The Tenpenny Files with Booker Scott

Something is moving faster than our laws. It is being trained in plain sight.

Booker Scott traces the rise of artificial intelligence through decades most people never noticed, long before the word became common in daily conversation. He speaks about systems that learned quietly inside laboratories, universities, and defense programs, gradually embedding themselves into education, finance, employment, and national security. The transformation did not arrive as an announcement. It settled into routines, platforms, and tools that now shape how information moves and how decisions are made.

He brings forward conversations that began more than a decade ago among technologists who were already thinking about rights for machines. He recounts a private discussion in 2014 with Martine Rothblatt, who warned that engineers were writing code to replicate human emotion, and that once machines could feel, love, and hurt, a legal reckoning would follow. The idea sounded distant at the time. Today, the assignment of personhood to entities built from silicon and circuitry no longer feels theoretical.

The conversation widens into the concept of Artificial General Intelligence and the attempt to recreate human consciousness without defining it. Philosophers and scientists have wrestled with that question for centuries. Corporations and governments now fund efforts to simulate it. The race accelerates while regulatory structures remain undefined, and the gap between technological capability and constitutional clarity grows larger.

Scott lays out his call for a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution, defining a human as one with unique DNA and reserving constitutional rights to that definition. He frames it as a guardrail for a century shaped by code, patents, satellites, and neural networks. He cites the absence of federal law addressing the most transformative force of this era and the silence that surrounds that absence.

Artificial intelligence is already altering the architecture of society. Education shifts. Employment restructures. Security recalibrates. Decisions once made by individuals migrate into systems few people understand. The question of who or what holds rights inside that environment does not wait for comfort.

This discussion is going to take you on a deep dive into the future of humanity and the legal lines that may define it.

Meet our Guest:

Booker Scott is a veteran broadcaster with more than three decades in media, hosting a nationally recognized program on America Out Loud for over three years with more than 600 shows and articles. His work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, and his Save Your Republic initiative mobilized conservative poll workers nationwide, drawing over two million unique visitors ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. With more than 180,000 followers on X and millions of monthly impressions, Scott now turns his focus to artificial intelligence and constitutional law in his book Fight For the Future of Humanity: Making the case for a 28th Amendment.

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