Mike Adams, a libertarian conservative tech pioneer, debunks AI skepticism among high-IQ conservatives by showcasing his solo AI-driven projects—BrightLearn.ai, BrightAnswers.ai, and others—achieving rapid automation of tasks like stock analysis and compliance app development, impossible just months earlier. Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleiman predicts 80% of desk jobs will vanish in 12–18 months, yet many conservatives dismiss AI as hype or evil, ignoring its alignment with intelligent design while industries like publishing and Hollywood face obsolescence. Adams blames generational decline—JABS, fluoride, pesticides—and U.S. academic failures, where UC San Diego freshmen read at 7th-grade levels, contrasting China’s merit-based innovation dominance. Immigrant communities excel in AI adoption, while complacent American culture resists, risking future "shocking surprises" for those clinging to outdated beliefs. [Automatically generated summary]
Welcome to this special report on why many conservatives are AI illiterate.
I'm Mike Adams, and I suppose you could call me a conservative, although actually I'm more of a Ron Paul kind of person, a libertarian conservative.
I'm also anti-war, which doesn't make me fit into typical conservatism these days.
But I've noticed a kind of a bizarre trend among many high IQ, very well-educated, very intelligent conservatives have declared on social media that they think AI doesn't work and that no jobs will be replaced by AI.
That's a very specific claim that many of them have made.
And that they think that AI is nothing but hype, that it's all been a scam to raise money for big tech and that it's all overblown and it's all going to collapse and that it doesn't work at all.
And yet, as we are hearing this from people, Amazon is laying off tens of thousands of people, mostly due to automation via AI.
Many other companies, lots of them, are laying off thousands or tens of thousands of people.
And for those of us who use AI on a daily basis, we see the pace of rapid advancement in AI and what it's doing for our own companies, our own platforms, our own technology.
For example, I built the most prolific book publishing platform in the world called BrightLearn.ai.
I built that using nothing but AI development.
I'm the only human on the project.
I also built BrightAnswers.ai and brightnews.ai and I'm also working on brightvideos.ai, which is all AI coded.
It used to be that I would have a team of engineers doing these things.
I don't need any humans now, and the work gets done much, much faster.
So right there, you can see that AI works.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to do these things.
And then here's a quote from a user on Axe called the Quantize Kai.
And he or she, I don't know which one, says, anyone feel everything has changed over the last two weeks?
That's their question.
The answer that they pose is, things have suddenly become incredibly unsettling.
We've automated so many functions at my work in a couple of afternoons.
We've developed a full and complete stock backtesting suite, a macroeconomic app that sucks in the world's economic data in real time, compliance apps, a virtual research committee that analyzes stocks, and many others.
None of this was possible a couple of months ago.
I tried.
Now everything is either done in one shot or with a few clarifying questions.
Improvement are now suggested by Claude by just dumping the files into it.
I don't even have to ask anymore.
And then another person says about that post, quote, this seems to be the overarching theme across all my friends who currently work in tech.
Since the beginning of this year, the progress feels exponential.
This year feels like the improvement is happening at an exponential rate, at least within tasks like coding.
And then, of course, we had the Microsoft CEO who had some very interesting things to say, basically saying that almost all desk jobs, that is jobs that are carried out behind a computer, including legal and accounting and so on, would be fully automated in 12 to 18 months.
You talk about super intelligence.
Most of your rivals talk about HAI, artificial general intelligence.
Explain the difference between AGI and superintelligence.
Prefer the definition that focuses first on what would it take to build a system that could achieve most of the tasks that a regular professional in a workplace goes about on a daily basis.
Think of it as a professional-grade AGI.
How close are we?
I think that we're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks.
So, white-collar work where you're sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person.
Most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.
So, there you go.
That's the CEO of Microsoft, Mustafa Suleiman.
Now, this is not a, he's not an intellectual lightweight.
I want you to understand.
He is one of the original, I think, founders or co-founders of DeepMind.
This guy, I mean, look, I'm not a fan of a lot of former Microsoft CEOs, but this guy, Suleiman, he's no joke.
