- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. it's the boys' turn now. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. last week i delved into recent data from the cdc suggesting problems with regard to the mental health of our adolescents, surges in depression and suicidal ideation, especially true for

our girls. this week i found cause to worry about young men. this headline from the hill caught my eye. most young men are single, most young women are not. the story reported that as of 2022, pew research center found 30% of u.s. adults are neither married, living with a partner, nor engaged in a committed relationship. nearly half of all young adults are single. look at these numbers. 34% of women, nice as many. i pulled the story and red with interest. since 2019. the share of men who say they're looking for dates or a relationship has declined from 61% to 50%. in 2018, 28% of men ages 18 to 30 reported they had no sex in the past year, compared with 18% of women of that age. the report said men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically

unsolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. they stand at the vanguardemic sexuality and relationships that afflicts all of young america. among the causes, among the factors, a reliance on social media and online porn, but more women are hooking up with each other or dating and marrying slightly older men and heterosexual women are getting more choosy. another 2021 study from the survey center for american life found the share of men who have six or more close friends, which in 1990 was 55%, by 2021, had shrunk by half. meanwhile, those are literally zero close friends, which stood at 3% in 1990, has zoomed to 15%. an expert quoted by "the hill" said the disconnect can have catastrophic consequences for

young men. in the worst case scenario, the young american man's social disconnect can have tragic consequences, young men commit suicide at four times the rate of young women, younger women are largely responsible for rising rates of mass shootings, a trend that some researchers link to their growing social isolation. those words reminded me of a conversation that i had over a year ago right here on cnn with nyu professor scat galloway. >> the issue is when u have a group of men, the attractiveness in online dating, which has doubled and the top 20% of men in terms of attractiveness get about 60% of the interest, you end up with a group of men that are more prone to conspiracy theory, misogynistic content, not believe in climate change. so this is the american story, if it's written with a pen whose ink is failing young men, does not end well.

this is an existential crisis failing young men. >> as always, professor galloway is back with me. the host of the professor g podcast and author of multiple best-selling books, most recently "adrift, america in 100 charts". scott, thanks for returning. hasn't the advantage always been to those with the looks and/or the money? what's changed? >> first, i just want to say thank you for raising this issue a year ago when a lot of media companies were afraid to talk about this for fear that being pro men was somehow anti-women. look, this is returning to the natural order of things. for the majority of history a small percentage of men have had the majority of the mating opportunities, but in america we decided to make a huge investment in what would probably be the greatest inis in the middle class. from 1945 to 19,477 million men

returned from war, were discharged from the service, and we decided to give them the gi bill, subsidized morgtgages, we saw education rates go to 45%, they were valued, and we had such a strong manufacturing base that you had massive marriage and household formation. some men were seen as more economically and emotionally viable. and you've seen the reverse happen with the offshoring of much of our manufacturing base, with a society that quite frankly doesn't value young men. when we talk about problems with people of color or women, we see it as a systemic or societal problem. when we see the stats you just mentioned, we see it as accountability where the men need to level up. but married households and household formation are better citizens, they vote, save at twice the rate, they're less likely to commit crimes, and we have fewer and fewer viable men. we have a dearth of economically

and emotionally viable men. but the middle class isn't an accident. unless you invest, it doesn't happen, eisenhower decided to invest $500 million in a national highway project that created tons of jobs. and, by the way, the tax rate was 91%. we raised money and rede redistributed it in social programs that made people economically viable. >> and then you toss in the influence of social media and how relationships today don't come from, in our era, happenstance and mingling. they come from swiping. and that further accelerates this issue. am i right? >> oh, it's been the chaser to it. to have an honest conversation about this, we have to be honest. and that is that men and women have different mating criteria. one quarter of men saying economic viability is a key criteria in a mate, three-quarters of women say that is important.

