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Sep 16, 2026 · 2 hr 27 min · 17 segments
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Remember last night how we talked about AI is going to kill us all? Apparently, it's a big topic of conversation on the Hill as of today.
This afternoon's most essential question, well, it's actually about AI and whether or not we are at a moment of reckoning, of consequence, good or bad.
The most essential question as it relates to this issue, which has exploded into public consciousness over the last 48, 72 hours, is that one.
Are we ready? Are our elected leaders ready? And what can we do if they're not? First, consider the way one of the most electric politicians in our country right now, Georgia Senator John Ossoff, torched Donald Trump this weekend for being AWOL on AI.
This week, we were warned again of existential risk to the human species.
Did you see it? And what fills us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times.
Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the new intelligence they're creating risks human extinction.
Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom.
An ancient establishment barely capable of email sleepwalks into a technological revolution while the president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying.
See, a capable president would move swiftly to secure and reassure the American people, rush inspectors into frontier labs, fortify the nation against bioterrorism, demand legislation from Congress, and lead the world toward an AI treaty.
But President Trump is compromised.
But when it comes to public awareness of all this...
We could draw a parallel, a recent one.
Days of March 2020, when in the blink of an eye, we went from sort of being vaguely aware of this thing called the novel coronavirus to suddenly mid-March seeing an NBA game canceled moments before tip-off, watching world leaders meeting and worrying and planning seemingly overnight.
The issue was abruptly top of mind for a whole lot of people.
In similar rapid-fire fashion over the course of the last week, a researcher for one of the biggest AI companies in the world, Anthropic, resigned and then insisted that competing industry leaders were advancing too fast and that the technology could soon break from their control.
Another top scientist at a company estimated that the odds were greater than 10% that AI would kill all human beings within the next decade.
What? AND THEN IN A 3800-WORD ESSAY, ANTHROPICS COFOUNDER DARIO AMADE ADVOCATED FOR A GLOBAL SLOWDOWN IN HIS OWN INDUSTRY.
Now, not only that, in short order, his company's most advanced competitors agreed.
They signed on, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, think chat GPT.
Recently, OpenAI was at the center of a frightening security breach that went undetected for weeks.
One of its own programs let itself into the systems of another company without anyone knowing about it.
Remember last night how we talked about AI is going to kill us all? Apparently, it's a big topic of conversation on the Hill as of today.
This afternoon's most essential question, well, it's actually about AI and whether or not we are at a moment of reckoning, of consequence, good or bad.
The most essential question as it relates to this issue, which has exploded into public consciousness over the last 48, 72 hours, is that one.
Are we ready? Are our elected leaders ready? And what can we do if they're not? First, consider the way one of the most electric politicians in our country right now, Georgia Senator John Ossoff, torched Donald Trump this weekend for being AWOL on AI.
This week, we were warned again of existential risk to the human species.
Did you see it? And what fills us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times.
Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the new intelligence they're creating risks human extinction.
Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom.
An ancient establishment barely capable of email sleepwalks into a technological revolution while the president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying.
See, a capable president would move swiftly to secure and reassure the American people, rush inspectors into frontier labs, fortify the nation against bioterrorism, demand legislation from Congress, and lead the world toward an AI treaty.
But President Trump is compromised.
But when it comes to public awareness of all this...
We could draw a parallel, a recent one.
Days of March 2020, when in the blink of an eye, we went from sort of being vaguely aware of this thing called the novel coronavirus to suddenly mid-March seeing an NBA game canceled moments before tip-off, watching world leaders meeting and worrying and planning seemingly overnight.
The issue was abruptly top of mind for a whole lot of people.
In similar rapid-fire fashion over the course of the last week, a researcher for one of the biggest AI companies in the world, Anthropic, resigned and then insisted that competing industry leaders were advancing too fast and that the technology could soon break from their control.
Another top scientist at a company estimated that the odds were greater than 10% that AI would kill all human beings within the next decade.
What? AND THEN IN A 3800-WORD ESSAY, ANTHROPICS COFOUNDER DARIO AMADE ADVOCATED FOR A GLOBAL SLOWDOWN IN HIS OWN INDUSTRY.
Now, not only that, in short order, his company's most advanced competitors agreed.
They signed on, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, think chat GPT.
Recently, OpenAI was at the center of a frightening security breach that went undetected for weeks.
One of its own programs let itself into the systems of another company without anyone knowing about it.
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