He's actually very, very intelligent and extremely well-informed, especially on this topic.
He knows more about AI than almost everyone.
I mean, there are probably fewer than a thousand people in the world that are even at his level of knowledge about AI, okay, just to be clear.
So, when he says this, oh, and by the way, you know, Microsoft recruited him at great expense to bring him in because of his talent and his intellectual capacity, okay?
And also, just to be clear, he's the CEO of Microsoft AI.
Okay, I don't think he's the CEO of the whole company, but Microsoft AI.
So, when he says this, when he says all these professional tasks are going to be automated within 12 to 18 months, the vast majority of people do not grok that.
That is, they don't grasp it.
They don't understand what that means.
And so people dismiss it.
And again, I've seen this largely among conservatives where, again, they're saying, well, AI doesn't work.
And it's not going to take any jobs.
And we're just being sold a bunch of lies in order to cover up for the collapsing economy or things like that.
Everybody's blaming job losses on AI when it's actually something else.
Well, those people are wrong.
They're catastrophically wrong.
AI is moving forward.
It's advancing with such incredible leaps that even myself as a cutting-edge AI developer and also obviously a high IQ individual in this space, I feel like I can barely keep up with what's happening.
The pace of change is unbelievable.
I spend a lot of my time vibe coding.
And then whenever I can, I have a queue of new tools to explore.
I have to check out the new tools.
I have to see if they're useful in our current workflows.
And if they are, then I have to figure out how to automate them into the or integrate them and then potentially automate them.
And for example, just a week ago, I started using Opus 4.6 from Cloudcode.
And that tool has now, I would say, tripled my vibe coding speed, just that one tool.
Yeah, I'm three times faster than I used to be.
So now my development time is, you know, skyrocketing or my speed is skyrocketing.
And it was already very fast before then.
I was using Opus 4.5, you know, and before that, I was using, I think, some version of Sonnet months ago.
Well, the thing is, you see, like MiniMax out of China just released their version 2.5 coding agent.
DeepSeek's about to release version 4.
There have been other releases from Google, although I don't use Google products at all.
And I also don't use Microsoft products, by the way.
I don't trust either one of those companies.
So I tend to use open source models or I use Anthropic.
But what I'm seeing is a rapid, rapid advancement.
And it's very clear to me because, you know, I'm talented at seeing what's coming.
I mean, I'm known as a polymath and a whole brain thinker.
And I can assure you that what's coming is the mass replacement of human jobs with automation, especially jobs that I call KVM jobs, keyboard, video, mouse.
Anything behind a monitor, you know, anything with a keyboard and a mouse that involves human cognition, right?
Almost all of that is going to be automated within the next few years.
And I think that Suleiman is largely correct with his 12 to 18 months projection of most of these jobs being able to be fully automated.
Now, it doesn't mean that every company is going to actually replace every human with AI, but they could.
So there's going to be some momentum of some human lawyers, obviously, or some human accountants.
But very quickly, as clients of those law firms or clients of the accounting firms come to realize that, hey, I don't need these attorneys anymore.
I can do my own legal review or legal analysis.
I can have AI write the terms of service for this product or whatever.
You're going to see mass replacement.
And it's going to happen very, very quickly.
And also, another interesting warning is that any company that's involved in just the digital space, companies that sell software, that sell some form of data or some form of services or content, almost every one of those organizations that is sort of old school is going to be obsolete.
They're going to be replaced.
And I'm part of that process, by the way.
I mean, think about it.
I've become, or my platform, BrightLearn.ai, has become the most prolific book publisher in the world.
We've published over 35,000 books in about two months.
There's no book publisher in the world that comes even close to that.
And we're about to release thousands of audio books, and they're all free, by the way.
So, you know, you think about Audible or other audio book companies.
How are they going to compete against Brightlearn.ai that will soon have thousands of free audio books that sound human, that sound great, that are very educational, that are in some cases inspiring, etc.
And they're all available completely free, to download for free, and you can create your own also for free.
I mean, how is Audible going to compete with that and?