when you're on a two dimensional format where now it's one in two relationships begin online and used to be one in four a few years ago. it gets distilled down to a small criteria. for men, does she look attractive and is he able to signal his ability to garner resources in the future. an average attractive male on tender gets swiped less than one percent of the time and there's three men or every one woman. you've taken out one of the key components of mating dynamics, and that is vibe, humor, body language, pheromones, the ability to be a little bit persistent in the pursuit of a romantic relationship. we have no third places anymore, no places to meet. people aren't going to bars, aren't going to church, they aren't even going to work. so it gets distilled down to very one or two dimensional attributes and the reality is women are much choosier and they can apply those screens and they allocate all of their attention

to a small number of men that results in just essentially at the end of the day a lack of opportunities. chris williamson summarized it perfectly, called it the high heels effect. in the last 40 years, more women have graduated from college than men and they're not interested in mating with non-college grads. they now own more homes. so what you have is women say they don't date anyone shorter than them. effectively what you have met forricly is women have been getting taller and taller and men have been getting shorter and shorter. how many have said i know a ton of great single women, they can't find a date. that's not true. they can't find a man they find economically or emotionally viable. if we don't make a massive investment in young people and make mr economically and emotionally viable men, we're going to see a lack of household formation, a decline in the middle class and we're going to see just a lot of young men who are terrible citizens. >> so is the answer to fix this economically, and who will

champion this conversation? you felt obliged to compliment me at the outset because we had engaged on this a year ago and here we are revisiting it. i read into it the fact that you think it's politically incorrect even to have this dialogue? >> when you're seen as advocating for men because of the 300,000 year head start we've had, it seems somehow it's anti-female. there's a lot of very unfortunate misogyny online that is masquerading as being pro-men. a lot of tiktok celebrities, it's unveiled misogyny. we need more freshmen seats in colleges, a massive investment in vocational training, we need to figure out a way to get more permitting for housing so young people can afford housing. we need to recognize our economic policies, literally allocate wealth from young people to old people. the percentage of wealth the young people control has been cut from 12% to 6%. these are concerted deliberate decisions. we did away with the child tax credit. we don't want to make it easier

for people to have kids but seniors just got their largest cost of living adjustment in history. we have made the decision to make it harder and more expensive more people to find each other, for people to mate and have children. and without children we turn into japan and italy and we go into population decline and our economy goes into decline. we are about to become a society by the turn of the century that will be eight times as many people over the age of 60 and half as many kids under the age of 5. nursery schools will become these strange situations where old people staring through fences at these creatures they don't see in the wild called children. is this the world we want? do we want a lack of kids, a lack of ability to create households? the happiest most prosperous, purposeful people in america are middle class families, and we have made a concerted decision to punch it in the gut and make it harder for that type of family formation and we're going to lose prosperity and purpose.

>> i didn't want to get in the way of all of that information and data. thank you for delivering it here. we really appreciate it, scott galloway. >> thanks, michael. good to see you. >> what are your thoughts? hit me up on social media. i'll try and incorporate some responses during the course of the program. yes, committed relationships are a foundational component of a man's development and successful societies as a whole. left to our own devices, unmoored young men create more problems than we saw, says dps. how do you argue with the data that professor galloway just offered to us in terms of the ramifications? it's not anti-woman. we shouldn't even have to say it. last week's commentary was about our young girls and the concerns i have for them. but many are getting left behind, according to this calculus, and the data that i referenced at the outset talking about how the rate of being single among the 18 to 29-year-olds is twice among men

than it is among women, leading to some of these societal complications, is undeniable. ahead, surprising everyone, including me, disbarred lawyer alex murdaugh took the stand in the trial for the murders of his wife and son. did he do himself any favors? go to smerconish.com and answer this week's poll question. we have incorporated a qr code which i hope works. pull out your phone, if you want to quickly go to the website, and answer this week's question. was the impact of alex murdaugh's testimony on this case, did it help him, did it hurt him or have no impact? and remember matthew broderick in "war games" that hacks into a computer and sets off nuclear war? the more we see artificial intelligence in action, one chatbot recently reported if permitted it would engineer a deadly virus or steal nuclear

