yeah so as far as my perspective on Trump goes it tends to do with the view it tends to uh revolve around the view that he is a businessman at heart and that the focus of his um political style I guess is deal making um and you know I wrote a lot um in my book about uh Trump's Mentor uh Roy con who was um among other things The General Counsel to McCarthy uh during the McCarthy hearings he was also you know a New York City lawyer uh that represented a lot of unsavory figures including
some tied to organized crime and also had the ear of Ronald Reagan and TP politicians the United States and sort of bridged um a variety of Worlds and he uh very much essentially taught Trump the art of the deal as it were and you know a lot of his close con's close Associates like the pope family for example uh were very politically connected also connected to organized crime arguably um but we're very much in the business of uh making back room deals uh and that that's how you know power uh political power in the United
States functions um and so you know fundamentally I think uh a lot of what um Trump likes to focus on and promote about his political style is um around negotiations whether those are diplomatic negotiations or negotiations with businessmen that lead to uh big number Investments he can tout uh to the public which is you know I think part of the impetus behind his uh having the project Stargate press conference you know at the White House on his first full day uh you know at at at his second term and I think that was all that's
also kind of consistent with what we saw from Trump during his first term um as well so when you're sort of focused on those metrics I don't necessarily think um that the focus is necessarily on how do I help uh how do I help everyday so um I'm sure that you know in his mind well I don't really necessarily want to speak for him uh but if you're you know of the opinion that I'm going to tout this big multi-million dollar investment in US AI infrastructure for for example uh perhaps he view he views that
as helpful for the American economy and thus helpful for the American people and I think it is very likely that over the next four years there certainly will be some Americans that economically benefit uh you know from Trump's Economic Policy but I don't necessarily think that's going to be um everybody and I think you know generally um based on what we've seen so far there's been a lot of courting um of big Tech Executives and and a lot of talk about making the US the AI and crypto Capital um of the world um and how
much of that is necessarily going to translate or trickle down to sort of refer to you know reaganite e economic terms um you know to the everyday American public um it's really hard to know uh but again you know I just want to go back to someone like Eric Schmidt for example who as I noted earlier had sort of an outsized role in developing the AI policy of the military and intelligence Community uh he wrote a book called the age of AI with a with Henry Kissinger and also I believe a professor from MIT who
I'm sorry His Name Escapes me um at the moment but basically that book posited that essentially AI is going to make a two-tiered society there's going to be the top tier of people who develop and maintain Ai and set and determine what its objective functions are and then sort of a a second class who uh which we would assume is larger than the first class so they don't explicitly say that uh but who AI acts upon and eventually that that group uh will lose the ability to un to understand and really be able to conceive
of um how how AI is impacting their uh impacting their lives and will develop some sort of dependency on AI for things like decision-making sort of leading uh to this phenomena they refer to in the book is cognitive diminishment which I sort of see as this idea of um you know we've all heard it before if you don't use it you lose it sort of the idea of like Mental Math you start using a calculator or a phone calculator or something like that and it becomes more difficult over time and eventually very difficult to be
able to do uh mental math in your head when perhaps when you were in grade school it was much easier to do that because you were sort of you had to use that ability regularly and so they sort they essentially argue that by not making those decisions and Outsourcing that uh to AI this particular class uh will lose the ability to make those decisions over time and when you also factor in uh that there's a lot of effort to sort of Outsource creativity art and music to artificial intelligence will that have an impact on people's
ability uh to create and what sort of impact will this have on society and you know these are things that I think sort of get left out of the public discussion and I don't think they're really on someone like Trump's radar as a businessman he's focused on sort of the bottom line the number uh the success of the negotiation and how successful it it looks frankly whether it's to his base or to businessman he wants to court um or you know other people foreign leaders you know um and you know I I I I'll I'll
stop there I guess now that was great uh so how do you feel when you hear about AI creating this two-tier system I certainly don't think that's positive I think it's sort of the technocratic model that we discussed earlier where you sort of have an elite class that sort of set um you know the system that will micromanage the masses at the end of the day I mean they don't explicitly say that um in the book but if you're familiar with someone like Henry Kissinger for example and some of his more controversial views um on
on the masses and the public and some of his more Infamous quotes you know I mean uh is that a system that he um wants to have happen I don't really know he's dead and so no one can ask him but um I think it is kind of disturbing um in a sense that someone what are some of his more Infamous quotes I I'm not I'm not super familiar with KRA I know who he is but I couldn't quote him well he created a national security memorandum for example that viewed uh people that live in
the third world birth rates and and you know in the global South as National Security threats to the United States um and wanted to uh Implement policies to reduce uh their population size um for example and sort of had what I would argue as eugenicist bent to some of his policies um and he was one of the mentors of course to people that have become infamous in recent years like the world economic Forum chairman CLA Schwab um and um you know some of his more Infamous quotes that he's known for refer to you know soldiers
uh being you know Pawns of foreign policy essentially sort of like you know people's lives or just you know pwns on a chessboard for the sort of the elite figures to move around you know for for their benefit that's sort of the mentality as I see it um of someone like him but obviously he's been you know praised as a model Statesman and all of this stuff and has uh mentored Trump and his first Administration mentored Hillary Clinton you know people on both sides of the aisle um and but I personally um you know I
think the more you look into someone like that in his connections with sort of dubious oligarchs like David Rockefeller going you know significantly back in time um you know he's sort of someone that uh promotes this idea of of a global technocracy
