how far we can get.

So does it seem to you that AI has turned into a race between building data centers and building power plants as fast as they can versus there's probably somebody in some garage somewhere who's inventing a way to do it without all that energy? Does that not seem obviously true to you?

Because when we're trying to predict what the future looks like, I cannot imagine that the AI companies are right that it will just take massive energy and more energy and if you want to get better you just need more energy. This seems far more likely that somebody's already inventing a way around that. So that's what I'm going to bet on.

But you know, Ron DeSantis, it turns out, is an AI skeptic and he said some interesting things. Politico is reporting on this. So he's interested in more regulation and doesn't want AI to use up all the energy, etc. So he's a little skeptical about its value.

And he put a really interesting slant on this, sort of a religious slant I hadn't heard before. He says we have to reject with every fiber of our being the idea of this transhumanist strain that would be the robots and the AI that somehow this is going to supplant humans and this other stuff. We have to reject that with every fiber of our being.

Here's the interesting part. He says we as individual human beings are the ones that are endowed by God with certain unalienable rights and all that. They did not endow machines or computers with those.

So here's my provocative question. What's going to happen to your view of free will when computers and robots obviously have it?

So if I said to you define free will, and I've had this conversation a million times, you say well it's the ability to make a choice. And I would say well AI can make a choice. So does it have free will?

And then you would say no, no, because if a computer does it, it's just programmed. And you know, there's no choice. Only one thing could happen.

But what happens when you can't figure out why the AI did what it did, which is actually the current situation? So you won't be able to trace back any kind of cause and effect. It's going to look like the AI had choices exactly like a human did and it picked one.

So will your belief in free will disappear? Beca