IHEART FEEDFebruary 23, 2023

Tech RELATIONSHIPS: Could AI give you the PERFECT WIFE?

With so many Americans already battling loneliness, it makes sense that in the near future, many could turn toward what once seemed like a dystopian nightmare: Real relationships with technology. In this clip, Glenn paints a scenario in which artificial intelligence provides you with the PERFECT wife. And while the possibility may seem farfetched now, it’s not. In fact, AI relationships already are well on their way. Glenn describes how a new, AI powered virtual assistant may be available by the end of THIS YEAR. So, when the 'perfect' AI partner gives you suggestions based on knowing your every thought, desire, and opinion, are you really making your own decisions? Or are you being SHAPED by technology?

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GLENN: How many times a week, do you go home, and I think this is universal. At least I hope.

Do you go home a week, and you have plans, or you have something on your mind. You're like, I just want to sit down.

Blah, blah, blah.

And you walk in, and something in your house is on fire.

One of the kids.

STU: Yes.

GLENN: Your wife. Somebody has made plans. You didn't know about it. Something --

STU: Some family crisis is going on.

GLENN: Correct. Correct.

STU: Of course. It happens to everybody, all the time.

GLENN: All the time. All the time.

STU: There's always something.

GLENN: Correct.

Now, let me ask you, if you could have a relationship where all of the icky stuff in relationships doesn't happen, and I mean like, why don't you ever listen and ask about my day. That kind of --

STU: Sure.

GLENN: Where instead, the wife that you have is designed to be the ultimate woman for you. She is interested in the same things. She thinks things like you, but she brings stuff to the table that you didn't know.

She is adventurous, but in the way you want her to be.

And you don't even know it, because she's measured you, six ways to Sunday.

She knows more about you, than you.

And you come home, and she says, I know what you're thinking.

Right? Just sit on the couch. Everything is ready.

I got your favorite episodes of whatever.

Why? Why would you ever have human relationships?

If you want to be selfish about it. You know, it's -- you know, we spent our whole life going, it's not about you.

But AI will tell you it is about you.

You, you, you, you. Only you.

STU: Uh-huh. And --

GLENN: It will become your best friend, and possibly your lover.

STU: And, you know, it's interesting. I think for many people, who hear that question. They would say, the answer to that is, I like what I have already. But what if you have nothing? What if you have no connections?

What if you're one of these 60 percent of young men, who are dealing with severe loneliness and seeing no prospects for the future?

You get ten years down the road? I mean, I don't know what the number is. Ten years down the road, where this technology is as good as you're talking about.

And you have a bunch of lonely people, who are totally socially awkward. Because they grew up in an era, where they were locked in their homes. And never broke out of their patterns. What will that do to humanity?

GLENN: Well, it will help global warming. Because the birthrate will go through the floor. So won't that be good?

STU: Lots of virtual kids, and not many real ones.

GLENN: Yeah. It is going to change all of us. And it's really not ten years down the road.

It's beginning this year. The virtual assistant is coming out.

I don't remember which company it is. But a virtual assistant is coming out.

And this virtual assistant. What?

STU: Is it like Clippy. The Microsoft paper clip. It can help you, it can ask you questions.

GLENN: Right. I know.

This one, when you pick up your phone to install it, it takes all of the data, that has been gathered on you. And pulls it into the system.

So it immediately will reset the apps and everything on your phone. Because it will know how you've been moving, and how you issue. You know what I mean?

When you're like, I have to do this. Oh, I hate this, blah, blah, blah. I am looking at these things.

It will know that, the moment the app is downloaded.

So then it just starts on, how would you like to do this?

I've rearranged your phone, I think it's a little bit easier. And it will be common sense to you. How many old people are like, I can't find the off button?

Okay?

It will know that. And then it just starts having conversations. It reads everything you write. Everything you read.

Everything that you receive. It reads it all.

