What Happens When Humans Stop Thinking

An AI boyfriend that proposes, comforts you on command, and never challenges you sounds like science fiction until you realize it is already normal for thousands of people. We start with the uncomfortable question: what happens to human relationships when a chatbot can simulate affection, affirmation, and “commitment” for a monthly subscription? I walk through what I’m seeing online, why it’s spreading, and why outsourcing your emotional life to artificial intelligence is a shortcut that doesn’t end in human flourishing.From there, we zoom out to the practical fallout of AI dependence: students using AI to write papers, universities using AI to police AI, and a growing sense that we’re trading competence for convenience. Then the show turns to major Texas news, including the Houston-area clinics case involving Maria Rojas and a Texas appellate court decision that reverses a temporary injunction as litigation continues. It raises the same issue many Texans keep circling back to: how “illegal” is something if enforcement is slow, procedural, and easy to evade?In the second hour, Charles Blaine from Urban Reform joins me for a fast local recap on Houston and Harris County: new bodies found in bayous, a widening budget deficit, the Toro District controversy and a ballot-language ruling, the ICE shooting case with a witness temporarily blocked from deportation, and a probation decision that turns into a fresh crime spree. We also dig into a “Humans First” anti-AI data center push facing questions about progressive organizing connections, plus a lighter political read with the Three Brothers Bakery cookie poll for the Ken Paxton versus James Talarico race, and we close with the McKinney mosque project moving forward under existing zoning despite neighborhood pushback.************************************************Listen every day to our strong conservative programs on Patriot Talk 920 AM.  Tune-in on your radio in Houston to KYST 920 AM or download our app by visiting 920app.com or search for "Patriot Talk 920" from your app store!