Kim Iversen on AI lowering barriers to entry

What AI... really brings forward is the ability of the little guy to compete with the big guy.  And that's kind of what DeepSeek showed.  They're like, "We did this for a fraction of the money and we were able to compete with you."  AI, not just in the creation of your own AI, but even like you said with the creation of movies, for example.  The fact that a small team of creators can get together with like five people and create an incredible Hollywood blockbuster where normally that would take massive numbers of people, thousands of employees, millions upon millions of dollars to make a Hollywood blockbuster, and now that opens up to anybody to compete with these big businesses.

So the one really great change I see is that there seems to be a lot of monopolies in the United States with these big businesses.  They've dominated industries, it's hard for new people to break in, smaller companies to break in, and yet AI may be opening that path for anybody and everybody.  Much like the technology advancements that we experienced here with shows and broadcasting.  The fact that I'm able to do this and compete with mainstream news is incredible and even ten years ago wasn't even a real possibility, but now today it is.  The advancement is amazing.

Kim Iversen, "Are We Screwed? How China Outplayed the U.S. Overnight," The Kim Iverson Show, 14:40 mark, February 7, 2025

Kim Iversen on poking the Russian dog

The dog barked and barked and growled and growled.  People even pointed year after year that the dog is growling and dangerous, yet we kept taunting the dog, and now the dog is attacking.  And we're sitting here acting shocked, claiming there was no provocation on our end. 

~ Kim Iversen, "Kim Iversen: ”Ukraine Will Be Wrecked." OMINOUS Warnings Of NATO-Provoked War Given For DECADES," The Hill, 7:00 mark, March 2, 2022

Kim Iversen on the end of American hegemony

I do think this is about NATO expansion.  I think that's upset Putin.  I also think this was very planned.  And I think we are being very shortsighted thinking that this is just a Ukraine issue.  I don't think this is about Ukraine.  I think this is about American hegemony.  And the more we understand this: that is what they're taking on [Russia and China], we're already in World War III, be just don't realize it.  Hopefully it doesn't escalate to a nuclear war, but at this point they're taking us on.  That statement, if you read the whole statement that was put out by China and Russia on February 4th, it is ominous.  They're basically saying, "Your days are numbered, guys.  It's over." 

They then forge all these economic partnerships to one another and then suddenly Russia goes in and invades Ukraine, as if they were going to have a NATO vote tomorrow to bring them in?  They weren't.  There was nothing truly imminent about it.  Why did it happen?  Because I think these guys planned this out and thought this through and I think the U.S. dollar's been replaced.  We just don't realize it yet...

~ Kim Iversen, "Kim Iversen: Ukraine-Russia Is REALLY About The Demise Of US Hegemony, Petrodollar," The Hill, 15:00 mark, March 1, 2022