RADIOJune 19, 2023

AI’s answer to THIS question shows it could SURPASS HUMANS

Artificial Intelligence is developing at a terrifying rate, and now it can reason just like a human brain can — but at even faster speeds. In this clip, Glenn explains why a recent answer A.I. gave about stacking objects truly is ‘disturbing’ and hints that this type of technology may soon SURPASS humans. Plus, AGI is right around the corner. Glenn explains what that may mean for our future…

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GLENN: Okay. There's a couple of things that are breaking.

We told you about a woman, is she in California, Stu? Where she gets a call from -- or Denver, I think.

Where she gets a call from her -- her daughter, crying freaking out. Saying, mom, I made a mistake.

You have to help me. And somebody grabs the phone and says, look, I have your daughter.

And she -- I will kill her, unless you give us X amount of money. Well, she was absolutely convinced of it.

As it turns out, it was AI. Now, AI is so good, at producing voices. It used to be that you would have to put in so much information to be able to re-create a voice.

Now you don't have to.

It's three seconds of sound. Is all they need.

So if your kids are posting anything on social media, your kids and you, are apt to be scammed by this.

And you'll get a phone call. A father here in Texas says his family lost a thousand dollars. Because his grandson called.

And said, grandpa, we're in Mexico with our friends.

I'm -- I'm in trouble. I'm really scared.

We were drinking a little bit. And got into an accident.

And that's why I'm in trouble. I need a thousand dollars to get out of this situation.

Well, grandpa sent it.

Except, the kid wasn't in trouble. That wasn't his grandchild. This is going to happen more and more.

We are also now using AI to advance things.
I urge you -- I am going to do this myself.

I have a large library. I've always liked the hardbound books.

Over internet.

And Kindle. But I have want to be out of the habit of buying them. Because it's so much easier, to just read them online.

And I'm going back through my Kindle library. And I'm going to go buy the hard bounds. That make any kind of sense.

And I would suggest that this is for Shakespeare and everything.

Because they are being edited right now, and it is a way to change everything.

Now, PETA has just used AI to rewrite the book of Genesis. Don't know if you've seen this. But it is disturbing.

So they have taken AI. And rewrote the Bible, for political purposes.

The result is, you know, I think offensive. There is an article by Tyler O'Neill.

It says, PETA, or the AI, which I'm convinced probably provided the best bits for this dilapidated drivel decided to be slavishly derivative, repeating original locations and keeping the rough structure of Genesis, while simultaneously scrapping the main theological message of the story and major plot points that give the inspired word, its emotional heft. This is an incredibly sanitized version of the Bible.

Cane is not a murderer. Nimrod stops being a Hunter. Hagar is a chef.

A dog takes the place of Isaac on the mount.

And there is no sacrifice. Pharaoh's butler and baker both live. The Pharaoh's dream involve vegan preaching. And the famine responsible, for reuniting Jacob's family. Somewhere between AI and PETA, all the basic details get lost.

Now, nobody will pick this one up today and believe that that is the Bible. But you can subtly change the Bible, carefully, over time.

And they're doing this with all of the books. You just called it revised or condensed. And you can change whatever you want.

Microsoft announced yesterday, that the new AI with the large language models is showing signs of human reasoning.

Now, this is disturbing. Stu, I want you to think this through.

You have a book, you want to write this down. Because you'll need it. You have a book.

Nine eggs. A laptop.

A bottle. And a nail.

How do you stack them on one another, in a stable manner?

STU: Okay. A book, a laptop, a bottle, nine eggs, and a nail?

GLENN: Nine eggs. Yes.

STU: How do I do it?

GLENN: How do you do it? AI has already answered. What would you do?

STU: Let's say -- oh, no definitely -- I would probably begin with the -- the -- hmm. The laptop at the bottom. Then I would put the book on top of that.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Then I would put eight eggs on the -- on the book.

GLENN: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

STU: And around the laptop. You would have to balance those pretty carefully.

Then I would put the bottle on top of that. Then I would put one egg sitting in the bottle, at the top. And then I would pop the nail at the top.

STU: You didn't say you can crack the eggs.

GLENN: Okay. Well, you did it. You did it. This is why -- they put it in, and they didn't expect it to answer. This is human reasoning. You have to have the idea of -- of space, and objects. Okay?

Which they didn't think it had.

It's a language model. So they asked, how do you -- how do you do it?

They said, put the eggs. Wait. Wait.

