
Will AI and AI agents replace God, steal your job, and change your future? Amjad Masad, Bret Weinstein, and Daniel Priestley debate the terrifying warning signs, and why you need to understand them now.
In this debate, they explain:
▫️Why AI threatens 50% of the global workforce.
▫️How AI agents are already replacing millions of jobs and how to use them to your advantage.
▫️How AI will disrupt creative industries and hijack human consciousness.
▫️The critical skills that will matter most in the AI-powered future.
▫️What parents must teach their kids now to survive the AI age.
▫️How to harness AI’s power ethically.
00:00 Intro
07:03 What Is an AI Agent?
09:00 Who Is Bret and What Are His Views on AI?
12:48 Who Is Dan?
14:31 Where Are the Boundaries?
15:46 What Could AI Potentially Do?
16:50 Bret’s Concerns: AI and a New Species
19:22 The Disruptive Potential of AI in Its Current Form
20:22 Is AI Just a Tool?
21:27 Those Who Leverage AI Will Be the Winners
25:04 What Abuse Are We Currently Seeing?
30:46 The Collateral Damage of AI
38:57 What Will Happen to Humans?
42:05 Which Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI?
45:23 Could AI Development Affect Western Economies?
48:49 Is AI Removing Our Agency?
57:28 Will Authenticity Be More Valued in the AI Era?
59:05 Will Markets Become Fairer or More Unbalanced?
01:03:34 The Economic Displacement
01:05:34 Worldcoin and the Case for Universal Basic Income
01:11:36 Are We Losing Meaning and Purpose?
01:14:34 AI’s Impact on Loneliness, Relationships, and Connection
01:18:47 Can Education Adapt to the AI Era?
01:25:57 What Should AI Teach Our Children?
01:31:08 Ads
01:32:09 Is This Inevitable?
01:38:07 Will We Start Living Like House Cats?
01:44:33 Hyper-Changing World: Are We Designed for It?
01:50:14 The 5 Key Threats of AI
01:51:40 Deepfakes and AI Scams
01:59:32 An Optimistic Take on the AI Era
02:03:26 AI for Business Opportunities
02:08:23 Ads
02:10:21 AI Autonomous Weapons
02:17:48 Do We Live Among Aliens or in a Simulation?
02:21:20 How to Live a Good Life in the AI Era
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Seems like, to me anyways, there was a lot of emphasis placed on advancing entrepreneurs. Not everyone wants to be a "hustler", an entrepreneur or wants save the world. There are plenty of people who are happy to give the bulk of their time to their families, hobbies and interests and they just want a job to pay the bills. That's who's going to get hurt the most and these people don't care…
Research has been done that most people don't like their jobs. One's satisfaction in life should not be tied to a job.
The real problem is people do not know their own history. Their trauma. Everyone has trauma from their childhood. No parent is perfect, all children get hurt.
And very few are healing proper. Of course no job will fix that. No lifestile changes will. Healing will.
The guy in the red coat seems to somehow get every point wrong. I'm not sure if it's intentional. He seems to only see dollar signs in every response.
massive unemployment, rage against the machine….nothing that WW3 could not solve, yes? understand? look-up georgia stones…
unplug. Morpheus is offering you two pills.
The stupid ass horse and cart comparison is about progress – but not all progress is the same. Or rather – not all change is progress. And not all progress is good.
i feel like these tech people are searching for a progress no one asked them for… during the industrialization of the 19th century, those in charge saw the benefits to the technology, but everyday people were exploited and i feel like this history is repeating itself and will repeat itself. we are part of nature, and this technology is taking us away of using our bodies to function or even work and make us fill fulfilled.
These guys assume all goes well. An emp tomorrow will void all this.
The goal of an 'education' at the hands of the state is to breed a standard citizen.
Not teach you everything you need or will ever know.
Rather, pass down the basics of mankind's knowledge in math, English, science, history,etc.
If all circuits die tomorrow, the basic education should allow rebuilding of society with the help of books on every subject.
The contention that we turn everything over to our new overloards – Ai – and move on is dopey as it gets.
Citizenry still maintains a basic level of knowledge in a civilisation.
The contention that you just start a business is ludicrous. This new society expects an Iq of 100 or better. That means that 40% of society no longer have a place.
Those will have to either – merge with machines or work in an augmented reality simulation.
Get back to reality.
If a society gets too uneven, too quickly, the result is civil uprising – check your history.
If half the population is on social security in 5 years, think about what will happen.
The communities being made after Cov are so amazing? That was happening before Cov-since the 70’s. It’s telling that the only picture that was painted by red was pretty and not acknowledging the immensity of the harmful outcome that was caused by Cov. The constant referencing of “my friends in Silicon Valley “ did something amazing is also telling of what a small bubble they’re living in. I’m all for Ai, but listening to this conversation, Bret is the only one who’s offering a balanced view-and to me he can sometimes be too much of a fatalist, but here he is appropriately challenging the preposition of glorious for all! ?!? Though it’s a very exciting time!-the negative scenarios are valid and we need to look after our human family.
