It is a pleasure and a privilege to be here tonight among patriots, among friends, and in a seminal year for the Republic and the liberty that we cherish together, the 250th anniversary of our nation.
Our Founders aimed at the most difficult of tasks—to bring forth in this weary world a novus ordo seclorum, a new order for the ages—and they succeeded. We are its heirs and beneficiaries. We must ask ourselves tonight if we are prepared to perpetuate and safeguard what they gave us, what God has given us in this time of test and challenge, for we are confronting new questions of technology and science that will test our commitment to the great moral covenant that binds us together as a nation.
The decisions we must soon make about the most powerful technology of our lifetimes—the technology of artificial intelligence—are among the most difficult we have yet faced as a people. The decisions will go far beyond questions of economics or policy. They are questions of labor and the family, of freedom and the value of human life. They are fundamental questions of our identity. They are questions about the nature of this republic given to us by God, and they come to us at a moment when that republic is in signal danger.
Two generations of feckless policy in Washington have inflicted economic destruction on the middle class, deconstructionist lessons taught in the academy have all taken their toll, and they have torn the moral fabric of our national life. The greatest test of our age and the highest task of our time is to repair that fabric and reclaim the moral vision that binds us together as a people. AI is only the proving ground—our moral covenant is the heart of the matter.
Can we keep this republic under God?
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