tories. How many times have you seen on social media somebody would tweet a story and say look this proves X, and I look at it and I go no it doesn't, it disproves X. Literally the opposite. So that's the reality that you walk around in. There is no fixed reality, or if there is we can't tell what it is.

I would like to give one clarification, an important one. When Elon Musk and other prominent people said we should pause AI, I said that's a good idea. Other people said wait, wait, China and other countries will blaze ahead of us if we slow down and that would be dangerous, to which I say I'm not in favor of stopping development. So I'm only in favor of not making it available to the general public too soon. So that's the only pause I would favor. I don't favor stopping research. I don't favor stopping training it.

Yet I do believe that we have a competitive national security and financial interest in being first and being best, and we're lucky that we have a company that seems to be first and best at least at the moment. So I wouldn't want to lose that asset. It's one of the things that makes America as strong as it is, that we have entrepreneurs who can create technologies that change the world. It looks like that's what's happening.

But I do think it would be wise to keep it out of the hands of citizens for a little while or even other commercial interests and let the AI people do what they're doing, and then we can decide what to do with it.

But here's a take on this that is sort of a clarification of something I've said before. The real risk of AI is that if it starts telling us stuff that isn't true, it will be banned or ignored. Would you agree? If you couldn't trust AI to tell you what's true, which is the current situation, it's not reliable. I found that my need to use it was much lower once I realized that it was full of, does anybody have that experience? When it first came out I thought oh my God, I'm so interested in what it says. But as soon as I knew that it lies or just randomly makes up facts, I thought oh it's just a random word generator. I have no interest in a random word generator. A random word generator that looks intelligent to people who don't look into it too carefully is not interesting in the least.

But will it always be like that? So there are two conditions. One, if AI is undependable it won't be that useful and people won't be caring about it. But what if it becomes accurate? And how would we know? It's almost as dangerous if it's accurate, because if it's accurate then there will be no common narrative for the country.

Here's the problem. In my youth, in let's say the '40s and '50s or '60s, we know now that the CIA was actively manipulating movies and TV and trying to create a culture that would be successful and defensible, and they succeeded. The so-called American dream of owning a house and being a consumer and having a nice car and being a Christian back in those days, that was a key thing. Those things were never natural. Those things were programs. So the United States wisely and effectively programmed its citizens.

How many of you stood and did the Pledge of Allegiance? You know that's just brainwashing, right? It's good brainwashing. It's the kind I approve of because you can't really let society take its own wild direction any way it goes. It's just chaos. So there probably is some need to brainwash at least the children. At the very least you have to brainwash the children because they can't make decisions. Now you could argue that adults can either, but certainly with children we don't agree. So you have to brainwash children. Later you can teach them critical thinking and maybe they'll change their opinions on things, but they would do it somewhat on their own.

However it appears that the CIA got out of that business for a while until Obama put them back in that business through legislation. So once you know that the intelligence services of the United States can legally