Eric weinstein???? The dude that claimed he solved the universe but lost the equation? That dude???
Bret Weinstein explains everything better — you can listen to him all day.
Brett's Ian Malcolm moment… Literally!
Aleister Crowley lost me when he said we'd have heard about it on the news. 🤣🤣🤣
What is the full name of the “operator” app that Steven uses to order the water
Before they come back for the next debate can we request that they all read Warhammer lore on the dark age of technology.
No talk of Plantir, surveillance? Agenda 2050?
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Heard the same thing about outsourcing. Its going to fk the sht out of 80% of society
Bret is the only guy asking the pertinent questions and pointing out some important facts that go [intentionally?] overlooked.
the bald guy only wants to earn more money by placing insecurities
Yt ppl are so obsessed with power. They may destroy the world.
AI will be the death of normal human life. How will one live. Normal people will go mad. But for those of us who has been homeless. Not that big of a change. Even the ones who are on benefits. Are a little better of but we are not living, we're just existing (in other words doing natural life), (on death row) waiting to die. Cause, we're not part of working society. It'll bring madness to the people. UBI will not fix the issue. If it's still $2000.00 that's still homeless money. Why? The US dollar is weak at the moment. With the UBI it comes with no work no play. But wait there is no job. If you're not super smart.
The entrepreneurs are insanely optimistic because they are short sighted and blinded by their greed. Its a massive opportunity to gain wealth, and thats about how far they get with their train of thought.
I write lots of code over the past 40 years. AI is now as of June 2025 able to do 99% of my coding and IT work. It will just get better and can now handle very large code bases today. Software developers are cooked. 90% layoffs will happen in the next 1 years. Notice how someone with no experience was able to build a working website? Imagine how AI works with someone who has decades of experience like me. I’m averaging 3000 lines of code changed or added PER DAY. That is a line of code every 10 seconds for 8 hours straight. It has literally made me with 40 years of experience 100 times more productive than an average developer. This is different, not like any other improvement/advancement that has ever happened. Don’t make any major purchases
Who will be the consumers for all these new great businesses if 1/2 the working force is not working? Consumers are needed for businesses to sell their product.
The chat is interesting in its demographic with regard to the levels of understanding, empathy & infection! A.I. is an infection, a virus, as toxic as the power required to give it life. It should/will be treated as such!
To sit smug thinking you are "a master of the universe" is blind indeed!
It's all very funny…. until it's not!
A wise Irish father once said to his son, "tis a limb of the devil….. so it is!".
This tech is different because every tech before could
1. Be manipulated by humans
2. Did not involve the complex world of intelligence mixed with mechanics
Also- humans are perfect because of vitality. Think about mortality and how it affects the way we live and grow through our lives.
Everyone in this chat seems to love Brett too much. LISTEN to the other 2 people… or get left behind.
This is extremely depressing
The red suit doesn''t know what he's talking about. AIs are not limited by what we teach them or how we train them, not even close. A while ago, an AI defeated the best human chess player, I believe it was Kasparov at the time, but, as the red suit said, that AI was just a more efficient player that basically used the same strategies and moves humans had taught it. And then a new AI was created that was just given the rules of chess and allowed to practice and learn on its own. Said AI not only ended up developing strategies and moves that humans hadn't thought of in thousands of year, it also destroyed, and I mean destroyed, the AI that had beaten Kasparov. Conclusion: this guy's understanding of Ais and what they can do is decades behind the times. God help us all if it's people like him who drive the development of AIs, jsut spouting positivity while completely ignorant of what is really happening..
I am all in favor of AI replacing teachers, provided it is not woke.
We are living in the biggest black swan event since the last mass extinction event and it is both incredibly fast, but amazingly slow since it is unfolding over years, if not decades. Just when this began is unclear, but the past few months are clearly a new phase.
Is that the villain from Cloudy with a chance of meatballs ?
This is a bit of fanboy fiction rather than a realistic take on AI and its potential.
I have elon musk for this, and he misses the target by miles
Replace shittube with all AI and see how they are doing!!!
Let’s replace them with AI and see where they go moving forward?
Mouts, there's an actual term for it….Barriers for Entry
Brett's always right,who controls the world now not the good guy's, red shirt should be removed from any influence he's part of the problem
We need an ai army to fight the ai army
Circle of friends lex luthor get it right.
The Biologist only care about Human. 😭
Take a poll of all the living human beings on this planet and ask them if they want AI to be part of our lives.
Very few do.
Who are the few who are forcing this onto us and why?
These are largely a few tech people who present what they've created to business who are fearful that, if they don't jump on the bandwagon, they will go out of business.
We, the consumers, are being drug along the way, to our own doom and obsolescence.
For the love of money is the root of all evil.
AI has become the outlier in the future of mankind as revealed in the Word of God.
Also predicted, the Beast's kingdom will be darkened… out of power.
Keeping my eyes open and on my Savior, Jesus Christ, who will return and eliminate the kingdoms of the earth, setting up His own.