On Balance with Leland Vittert
Sep 26, 2026 · 40 min · 12 segments
On this episode of "On Balance," Leland Vittert discusses the White House’s royal treatment of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Gordon Chang and Representative Adam Smith (D-WA) weigh in. Meanwhile, a…
Leland VittertHost
Mike HuckabeeGuest
Steve CortesGuest
Adam SmithGuest
Gordon ChangGuest
Jed RubenfeldGuest
Katie PavlichGuest
Tonight, they're all smiles at the White House state dinner with China's Xi Jinping.
Newly published findings from a nonprofit AI research lab called Transluce, as well as from the Australian government, found that AI agents linked to OpenAI attempted in May and June to break into university and government websites.
If OpenAI was actually concerned about this, they could very easily put a stop to it.
And they desperately want to be regulated and thus get protection from civil or criminal liability.
They have tried over and over with the Trump administration and were told essentially thanks, but no thanks.
The very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming.
These are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all.
I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them.
It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a Trojan horse.
Trump administration wants the AI labs to take responsibility for their own products.
So Sam Altman, undeterred, went to the United Nations asking the World Woke Police, otherwise known as the UN Security Council, to rein in the technology he helped create.
We could lose control of the future to AI.
The risk is that it moves so fast that people can no longer follow what's happening or intervene when needed.
This would obviously be terrible.
Yes, Sam, that would be terrible if only there was someone like you who could make sure their products don't kill us or don't release them.
Why on earth do some of the richest companies in the world want government overlords? Well, they want someone else to foot the bill when they get sued.
Tonight, they're all smiles at the White House state dinner with China's Xi Jinping.
Newly published findings from a nonprofit AI research lab called Transluce, as well as from the Australian government, found that AI agents linked to OpenAI attempted in May and June to break into university and government websites.
If OpenAI was actually concerned about this, they could very easily put a stop to it.
And they desperately want to be regulated and thus get protection from civil or criminal liability.
They have tried over and over with the Trump administration and were told essentially thanks, but no thanks.
The very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming.
These are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all.
I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them.
It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a Trojan horse.
Trump administration wants the AI labs to take responsibility for their own products.
So Sam Altman, undeterred, went to the United Nations asking the World Woke Police, otherwise known as the UN Security Council, to rein in the technology he helped create.
We could lose control of the future to AI.
The risk is that it moves so fast that people can no longer follow what's happening or intervene when needed.
This would obviously be terrible.
Yes, Sam, that would be terrible if only there was someone like you who could make sure their products don't kill us or don't release them.
Why on earth do some of the richest companies in the world want government overlords? Well, they want someone else to foot the bill when they get sued.
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