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EPISODE · Feb 12, 2026 · 1 MIN

Our New Robot Overlords

from The American Mind Podcast · host The Claremont Institute

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.comKicking off the Roundtable’s premium interview series, our AI chatbot—sorry, host, Spencer Klavan is joined by Claremont Institute president Ryan Williams to discuss the strange symptom of late-stage modernity that is AI maximalism. The technology, which excels as a task manager and mathematician, lacks humanity—consciousness, morality, and soul. But its potential use as a tool to run government may prove painfully seductive to the modern mind, and equally disastrous.

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