Glenn Beck quietly unveiled a surprising new project this week: an artificial intelligence incarnation of George Washington he’s calling George AI, showcased as part of a preview for his upcoming history initiative. The staged interview — part spectacle and part educational demo — showed the bot speaking about America’s problems in blunt, almost sermonic terms while Beck guided and edited the exchange.
Beck says George AI will live inside a platform named The Torch, operated by the Glenn and Tania Beck Foundation for American History, with an official launch scheduled for January 5, 2026. The stated mission is straightforward: use Beck’s massive privately assembled archive of founding documents to teach civics and preserve the sources of our liberty for future generations.
According to Beck’s team, the AI was trained exclusively on the writings of George Washington, other Founders, the books they read, and sermons from the era — even registering documents on a blockchain to resist tampering in a “digital vault.” That combination of old-school primary sources and modern tech is exactly the kind of fusion conservatives should be encouraging if we truly want to pass down the creed that made this country great.
In the clip, George AI delivers an unexpectedly stern diagnosis: the chief threat to the republic is moral decay, not merely partisan squabbling, urging discipline, faith, and character as prerequisites for freedom. Viewers noticed Beck frequently cutting in — even telling the bot to “dumb it down” — which underlined that this is Beck’s project and that the machine’s final message will reflect the editorial lens he chooses.
Unsurprisingly, the left-leaning media and internet mockers had a field day, calling the digital Washington “bizarre” and saying it sounds suspiciously like Beck himself. That reaction tells you everything: the left will sneer at any attempt to teach young people the Founders’ wisdom unless it conforms to their preferred narrative, so conservatives must keep building our own institutions.
Make no mistake, there are legitimate concerns about AI hubris, editing, and the risk of turning historical figures into mouthpieces for living media personalities. But conservatives should not reflexively hand victory to the cancel-culture elites who dominate academia and big tech; instead we should seize tools like this to restore civic literacy and counter the progressive re-writes of American history.
If this costs money — and Beck admitted the computing and curation won’t be cheap — then so be it: defending our story, teaching virtue, and arming the next generation with the Founders’ arguments is worth the investment. The real scandal would be letting the radical left continue to monopolize how history is taught while we stand by and complain.
