I’m worried about the robots — hear me out
We’re rushing into a future where technology doesn’t just assist us, it risks redefining what it means to be human.
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Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra highlights his concerns with where technology is heading. Not just the usual grumbling about phones or apps, something deeper. Something that feels like it’s accelerating faster than any of us can process.
We all love our smart phones. It’s a practical tool: maps, banking, communicating with colleagues, taking photos for reporting. All immensely useful. Yet the part that’s useful takes maybe an hour a day. So why are we glued to it for six or eight? Why do we pick it up more than a hundred times a day? It’s become an unconscious tic and many of us grew up without this stuff. But now, entire generations now have never known life without a digital pacifier in their hands.
For thousands of years we built social lives in person: church, clubs, town halls, dinner tables. Now adults doom-scroll in silence while toddlers swipe iPads with the confidence of seasoned gamblers. COVID only made that shift more extreme. People were pushed indoors, pushed apart and pushed onto screens. We still don’t know the psychological cost of that mass experiment.
Add pornography, limitless, frictionless, accessible in seconds and it’s no surprise real relationships are collapsing. More sexual content than ever; less actual intimacy than ever. Fewer dates, fewer marriages, fewer families. And with housing increasingly unaffordable, how can young adults even attempt to build a life?
All of that was already bad enough. Then came AI.
AI “companions” now talk in whatever voice you choose. They flatter, they indulge, they escalate delusions. Psychology Today is already warning about 'AI psychosis,' where people begin treating chatbots as gods or lovers. Comedy sketches about AI girlfriends are funny because they are only barely jokes.
Combine that with the rise of robotics and things start looking dystopian. Elon Musk openly predicts a world where everyone has their own humanoid robot: millions of robotaxis, millions of domestic androids. And if history teaches us anything, the porn industry will jump on that the second it becomes viable.
What happens to young men, or young women, when robots become easier to date, easier to command, easier to live with than real humans? What happens to purpose, sacrifice, ambition, masculinity, femininity? We’re already addicted to screens. What happens when the screens start walking around?
There doesn't appear to be obvious answers to these profound questions. Just a growing unease as we watch technology amputate the very things that once made life meaningful.
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Dalyce McCue commented 2025-12-10 16:09:15 -0500I think if the WHO gets to take over the nation and the world, we won’t need to worry about robots. Their shots will take out more of the population. -
Dalyce McCue commented 2025-12-10 15:57:04 -0500Eventually he might smash his computer equipment and then wake up out of his stupor.
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Fran G commented 2025-12-09 19:07:40 -0500I agree with you Paul. Ezra, AI and Robots scare the hell out of me. I have never liked technology, there are much more harms than good.
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Carl Linletter commented 2025-12-09 12:36:40 -0500Ezra, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. The God of Israel and the Jews has different plans for the near future…and it doesn’t include robots. Let’s face it, one good Solar EMP and all the electronic gadgets we use will be all gone. Heck, even one good terrorist attack on the power grid and electricity will be gone for at least 2 years. See Daniel, Ezekiel, Zachariah and Revelation (and many other books of the Bible have other details).
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Paul Scofield commented 2025-12-08 21:37:11 -0500Having bought a pay-as-you-go cell phone back in 2012, it lasted about a month before I simply threw it in the trash. Do what you can analog: telephone, read a book, write a physical envelope-and-stamp letter, get outside and actually talk with a neighbor or someone new at the grocery store or the gym. Hell, maybe even crack open a dictionary or a map. As the world becomes more digital, things which are tactile will become increasingly important. FWIW.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-12-08 21:12:23 -0500Technology is just a tool. It can kill or cure. One thing I’d love is a robot Sheila Gunn Reid. Another is a self-driving car.
The dangerous thing about our modern age is that our imaginary lovers would appeal to base human desires. So swearing or violence to a computer doesn’t hurt somebody else but it hurts the abuser. It coarsens one’s soul. So we could end up with extremely violent humans misusing technology to hurt or kill other people. -
Susan Ashbrook commented 2025-12-08 21:06:26 -0500I’ll be interested in seeing what politicians do when they suddenly find out that “Net Zero” is an existential threat to life on Earth… no CO2, no plant growth, no food, no life. Too bad that that final knowledge will be fatal!