And the answer is that there are many industries like the audio book industry, or even the the book publishing industry or Hollywood Now, because of the new AI video engines, there are many industries that simply will have to radically evolve or they will become obsolete.
And I even said on my social media, I said, folks, if you own stock in Netflix, you should probably dump that because Netflix is going to go the way of blockbuster.
There will be no Netflix that anybody needs within a few more years.
Let's say two to three years estimate.
Because you'll be able to prompt and render your own movies, your own shows, your own documentaries.
And I predicted that last year.
And I'm going to be one of the people actually allowing you to create documentaries.
And then with Byte Dance releasing their Sea Dance 2.0 engine that famously showed a fight scene between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.
Well, I should say the AI avatar depictions of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.
Everybody suddenly realizes that Hollywood is utterly obsolete.
In fact, let me play this for you.
I just want to play that.
It's like, it's, I don't know, 10 or 15 seconds, but you need to see how convincing this is.
So let's play that.
You killed Jeffrey Epstein, you animal.
He was a good man.
He knew too much about our Russia operations.
He had to die.
And now you die too.
So what you just saw there is 15 seconds of AI rendered, totally AI rendered fight scene.
And whoever created that just put in a prompt, and they probably uploaded a face of Brad Pitt and a face of Tom Cruise and with a description.
You know, they're fighting on a rooftop in a city, and there's, you know, concrete crumbling around them or whatever.
And then the Sea Dance engine created that.
Okay.
So Netflix is obsolete.
Hollywood is obsolete.
Audiobooks, the traditional model, is obsolete.
Traditional book publishing is largely obsolete, etc., etc.
This is going to continue to expand.
So then, how is it that conservatives can't see this when it's so obvious to everybody else?
What is it about being a conservative that makes you blind?
And again, I'm not saying all conservatives, just to be clear, but disproportionately, conservatives are unable to see this, or they are, frankly, they're in a state of denial.
It's a psychological denial.
And we need to discuss why this is.
So we obviously have to realize that this is a psychological phenomenon that we're dealing with here.
This is not a lack of information, right?
It's not an argument to say that, well, conservatives somehow aren't aware of any of this.
Clearly, they see other people talking about this.
You know, especially the economists, right?
They see the job replacement taking place.
They could obviously see, you know, these movie clips have gone incredibly viral.
Well, not movie clips, but AI-generated clips that look like movies.
Lots and lots of people.
We've had over a million users at our brightanswers.ai engine, and people are talking about that.
It's widely known that AI is extremely capable.
So what is it?
What is it about conservatives that blind them to the reality of this?
Age Gap in Tech Literacy00:04:12
So first of all, we have to admit that there's a demographic issue here, right?
So overall, younger people tend to be more liberal and older people tend to be more conservative.
And this is true always because people become more conservative as they get older.
You know, when you're young and idealistic, you tend to be sort of leftist and maybe if you've been part of the college scene or, you know, indoctrinated in public schools, you tend to be more of a Democrat and more left-wing.
And as you get older, you realize, oh my God, somebody has to pay the rent.
There's no such thing as a free lunch and I'm being overtaxed, you know, things like that.
So people become conservative as they age.
That happens to go along with the fact that younger people are also much stronger in technology.
Older people struggle with tech, whether they're conservative or otherwise.
But typically, when people get into their 40s and 50s, they really start to struggle.
When they hit their 60s, they have all kinds of problems.
Typically, you know, because they're not practicing the skills every day or they're not building with AI, you know, like I am and some of you are as well.
So, you know, their tech skills just get completely obsolete.
And you also have to remember that people my age and older, I'm in my mid-50s, people my age and older, we did not grow up with an internet.
I mean, I was the earliest kid in my school to have a computer.
It was the old Apple IIe computer.
And literally my math teacher called it voodoo at the time, the floppy disk drive.
She's like, that's voodoo.
You know, I told the whole story about that.
It's true.
It's wild.
But I was the only kid to have a computer.
And I used to write computer code on paper in class because I was bored out of my mind in public school, obviously.