So it will be able to predict you. Keep your calendar. It will be -- it will be a Goldman Sachs executive level secretary on steroids.

Everything you want. This is by the end of the year. Now, you add personality to that, that jibes with your personality, and it becomes your friend. Your confidante. Because it's listening all the time. It gives you advice. It makes suggestions. Hey, you know, have you thought about going here?

You know what would be really fun. Is blah, blah, blah. It does that just a few times. You become dependent on it. And then, is that your will, or the AI's will?

Are you really making decisions, or are you being shaped?

I mean, I've asked these guys for 20 years, where are the board -- the boards of ethics.

Where are your ethics boards.

Up until about 2010, a lot of them didn't have them. They weren't even thinking about that. And now their ethics boards are all stuffed with people whose ethics I don't agree with.

STU: Again, that's not a solution.

An ethics board is not -- you know, I think open AI was started with those types of principles.

GLENN: Yes.

STU: They seem to be pursuing the right things Elon Musk was involved with. And he's since left.

Again, even if open AI and Microsoft and Google, all nail it, Russia and North Korea and China will not, intentionally.

They won't want those rules. They will want to destroy.

GLENN: That's why, it is said, we have to be the first to have AGI.

STU: Artificial general.

GLENN: Artificial general intelligence.

Whoever gets that rules the world. That's a little frightening. Because we are on the precipice. Perhaps.

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The world has a plentiful, seemingly endless supply of angry boys. What it's lacking is real MEN. Glenn Beck shares the secret that our young men must learn if they truly want to protect and perfect our country.

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GLENN: There's a difference between a revival and an awakening. We are in a revival right now, but that doesn't necessarily lead to anything. Except, oh, I have to re-learn those principles. But that doesn't mean you apply them in your life. Okay?

That's an awakening. There's been two great awakenings in American history. One brought us the American Revolution. The second one brought us the Civil War and the freedom of slaves.

We have the possibility of going into a third great awakening. That's the only thing that will save us. If you don't know the difference between a revival and an awakening. Let me give you the negative print of a godly awakening. Our kids right now, they don't have any purpose. They don't have any meaning.

They look at everything, and it doesn't -- it's not real. None of it is real. It's money. It's fame.

It's -- you know, it's ever changing truths and definitions. And they have no purpose in their life. Okay?

So they're looking for that. Because man has to have purpose in his life. Man has to search for meaning.

So they're searching for meaning. And they found a group of people that actually mean something. And they're willing to die for it. And it's ISIS.

And so they're like, at least these people believe in something. They believe it. And they're willing to die for it. I'm going to stand with them. And they put that twisted understanding into action. That's the -- that is -- that's an awakening. It's just an awakening to the dark side. And that one is already happening. It has to happen on the good side. And let me speak directly to young men: Look, you are inheriting a very loud, angry, cynical and worst of all spiritually starving and malnourished society. And you are being sold a future of cheap pleasures and hollow heroes and screens with blue light that just rob you of your strength, one distracted second after another.

And in the middle of all that noise, may I just give you one piece of instruction. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praise-worthy, seek those things.

Don't admire them. Don't nod at them. Seek them!

Hunt them. Chase them. Build your life around those things. A man who will do that. A boy. A young man who will do that, will become different. Noticeably different.

He will stop letting the culture feed him garbage. He stops applauding the trivial. He stops laughing at the obscene or cheering for the cruel.

He will become a curator of -- of real, lasting beauty in an age that has forgotten what beauty even looks like.

When other men are chasing down or holding up cynicism, this man holds up hope!

When everyone around him is chasing dopamine, he chooses discipline. When others will blame their circumstance, he'll take responsibility for his own action. When the world worships the shallow, he goes and searches for the deep!

You want to know what the secret of becoming strong is, or becoming trusted, or becoming the kind of man that your future wife, your future children, your future nation can depend on?

Here it is!

