Adrian Weckler

The big question around AI is whether or not it

you know, makes us all, you know, wealthier and makes our lives easier or whether we become a little bit poorer and it kicks us all out of our jobs.

And that question still hasn't really been settled.

In America, it's probably the world's biggest Petri dish for that because we see the extremes of that most in my weekly job.

I'm reporting an awful lot on

job layoffs at big tech companies where the effects of that are most widely seen.

But also we can see it at a cultural level.

And that question has not yet been answered.

So I'm wondering, just with what you've said there,

how that plays out.

Does this new alt-right, does that take root?

Does that love for tech and AI among the new right, that is not just a wealthy right, but also is a populist MAGA right, does that actually take root?

Or do they become the victims of technology and AI?

Are they the ones who lose their jobs, the truck drivers, the 21st century coal miners?

And do they end up hating technology?

And might that affect the conversation in terms of everything we've been talking about?

And if what you say is correct, Pope Leo's upcoming encyclical, if he writes about AI, that will either dampen down this potential conflict or it will inflame it.

If his encyclical is understood or taken in such a way as to advocate more control over AI, then that will annoy Thiel and his followers even more.

Yeah.

We will watch with bated breath.