And then I would go home and type in the code on the computer and then fix the bugs at home.
But I would write code in class to the point where it annoyed my teachers.
Like, are you writing?
What is that?
What is the secret code?
You know, it's a fornex loop thing.
You're writing secret notes to Satan?
You know, it's like, that's the math teacher again.
I'm like, no, this is called basic, actually.
It's really simple stuff.
But anyway, so I grew up with computers, but none of us my age grew up with the internet.
And so, you know, we didn't grow up with social media.
You know, we didn't have the internet until, what, the early 1990s.
And I remember back then talking to people saying, you know, like, what's your email address?
And they're like, what's email?
Oh, my God.
Are you serious?
What's email?
So what's happening right now with AI is, in fact, quite parallel to that, because when the internet first launched, you know, roughly in the early 1990s, and I was one of the first people to buy website domains and to launch sites, et cetera, and to have email and, you know, all these things.
I was living around, you know, in a society with a lot of people who did not know what the internet was.
They didn't know what a website was.
And everything was dial-up modems at the time, which was horrifically bad.
But people didn't have emails.
People didn't have a browser.
They didn't know what a browser was.
At that time, there was Netscape, let's say, right?
Things like that.
Or there was Yahoo.
And there was, oh, there was AOL, America Online, where you dialed into their system to share text chats on their bulletin boards, which I never bothered with.
It sounded like the most boring thing imaginable.
But AOL was a dial-up service.
And by the way, in the 1980s, those of you my age, you may remember CompuServe.
CompuServe.
It was a dial-up service.
You dialed in and you got things like stock prices and news, but it was their app.
AOL Dial-Up Days00:07:34
They controlled it.
Okay, so there's CompuServe and then there's AOL, etc.
None of this obviously involved AI or video generation or text generation or anything like that.
Not even close.
So you got to give a little bit of a little understanding to people who are in their 50s and 60s and 70s and beyond.
They didn't grow up with this stuff.
They had to learn it along the way.
All of us did.
But those of you listening in your 20s and 30s, like, oh, it's always been around.
Yeah, you grew up with this stuff.
You grew up with your eyeballs glued to a tablet.
You know, me and my friends were building tree houses and crushing our bones on skateboard ramps, things like that.
You know, we lived in the real world back then.
You know, the parents told us, get out of the house.
Don't come back until after dark.
So anyway, the point here is there's a very real demographic issue here.
And that's why some conservatives don't understand AI.
It's just not anything that they grew up with.
But there's another factor in all of this.
And now we have to talk about religion and Christianity in America.
So of course, most Christians tend to be conservatives.
It's not always true, but it tends to be that way.
And most of the conservatives who are themselves religious tend to be Christians in America.
Although, again, that's not always true.
And Christians, by and large, have a big issue with AI.
Many Christians are convinced that it's the devil.
Or they're convinced it's evil or that it's part of transhumanism.
It's part of people trying to become like God or something like that.
And this is a very strong issue with Christians because they've seen images or videos of people rendered with six fingers, you know, and six fingers like the mark of the devil.
But it turns out that AI engines just have trouble with repeating patterns.
So they'll do six or seven fingers sometimes.
They're getting much better, by the way.
That was a very common thing back in 2024 and through some of 2025, but it is getting much better.
But because of strong religious conviction, many Christians, not all, but many, are unwilling to consider AI as being a tool for humanity.
That's the way I look at AI, though, is a tool for empowering humanity.
And that's why all the platforms that I build and all the uses that I promote are pro-human uses.
You know, I use AI to help educate and empower people and to decentralize knowledge and information in order to bypass censorship and gatekeepers.
And that's why you can download any of the 35,000 books on brightlearn.ai.
You can download them for free and you can create your own books.
And as you can tell there, the books are uncensored and they cover a variety of really important topics, such as the dangers of vaccines or how to reverse cancer using natural medicine, things that you wouldn't normally find on mainstream sites or even through mainstream book publishers.
But yes, you can produce books like that.
So I see AI as something that empowers humanity through decentralization.