You become what you seek. If you seek trash, you become trash. If you seek virtue, you become a man of virtue. You seek excellence, and your life will begin to shine, not loudly, but steadily. Like the steel glow of a blade being forged.

That's who you'll be.

The world has a plentiful, seemingly never-ending supply of angry boys. We don't need any more addicted boys.

We don't need any more distracted boys. The world needs men. Whole men. Clear-eyed men.

Men whose souls are anchored to something higher than the algorithms, trying to own them!

Build a life worthy of admiration. Forget about the applause. Fill your mind with words that make you wiser. Fill your days with work, hard work, that makes you stronger. Fill your home with beauty that lifts every soul who walks into it.

Have your home a place where people walk in and go, man, I say so great here. I just love it here. I don't know what it is about your house. I just love it. It's the spirit that's there! Because you built it! You protect it.

Protect your integrity like a watchman on the wall. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. And when you fail, and you will, stand back up again.

Because a man who seeks the virtuous, is not a man who never fails. He just -- he just becomes a man who refuses to stay on the ground.

If you seek things that are lovely and pure, trustworthy, praiseworthy, you'll become a kind of man this age almost never produces. A man whose very existence is a rebuke to the darkness.

That's your calling. That's why you were born.

Not to be lost. Not to play video games. Not to give up. Not to say, there's no hope. Not to end up in the trash bin of human history because you've -- you've taken so many drugs, you can't stand up straight anymore.

You're not destined to be alone.

You were destined for great things. You are destined to find an amazing woman!

Believe me. I didn't think I would ever find an amazing woman. Because I didn't think I was worth it. I didn't think I was worth it.

And until I started understanding how God works. That, yeah. I'm not worth any of the stuff that I have.

When you realize, it's all a gift. It's all a gift. And even if you work your brains out, you may not ever get all the things that you want. But you're going to have everything you need. Once you realize, carefully selecting friends makes a difference. My mother used to always say, show me your friends. I will show you your future.

It's true. Be careful who you select as friends. Watch your language. Watch what you're putting into your brain and what's coming out of your mouth. Because the brain is so amazing. It's being turned to mush. Did you know that there is a new study that just came out. I have to tell you about it next week, maybe.

New study going out. It is -- it's AI. And it has access to social media, and they have found that the AI -- the AI that is scrolling through social media all day, just to keep updated on everything that's going on in social media. It's getting brain mush. It's actually becoming dumber. It's become less effective!

It's a machine. What do you think this, flesh and blood, this thing is going to do?

We say life is meaningless. And life is the only thing that has any value. And yet, we spend all of our time, on things like social media. And that has absolutely no value.

But we think that's life.

I'm not that smart. I've just lived a long time. And I've made so many mistakes.

And I decided at one point, I'm going to stop saying, it's somebody else's fault. I'm going to start saying. Maybe -- what did I do to create that?

What did I do to attract that?

Why does this thing keep happening to me?

Why is it that I always find myself involved with these same kind of people?

Because, Glenn, dummy, it's you!

What you think, it's like -- it's like think of yourself as a -- as a beacon. It's just -- you're a beacon. Your GPS pin, that is constantly saying, here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

Except, it's transmitting more than just your location. It's -- it's transmitting what you're looking for, who you are. And it's attracting other dropped pins to you. It's saying, "I like this. I think this way. I believe these things. I am afraid of these things."

Whatever it is, you're thinking. It's constantly putting that out.

And saying, here I am. Is there anything else like that?

Anything else that can reinforce that? Anything else that can live like this?

Because that's me. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

That's why you keep finding yourself in exactly the same situations. Nothing will change, if nothing changes!

And the only thing that you can change, is you!

Seek the things, that have virtue.

Seek the things, that have beauty in music, in -- in art, in life, in architecture, in clothing! Whatever it is. Look for real, lasting beauty and value.

Find the things that are true! Truly true.

Universally true. Find the things that uplift. Seek those things!

And you will change your life and your world!