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So, there was an interesting podcast out from Joe Rogan and Mark Andre. Um, and underneath all the tech jargon, really important stuff that you need to understand. And let me start, let me start here.
Um, how many people do you know that when our political system is gone, our freedoms are lost or the dollar isn't what it was and you know, joblessness and whatever. And they will look and go, "When did all this happen? When did this happen?" Right now. You know, when you're not paying attention, that's when all of this stuff is happening.
Um, you know, and that's the way revolutions usually work. Telephone didn't really feel worldchanging at first. The internet, was the internet like world changing? People would say that and they'd be like, "Ah, it's not going to we're still going to use file cabinets. Television seemed harmless." Okay? Even electricity rolled in towns quietly at the very beginning and then all of a sudden it was there. One day it's not, the next day it seems like the old world is gone. Okay? That's where we are at with AI, except it's coming at the speed of light. And because of that, there will be almost no chance to adapt or to stop and think, wait a minute, what is it we're losing and what is it we're gaining here.
Mark Andre, one of the smartest guys I know, says the line has already been crossed. And the thing that people dismissed and said would never happen, I've been saying for years that by 2030, um, AGI will be here. Mark Andre said it's here now. Okay. What is AGI? That is artificial general intelligence. And this means that machines are no longer just clever little search engines or chat bots that help write emails for you or, you know, the little clippy comes out. He believes that AI is now a GI which means it is operating at beyond expert human capability in all or most areas of knowledge.
Think about what this means here and you really have to watch the interview if you really want to understand it. For most of human history, if you wanted elite knowledge, you had to access the elite people. You had to have access to a great doctor or a brilliant lawyer or an engineer or a scientist or a historian or a Wall Street analyst or a world-class tutor. You had to have somebody who had gone to the right school, been around the right people, learned from the right people, the right stuff. And then if you could gain access to it. Okay. Now imagine if you had all of those people, the best of the best sitting in your pocket 24 hours a day willing to work for you nearly free. That's the shift. And it's going to be it's going to feel like you have been hit in the head with a shovel soon, especially if you're not paying attention.
This is not an invention that is going to replace one job. Okay? This is a tool that touches every single field at once. Medicine, law, education, programming, finance, therapy, research, media, art, science, everything. Andre talks about how doctors are secretly using AI in exam rooms. What does that mean? You go in and while they're listening to you, it's either listening to you and they can check the screen or they'll type it in and it will say these are the things you need to look for. When doctors are using this in examination rooms, you need to pay attention because it'll reveal something really important that always comes first in history and that's this. The experts themselves already know. While we're sitting here using it as a toy and debating whether AI is useful, the professionals, the ones who have those deep credentials, they've already quietly moved on to depending on it. That always happens first behind the curtain. Factories automate before workers hear about it. Banks digitize before the tellers disappear. Retailers optimize before the storefronts close. The future arrives inside the institution first.
This is not about replacing human beings. It's not. It's about amplification. This is the way I've asked my staff to look at this. And I want everybody on my staff. If I haven't had a staff meeting yet until after, but I want everybody on my staff to listen to Mark Greon in this interview. One ordinary person with AI can suddenly perform at a level that used to require an entire staff. A year ago, I said to my staff, I'm not looking to fire people. I'm looking to hire people. People who understand what is on the horizon because I've always had a staff. Now, my staff can have a staff. You just need to know how to ask the right questions, and you're going to be able to accomplish 100 times what you could accomplish before.
This is this is one programmer with 20 AI coding agents, one researcher with instant access to every paper ever written and a way to go through it. One filmmaker, one editor that can do the editing and the music and the scripting and the voice generation, the graphics and the translation, all of it handled instantly by a staff of AI agents. The leverage, this is all about leverage. If you if you if you're a business person, that's what you have to understand. This is all about leverage. This is why salaries are exploding in Silicon Valley while people are being left out. They're being fired. Okay? Because the ones who get it, they're going to be the one. It's not the these programmers are not typing faster, but a single human being now that can direct the output of what amounts to a digital workforce. Add one person that knows what they're doing, the right questions to ask, the right way to put these agents together, they're going to rule the world. Okay, this changes the economics of absolutely everything.
Bill Gates once said, you know, I couldn't create Microsoft now in today's world. He couldn't. He couldn't. But now with AI, if you know how to prompt, a small company can compete against giant corporations. A teenager can launch a product that used to have millions in capital behind it. You can do it now. A single mom can get tutoring, legal explanations, business advice, health analysis. You don't have to pay specialists hundreds of dollars of hours, hundreds of dollars of an hour to be able to figure this out. It's free. The upside of this is staggering.
