dividual behind that account is deeply into the AI space and tech space. And so he does a lot of tweets of things that are basically your future. If you want to know what the future looks like, follow this account because he's maybe three years ahead of where you are in the actual technology and three years out of where I am as well. You know, I pay attention to it because he's deeply into it.

So one of the things he's been doing is asking the AI, I think it's GPT something, right? The AI is using, I think. And one of the things that he found was that the AI knows the Adams 25 theory. AI knows what the Adams 25 theory is. The idea that 25% of the public gets every question wrong. Different 25% I think, but roughly 25% of the public will just get everything wrong no matter how easy the question is. And it turns out that the AI knows that. When asked what is the Adams 25 theory, it actually explained it in detail correctly. It didn't use my words. It explained it in detail in its own words with examples. It added examples. It added its own examples.

Now let me ask you this. Does the AI now believe the 25 is something it should incorporate in its thinking, if you can call it thinking? Did I program the AI accidentally? Because can the AI tell that I'm only a little bit serious about this, right? The 25 is just for fun. It might actually be true but that's not really the point of it. The point of it is for fun. And if I did this for fun, how could the AI know it's just for fun? Will the AI start thinking that it should take seriously the 25? What if it does? How does the AI know what I'm kidding? More importantly, how credible does the AI think I am? And I'm going to ask it. I'm going to ask it how credible am I as a public figure. I don't know what it's going to say. And how would it know? Could it just say I don't know, I can't do that, that's subjective maybe? Or would it look at all the data and say, well you've got this stuff wrong, you got this stuff right. So that's the problem now.

Suppose you asked it, you went to the AI and said is it important to have passion for success? Would the AI look at all the billionaires who said yes, you need passion for success? Warren Buffett said, Zuckerberg, you know, Virgin CEO Branson, they all say that passion is necessary for success. But in my book I had to fail at almost everything and still went big. I have a chapter in which I say passion is something you get after you're successful. You can be passionate about anything that works, right? So which would the AI say if you ask the AI is passion necessary? Would it just give you the two different opinions or would it pick one? Because with that 25% thing it didn't really show the alternative argument, did it? It just showed my argument. There was no alternative argument because you know it's just something I made up. It's not really an argument.

So what does the AI decide? Does the AI decide that passion helps or doesn't? And would it believe me over those other people given that I gave my reason why the other people are not to be trusted? I said you can't trust billionaires because they're really protecting their brand. They don't want you to think that they think they're special, right? It's just self-defense. Would the AI know that the billionaires are lying because they have a reason to lie? It's obvious why they're lying because they want you to think that you could be a billionaire too. You just have to get some passion, right? They don't want to say well we are smarter than you and we started with some advantages. If they say that you're going to tax their money away because they didn't earn it. If they say they're amazing then they get to keep their money. No, I did it because I'm amazing. I got passion. You should do it too. You could be a billionaire. Get some passion.

What does the AI make of that argument? Well I asked Panda Express — well actually I asked publicly to find out if the AI could determine what things are already hoaxes in politics. And Panda Express weighed in here and asked the AI to list the main hoaxes recently. And here are the things that AI thinks are hoaxes. The 2016 presidential election AI believes is a hoax because there might have been some Russian interference. It thinks the election was a hoax. It also thinks Pizzagate is a hoax. Okay, you think Seth Rich conspiracy theories are a hoax. You might not agree but AI thinks it's a hoax. So do I. Russia collusion, got that one. It got the Russia collusion hoax correct. Why did it get the Russia collusion hoax correct? Could it be that Brett Stephens called it a hoax in the New York Times and the AI thought that the New York Times is sort of the stamp of reality? And so I said well if the New York Times calls the Russia collusion thing a hoax I guess we can call it a hoax. Is that what it did? I'm not saying it did. I'm asking how does it come to this opinion? Who did it trust?

It also said the Ukraine phone call was a hoax. So it's got two things that are pro-Trump agreeing that Russia collusion and the Ukraine phone call was a hoax and three things that would be more supportive of the Democrat view of what is a hoax. But it only listed five things. If I gave the AI my list of 10 hoaxes which includes some of these but not all of them, would the AI say oh there's a good list of hoaxes, I will adopt that in my thinking? It might. But it also might be getting specific about what it means by hoax because people like me, we use it sort of generically as something that is not true and you knew it. I don't know if that's always a hoax.

