Steve Kwast
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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And this is why it's personal for me because I got to see this in Africa and the tribe I grew up in. The African continent has been enslaved and the hero system has been crushed and crippled. And it continues to be crippled as tyrants and despots keep the people of Africa enslaved with a lack of information, with weaponizing the economy, both electricity, food, and water.
And the moment we can provide a device for people in my tribe to be able to see the truth that's going on around them and bypass those that control the information systems, they can now start organizing and throwing off these shackles of slavery.
But I would tell you my study of history and technology and human nature and this lens I have been blessed with by growing up in one culture without Western influence and then coming to a culture in Los Angeles of not only Western prosperity, but also the corruption of the gangs and the drugs and all the other things that were in the underbelly of that LA society that I went into.
I will tell you that we truly do have the potential of throwing this off and that the good people of this world have access to truth. and they can organize and throw this corruption into the prisons or into the trash heap of history. It will never go away totally, because there will always be evil people.
But this is why I say it is so damn exciting to be alive today, because we are in the middle of an epic change. And most epic changes are riddled with violence and destruction, like going from the kingdoms and the serfdoms into the industrial age. And the industrial age and World War I and World War II into the information age.
We have a leader in President Trump that is trying to usher in a change where the American people are not lied to anymore by people that want to maintain control.
that we revive the economy to build a golden age, truly by unleashing these innovations that have been snuffed out and quenched and thrown a blanket on because of the military-industrial-congressional complex of lobbyists lying to congressional members and congressional members fearful of their political future, taking money into their coffers of election and ignoring the technology because they're not willing to stand up to their people and say there's a better way.
we can shine a light on all this corruption and it's amazing how the spirit of innovation and renewal and revival and uh and and uh and even forgiveness uh can be ushered in with information that's in the pocket of every human being on the planet i love that you know i was just i don't want to mention his name or his company but i was just um
So this is, you know, it's a great point. And it reveals the fact that culture is stronger. You know, culture eats technology and strategy for lunch, meaning it's the fear, it's the change that most people are not willing to adapt to until they see a reason. But with AI, it's also the fear of the unknown. All new technologies have seemed like magic to people and they fear them.
If if if I if we were sitting here in 1898 and you went to work on your horse and you fueled you know You lit your house with a candle and you heated your home with a wood-burning stove and I told you that in less than a hundred years There'd be two cars in every garage an automobile hadn't really, you know, you know, it hadn't become mainstream we'd be flying to places on the planet and you know in hours and
not months or years, and we'd have a man on the moon, and you'd have a computer in your pocket, and they'd say, what is a computer? They would have thought that it was magic, or it was witchcraft, or worse. And the same is true in the human psyche. So these cultural journeys are hard, but there's always an element of truth in these fears.
And the element of truth is that they are worried that AI will not be moral. And in some ways they're correct. Meaning there are two things that any expert will tell you about AI. And that is one, they can never foresee any time that it will be truly creative or visionary. that these are things unique that God has given to the human brain that is the most super computer ever built.
And that all AI is just, it looks creative and it looks visionary because it's so damn fast and it can gobble up so much information so quickly. but it is not truly creative. And you can prove that as you use AI more and more.
And I encourage people to use AI because they'll start recognizing what AI looks like and they'll be able to, the human brain and the natural intuition and spidey senses we have as human beings is so far beyond the technology that you don't have to fear it. And the more we use it, the less we'll be afraid of it. And the less we will allow ourselves to trust it in places we shouldn't trust it.
But the reason why he's right, your friend, is because a human being can have access to that environment, the context of what's going on with that ship or that plane or that satellite.
without having to physically be there and shackle it with all the human life support requirements that make it too slow, too expensive, too heavy, all the things that don't make it faster, stronger, smarter than the adversary and affordability where you can sustain operations longer than your competition.
you can still be there with a human moral mind for the context of what's happening, for decisions that are based on morality. Now, you can program your values into the AI. I encourage people to take Grok or whatever version you want and tell it, okay, here are my values. I want everything you provide me to be based on these values.
of the respect for human life, the respect for cultural uniqueness, anything you want to put in there, the 10 commandments. But even that, the more you use it, the more AI will start confirming your biases.
You know, the thing that strikes me is I am talking with people that use AI a lot, and they'll say, Steve, you know, my AI is telling me that I am now 99.9% correct on my opinion that this is true. And in places where I have unique knowledge on that opinion, I'll tell them, I can tell you 100% that you're wrong, but the AI is gonna try to align with you.
It's programming itself to be your pet and to tell you what you wanna hear if you have not specifically programmed it to tell you what you need to hear, not what you wanna hear. So it is such a dangerous environment that requires critical thinking. And AI is only one piece of this triangulation of truth. The most important piece is human contact, talking with another human being.
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