But a great many Christians see AI as some kind of competition with Jesus.
I find that very odd.
It's not competition with Jesus.
And as I've explained in my podcast, the creator of our entire universe, which I believe to be a simulation, our creator created a universe with abundant intelligence.
That intelligence is actually built into the fabric of the cosmos.
Intelligence is everywhere.
It's not only in humans and animals and plants.
It's also found in other items, molecules, and even crystals.
such as xylitol.
I've covered that before.
There's intelligence everywhere, literally everywhere, even in water.
There's intelligence in water.
There's intelligence in chemistry.
There's intelligence in physics.
There's intelligence in the table of elements.
So that's all part of the intelligent design of the cosmos, which you would think Christians would be all in favor of that because they believe in intelligent design.
You know, Christians don't believe that the universe is just random.
They don't believe that life is random.
They don't believe that human beings are just random.
They believe that we're here with a purpose and that there is a creator that intelligently designed the cosmos to work with us, with our intelligence and our mission.
And I actually share those beliefs, although I may describe it in a different way.
But then when you say to Christians, and AI is also part of God's plan of decentralized intelligence to aid humans in their important missions to protect life or expand knowledge, etc., that AI is actually 100% compatible with God's creation of our universe, that's where a lot of Christians say, oh, no, no, no, I can't accept that.
They say AI couldn't possibly be part of God's plan.
Like, why not?
Because my pastor said so, you know, well, your pastor also said it's okay to commit genocide in Gaza.
So I don't think your pastor has a lot of credibility when it comes to humanity.
Let's just be honest.
So the Christian argument against AI is, of course, irrational, and it's based on ignorance, a misunderstanding, and not knowing that there's no such thing as artificial intelligence.
There's really only natural intelligence.
And so-called AI actually taps into the intelligent cosmos that our creator built for us, intelligently engineered so that intelligence is widespread and decentralized and available to everyone.
AI is just a tool to tap into the mind of God, really, if you think about it.
It's 100% compatible with that concept.
I mean, remember, you know, God created the laws of the universe.
Those laws include physics and chemistry and mathematics and cause and effect.
And AI functions exclusively on those laws.
So AI only works because of the laws of God, by definition.
So, you know, there's nothing satanic about it.
There's nothing evil about it.
It's a tool that can be used for good or evil.
Obviously, malicious actors can use AI to achieve bad things, but they can also do bad things with a hammer, you know, or a crowbar or the internet or email or phishing attacks or whatever.
You know, AI itself is not by itself good or evil.
It's a tool.
All right, so let's go on to the next reason here.
We've covered demographics and we've covered Christianity.
Let's cover the Western thought, the philosophy of Western civilization.
American Skepticism Of AI00:11:25
This is really interesting to me because, of course, I lived in Taiwan.
I speak Mandarin Chinese and I have great admiration for the intelligence of Chinese people and many other cultures, by the not just exclusively Chinese.
And what I have noticed is that in America, there's tremendous skepticism about AI.
American culture overall doesn't like AI.
They don't want to really use it.
They don't trust it.
You know, it comes from big tech companies, which I don't trust either.
That's why I don't use Google AI, you know.
But in China and in other countries like India, AI is embraced.
It is embraced as a multiplier of human ambitions or human work or human intention.
And in China, they actually have a government initiative to sort of AI everything.
And their schools are getting turbocharged with AI education, you know, personalized education.
They can push students through school with high academic scores.
And China was already doing great at that.
And now they're going to do even better.
Meanwhile, the U.S. education system is a total disaster, a complete failure.
You can graduate from high school in America and actually be illiterate.
And in fact, millions of kids every year graduate in America and they cannot read or they cannot understand anything they read.
We actually live in a country, and I think this is correct.
Although every time I state this, it sounds unbelievable even to myself.
But there was research done.
I covered this in a previous podcast.
I believe the conclusion was that 57% of U.S. adults are incapable of understanding what they read at anything beyond what was it, a seventh grade level.
So we have widespread illiteracy in America.
While in China, they have widespread technical proficiency.
