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Two Drinks With. . . Steve Bannon’s ‘Transhumanist Editor’ 67%
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7/10/2026, 8:59:28 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service and Indoctrination, with Slippery Slope as the most egregious example at 29.1% saturation with 77 hits. Analysis detected 145 faulty-reasoning hits from 265 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 64% and a BS Rank of 67% (4,576 of 13,766 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 66.80% of the article peer group.
Joe Allen’s been touring the country with Humans First.
(All photos by Alyssa Schukar for The Free Press )
The anti-AI activist says he is “proudly” in the tradition of the Satanic Panic—and that it’s everyone’s job to save America from our AI-slop future.
07.10.26 — Two Drinks
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Over a plate of spaghetti Bolognese and a carafe of the house red, Joe Allen tells me what might happen when artificial intelligence surpasses the capabilities of humanity.
“Someone—Thomas Massie, or Bernie Sanders—ends up taking the fucking longevity injection,” says Allen, 46, an anti-AI activist who’s railed against the technology for years, most prominently as the “transhumanist editor” for Steve Bannon’s popular War Room podcast.
“He lives forever, but he becomes a Luddite, and he just completely shuts down the entire economy . . . and then China takes over, and we’re all speaking Mandarin and eating noodles.”
Allen adds, “I don’t think that’s gonna happen,” but hey—anything can happen.
Another option, he muses between sips of wine, is that we will end up in a Matrix -style hellscape, where humans are made subservient not to the Chinese Communist Party but to a class of sentient computers who survey and control our every move.
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