Joe Rogan thinks AI running the government would ‘stop all wars on the planet’
Podcaster Joe Rogan has offered his own take on the debate over artificial intelligence, saying he looks forward to the technology replacing humans in government and bringing an end to all wars.
“It sounds like a crazy hope but my hope is that as AI becomes more and more omnipresent, as we start farming off various tasks to it, one of the things that we’re gonna farm off is government,” Rogan said.
“One of the things we’re gonna farm off is how we interact with other countries. I know that’s terrifying to people but just think of the disastrous effects that we’ve had so far with humans doing it.
“If all international military conflicts ended instantaneously upon AI governing the use of conflicts and military weapons – imagine that.
“Imagine a war where it stops. All war stops on the planet. That is one of the things that everybody wants, but no one thinks could ever possibly happen.”
Anxiety over the potential existential threat posed by AI spiked last week after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon took to X to announce his resignation from the company.
He warned that those leading the sector were “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” without taking sufficient precautions.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon said. “This is not a marketing stunt.”
Anthropic’s AI safety lead, Evan Hubinger, responded to Coxon’s comments by agreeing with his principle concerns.
“Jacob is correct here – we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10 per cent within the next decade,” he wrote.
Dario Amodei, the company’s CEO, then published an essay entitled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” in which he warned the development of AI has been “advancing drastically faster” since the summer and that, within six to 12 months, it could be capable of commanding a “swarm” capable of taking over the internet.
Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have both agreed with Amodei’s call for an industry slowdown, greater regulation and international cooperation to ensure its controlled evolution.
The former said he had been “sounding the alarm on AI for a long time” and pointed to a 2014 social media post in which he wrote: “We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.”
The United Nations and former president Barack Obama are among those to have since echoed the opposition to its unchecked advance without having the proper guardrails in place, with even Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and MAGA strategist Steve Bannon coming together to express their disquiet.
President Donald Trump, however, was quick to provide a dissenting voice. He responded to Coxon’s warning by saying the only aspect of AI he feared was that Silicon Valley slowing down its laboratories would hand China a competitive advantage and allow the rival superpower to “win” the emerging sector.
On Monday, he took to Truth Social to fire out a series of posts on the subject in which he repeated his position, labelled the cautions a “hoax” and proclaimed: “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”
He also alleged that a “SICK conspiracy” of “Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers” was attempting to hold back the technology, without explaining to whom he was referring.
His posting immediately led to calls for his removal from office under the 25th Amendment and for Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff to accuse him of being “compromised” because of his family’s business interests in the field.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has since backed Trump’s stance, saying the sector does not need government interference and should be trusted to self-regulate, while Attorney General Todd Blanche claimed the debate has been stoked to influence the upcoming midterm elections.