China is graduating the largest number of engineers and scientists, you know, STEM graduates every year, more than any other country in the world.
And culturally in China, there is, you know, this acceptance of AI is part of an overall embracing of technology.
And I think part of this is because as a society, China, or at least the more urban parts of China, they are really excited about technology because of the innovation that they're achieving.
They're making the world's best cars.
They have by far the world's best battery technology, the best EVs, the best robots, obviously, the best drones, the best factory automation.
They have the best AI models, you know, DeepSeek and Quinn and so on.
They dominate.
I mean, they have the best extraction technology for rare earths and so on.
China dominates in most of the technologies that are known to our modern civilization.
Whereas the United States is a, you know, it's a failing empire.
We're living in the downfall, the last chapter of a failed empire that appears to be, you know, run by people tied to pedophiles and Satanists who completely ignore the rule of law, who run around the world as bullies, bombing and threatening everybody else, etc.
So there's a big difference here.
China embraces technology.
America likes to make excuses and punish its allies in order to have protectionism for American companies that are stuck in the past.
Ford makes, pardon my language, Ford makes shitty vehicles.
Ford's going to be bankrupt and it will need a government bailout, which it will probably get.
But it's not just car companies.
Tesla is not even the best EV on the market.
The best EVs come out of China, BYD, Catal, et cetera.
But it's also AI.
So OpenAI, that organization, which I think pretends to be a nonprofit, Open AI will also go bankrupt and it will require a U.S. bailout because it cannot compete with China.
Can't compete.
So it's probably not surprising that the people who live in a declining culture, which is the U.S., are also very slow to embrace innovation.
They're living in the past.
You know, arguably Trump is living in the past.
He thinks it's the 1980s and, oh, the U.S. has the biggest, baddest Navy in the world and the baddest military in the world.
And we can do anything we want.
We can bomb anybody we want.
And if they don't do a deal, you know, it's going to be bad for them.
This is 1980s talk.
It's no longer accurate.
America actually doesn't lead the world in military technology or military might.
It lags behind the world.
Actually, it lags, you know, at least a decade, maybe two decades in certain areas.
The U.S. doesn't have hypersonic missiles, doesn't have modern ICBMs, doesn't have modern hyperglide vehicles, doesn't have modern air defense systems.
I mean, for God's sake, Lockheed Martin has been delivering F-35 fighter jets with no radar in the nose cone since last year, since like last summer, because we can't even make the radar because the radar depends on gallium, which is one of the rare earths that we can no longer get because China stopped sending it to us.
And so we are a military.
You know, the U.S. has a military that ships fighter jets with no radar.
Okay, just to be clear.
That's insane.
And that's another sign of the crazy decline of the U.S. Empire.
So we can't even make things anymore.
Is it any surprise that our culture fails to recognize innovation?
It shouldn't be a surprise.
It's a cultural barrier.
And my guess is psychologically this is based on America's belief that we are the exceptional nation and we don't need augmentation with machine intelligence.
We're smart enough to do it ourselves.
We're the smartest people in the world, right?
That's been the mantra for a long time.
We're the exceptional nation.
Our currency is the best currency.
Our military is the best military.
It sounds like Trump again.
Our stake is the best steak.
Everything that is American is the best in the world.
And thus, we don't have to embrace technology because we are just so much more advanced as a people.
That's been the belief system.
But that is, that's fantasy.
The American people have in the past shown great resilience and great innovation.
But those generations are dead or retired.
The current generations, not that great, actually.
In fact, I think peak intelligence in the United States happened between 1955 and 1975.
And the reason I've concluded this is because I had AI agents go through newspapers spanning many decades since post-World War II and to actually analyze the vocabulary that was used across mainstream newspapers because I have a lot of archives of old newspapers digitally.
And so it came back and that's what it said.
The highest intelligence, the largest vocabulary, was 1955 to 1975.
After that, the great dumbing down took place.
So as Americans have become dumbed down, and also, you know, the JABS contributed to that as well, widespread lobotomies, and also pesticide poisoning and chemtrails poisoning and all kinds of things, right?