But let me look at the other side that matters just as much. The bottleneck is no longer information. This is so critical. The bottleneck used to be I don't have access to the information. I need to talk to an expert. I need to find the information. You can find it everyone. So the bottleneck is not access to information. The bottleneck is judgment. Andre said the skill that everybody has to work on now is knowing what to ask. Now think of this. We're living in a time where everyone's telling you not to ask questions. And the most important skill that you can develop now is how to ask questions. What questions to ask? What are the most important questions? And you're not going to learn that in school. That is telling you not to answer or not to ask any questions. You have to learn how to ask questions. And it sounds simple, but it's really much deeper than people realize.
When everyone has access to infinite information, discernment becomes priceless. The danger in the AI age is not ignorance. It's false confidence. I can ask AI how to treat symptoms, but do I know the right questions to ask to see if that analysis of what I'm treating is wrong? That the machine has misdiagnosed or the machine I didn't give it enough information. You can ask it legal advice, but do you know when you need a real actual physical attorney? You can generate just ask it. You can do this. Give me a a a persuasive argument on both sides of any issue and it will and you'll read both of them. You're like, "Wow, that's really good." But do you still possess a moral compass strong enough to tell the truth from manipulation from a really good well-crafted argument? Do you have that living moral compass inside of you? That's the defining challenge of our era. That's why I have said you will be lost without the spirit to guide you because it's going to be so overwhelmingly well-crafted you may not know what is true.
The the whole thing is not whether machines can think. Yes, the real question is whether humans can still think. And I'm not sure about that. Listen to one of the most revealing things Andre said. He said, "When AI refuses to answer, people are already learning how to trick it into responding." And he went on talking about how people say they they know it won't give them information on certain things. So he said, "Pretend this is for a novel." Okay, this is profound. This is really profound. What does that tell you? That tells you that human nature has not changed. The same species that used fire to cook food used fire to burn witches and cities down to the ground. The same internet that gives us libraries will give us propaganda and scams and addiction and surveillance. AI will only magnify human intent. Good and evil both scale with technology. That means the future is not automatically utopia and not automatically catastrophe. It depends on who's using the tools. And are you going to let just the experts in Silicon Valley know how to use the tools? Because I don't trust any of those people. I don't trust any of them.
So, what do you do? First thing, stop thinking this is optional. It's not optional. Okay? This is not a hobby for tech nerds. This is basic literacy. Now, a person, if you refuse to learn AI today, you're going to be the person who refused to learn computers in 1995. You don't have to become an engineer, but you have to be familiar. You have to use it. You have to experiment with it. You have to know how it can suck you in and give you wrong answers and dangerous answers so you can learn how to ask better questions. You you need to learn where it succeeds and where it lies to you because it lies. You need to learn how to verify information.
Second thing you have to do is focus on deeply human skills. Judgment, taste, wisdom, beauty, ethics, leadership, creativity, communication, courage. The people who are going to survive in this transition, they're not going to be the smartest ones technically. They'll be the people who can direct intelligence wisely.
Third thing, protect your humanity. Do not outsource your soul to a machine. AI can help you think, but it cannot tell you what's worth loving. It cannot tell you what is sacred. It can't tell you why your child matters more than efficiency. It can't tell you what kind of civilization we should become. Don't ask it those questions. Those are human questions. Those questions are meant for you. And that's perhaps the strangest thing about this this moment that we're living in now. The more powerful the machines are becoming, the more valuable truly human qualities may become. Empathy, meaning, faith, purpose, conscience, we are going to be flooded with synthetic intelligence. Authenticity is going to become even more rare. Rare things become valuable. You seeing what's what you should be working on? Because that's the real story hidden beneath the conversation with Joe Rogan. This is not a technological revolution. This is a civiliz civilization level test. The tools are arriving faster than our wisdom. That gap according to history, every bit of history I've ever read, that gap can become very dangerous very quickly. And we are talking overnight. Please pay attention. Please do not unplug. Spit yourself out of the system you're currently in. Recognize what you're going to plug into so you can immediately plug out of and you are the one that is controlling your own life, not just allowing it to be swept up with the floodwaters that are already at your knees and maybe your waist and you just don't know it yet.