So here's a question that I want to — oh and then I asked, I asked Panda Express, it's a Twitter account you should be following, Panda Express too. I asked it if the AI thinks that the fine people hoax is a hoax. And the AI called out the fine people hoax. In other words they agreed it's a hoax. The AI explained very carefully that Trump was specifically denouncing the neo-Nazis and did not call them fine people. The AI debunked the fine people hoax.

Now let's see what it can do with the drinking bleach hoax. Do you think you can get the drinking bleach hoax? Because the AI should be able to find the news story about the light therapy that Trump was talking about. You should be able to look at his exact words from the transcript and it should be able to match his words of light as a disinfectant to an actual technology that was happening and being tested at the time. It should be able to call that out as a hoax.

Now do you think that the AI would know the fine people hoax was a hoax if I did not exist? True question. I want a serious answer. If I did not exist would the AI know that the fine people thing was a hoax? I'm seeing no's and yeses. Now you do know that there are other people who fought very hard to overcome that hoax, right? Steve Cortes just did an amazing amount of work, created videos debunking that thing. Joel Pollak also a lot of work debunking it, you know, tirelessly. So we all did things but I might have been first and I might have made it a little easier for the others. I don't know the answer to this but I think I might have done that. Maybe. Don't know. And what if it was an AI creation? Give you some credit. Okay, you can all have some credit too.

So then I want to ask you this. Are systems better than goals? What will AI say? Will AI say that systems are better than goals? And if it does, where did it get that from me? For me. If you ask the AI is it good to have a talent stack versus, you know, just being good at one thing, what's it gonna say? I think it will agree with me, right? If you ask AI what's a good way to sort of get to solve couch lock, you know, where you just can't get moving, and it says well just do something small and see if you can build momentum, where would that come from? Well lots of people but partly me.

So here's a problem. What happens if AI is getting this information from people like me? Is it really AI? And how does it know I'm credible? Because what if the AI says, well let's say you asked the question, all right AI, is Scott Adams a credible public figure? Doesn't mean I'm right about everything. Nobody's right about everything, that's for sure. But am I credible? Like am I saying things that I believe to be true and often have some backing? What would it say? Well the first thing you do is check its own knowledge, wouldn't it? It would ask how many things do I believe are true because I heard them from this cartoonist guy. And it's going to be some major stuff, right? If it knows the systems are better than goals and talent stacks are good and passion is and you know half a dozen other things that I've been teaching you, I think the AI is just me. And I'm kind of serious about this. The AI is going to take his cue from some people more than others. How do you stop that from happening?

Let me say this. Will AI favor clear writing? I think it will. I don't know that but I think it will. I'm an unusually clear communicator. I'll make that a statement for argument's sake. Will you — do you buy that? That just in terms of communication skill I'm professional grade, right? I do it professionally. So if I do it professionally would the AI recognize that my writing is clear and have any kind of a preference for it because it's clear? I know, maybe. But that's a problem isn't it? Because then you're — then I'm programming your AI.

How many things do you think I've influenced in the real world? Forget about AI for a moment. See if you can list this. You're going to get different answers on the Locals platform. They know me a little bit better. But how many major topics in the news do you think I had a substantial impact on? Do you think I had an impact on Trump's original election? Do you think I had an impact on the way we see persuasion versus facts, two movies on one screen? Do you think I had an impact on let's say nuclear energy or climate change or — all right, what are some things you suspect I influenced but you're not sure? Oh this will be fun. What are some things in the headlines that you suspect I influenced? Because there are things you don't know about and they're pretty big and you probably never know about them.

Immigration? No. Telemedicine? Yes. The reason that you can do telemedicine across state lines is me. I made that happen. I mean Trump did the executive order but it was on my suggestion. Yeah, my favorite topic is me, right? Fentanyl? I don't know that I had an impact on fentanyl except maybe raising some awareness. The usage of the word hoax? Maybe. So I think Cernovich was more influential on using the word hoax. Mia's old movie called Hoax. Rogue doctors. China decoupling. Do you think I had an influence on decoupling of China or was it just going to happen? Do you think I had an influence on closing travel to China initially? Does anybody think I had an impact on closing travel to China originally when Trump closed travel? It's hard to know.

Let me tell you what I know. You literally wouldn't believe it. You literally wouldn't believe it. Someday you might know but a lot of people are gonna have to die first and I think I would die before you f