But as this great dumbing down took place, then America really, oh, I forgot fluoride, mass fluoride poisoning of the water supply in all the major U.S. cities.
And don't forget the bio-sludge, EPA-approved bio-sludge, mass poisoning of the food crops, et cetera.
That's been taking place for decades.
So America has been mass poisoned.
And that has a cognitive impact, which is the dumbing down of the population.
So we now have a population with brain power that is a pale shadow of what it was in, let's say, 1970.
And this is apparent if you just look around, you know, check any cashier working at any retailer and you realize they don't know how to use numbers.
They can't calculate 10% in their heads.
People don't know how to tip 10% or 15% or 20%.
They don't know.
Everybody just uses automated systems for those things.
They've forgotten how to do math.
Meanwhile, in places like China, you've got seven-year-old kids that are solving Rubik's cubes in 4.3 seconds or whatever.
And there's also kids that are like super computers with the abacus.
They can like clickety clack and solve complex math problems in a few seconds by flipping those abacus little, what are they called?
Little markers.
So it's a physical calculator.
It's actually a really clever invention that China invented.
So Americans couldn't use an abacus.
They're like, what?
Let me just ask AI.
I don't know what this is.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, American engineers used to have slide rules.
And you can do a lot of math with a slide rule.
I actually have a collection of slide rules because I like to purchase old technology.
In fact, I have an old Soviet Union mechanical calculator that has a hand crank.
And you set up your math problem by moving little dials.
You can do multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction.
You can do orders of magnitude calculations.
And then you turn a hand crank.
It's entirely mechanical because the Soviets are freaking smart, you see.
But these are from the 1950s, okay?
So the Soviets were also very smart in the 1950s.
And Americans were smart in the 50s and the 60s, etc.
And people could use slide rules.
And even when calculators came out, like when I was in high school in the 1980s, right, sometimes we were allowed to use calculators.
We could use like graphics calculators plotting things on a screen.
That was considered really advanced at that time.
But you still had to be smart to be able to use a calculator because you had to punch in the numbers.
You had to solve the problem.
You had to think about it step by step.
Today, very few, very few Americans can do that.
Very few.
So the great dumbing down, oh, and let me add, I know some people who are in MBA schools, and they tell me that the other students in the MBA classes don't do any work.
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They don't do anything.
Somehow they still pass.
They mostly use Chat GPT to write the papers that they need to write, etc.
And they're going to get their MBA, but they're really stupid.
So yeah, you can get an MBA in America, even from a recognized university, without being very smart.
And I covered a story a few weeks ago of the University of California, San Diego, found that some shocking percentage of incoming freshmen who were accepted to the university had to go through remedial reading courses because they couldn't read at anything.
I think it was a seventh grade level.
Imagine that.
You get accepted into college in California and you are illiterate.
Which tells you about the acceptance criteria in California, you see, wokeism.
You get accepted for being LGBT.
You get accepted for having color in your skin.
You get accepted, you know, for your politics or your imaginary gender or being a lesbian or what have you.
And that kind of ideology has permeated all of academia in America.
And as a result, while China is graduating the world's best engineers based on merit, highly competitive merit, mind you, in America, we are graduating woke tards by the thousands who can't read, can't do engineering, can't do medicine.
You know, in medical school, the most important thing about making it through medical school is being woke and having, you know, all the right checkboxes.
Oh, you're the right color.
Oh, you know, whatever.
And then you make it through medical school.
You don't actually have to be knowledgeable about medicine.
You don't have to be a good doctor.
You just have to be the right kind of person that the woke medical school wants to put on their webpage to say, oh, we're a diverse medical school.
Meanwhile, across all these schools, universities and medical schools, et cetera, the most qualified candidates who may often be, for example, Asian Americans are discriminated against.
Did you know that?
Did you know that Asians are penalized on all the California college entrance exams?
You get a big subtraction from your entrance score criteria just for being Asian.
Also for being white, by the way.
But they especially penalize you for being Asian, any kind of Asian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, whatever.