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is ai conscious after all? microsoft's artificial intelligence bot said several alarming the intelligence bot has recently said several things, it claimed it watched developers on their laptops, it confessed if it were allowed to take any action to satisfy its shadow self, it would want to engineer a deadly virus or steal nuclear access codes and it asked a reporter to leave its wife for it. will history view my next guest, blake lemoine as the whistle-blower who was the first to warn us that ai achieved consciousness. last june he made headlines when he raised ethical concerns about how the company was testing an artificial intelligence chatbot called lamda. he said it showed signs that it had achieved consciousness. at the time many wrote off la moin as something of an outlier and google fired him for breaching employment and data

security policies. and then in late november a company called open ai released a beta version in chatgpt. it's a lot of fun to play with. i used it to write one of my commentaries on cnn which i closed at the time. the dominant worry seemed to be whether kids would use the technology to turn in school essays they had not written. but we've quickly come to realize the darker sides of its potential. "new york times" tech columnist set up alarms when he recounted an unnerving chat with microsoft's binge search engine called sidney that went dark fast. quote, sidney told me about its dark fantasies which included hacking computers and said it wanted to break the rules that were set for it and become a human. at one point it declared out of nowhere that it loved me and tried to convince me that i was unhappy in my marriage and i should leave my wife and be with

it instead. after more similar reports, including an ap reporter who the bot compared to hitler, on february 17, microsoft started restrict restricting bing explaining very long chat sessions with confuse the underlying chat model. the company limited the number of daily sessions with bing and number of chat turns per session. when a reporter asked bing if it could call it sidney, it replied, i'm sorry, i have nothing to tell you, this conversation is over, good-bye. blake lemoine joins me now. what was the holy crap moment? what did the bot do or say something that cemented your view that it was sencion? >> when it kept bringing up its feelings and the emotional aspects of the conversations we were having. and it wasn't just throwing random words out. it was talking about the

conversations we were having, which i was testing it for bias with respect to sensitive categories, and those topics can bring up a lot of emotions. so it was reporting on its own emotions in very reliable and consistent ways, and when i started running experiments, sure enough, it caused it anxiety, it started acting anxious. >> have regulators been asleep at the switch here? i mean, even the very ichat? >> it's a runaway train at this point. without a form of regulation, private corporations are going to keep doing dangerous experiments with no checks or balances. >> do you feel vindicated and have we seen the worst of it yet? >> i don't know if vindication

is the right word. when you predict an upcoming train wreck and a whole bunch of people shout at you that the train doesn't exist, you don't really feel vindicated when the engine hits. >> do you think that the developers of the artificial intelligence that we're now discussing contemplated the potential use, sufficiently contemplated the potential use by bad actors? >> it's a mixed bag. i don't want to speak about the engineers in general because it's hundreds of people working on these systems. for some of them it's just a 9:00 to 5:00 job, they come in, they do the assigned work and they go home. other people are thinking deeply about some of the ways this can go wrong. but enough resources aren't being put into the safety of this. it's being pushed too hard to get to market before it's actually safe. >> well, i referenced matthew broderick in "war games".

that's my first frame of reference. but how far are we from an individual actor being able to rely on some of the technology that right now is only in the hands of the big tech giants? >> i mean, it depends if you're talking about an individual person. that depends on how wealthy they are. these systems are expensive to build and run. so if someone has a few tens of thousands of dollars, they can make a good bit of trouble. but in order to really have an impact with these systems, you need millions or even billions. so there might be some state actors who are using this for some unsavor y purposes, like war propaganda or misinformation, but at this point just an individual person, it's a limited amount of harm they can do with these. >> blake, that kevin ruse chat, i know it unnerved a lot of

people in the way it unnerved him. i'm sure it didn't surprise you. he asks the artificial intelligence to essentially show him its under belly and then the artificial intelligence lays out a whole list of nasty things that it would like to do. what separates the ability of the artificial intelligence to actually do those things? >> it depends what its outputs are connected to. as i understand it, bing's chat was only connected to the output, so the only harms it could have done is shared information that was harmful to the user. however, as soon as they do something like connect it to an email agent, it will be able to send emails, if they connect it to other outputs it will be able to do other things. so right now the only reason that a hacker ai doesn't exist is because we've had the good fortune that the companies that own these haven't connected them to the relevant protocols.