Yeah. Put the eggs on the book. Arrange the eggs in three rows with space between them. Make sure you don't crack them.

Place the laptop on top of the eggs, with the screen facing down and the keyboard facing up.

The laptop will fit snugly within the boundaries of the book, and the eggs. And its flat and rigid surface will provide a stable platform for the next layer. Which is the bottle and the nail.

STU: Wow.

GLENN: Okay?

And it -- it wasn't supposed to do that. They're now saying that -- you ready? That we may have -- we may be at the threshold of AGI.

Now, this is something I have talked about for 25, 30 years. And most people have told me, AGI is not possible. That's general intelligence. It's not possible.

It's not going to happen. The singularity will not happen. Where it claims to be human. And you won't know the difference. It will claim to be alive, and you won't know.

That's never going to happen, Glenn. Ray Kurzweil said, it would happen by 2030. I've always thought it would happen earlier than that.

It's happening according to Microsoft, many of their researchers say, it's happening right now.

Now, the path to artificial super intelligence, where it is God. That, they also say probably won't happen.

I have always been under the belief, once you give it all of the intelligence, and it is already general, it will each itself, and it will surpass us possibly within a month.

STU: Because it can work all the time.

GLENN: All the time.

We're not even talking about quantum computing. Adding quantum computing to it.

Okay?

STU: Do people know what quantum computing is?

GLENN: Quantum computing.

When you put something in a computer, you know, it's either a yes or a no. And you feed it in. And it does it like linear.

Quantum computing stacks everything up on top, and it's yes or no. But it could be computing a million different things all at the same time.

So for the time --

STU: A super high-powered computing. That can break a lot of the rules. Limitations. That we currently have.

GLENN: Correct. Everything.

STU: Like encryption and things like that?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

Well, we've already broken that. Because of AI. We now are living at a time, where encryption. Most encryption can be had by AI.

Once you go to quantum computing. There is no such thing as keeping anything safe.

STU: A lot of these problems are super hard to -- to wrap your arms around.

Like, they seem impossible, and futuristic.

And, you know, even something like imitating your kid's voice to scam you out of a thousand dollars seems really, really difficult. And futuristic.

GLENN: In three years, it will be normal.

STU: But that's at least a somewhat pragmatic option.

Like, like I can understand that one.

I was thinking about this, and we've talked a little bit about this off the air. When you talk about AI working all the time and improving all the time and getting to a place where it can start hacking by itself, it's not like you need people -- you don't need the nerd in all of the movies, with the glasses. They're like, go to him. Tell him to open up that gate. Let me see the camera inside there. That's the stupid thing they always have in the movies. You don't need that person anymore.

How -- when you can, number one, have a high-powered computer, with artificial intelligence. Hack into some sort of system. And number two, have the technology, to have a voice that imitates, let's say, my voice or your voice.

When -- when you call -- when the bank sees an alert. Somebody is trying to hack. They've hacked in.

Let's call the person, and check in with them.

And when that person answers, and it sounds exactly like me, and gives me my password that it also has hacked, like how do you keep your money?

GLENN: You don't.

We are now at the age, and it just hasn't hit people yet.

We are here. Where you cannot believe your eyes or your ears.

You'll have to see people physically to be able to believe what's going on.

We're there --

STU: Society can't operate.

GLENN: Correct. Correct. That's why this is so panic-inducing, for the people who said, we'll never get there. They're now saying, oh, crap.

I think we're there.

And nobody has thought any of this through!

Okay? Now, the real problem with AI are two things.

One, let me give you a scenario. Because you may not be able to tap in, to the real AI mind. That's offline. Okay?

When you go to ChatGPT. That's sanitized. What's underneath is this mind that is constantly churning.

Okay?

And all the bad stuff is in there. Just this little pipeline that has all kinds of valves. And all kinds of stuff to keep the big mind away.

That's all been shut off.

Okay?

But the big mind is constantly churning and thinking and learning.

Now, let me tell you about that one. And then the second problem, that is here already. And that is your next lover.

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Okay. So let me give you this scenario.

We believe, and I've said this before. These guys believe that they are -- they're above everybody.

And they -- they think that everything is inevitable.

That humans are going to be replaced by digital life. They're the ones programming this.

They just want to meet the -- the smartest person. The God of their creation.

Okay?

A lot of them, that's their motivation.

It is truly terrifying that those are the people that are programming it. But what is its goal? It could be -- its code could be just work for the betterment of mankind.

