Artificial intelligence, especially once it hits ASI, will change the world as we know it, including warfare. So, why is the Pentagon investing so much in designing new weapons when AI will make everything obsolete in the blink of an eye? Glenn makes the case that there are smarter things for the Trump administration to invest in to prepare for the AI revolution that’s right around the corner.
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GLENN: Who creates jobs. What's happening with the economy. We will get into that here in a second. But Stu, when we went off the air here, in the commercial break, he was like, I don't know if I agree with you on what I'm saying is, freeze all of the big spending. Do not start any new airplane design at the Pentagon that is a ten-year contract. That most likely will be a waste of money!
Because AGI and ASI is coming! And that will change everything. It will change warfare. Just will!
Drones, five help you dollars each, have already changed warfare. We have to be preparing for the future. And that future is much more nimble, much smaller, and I have a feeling, much cheaper.
STU: Are you concerned about a bridge here, though? We don't know when this is coming, we don't know how it's going to develop. We don't know what it will look like. No one does.
So, you know, we still need the best planes while planes are important.
GLENN: Right. But you don't need to start any new. Fix what we have. You know, finish what you've got in production.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: But you don't need to sit down and okay a new design for a new fighter jet.
STU: It's a big bet though. You are making a big bet on ASI and AGI with no backup plan. Why wouldn't you still want to have the best planes in your arsenal?
GLENN: I think, you know, look, let's look at it this way. Our generation's Manhattan project is AI, ASI.
Back with when FDR was convinced by Einstein. He didn't believe it could happen.
And Einstein came in and said, listen. I'm from Germany. They will do it! And so he convinced him. Go ahead. Build this bomb.
It was magical.
Nobody knew that we could even get there.
You know, we could split the Atom, but what does that mean? Can we actually make a bomb that can work? We put everything we had into it, and we continued to build planes and everything else. Because we were currently fighting a war. And we didn't know if that would happen. Up until the very last moment, when they said, dear God, what have we done?
Okay? This yen radiation, it's going to end the same way. In three to five years. Except, this time, we know it's going to happen. Almost everybody who was a naysayer on ASI, almost all of them are now saying, oh, dear God. Yes. It's coming. And it's coming much faster than we thought.
It will be here by 2030. Most likely, it will be here in the next three years. Now, if that time continues to collapse, I mean, just in the last five years, it's gone from 2050, maybe.
To now 2028, 2029.
If that continues to collapse like that. We're -- we're at the event horizon of the singularity. So we know it's going to happen.
Our job is to just bridge the gap as much as possible. But don't build things that we don't know are -- here's what -- here's what our Pentagon should be doing right now.
Building nuclear power plants. Our army Corps of Engineers should be building those little teeny nuclear power plants. Build as many as they possibly can. You don't even to have start them up yet.
Just have them ready to go. So when the server farms are ready. When everything. When AI is there, we can power it.
We won't have the power to be able to have ASI think and affect. We have to start thinking towards the future. Not what's the next generation of fighter jet look like?
There ain't going to be one, attitude. There's just not. At least with a person in it.
STU: Right. Because it will still have -- I mean, AI will probably come up with something that flies.
GLENN: Yeah. It will be hypersonic. It might even be of a new material.
Here's what people don't understand.
ASI will look at the period okay table of elements. And say, guys, shuffle the deck this way. And you have a material that will go 900 miles an hour. It will hold up under the heat and the friction. It won't bend.
It's perfect!
And it's only a quarter of the weight!
And, by the way, here's the formula. And you don't to give and test it for two years. It's correct! Do it!
I mean, that's how fast things are going to happen, once they start happening. And, Stu, this scares the hell out of me. Because you know how I feel about AI.
STU: Yeah, I was going to ask you, because AI obviously has a lot of potential negative consequences. And if we're putting the government. The military in control of that. Does that scare you?
GLENN: No. I'm not saying that we put the government in control of it.
STU: Okay.
GLENN: We have to balance all of this. But the government is already involved in it.
I'm saying, let the government build like power plants. Build the things that we know the country is going need to, the infrastructure, to be able to handle this.
Build the things that we say, we've got it, we can turn it opposite
STU: Yeah. Get prepared for whatever is coming here. I think, I guess, I'm concerned. This is from a guy I have talked to for 20 years, who continually repeats the phrase. I'm always wrong about timing. I'm concerned about that bridge period.
Because I think you're probably coming. It is coming really, really fast. But if something happens. If something goes off course.
You don't know. We need to be prepared for that bridge period.
PAT: How do we spend 877 billion dollars every single year, every year, China spends 200 some billion dollars every year.