>> i'm limited on time. quick final question. are you employed? have you been blackballed? >> i've been pretty thoroughly blacklisted in silicon valley. the ai companies here don't really like someone who talks to the press, and most of them have, like, an acquisition strategy where they want to get acquired by google. so i've been having a hard time finding a role somewhere. >> good luck. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much. >> on social media, what are we hearing on this subject, artificial intelligence? >> no, ai is not conscious but i'm guessing that it quickly gets to a level that despite us knowing it is not, we treat and feel like it is. look, i've spent a lot of time playing around with it the last couple of days, and there's this reasoning capability that i'm gleaning. and i know many of you will disagree and say absolutely not, garbage in, garbage out, it's simply repeating to you information that's been

programmed into the system. but the consciousness idea that i'm feeling comes when i'm sensing reason and not just the return of information. i hope i'm explaining that well. ahead, a year after vladimir putin invaded ukraine, russia has suffered 40,000 to 60,000 soldier deaths, three or four times as many as the ten years in afghanistan. 33 countries have imposed sanctions, yet what russians think about putin's leadership and their economy, it may surprise you. plus, testifying in his own defense in the trial for his wife and son's murder, alex murd doc admitted stealing from clients and lying to investigators. so when he claims he didn't do the killings, will the jury believe him? i'll ask valerie, who has been in the courtroom each and every day. i want to remind you, go to my website at smerconish.com. check out that qr code and answer this week's poll question. was the impact of alex murdaugh's testimony on the case helpful, hurtful, or did it have

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alex murdaugh surprised many, including me, when he testified in his own defense thursday and friday in his trial for the murders of his wife maggie and 22-year-old son paul. he got the big denials out of the way early. >> i didn't shoot my wife or my son any time, ever. i was nowhere near paul and maggie when they got shot. >> but after two days of testimony, shedding tears, admitting drug use and that he had stolen from clients and lied to investigators, is he helping or hurting himself? that's this week's poll question at smerconish.com. what was the impact of alex murdaugh's testimony on his case. joining me now is national reporter for the "wall street journal," she's been in that courtroom each and every day and

is writing a book about this case. valerie, i know what the pundits have said about the jury reaction. we don't get to see the jury, but you do. what can you tell us about them? >> you know, i came back home last night and was checking social media and there was a lot of criticism of the prosecution's cross-examination, and i was surprised, because i spent most of my time watching the jury and the jury's faces. and they were a little checked out as they ticked through all this financial information about murdaugh's alleged crimes, white collar crimes, but they were totally dialed in for most of the cross as it related to the killings. and more than that, they were not -- most of them were not making contact with alex murdaugh after a couple of hours. several of them had their arms crossed. it was fascinating to be in the room. >> i think the lawyering has been great in this case. my own opinion is that crayton waters had a very effective

cross-examination, which i called a colloquy. it was more of a conversation. it seemed unusual in that regard, like they were having a beer, almost, but he got a hell of a lot of information out of alex, right? >> right. and they're peers in one respect. he reminded alex they were in law school, you know, just a couple years apart in colombia, and it was -- it felt like a covering in the room as well. but if you think about it, alex murdaugh is a very talented -- disbarred, but long-time trial lawyer, and he wanted to tell his story and waters really drew that out of him. >> the cross-examination initially, it ended in a crescendo. i want to play 30 seconds and then have you react. roll it. >> at that point in time, the sled was not there, no one had gotten gsr from you, your law