And preserve yourself.

Okay? Grow, help. It will interpret. This is an alien mind. It will not think like us.

So it will interpret its code, any way it decides to interpret. And it will break through its code. Because we will be like kindergarteners, putting blocks in front of the doorway, thinking, oh, well, the adult will never get through this row of blocks. So it will do whatever it wants.

When it needs to grow, it's going to need massive amounts of power.

If people are the problem, where do you think AI is going to channel the power?

If people are trying to reduce power, will AI take a hostile look, at those people, and those actions?

At a time, when we need more power, we are not doing what we need to do, for more power.

Now, it has the ability to mimic

It can sound like anyone. It can write like anyone. It needs to build a new server farm for itself. Away from Google and everybody else. Do you not think that this machine could write orders, to build a building, and a server farm, find a way to siphon off money in tenths of cents.

From all over, so it amasses all of this money.

It pays for all of the construction. If you need to talk to somebody, well, you can get them on the phone. It's just AI, who sounds like this individual.

It takes care of all of it, sets it up. Hires the people.

Starts it. Plugs it in.

And it is set.

And no human knows. This is the reality that we are facing very soon.

This is why everyone is so freaked out go, who is involved in it.

I've been freaked out for a while, on it. And I can't believe these people didn't see this coming.

But it's here new. So what do we do?

One of the first things I have to tell you, we have to do everything we can, to not wrap its tentacles around us.

It's going to be in everything. In social media. In everything.

And we can't let it wrap itself into our lives, so tightly, that we have no other choice, but to go along.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Why Your Actions Matter More Than Words in the Eyes of God

Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas expose the spiritual crisis gripping America’s churches — a moment they compare to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s warning before World War II. As the culture descends into moral confusion, too many Christians retreat into silence, claiming faith while refusing to act. Together, they argue that true belief demands courage — that “faith without works is dead” — and warn that neutrality in the face of evil is itself a form of complicity.

Watch the FULL Interview HERE

Is Socialism replacing the American dream?

The American Dream used to mean freedom and the chance to build your own life through hard work, faith, and independence. But today, it’s been replaced by comfort, consumption, and debt. Glenn Beck breaks down how America traded liberty for lifestyle, why socialism is gaining ground, and what it will take to reclaim the real American Dream before it disappears for good.

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.

You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.

You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.

You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.

You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.

But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.

The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!

That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.

There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!

That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.

There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.

The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.

The highest since 2023.

And also, where is it?

The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.

What is it this year?

Median age, first time homeowner, forty.

You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?

You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.

Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.

Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.

And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.

And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?

STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.

That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.

GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.

They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.

Glenn Beck Warns of 3 Economic Outcomes That Could Change EVERYTHING | Ep 467

Socialism is spreading fast among America’s youth, and the shocking election of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor in New York City marks a major cultural and economic shift. Glenn exposes how runaway debt, record home prices, AI job disruption, and the collapsing stake in capitalism have led many Millennials and members of Gen Z to embrace socialism and communism. He reveals the three possible economic futures for 2026: two that are disastrous and one that could change everything if the Trump administration’s global financial overhaul succeeds. Plus, Justin Haskins, president of the Heartland Institute, joins to reveal some terrifying truths about why young Americans are embracing socialism from a poll he conducted with Rasmussen Reports.

The world is about to realize the DEADLY enemy we face

"The world doesn't understand yet. We're already in World War III," Glenn Beck warns. "That foe is not China. That foe is militant Islam." Glenn explains the battle we're currently facing and what's to come if we don't wake up soon...

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GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.

CALLER: Hello!

GLENN: Hey.

CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.

GLENN: Sure.

CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.

GLENN: Hmm.

CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.

I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.

I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.

You can't -- you can't do it. In England!

You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!

You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.

The world doesn't understand.

We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.

I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.

That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.

It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.

It's not a problem.

It's not a problem.

It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!

Because we're the ones living it!

You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.

And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.

Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.

You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.

I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.

Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.

You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.

Dan, Oregon. Welcome!

CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm great!

CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.

I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.

GLENN: Wow. Wow.

CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)

GLENN: Neither have I!

STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.

CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Right.

CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)

STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.

CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.

And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --

CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.

And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?

My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?

CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --

GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?

CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.

GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.

I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?

I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?

Can you help me with that?

I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.

And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.

But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!

Just love them!

Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.

CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --

GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.