Dr. Jordan's lecture intervenes in the ongoing debate about the utility and social function of artificial intelligence. It explores the implications of AI as both a communication technology and an epistemological praxis, applying the lenses of democratic theory and the ritual view of communication. The argument centers on how we are cultivating dependency on machines that cannot think or know, thereby abandoning democratic epistemology and deliberative meaning-making. Instead, we embrace the chains of efficiency imposed by the hegemonic forces of transnational capital.