Ep. 2410 - Will AI End America?
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How is AI influencing America's economic growth?
America must win. We have to win economically. We have to win militarily. And that means that we do have to win technologically. But there's a movement afoot in our country that will destroy all of that, that will let China win economically, militarily, technologically. And that will, if it wins, sink America into poverty and dependence. That movement's fringes are pretty violent, but the problem isn't just the violent fringes. The philosophical moorings for that movement are pretty broad and pretty popular. And if that movement wins, that spells catastrophe for the country. I'll explain in a moment. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
All right, folks, so I understand all the questions about artificial intelligence. I understand there are serious questions to be asked about AI, that it's scary, that it's uncertain. We know all of that, right? I mean, we understand that we are in not just a transition economically, but a revolution economically, and revolutions are typically not stayed and steady. They happen suddenly, and they are disquieting, and they create unintended consequences and all the rest. And that's very real. So three things about AI. First, one, we understand that it's scary and uncertain, that we don't know exactly what's gonna happen next. Two, artificial intelligence is generating an outsized portion of economic growth.
And that is happening, not because there are some tech bros who are sitting in a room somewhere magically generating economic growth. It's because there is a market for AI, because AI makes things significantly more productive, because AI makes things more efficient, because AI is gonna be the future of everything from robotics to military tech. In other words, AI is generating an outsized portion of economic growth because we want it. Not necessarily we intellectually want AI. Everyone who is currently yelling about AI and the dangers of AI, and I don't just mean people who are asking questions, I mean people who are anti-AI, a huge number of those people use AI, whether they are searching on Google or whether they're on ChatGPT, which is why it's generating this huge outsized economic growth, AI.
Because as it turns out, free markets reward people for creating things that generally people want. And three, finally, if we choose to let our fear and uncertainty destroy our technological future in the country, and the only way to do that really is to destroy free markets, we won't save our civilization. We will lose to China. Okay, so why am I bringing all of this up? Because there's a brand new Quinnipiac poll, and it talks about Americans' use of AI, which is increasing, while the viewers of AI sour. The number of people who like AI is going down. The number of people using AI is going up. So many of the people using it are saying they simultaneously don't like it. which, by the way, is very often common with the free market.
Pretty much everybody who complains about the free market is a beneficiary of the free market in the United States. So according to this new poll, 51% of Americans say that they use AI to research topics they are curious about. That is up from 37% in April 2025. By the way, a huge number of people who say they're not using AI to research topics probably are because every time you go to Google and you put in a question, the answer that comes up on Google is being driven by Gemini. Same poll, whether people are using it to analyze data. 27% say yes. That is up from 17% in April 2025. And people are using AI in increasingly thorough ways. The advent of cloud has been extraordinary. For a huge number of people that I know who are in business, they're using AI in pretty much every task every day.
Now, at the same time that a huge number of people are using AI, people are very, very disquieted about AI, which again, I understand it's a new tech. It is rare to find a new tech in the history of technology that does not make people feel uneasy. If you go all the way back to the invention of the automobile, people were very, very upset about the automobile.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How is AI influencing America's economic growth?
0:00–5:30
2
What are the societal impacts of AI on job opportunities?
5:30–12:08
3
What are the public perceptions of AI among Americans?
12:08–27:18
4
How does AI contribute to the U.S. military's technological edge?
27:18–29:54
5
What is the relationship between AI and grievance populism?
29:54–54:16
6
How are free markets being blamed for economic issues?
54:16–58:48
Speakers
8 identified
Ben Shapiro 41 min
Mark Andreessen 8 min
Ariana Evans 1 min
Unknown 1 min
Zohran Mamdani 1 min
Fast on the Ground Voice 1 min
Cory Booker
Kamala Harris
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