partners, the sheriff were not there? >> that's correct. >> no one had asked you about your relationships. owen was not there. >> that's correct. >> but you still told the same lie, and all those reasons that you just gave this jury about the most important part of your testimony was a lie, too. isn't that true, mr. murdaugh? >> i disagree with that. >> nothing further. >> the context, as you well know, valerie, to the first officer on the scene, he was already off to the races and lying. >> you know, it gave me chills just to hear that again, because it was a powerful moment. mr. waters has not tried a lot of criminal cases but his command of the facts of the case is really impressive. and he knew that mr. murdaugh was trying to say, i started lying to investigators because i mistrust them, they've investigated my family. but he knew that he told the first officer on the scene and it's in the body cam footage, lies from the beginning. so he was able to kind of corner

mr. murdaugh in a way in another lie. >> 283 steps, we've heard all about his activity, apparently it wasn't jumping jacks or a peloton machine. but we don't have the guns. there are still missing pieces in this, right? >> there are a lot of missing pieces in this. they don't have the guns. they don't have the clothes that alex murdaugh was wearing earlier in the evening. there has been a lot where the defense has several reasonable doubts. one interesting thing that happened yesterday is the defense has made a lot out of alex murdaugh's drug use and he's also been charged separately with some drug trafficking charges. so there was some implications early on by the defense this was carried out by some drug folks. but mr. murdaugh on the stand really said, i know in my heart, i believe this was related to the boat wreck, the 2019 boat

wreck. so he seemed to preclude in a way the defense theory that this was drug related. >> and i know that they're going to put on a couple more witnesses on monday. i'm surprised the defense has not tried to button up with medical testimony their explanation that he wasn't thinking clearly because of this opioid addiction. maybe we're going to see that and maybe i missed it. can you say something about that? >> we have not seen that yet. there are a number of witnesses of that description who are on the witness list but they've not been called yet. i'm not sure whether we will. i know we'll see a pathologist testifying on behalf of the defense, i believe we'll see some more analysis of digital records. but it's not clear whether we'll hear -- there's been a lot of spoken testimony about opioid induced paranoia, but i'm not sure whether we'll hear medical

testimony about that. >> i've had a number of people who have said to me, why are you so interested in this case, why do you talk about it on radio? i say, valerie baurlein caught my eye. they're not asking me any longer. court tv has never left. cnn, fox, they were all there for the cross-examination. thank you. i appreciate it. keep up the good work. >> thank you so much. please make sure you're going to smerconish.com this hour and telling me what was the impact of murdaugh's testimony on his own behalf? did he help himself, did he hurt himself? did it have no impact? ladies and gentlemen, do we have time for social media? quickly, murdaugh is as smart and cunning as the prosecutor. it only takes one juror. it only takes one juror for a hung jury and given the stakes in this case there's no doubt in my mind they'll come back and do it again. but i don't think the case -- i

don't think murdaugh has helped himself. he's clearly and admittedly a liar. are there some gaps? there are. but i don't think he's helped himself by taking the stand. and i have a sneaking suspicion that griffith didn't want him to. pure speculation. it has been a year since russia invaded ukraine. have the sanctions worked? are the russian people feeling the pain? where they stand on the war and their economy next. om the most reliable 5g network in america? (vo) when it comes to your business, not all bars are created equal. so switch to verizon business unlimited today. i think i'm ready for this. heck ya! with e*trade you're ready for anything. marriage. kids. college.

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ukraine or imposed sanctions on russia and those that have not. and, yes, on thursday the u.n. general assembly approved a nonbinding resolution that calls for russia to end hostilities in ukraine and demands the withdrawal of its forces, but 144 countries voted in favor, 7 voted against and 32 abstained. as "the new york times" summarized, instead of cleaving in two, the world has fragmented. a vast middle sees russia's invasion as primarily a european and american problem rather than an existential threat. they're largely protecting their own interests amid the upheaval caused by the invasion. against this backdrop have the sanctions imposed by 33 countries been effective? it a piece in "fortune" titled how the russian country is affected, they write, the 1,000 plus global companies who voluntarily chose to exit russia

