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MORNING GLORY: Is there anyone smart enough to put guardrails on AI?

Human intelligence gave us AI. Human wisdom must decide what comes next

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published June 23, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Charles Krauthammer wrote so many extraordinary columns that to single out one as the most impactful would be presumptuous, unless qualified to be a statement of personal taste. There are probably as many most impactful of his writings as there are readers of Charles over the decades. So, this is a nomination in the category of essay most likely to recur in the mind as events march on.

The Krauthammer column that returns to my mind again and again is one he wrote for The Washington Post on December 29, 2011, and which he included in his carefully curated first collection of writings, "Things That Matter," a column under the title "Are We Alone In The Universe?"

It is a mere 15 paragraphs, which are all packed with information about physicists and astronomy, the "Fermi Paradox" and the "Drake Equation." In those 800 words Charles posed the question of why "we have found no evidence — no signals, no radio waves — that intelligent life does exist" out there somewhere in the cosmos.

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Charles references authorities such as "Carl Sagan (among others) [who] thought the answer" for the lack of ET’s outreach was "the high probability that advanced civilizations destroy themselves."

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"In other words," Charles continued, "this silent universe is conveying not a flattering lesson about our uniqueness but a tragic story of our destiny."

"It is telling us,"........

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