Artificial intelligence has been sold as the next great leap forward for civilization, but what it’s really doing is draining our culture dry. Every creative field is in its crosshairs. Music, writing, film, art—entire industries built on human imagination are being handed over to machines that don’t care, don’t feel, and don’t believe in anything. Even an AI created song just rose to the top of the music charts. When everything from a pop song to a TV script is generated by a bot, will anyone be able to tell what’s real anymore?
Experts estimate that at least 25 million jobs will vanish in the next decade. Fast-food and retail workers are the first targets, but creative professionals are next. AI can already paint a picture, mimic a celebrity’s voice, and write a scene for Game of Thrones that sounds just convincing enough to fool fans, especially tourists. It’s the perfect tool for people who want culture without the people who actually create it. Disney Plus is even planning to start broadcasting AI created content from users.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon claim AI will shorten the workweek. Bill Gates goes even further, imagining a world where humans “may not be needed for most things.” He says it like that’s a progressive ideal. But what kind of progress replaces curiosity with clicks, teachers with tablets, and artists with algorithms? This is not a technological revolution; it’s cultural suicide dressed up as convenience and efficiency.
Our leaders seem completely uninterested in asking these questions. They treat AI like a shiny new toy instead of what it really is, a force that can hollow out the soul of a society that already struggles to define truth and beauty. Have you noticed how every classroom and newsfeed is already a blur of AI-produced noise? Are we really about to turn over art, education, and storytelling to the same systems that generate fake faces and cloned voices?
As Matt Walsh explains, the political world hasn’t drawn its battle lines yet. Nobody knows whether opposing AI is a liberal cause or a conservative one. But by the time the spin doctors figure out their talking points, the culture may already be gone. What does freedom of expression even mean when the expressions are no longer human?
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