Dan Bongino argues that artificial intelligence, if developed safely and honestly, could dramatically weaken the influence of liberal universities and media organizations by changing how Americans learn and how quickly political claims can be checked.

Bongino began by stressing that safety has to remain the first priority.

"But if AI is done safely, artificial intelligence-if it's done safely-that is numero uno, number one. Correct? We all agree. If it's not safe, I don't want it. Okay," Bongino said.

If those safety concerns can be addressed, Bongino said the technology could fundamentally disrupt institutions he believes have helped sustain liberal political influence.

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"If it's done safely, it is absolutely going to decimate the liberal intelligentsia in our university systems that dominate our university systems and pump out generations of liberals, which will fracture the entire movement and the NGO movement. It will also destroy the liberal media," Bongino said.

His argument is that increasingly capable AI systems could give people the ability to check information almost instantly instead of depending on traditional media outlets or manually searching through pages of online results.

"You're just not going to be able to lie anymore going forward if AI is honest. You're not going to be able to do it. There is simply no chance going forward," Bongino said.

He acknowledged that the technology is not yet at that point, but predicted that AI could eventually function like a vast real-time fact-checking system.

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"We're years away. It's not today or tomorrow. You're going to have effectively, if you're on X, a massive community note system everywhere where things can be fact-checked in milliseconds that you would have to look up on Google, which would sideline Republican pages for 20 pages in," Bongino said.

Bongino specifically predicted that AI systems could rapidly challenge political narratives involving policing, healthcare, and other major issues.

"You're going to see in live time Gemini and other things if it's done accurately, just destroy liberal narratives about police randomly murdering unarmed black men in the streets, Obamacare, government-run healthcare," he said.

He then turned to higher education, citing what he described as a Harvard study comparing AI-assisted learning with traditional classroom instruction.

"There's just a study that came out. This account, you see, the Superman X. It's a real study. So they put AI at Harvard. They did an experiment pitting an AI agent against their own Harvard's top tier classrooms," Bongino said.

According to Bongino, the results showed a major advantage for students using AI.

"Well, note this: the AI didn't just win; it embarrassed the institution. Students using the AI learn more than twice as much as the students in the elite Harvard classroom. They scored 30% higher on the final assessment and did it in less time, folks," he said.

Bongino argued that results like those could put pressure on universities charging students enormous tuition bills.

"I'm just saying, man. I'm just telling you, it is the chance of these liberal institutions charging students $100,000 a year to indoctrinate them and try to teach them things that AI can teach them in less time and make them smarter. It's finished. The monopoly is over. It's done," Bongino said.

He made a similar prediction about the media, arguing that AI could make it more difficult to sustain political narratives over long periods without immediate scrutiny.

"It's also going to destroy the media with an ongoing community note system that is going to effectively stop Russia collusion hoax and impeachment hoax narratives in live time," Bongino said.

At the same time, Bongino acknowledged concerns that AI systems themselves could be biased or manipulated.

"We just got to do it right, and to show you too that I know a lot of people out there are saying, "Hey, these AI liberal companies are going to corrupt it. That's a possibility. I'm not discounting that," Bongino said.

His response is that market competition could punish AI companies whose products are perceived as politically biased or unreliable.

"You can't tell the AI shows liberal bias because nobody's going to use it. You can do it, but your product's going to be trash. They're just going to go to Grok or somewhere else where Elon wouldn't allow that, and they don't want that. They don't want to lose market share," he said.

Bongino argued that AI is fundamentally different from older search engines because users will expect direct answers rather than lists of links that can be reordered or buried.

"AI is not like search engine optimization. You can't just bury a result on page 20 about Obamacare or the Russia hoax and make it go away," Bongino said.

He also suggested that companies could face serious consequences if defective AI systems produce harmful results.

"If you ask AI to lie and the agent does something bad, you'll probably be sued as a result of your faulty algorithm, and it could be catastrophic. AI is far more powerful than the early search engines. You can't teach it to lie," Bongino said.

Bongino ultimately returned to his broader argument that universities and media organizations have been two of the most important institutions sustaining liberal political influence.

"Going forward, there are two places that have I would argue to you, the cancer of liberalism, the fertilizer for this cancer on this body politic, have been liberal universities and the media. No question about it," Bongino said.

He predicted that advances in AI could make it increasingly difficult for both institutions to maintain their current influence.

"You're going to see things like that over and over again that are going to make it over time. We're a couple of years away from this. Really difficult for these two institutions to exist."

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