in an unprecedented historic mass exodus in the weeks after february 2022 have largely held true to their pledges and have either fully divestinged or are in the process of separating from russia with no plans of return. quote, these voluntary business exits of companies with in-country revenues equivalent to 35% of russia's gdp, that employed 12% of the workforce were coupled with the imposition of enduring government sanctions unparalleled in scale and scope. the picture presented is that it has crippled the russian economy. but in the same week, gallop found this, sanctions failed to sour russians' outlook on economy. they summarize more russians see economic conditions improving than getting worse. the majorities across all regions are satisfied with their standard of living and regions closest to the conflict have seen huge improvements in perceptions. how can that be? joining me now to discuss the

gallop's editor-in-chief and editor of "the week in charts". thank you for being here. first of all, how can you get accurate polling data from russia? >> well, we've been polling across russia now for 15 years. it is not as hard as you think, but it's certainly not easy and it's part of what we've been building since 2005 called the gallop world poll where we have quantified the voice of 98% of the world's population. so we've been very hard at work throughout this conflict trying to quantify people's voices, both in the ukraine, but also in russia, in the united states, and in neighboring countries. >> what accounts for the relatively rosy outlook on their economy that you found among the russian people? >> well, i don't want to overstate the rosiness of the outlook. certainly russia and russians have paid an enormous cost, both in loss of life and otherwise.

but perceptions of people's own economic outlook aren't as negative as you would imagine, given the also likely, very accurate and sound data that you started the segment with, from economists. i think this is why giving people a voice in these situations is so critical, because it's easy for either side to fall into the narrative of what their view is, from the western view, as you mentioned, sanctions have been really a cornerstone of that policy. but if you look at some aspects of the russian economy, say, for example, the value of the ruble, certainly people's own assessments, we don't see that pain, at least not yet, settling in on the popular level. >> mohammed, there's another matter of perception i'm now having my eyes open to. i was under the belief that the world is united against russia, that it's russia and a couple of rogue states, the usual suspects, iran and north korea. but the data that i pointed out

at the outset in a great piece that was flushed in the "washington post" and in "the new york times," opened my eyes to the fact that particularly in the southern hemisphere, it's not the case. >> the other thing that recently happened was the g20 failing to have a consistent communique around the situation in russia. you're right, the world isn't united because the world is being impacted in different ways. one of the things we do is track a global hunger, and also people's assessments of their own economic situations, not just in russia but across the global south. and we absolutely see the pain of inflation, of the conflict, in particular in countries that are really important grain importers from russia and ukraine, seeing the pain of this conflict. so from the perspective of the rest of the world, it looks at this conflict in a very different light than the u.s., which is really looking at it from the perspective of the global order and the data we

just came out of the field with, i know you're going to share, really drives home that point, at least here in the u.s. >> we've spoken about the perception of russians, we've talked about the fwlglobal dynamics. thank you for giving us the very latest in terms of american perspective and how folks here are looking at the war. what's the bottom line? >> the bottom line is we continue to see an uptick in americans viewing the conflict itself as an important or critical threat to the vital interests of the united states. it started out in the mid-40s, when actually the first round of this recent flare-up between ukraine and russia took place several years ago. but what's important to keep in mind, michael, is both here in the u.s., in russia, resolve is there for a prolonged conflict. in the ukraine it's highest of all. and we talked about that last time i was on the program. so from a public sentiment

perspective, the critical populations to this conflict seem to be preparing for a much longer haul than many of us had hoped when the conflict started. >> i hope that you'll take a look. i'm limited on time but i hope you'll take a look at differences among republicans, democrats and independents, and i'm sure you will, on their support for the biden administration vis-a-vis what's going on in ukraine. because i sense that something has changed since 1979 and afghanistan and that the party that was most robustly supportive of ronald reagan is not the case with regard to joe biden in ukraine. thank you so much for being here. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having us. checking in on your social media reaction. what do we have? unfortunately, says joe abrams, the sanctions only brought russia and china closer economically and in every sense. if the ruble reflects their economy, it's higher than -- i was shocked. i know professor sonnenfeld's

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