Barry Weiss
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Other people have tried to create God or utopias, and that's not turned out very well.
You said you don't think you're going to die. How long do you want to live?
It seems weird to ask someone who's already so disciplined what your goals are for 2025. Do you have any? Do you have any resolutions?
Well, Brian, what are you off to next?
All right, Brian, I consider that a personal challenge or an admonishment. I'm not sure which. Brian Johnson, thank you so much for making the time.
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The Dan Bongino Show · The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI · 21 Dec 2024
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Mark, add a little color to absolutely horrifying. What did you hear in those meetings?
Hi, Honestly listeners, it's Barry here with a big end of year ask. By the end of 2024, in a few short weeks, we want to get to 1 million free press subscribers. That's right, a million people, 1 million. That's right, 1 million people who value journalistic independence and curiosity, and above all, who want a news source that reflects reality.
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From the Free Press, this is Honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss. Just a few years ago, as AI technology was beginning to spill out of startups in Silicon Valley and hit our smartphones, the political and cultural conversation about this nascent technology was not yet clear, or at least it wasn't clear yet to civilians like me.
I remember asking former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Honestly in January 2022 if AI was just like, and this is actually what I said, the sexy robot in Ex Machina. I literally said to him, what is AI? How do you define it? I do not understand.
I cringe listening back to that because today, in the waning days of 2024, not only has it become clear what AI is and how to use it, ChatGPT, just to choose one example, averages more than 120 million daily active users and processes over a billion queries per day.
But it's also becoming clear what the political and cultural ramifications and the arguments and debates around AI are and what they're going to be over the next few years. Among those big questions are who gets to lead us into this new age of AI technology? What company is going to get there first and achieve market dominance?
How those companies are structured so that bad actors with bad incentives can't manipulate this technology for evil purposes. What role the government should play in regulating all of this. At the center of these important questions, at least for right now, are two men, Sam Altman and Elon Musk. And if you haven't been following, they aren't exactly in alignment.
They started off as friends and business partners. In fact, Sam and Elon co-founded OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, in 2015. But over the years, Elon Musk grew increasingly frustrated with OpenAI until he finally resigned from the board in 2018.
That feud escalated this past year when Elon sued Sam and OpenAI on multiple occasions to try to prevent OpenAI for launching a for-profit arm of the business, a structure that Elon claims is not only never supposed to happen in OpenAI. He likes to remind people that a nonprofit transparent company should not become a closed for-profit one.
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