Overtime – Episode #719: Jonathan Haidt, Stephanie Ruhle, H.R. McMaster
2/17/202613 min
Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 2/13/26)
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H.R. McMaster· Guest0:28
[upbeat music] Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series, Real Time with Bill Maher.
Bill Maher· Host0:36
[audience cheering] All right, here we are with a social psychologist and the bestselling author of The Anxious Generation and The Amazing Generation, Jonathan Haidt. Former National Security Advisor, host of the podcast, Today's Battlegrounds, former Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, and the host of MSNBC's The Eleventh Hour, Stephanie Ruhle. [audience cheering] Uh, okay, here are the questions from the people. Uh, panel, are we at an AI tipping point? Well, I don't know. I read this week that there's a new generation of, uh... First of all, the new generations of AI seem to come faster and faster. I, I don't know, uh, this is not my area, but it was basically saying it's gotten to the point where it's writing the code for itself. Is this, is this a real thing that-- I mean, I'm sure it's really happening. Is this a real tipping point?
Jonathan Haidt· Guest1:26
Oh, yeah. I mean, any technology that we're told is increasing on an exponential