Guardrails: The AI Watchdog Pod
Oct 2, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
**Rep. Chip Roy** joins host Randan Steinhauser to discuss the growing risks of AI, mass surveillance, and unchecked technological power. They explore concerns around **Flock cameras** and the…
Chip RoyGuestRandan SteinhauserHostAnd at the Alliance for Secure AI, we actually launched a coalition of multi-faith leaders from across the country to talk about just that.
One of the issues that we hear coming out of Silicon Valley is the idea of transhumanism.
There's a real tension with our theological thinking as it relates to human beings created in the image of God, right? We were given dominion over the earth, but all of a sudden there's a conversation about this technology allowing humans to live in perpetuity, to be digital gods.
And I think it's something that, again, we often focus on the here and the now.
But there are these existential questions that I think we as believers and as Americans have to grapple with as well.
Well, and don't discount the extent to which that is underlying, whether they even know it or not.
If you are a believer and you believe that God created this planet and that, as you said, he gave us dominion over the planet, and we're essentially yielding that and turning that over— to things beyond our control, then the average American, average Texan people that I know are saying, this is just wrong.
That's what I, that's why I worry about the buying people off because there'll be a lot of principal people who will still say it's just wrong.
And at the Alliance for Secure AI, we actually launched a coalition of multi-faith leaders from across the country to talk about just that.
One of the issues that we hear coming out of Silicon Valley is the idea of transhumanism.
There's a real tension with our theological thinking as it relates to human beings created in the image of God, right? We were given dominion over the earth, but all of a sudden there's a conversation about this technology allowing humans to live in perpetuity, to be digital gods.
And I think it's something that, again, we often focus on the here and the now.
But there are these existential questions that I think we as believers and as Americans have to grapple with as well.
Well, and don't discount the extent to which that is underlying, whether they even know it or not.
If you are a believer and you believe that God created this planet and that, as you said, he gave us dominion over the planet, and we're essentially yielding that and turning that over— to things beyond our control, then the average American, average Texan people that I know are saying, this is just wrong.
That's what I, that's why I worry about the buying people off because there'll be a lot of principal people who will still say it's just wrong.
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