Imagine waking up in the year 2030 to a world with only 100 million people. That's smaller than Japan's current population. My guest ... Author, Catholic and Self-Educated Philosopher Paul List joins us to dig into how AI might be reshaping our demographic future, the real concern about AI's impact on population trends, and what this means for humanity's trajectory. This isn't just science fiction. This is happening in real time. This technological disruption has already led to countries like Japan, South Korea, and China experiencing population declines, due to their ai controlled economy. There's research that shows that ai will impact mostly women and urban workers will see and are seeing their jobs overtaken and replaced by ai, thus leading to family collapse due to their inability to economically support families. But there's so much more. And our Guest Paul List joins us to discuss the Top 5 Ways AI is walking hand and hand with the depopulation movement, and what you can do about it. Paul is a Catholic, self-educated philosopher, and author of the cultural exposé Mount Doom, is sounding a warning siren not merely about technology—but about a civilizational drift into digital captivity. With a penetrating analysis of AI’s role in weakening human flourishing, List lays out five distinct pathways through which artificial intelligence is accelerating social decay and population collapse.

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