Steven Bartlett

So as we head towards the midterms, but also the elections, which aren't actually that far away now, do you agree that we're heading towards a more socialist America?

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Jenk, Kevin, thank you so much for being here with me.

There's so much going on in the world that I have so many questions and you both have very different perspectives on all of the issues that I care about the most.

So I thought I'd bring us together to try and pass through what is true.

Unlike a lot of shows, I don't expect a shouting match.

What I'm trying to get is to truth.

And I'm hoping that seeing the collision of your ideas on some of the big issues that are front of mind for me, like artificial intelligence, like geopolitics, like what's going on in America now that I live there,

I think will be incredibly beneficial to me and hopefully therefore my audience.

I have this graph here that says seven in 10 Americans oppose local construction of AI data centers.

Kevin, so just for context here, there is a proposal to build some data centers in Utah, and you're saying that the pushback and the negative reaction that has been seen is being encouraged or sponsored by the Chinese who are driving misinformation through bots?

Is that what you're proposing?

Is that how you see things?

Are you seeing the pushback in terms of AI?