Ben Shapiro sees both hope and concern in AI ‘revolution’.

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Game-Changer for Humanity

According to Ben Shapiro, the artificial intelligence revolution has the potential to completely transform our lives, for better or worse.

In his captivating Wednesday podcast, Shapiro, the co-founder and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire, highlighted the remarkable medical and scientific advancements that could arise from AI. However, he also acknowledged the potential for misuse and abuse of this groundbreaking technology.

“The artificial intelligence revolution is here,” Shapiro said. “It is only going to grow more and more in both scope and breadth. Things like ChatGPT are actually very basic versions of what the techno-bros have in store for the rest of the world. And there are some people who are very hot on it, some people who are very scared of it.”

Taking a measured approach, Shapiro believes that AI will revolutionize the economy and ignite human creativity.

“I think that the upsides economically are going to be extraordinary,” he said. “I think in terms of labor-saving and productivity, we could see an explosion of productivity that essentially brings inflation down to zero. That makes an enormous number of products, goods, and services significantly easier to access for a wide variety of people. That allows pretty much anybody to engage in a variety of industries they never would have had access to before.”

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However, Shapiro also raises concerns about the impact of AI on human brain development, drawing from his own experience with his 7-year-old son and the influence of smartphones.

“There are some problems, I think, when it comes to the sort of human brain development aspect of AI that we’re going to have to discuss because one of the things that we’ve really never thought about with regard to technology, we’ve always thought about technology as something apart from us. Technology is a machine that you use, but the truth is the machine shapes you,” he said.

Shapiro emphasizes that while AI has the potential for both good and evil, it cannot erase the inherent capacity for human wrongdoing.

“Humans beings are inherently sinful. Human nature is inherently unchanging, at least at the root level. We are not going to become better, nicer people. We’re not going to become free of sin,” he said, adding that AI could be used to both do evil and fight evil.

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