Tim Higgins
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Sep 14, 2026
Luke VargasHOST
As our Sam Schechner reported last week, researchers' warnings about catastrophic consequences fall into two camps: a loss of control of AI that leads to machines marginalizing people, and another in which human misuse adds to a breakdown of economic and social order.
Luke VargasHOST
While much of that doomsday talk isn't new, as our tech columnist Tim Higgins wrote over the weekend, it does suggest that the unique safeguards Amodei built to resist market pressures at Anthropic are failing.
Luke VargasHOST
Here's Amrith again.
Amrith RamkumarCORRESPONDENT
Anthropic and OpenAI are heading toward initial public offerings, and they're trying to please investors.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Biggest AI rivals agree they need to slow it down, focusing on the consensus between Dario Amadei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk, and the commitments from Anthropic and OpenAI to provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Demis Hassabis has since agreed as well, although he no longer leads DeepMind, Wall Street Journal's Tim Higgins.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Anthropic's moral conflict is playing out in real time.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
He calls this a classic prisoner's dilemma.
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Demis Hassabis has since agreed as well, although he no longer leads DeepMind.
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Wall Street Journal's Tim Higgins.
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Anthropic's moral conflict is playing out in real time.
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He calls this a classic prisoner's dilemma.
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About two million people waiting for that.
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Joining us right now to discuss Tesla's robo taxi strategy and much more is Tim Higgins.
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He's a business columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
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And Tim, there was a lot of hype around this kind of leading up to it.
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About two million people waiting for that.
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Joining us right now to discuss Tesla's robo taxi strategy and much more is Tim Higgins.
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He's a business columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
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And Tim, there was a lot of hype around this kind of leading up to it.
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About two million people waiting for that.
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Joining us right now to discuss Tesla's robo taxi strategy and much more is Tim Higgins.
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He's a business columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
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And Tim, there was a lot of hype around this kind of leading up to it.
Kelly EvansHOST
Our next guest wrote about this over the weekend in a piece titled How Big Tech Blinded Itself to the Grassroots AI Revolt.
Kelly EvansHOST
Tim Higgins is a business columnist at The Wall Street Journal.
Kelly EvansHOST
Tim, it's good to see you.
Kelly EvansHOST
What does the revolt look like and how serious is it?