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Updated · Fox News · Jun 23

Hugh Hewitt Urges AI Guardrails in 70-Year Race as 2026 Singularity Claims Intensify

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Updated · Fox News · Jun 23

Hugh Hewitt Urges AI Guardrails in 70-Year Race as 2026 Singularity Claims Intensify

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 23

Hugh Hewitt casts artificial intelligence as an urgent political crisis, arguing the technology needs guardrails before an accelerating arms race outruns human control.
A 2011 Charles Krauthammer column anchors his warning: advanced intelligence may destroy itself unless it is contained and disciplined, a lesson Hewitt applies directly to AI.
1956 marked AI’s formal emergence as a field, Hewitt notes, but after two AI winters he says money, power and military uses are now driving a far faster and riskier surge.
Elon Musk’s January posts declaring humanity has entered the Singularity and that 2026 will be its year underscore how quickly expectations are escalating.
Hewitt argues politics will decide the outcome, framing AI governance as a test of whether leaders can restrain transformative technology before it harms future generations.

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