Sep 25, 2026 · 37 min · 14 segments
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Yeah, well, I will note that not all of the world's leaders are there because China's Xi Jinping did not go, though is now in the U.S. or I don't know if he's left at this point, but flew into D.C. to meet with Trump there, but did not go to New York and did not present at the U.N. General Assembly.
there's some very good photos that I've been seeing today of them hanging out together.
And I don't know if you remember the Obama, Xi Jinping, Winnie the Pooh episode.

And the fact that this is an interesting content moderation thing, which is that you're not really allowed to mention Winnie the Pooh in China on the Internet because of the comparisons between Xi and Winnie the Pooh.
Yeah, I was actually talking to a control speech listener about that content moderation issue.
And then I saw pictures of Trump and Xi Jinping together and I thought it's kind of happening again.
But kind of talk us through what you passed from all the noise about AI regulation and all of the different media reports that have come out of New York this week.

Yeah, obviously, as we've been discussing in the last few weeks, there's been a whole bunch of discussion about AI regulation.

I mean, this has been going on for quite some time, but it sort of felt like it was building to some sort of crescendo with all of the concerns about AI safety and everything and discussions about regulation and all this kind of stuff.

And you have all these world leaders together in one place, and you know there's going to be a topic of conversation.

And you had Donald Trump going up there and renaming AI suddenly it's super intelligence or as he said SI we should now refer to it as SI so first of all that's not going to happen as much as people dislike the term AI it is the term it is the term that is going to stick it is what everyone is used to there's no way to change that And it is sort of weird because one of the other announcements that he made is that he's launching an AI force, not an SI force.

But he's launching an AI force, which he is saying is modeled on his super successful launch of the Space Force as another branch of the military.

Yeah, well, I will note that not all of the world's leaders are there because China's Xi Jinping did not go, though is now in the U.S. or I don't know if he's left at this point, but flew into D.C. to meet with Trump there, but did not go to New York and did not present at the U.N. General Assembly.
there's some very good photos that I've been seeing today of them hanging out together.
And I don't know if you remember the Obama, Xi Jinping, Winnie the Pooh episode.

And the fact that this is an interesting content moderation thing, which is that you're not really allowed to mention Winnie the Pooh in China on the Internet because of the comparisons between Xi and Winnie the Pooh.
Yeah, I was actually talking to a control speech listener about that content moderation issue.
And then I saw pictures of Trump and Xi Jinping together and I thought it's kind of happening again.
But kind of talk us through what you passed from all the noise about AI regulation and all of the different media reports that have come out of New York this week.

Yeah, obviously, as we've been discussing in the last few weeks, there's been a whole bunch of discussion about AI regulation.

I mean, this has been going on for quite some time, but it sort of felt like it was building to some sort of crescendo with all of the concerns about AI safety and everything and discussions about regulation and all this kind of stuff.

And you have all these world leaders together in one place, and you know there's going to be a topic of conversation.

And you had Donald Trump going up there and renaming AI suddenly it's super intelligence or as he said SI we should now refer to it as SI so first of all that's not going to happen as much as people dislike the term AI it is the term it is the term that is going to stick it is what everyone is used to there's no way to change that And it is sort of weird because one of the other announcements that he made is that he's launching an AI force, not an SI force.

But he's launching an AI force, which he is saying is modeled on his super successful launch of the Space Force as another branch of the military.
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