation to evil, it is only a matter of time before they remain silent and complacent when their regime commits the most heinous of crimes. Their souls have been numbed. That was step three—the nail in the coffin.

If you desensitize a person to evil, it is only a matter of time before they remain silent and complacent to even the most heinous crimes.

Are we on the same road as the Germans were during the Weimar Republic? Are we forgetting what it means to be Americans and the principles that unite us as a people? Are our foundational institutions under an unceasing attack, desensitizing us from the crucial distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, man and woman? Have we forgotten God?

If you answered "no" to any of these questions, you have not been paying attention. I pray that we have not already hit the final nail in our own coffins.

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No matter what our future holds, the history that you and I have preserved—because you have been a crucial part of this effort—will endure. It will live on long after us to tell the story of what really happened to our nation. I pray that it will tell the story of us turning back to God, remembering what it means to be Americans, and choosing to pursue the good, even when evil is more expedient and convenient. I pray we don't descend into evil as so many of our predecessors have.

But no matter what happens, the truth will be told. That is why we preserve history. For the sake of truth and that we may be wise enough to learn from it. And there is still hope in our present moment. There is always hope.

No matter what happens, the truth will be told.

It is never too late to turn back to God. We can recommit ourselves to the principles that define what it means to be Americans. We can defend and strengthen the institutions that enable us to live out our God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that secure equal justice for all, and ensure that we are all equal under the law, as God intended. We can re-dedicate ourselves to the cause of fighting for truth and goodness, no matter the cost.

It won't be easy. But it's necessary. Would you join me?

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