Eric Eggers

I hope you'll tune in.

Our good pal Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute will be here all week long.

But don't worry, I'll return the following Monday.

So again, just wanted you to know, we'll be taking a little vacation for a week, but keep watching Real America.

So a question for the Trump administration, are these concerns valid? And if so, what are you doing to stop it? I know President Trump had all those techie CEOs there, and they said they're gonna kinda self-govern and make sure we don't build too fast, and that AI doesn't take over too quickly Uh, this concerns me.

So joining me now to discuss all this, he's the vice president of research at the Government Accountability Institute, and the co-host of the Drill Down podcast with Peter Schweizer, our good pal, Eric Eggers, back on the program.

All right, Eric, um, let me start on that one before we back up to the bot farms being hit by Ukraine over the weekend, and just talk about Anthropic, who, by the way, their CEO is one of the guys raising the most alarm bells over the last few months about AI, and he was there along President Trump and the rest of those techie guys a, a week or so ago.

Um-

Eric, real quick, a programming note for all the viewers.

Next week, my wife and I will be celebrating our wedding anniversary.

We're going to Hawaii for a full week, and Mr. Eric Eggers will be filling in the chair for that week.

So Take it easy on him.

But what about the money that's flowing into those campaigns? There's some shocking new revelations about foreign money leaking into campaigns and how some of the fundraisers don't really care where it's coming from.

The host of this program, of course, is Eric Eggers.

Eric, how are you?

I want to be very clear.

So like that to me is the point, not that we should be trying to, we shouldn't be trying to queer any narrative, but what do I know? I'm certainly not a priest.

No, listen, you know, one thing I will tell this audience is that Eric Eggers is, In Bible study, he and I both started reading the Bible.

I was reading it for the first time and he was in the word and we were, you know, doing the whole Bible in a year thing to understand what God's word was to the best of our ability, not to modernize it, not to put it through some sort of filter of the modern lens.

It just was to truly try to understand and read the book.

So we hope you've enjoyed this edition of Sound Bites.

I'm Linda McLaughlin.

He is Eric Eggers, at Eric underscore Eggers.

And I just want to point out that even though we're not in public, we both have pants on.

Is it called the Drill Down Podcast? He's the co-host of that.

It is Eric Eggers.

Eric, how you doing, brother?

I'm great.

It is called The Drilldown with Peter Schweitzer.

Some people would say The Drilldown with Peter Schweitzer and Eric Eggers, but I'm very excited to be here, and I can't wait to tell you some interesting biographical detail about me, Dan, that Riley gets wrong in next week's episode.

Hey, man.

See, now, he was listening.

But is that actually true? And what are the main issues? issues that are going to be discussed.

We're going to unpack that today with Eric Eggers, who is wearing a red tie.

I think that might signify some sympathies.

I don't know if that's the American flag or the PRC flag, but very important summit, very interesting in terms of the conventional wisdom.

He's also co-host of The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer Podcast.

Happy to have Eric Eggers back with us.

Eric.

Let's talk.

I just want to drill down into what you're really thinking here.

So, Eric, always good to have you on, my friend.

Co-host again, Eric Eggers, co-host of the Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer podcast.

Always good having you on.