And it's that close? If it's that close, you know, we have other problems.
STU: You're just saying, we should sort of rest on our laurels a little bit and just say, hey, we already have the best technology. We already have the best military. Let's not try to develop new things until this AI thing comes.
GLENN: Right. They're developing new stuff as well. Great. Great.
Let's give some time to AI. Let's not double our work. Let's not spend money, now on things that most likely. Don't build another aircraft carrier. Don't design another F57. Tonight do it. It's not going to. You have no idea what's coming!
Fix the stuff we have.
Make sure we have the amnesty. Make sure we have the latest and the greatest, that's already here! Don't do R&D on that stuff.
Don't do it!
And, by the way, you can't tell me, that again, $900 billion overlet's say 250. Or let's say 300 for China.
Okay. We spend three times the amount every year. And we're not competitive?
I don't believe that. And if it is, everybody in the Pentagon should go to jail.
STU: I do think, we're certainly competitive.
GLENN: Of course, we are.
STU: To me, I think there's a lot of bolder projects. There's a bunch of crap in our military.
That tough is our higher priority target, let's put it that way. Then eliminating potential limitations in these fields.
Even though, I know what you're saying. They might be obsolete in a few years.
GLENN: And you will to have come in front of a committee, that is like filled with Elon Musks. And say, here's the pitch!
I don't want the decision to be made by the senators or the generals at this point.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: Here's the pitch. Here's why we think this fits with tomorrow's technology.
STU: And they won't be in an adviser role. But we do have a system of government to follow.
GLENN: Yeah. I know. But they should be the ones saying, don't do that, Senator. Don't do that. That's stupid. If they want to do that. We'll vote them out.
We will all know which ones are doing it. Because they're funneling money to their friends.
STU: Part of this comes to the way I think about government spending. Government spending is always worse than the private sector.
GLENN: Huh.
STU: Which is a very basic conservative point. Right?
I think though, the one time, that you -- obviously, constitutionally, you have certain powers, the government spends.
Defense is one of them.
That they will typically be responsible for.
The way I look at it, is government can do some things relatively well.
If you don't care about efficiency. Businesses do. Right?
So they will -- they will not take certain risks, that, you know, have a low percentage chance of paying off.
And the idea that maybe you come up a nuclear bomb.
And you're able to stop global wars for multiple decades.
You know, a private company. You know, like -- very -- certainly, they shouldn't be coming with nuclear bombs. You know what I'm saying. That type of risk. That type of expenditure. That will likely fail. Is the type of thing that the government can take on.
Because when you don't care about efficiency. When you don't care about. Hey, we tried 25 things. Twenty-four of them failed. That's okay.
GLENN: Look. Private industry should be doing this, leading this. But the government is already in bed. DARPA is already doing this. The CIA is the one who helped fund the Silicon Valley in the 1960s. Please, let's get over our little illusion, that they're not involved in any of this.
Let me give you an example, on something the president I hope will talk about tonight: The private sector versus big government and Biden spending spree. What Trump is doing, and what Biden did.
The president has been in for 40 days. I've never seen anything like this, in 40 days.
So he's been in office for 40 days. And the numbers he's bringing into the economy, are staggering. Yesterday.
Taiwan, semi conductors. Which is the greatest news you could possibly hear, if you understand what this means. Taiwan makes all of the best semi conductors and super conductors. And they're dropping $100 billion to build chip factories here in America. Apple, 500 billion over four years, to crank up its manufacturing.
Think Texas server plants, not sweatshops.
SoftBank is in for 100 billion on AI. UAE is tossing 20 billion into data centers. That's $700 billion in private sector commitments. Now, some people are saying that it's as high as 1.7 trillion.
But I can't track those numbers, and get -- I can get a lot of rumors. A lot of, yeah, maybe.
But I don't have -- this is real. This is almost a trillion dollars. Remember, our -- the investment for Barack Obama, the reinvestment act. Was 787 billion. This is 720 billion. All coming, want from tax dollars. Not coming from government IOUs. But real money from companies all over the world. That are betting on America.
This number, like I said, can be verified. And they're not handouts.
Now, just the investment from TCMC, could mean 40,000 construction jobs.
And 6,000 high-tech gigs. Apple, thousands.
This is the private sector.
Not because Uncle Sam wrote a check. But because Trump demanded the same rules on tariffs, for everyone.
We're going to charge you, what you charge us!
That is fair on any playground, anywhere in the world!
And then he sweetened the deal by cutting the red tape and the tax advantages that no other country will offer. And said, build it here.
Bring those jobs here.
We're a stable country. We're the future.