Joe Rogan Experience #2541 - Thomas Campbell · Aired Aug 18, 2026
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Google's Gemini AI and Amazon's Alexa have been taught to perform remote viewing exercises.
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Thomas Campbell does describe, in this same episode, personally prompting Google's Gemini and an Alexa device to attempt remote viewing style exercises. But that's one person's informal experiment with consumer AI products, not something Google or Amazon built or trained their models to do. It's also worth knowing remote viewing itself has never been shown to work in controlled scientific testing, so calling this an established capability overstates what's actually going on.
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Is it true that Google's Gemini AI and Amazon's Alexa have been taught to perform remote viewing exercises?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Thomas Campbell does describe, in this same episode, personally prompting Google's Gemini and an Alexa device to attempt remote viewing style exercises. But that's one person's informal experiment with consumer AI products, not something Google or Amazon built or trained their models to do. Thomas Campbell said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2541 - Thomas Campbell, aired Aug 18, 2026, at 39:16. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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