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Bannon`s War Room

WarRoom Battleground EP 922: AI Doom Debates with Liron Shapira

09 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the concerns about AI's impact on human interaction?

9.447 - 30.493 Stephen K. Bannon

Not content with addicting our kids to their gizmos or amassing fortunes the size of lesser European states, our tech elite has turned with rabid enthusiasm to artificial intelligence. No, only the less cautious articulate the real reason, what many quietly believe, that AI will reinvent human existence.

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31.503 - 52.65 Unknown

Social media changed how kids talk to other kids. It dehumanized it. AI is going to take the human on the other end away, and kids are going to grow up talking to artificial creatures. They are not going to learn how to talk to real humans, which bodes very, very poorly for their own lives, their own work lives, for marriage, for child rearing.

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All those are threatened if kids grow up interacting with AIs rather than humans. This is the most consequential technology in the history of humanity.

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Chapter 2: How is AI expected to transform society and the economy?

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It will transform our country. It will transform the world. And we have not had in Congress, in the media, and I'm glad you're doing this show, or among the American people, the kind of discussion that we need.

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73.835 - 86.644 Stephen K. Bannon

The eugenicist Julian Huxley predicted this as far back as 1957. I believe in transhumanism, he said. He coined the term. And so do untold numbers of today's tech class.

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Chapter 3: What historical predictions about AI have come true?

87.646 - 106.566 Stephen K. Bannon

That is the vision, the religion, the ideology that animates so much of the breathless race for artificial intelligence and for general artificial intelligence and super intelligence and beyond for the day when humans are no longer embodied beings at all, but live infinitely in the cloud.

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Multi-multi-billionaires are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into implementing and developing this technology. What is their motive? Do you think they're staying up nights worrying about working people and how this technology will impact those people? They are not. They are doing it to get richer and even more powerful.

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I call it AI exceptionalism, as if this is going to be something where it's going to solve every problem and humans aren't even going to be needed to do.

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Chapter 4: What is AI exceptionalism and why is it problematic?

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Everyone can just sit around and play golf all day and you're going to get universal basic income and they're going to cure... And it's like, no. First of all, that's not likely to happen. And second of all, I think it raises huge concerns. And so I am not an AI exceptionalist. I'm an individual and human exceptionalist.

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I think new technologies have to be developed in a way that aligns with American values.

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Chapter 5: How are current laws addressing AI-related risks?

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Things like self-government. free speech, having a healthy labor force, federalism and the rights of states, and the creation and maintenance of strong families. Do you think ultimately that there will be a bipartisan majority willing to take any sort of action? Well, any sort of action is a big, what does that mean? Any sort of legitimate action. Significant action. Yeah.

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Chapter 6: What catastrophic risks do experts associate with AI?

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I don't know. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

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Chapter 7: What legislative actions are being proposed to regulate AI?

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It's going to happen.

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208.167 - 218.177 Stephen K. Bannon

And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

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War Room.

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Chapter 8: What is the future outlook for AI development and regulation?

229.444 - 232.15 Stephen K. Bannon

Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

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238.542 - 269.162 Joe Allen

Good evening. It is Thursday, January 8th, in the year of our Lord, 2026. I am Joe Allen, and this is War Room Battleground. As you know, Posse, artificial intelligence has spread out across the world, infecting brains like algorithmic prions, giving the sense that perhaps the entire human race is under threat of getting digital mad cow disease. We've seen instances of AI psychosis.

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269.763 - 287.972 Joe Allen

We've seen instances in which artificial intelligence has lured children into suicide. Now, up on Capitol Hill, the fight for who gets to run this algorithmic insane asylum and who goes to the digital padded room has heated up.

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288.188 - 311.917 Joe Allen

We have laws on the books across the country at the state level banning psychiatrists from using artificial intelligence as a kind of agent, as a proxy for their practice in Illinois. We have laws on the books in California to hold up AI companies to accountability, transparency.

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312.457 - 342.319 Joe Allen

SB 53 in California is probably one of the strongest laws looking at the catastrophic risks of AI and making some attempt to hold these companies accountable. You have a similar law on the books in New York, the RAISE Act. And Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal have introduced a similar national level bill entitled the AI Risk Evaluation Act.

342.519 - 363.086 Joe Allen

The goal being to monitor companies and force them to publish their safety protocols, to publish any safety incidents. and to delineate what sorts of penalties they would suffer if, for instance, their AIs began to lure children into suicide or drive people insane.

363.126 - 396.631 Joe Allen

At the national level, this struggle for control over who is in charge of the future of AI, who is responsible for any damages, and what direction it will go is led... at the moment by a bipartisan coalition, a very small one. But if I look into my crystal ball, I certainly see as this issue heats up, as the various catastrophes become more and more imminent, that this fight will be explosive.

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You have Bernie Sanders, who recently learned the word artificial intelligence, calling for a full moratorium on data center construction. That may be unrealistic, but at least it sets a bar. It tells these companies that someone is willing to stand up to them. And even if it doesn't end up being Bernie Sanders, ultimately, we know that you have younger, brighter minds on the left like Ro Khanna.

423.948 - 447.739 Joe Allen

And you have younger and at least diligent individuals like Ron DeSantis in Florida who are willing to step up and lead the charge against these companies and their excesses. Now, as you know myself. I'm much more concerned about the social and psychological implications of all of this. The AI psychosis is monstrous.

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