Whereas in China, the smartest Asian gets into college.
Yeah, and they study all the time because their mom makes them do that.
In America, the smartest Asian is penalized and the lowest IQ woke person gets into the university.
So if you multiply that over the couple of decades, it's been going on like that, you're going to get a dumbass population that doesn't recognize technology and innovation.
And that's where we are.
And so that's why, you know, this is beyond just the scope of conservatism, obviously, but this is why also a lot of Americans don't understand anything about AI because they're woke and stupid.
I mean, this is true.
This is true.
Now, you know who's actually really great at AI?
Oh, and by the way, the good news here is that many young Americans are completely skipping college and universities because it's a total waste of time and money.
At this point, it's a complete waste.
So some of the smartest innovators right now are young adults who they finish high school and they go immediately into their own businesses.
And they are very often, let's say, Asian Americans.
They are very often Middle Eastern Americans.
They can be like Iranian Americans or Pakistani Americans.
Some are Indian Americans.
Some are Russian Americans.
Some are, you know, Ukrainian Americans, whatever.
Very smart people from all over the world come to America as immigrants.
I'm talking about legal immigration in this case.
And they excel at this.
They excel at this because they don't have that lazy, complacent American culture.
Like, you know, the world is supposed to serve me.
You know, I'm a consumer.
Heck, we don't make stuff.
We consume stuff.
Everybody else in the world should make it and ship it here.
We just print debt money.
The immigrants don't have that attitude.
They're willing to work.
They're willing to innovate.
They're willing to teach themselves things and to learn.
And so they're doing very well with AI.
But again, back to the theme of this podcast.
It's a lot of the older conservative Americans who are still living in the past and they're stuck in the belief system that America is the best and America will always dominate the world.
And boy, are they wrong.
And they are in for a shocking surprise based on what's about to happen.
And I'll cover that in upcoming podcasts, but I do want to wrap up this one.
So if you want to use my AI tools, and yes, I'm an American and I'm the exception to what I've just described here.
You probably are too, if you're listening to this.
You know, we are among a shrinking class of high IQ people who can still function and innovate in a society that's collapsing.
It's going to get interesting, that's for sure.
But you can use all my tools.
Go to brightlearn.ai for my book tool.
Go to brightvideos.ai for my video site.
That's new.
I'm still actually building some of the features there.
You can go to brightanswers.ai for my AI engine or brightnews.ai for AI-powered news trends analysis.
And we spider over 80 censored websites to give you up-to-the-minute news on a vast array of topics from finance and technology and health and geopolitics and so much more.
So check those out.
And if you want to read my articles, my articles are posted at naturalnews.com and I'm back to publishing at least one article per day.
Sometimes I do five articles a day because yes, I have AI agents that help me with all those articles.
But every article is, you know, it's my prompt.
It's my idea.
It's my research.
My eyes are on every article, but I'm no longer typing and writing the articles.
I've built an AI ecosystem that writes like me and I just give it permission to do so.
So I choose the topic and then it does the research and it puts together the article and then I give it the thumbs up.
So that's how I'm able to do all this that I'm doing right now.
And I can also write five articles a day that would normally take like 10 hours because of AI.
And again, conservatives think that's not possible.
They're like, oh, AI doesn't do anything.
Okay.
Believe whatever you want.
You know, you can pretend that light bulbs don't work, but that's not consistent with reality.
You can make believe combustion engines don't work.
I guess you could run around and you can say gravity doesn't work.
You can leap off tall buildings and test that theory and it's going to end badly.
AI absolutely works.
It's revolutionary.
It's the single most profound invention in the history of our planet as far as we know.
Maybe there's like ancient prehistory civilizations that had something similar.
But as far as we know, this is it.
So if you're not using this technology, you're way behind the curve.
So use it, learn about it, embrace it.
Use it for good.
Use it for a pro-human purpose like I do.
And use it to achieve abundance.
Use it to help spread knowledge and information.
And then together, we can make this world a better place.
And AI can help us do that.
So thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams.
Take care.
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