A Book Nobody On The Right Had Written Yet

When Wynton Hall pitched his new AI book, a publisher told him directly: "Nobody on the right side of the ball has even attempted an AI politics book, because it's such a huge thing to get your arms around."

Hall, Breitbart's social media director and a distinguished fellow at the Government Accountability Institute, has released Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI. It's a strategic briefing on AI policy — one that took this long to arrive from conservative publishers.

What Hall Is Actually Warning About

Hall identifies two concrete threats that deserve scrutiny regardless of your politics.

First: China. Over the next two years, according to Hall speaking on Breitbart's The Drill Down with host Eric Eggers, $5 trillion in investor cash will pour into the AI space globally. Hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying money is already flowing to shape — or kill — regulatory frameworks. Beijing has a stated national strategy to dominate AI by 2030, and it's using that technology for surveillance infrastructure that represents a significant shift from American civil liberties traditions.

Second: Cognitive offloading. Hall defines it as the erosion of critical thinking that happens when people outsource reasoning to AI systems. He told Peter Schweizer on a recent episode of The Drill Down that children without foundational logic and rhetoric skills — the classical trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric — will be "very susceptible" to intellectual dependency on AI outputs, including plagiarism. The issue cuts across ideological lines.

The Numbers Behind The Hype

Hall cites Anthropic's CEO, who has said we have roughly five years until AI eliminates half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Microsoft's head of AI reportedly believes it will happen faster.

Elon Musk has called AI "a supersonic tsunami headed toward humanity."

Those predictions come from the people building the systems.

Mainstream media coverage of AI tends to oscillate between enthusiasm and regulatory hand-wringing. A central question gets less attention: who controls what the AI tells you is true?

The inputs matter more than the outputs. Any AI system trained on biased data, or deliberately curated to reinforce specific political conclusions, becomes a propaganda engine at scale.

What Mainstream Coverage Is Missing

Left-leaning outlets covering AI tend to focus on bias within AI systems — racial bias, gender bias in hiring algorithms. Right-leaning outlets have the opposite pattern: they emphasize the China threat and surveillance angle, but less often examine domestic corporate concentration risk — the fact that a handful of American companies also control massive AI infrastructure.

Hall's book, based on available excerpts and interviews, appears to address both concerns.

The Event

On May 31 at 8 p.m. Eastern, Hall and Peter Schweizer — president of the Government Accountability Institute and author of The Invisible Coup — are scheduled to host a live online briefing for Breitbart Fight Club members titled "The Invisible War: AI, China, and the Battle for Global Control."

Schweizer's research on China and American elites reportedly led to an Oval Office briefing. His institute produced research that fed into Code Red.

The event is paywalled — members only, Middleweight tier, billed annually. The conversation itself is one that should be happening in public policy circles, not just conservative media.

The Core Argument

Hall's central claim: whoever controls AI's training data and output filters controls what billions of people think is factual. China wants that power. So do several American corporations. Neither outcome is acceptable.

The question is whether the people who should be governing AI are paying attention. So far, the answer is mostly no.