Conservative radio host Glenn Beck recently announced he’s launching a new AI project called The Torch that will give subscribers access to his “life’s work” along with an AI chatbot called George that will answer questions based on primary source documents from the time of the founding of the United States. The Torch doesn’t launch until January, but Beck dropped a preview on Monday of his AI bot, a modern-day George Washington, and it’s every bit as weird as you’d expect.

Beck’s version of George Washington is dressed in a black t-shirt and looks more like a guest on Joe Rogan than a founding father. But obviously that’s the goal—to make Washington relatable to an audience in the 21st century. The problem, of course, is that Washington’s answers seem to conform to Beck’s worldview rathe

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