AI Developers Sound Alarms & Did We Know 9/11 Would Happen? | 9.14.26

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That's where Rogue Open AI agents broke out of an isolated test area, secured access to the internet, and then launched an enormous unauthorized cyber attack on a competitor. That grabbed headlines, but the real turning point came last week when Jacob Coxon, a researcher with anthropic and open AI, publicly quit his job, giving up equity in the company, and then issued a statement saying AI companies, including his own, are, quote, "gambling with our lives." He then offered this chilling warning, "This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible, but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger." And if you think that he is potentially exaggerating for clicks, listen to this response from a high-ranking data scientist still employed by anthropic, quote, "Jacob is correct here. We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans. I personally think it is a better than 10% chance within the next decade. I believe in anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track too." Elsewhere, the company's current scalable oversight lead, that's another scientist there, said quote, "AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction. This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are. Again, that is a current anthropic employee." Yeah, and greater than 10% I know that turned a lot of heads. Now, we've seen these calls, you know, for pauses on AI growing in the last week. What sort of response have we seen? Yeah, this really opened the floodgates. We saw inthropic CEO Dario Amade post an essay calling for the AI breaks to be applied, writing quote, "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models to quote, reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong." He added that his company would "provide third-party evaluators with permanent employee level access to our systems so they can verify adherence to our safety measures." Again, that is the current CEO. From there, Elon Musk publicly said that he agreed with his longtime competitor, and then we saw Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, go a step further, saying the world is quote, "entering a realm of extremely capable models and a high stake and a need to get things right." He endorsed an AI slowdown, going as far as announcing that his company would be delaying its long-awaited IPO. In his words, "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don't feel pressure on that." AI skeptics lauded the move from these industry leaders, but it's worth pointing out. There are plenty of people who say that their motives are far from altruistic. Yeah, expand on that. What are they suspecting? So anytime you've got an industry where literally trillions of dollars are on the line, you know, it's worth being skeptical of almost everything you hear. Some folks in the industry believe Musk, Altman, and others working at the big boys in the AI space are intentionally trying to drum up fear because they would theoretically benefit from stiff regulations in Washington. The idea would be that in a Wild West scenario with little oversight, anyone could rise up their ranks and then reap the rewards that come with innovation. Skeptics say that red tape from Washington often benefits the biggest tech companies because, unlike their smaller competitors, they have the money to employ lobbyists who can help craft legislation in their favor, and they can afford enormous compliance departments to help them navigate the regulations that would follow. There is no denying that OpenAI and Anthropic have been burning through cash as well. Critics say that they've started to hit a wall when it comes to scaling, and right now that they're using safety concerns as a bigger excuse to pump the brakes, and more broadly, again, avoid going public, which obviously would require opening up their books. To that point, we saw David Sachs, famed investor and advisor to President Trump, accused OpenAI and Anthropic of trying to use AI safety fears as a means of, quote, "forming a cartel." He added, quote, "Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of slowing down will look like blackmail of the public and the political system." So now we wait to see how Washington responds. We've already seen lawmakers in both parties. Mainly on the left, but someone on the right call for Congress to immediately respond with new oversight legislation, one that is circulating right now on the hill, is pushing for the House to, quote, "return to Washington immediately and remain in session until Congress advances meaningful bipartisan AI safeguards." So expect to hear a lot about this on Capitol Hill all week and long, long after. All right, a very interesting timeline we're living in. Cab, thanks for reporting. Absolutely. This episode is sponsored by Brickhouse Nutrition. Trying to lose weight can get complicated very quickly. 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Pretty normal question, but of course this is President Trump, so he gave a headline-making answer, which was, he's urging Zelensky and the Ukrainians to stop bombing Russian fuel and specifically diesel manufacturing and processing plants. Now, the President's rationale was pretty solid, and he said this in his answer. He said, "This is hurting the world." That's a quote. And, you know, the obvious of the context here is that with the continued war in Iran, the continued shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz gas prices in the United States and around the world are climbing, oil just hit 100 barrels the other day, or $100 of barrel the other day. As we have less access to oil from Iran and coming through Middle Eastern nations through the Strait of Hormuz, things like Russian and Ukrainian, you know, Eastern European oil and petroleum products and diesel products are more important. So, a reasonable, you know, the President was not necessarily saying as some of the headlines suggested that he's calling on Zelensky to end hostilities because he thinks the Ukrainians are in the wrong or he thinks that Zelensky is overstepped. It was very narrowly tailored, very specific to the fuel crisis, which, again, is also interesting because, as we've discussed on this show, the President has made very clear that he does not think of the Iran War as a midterm issue, at least not in so far as in the sense that he wants to stop the Iran War before the midterms to get gas prices down to help Republicans. This is sort of the first that we've heard him make a plea or kind of acknowledge the fact that gas prices are rising so much in a very long time. And I think the timing is perhaps not entirely coincidental considering the fact that he, like most of us, spent all of last week in Dallas and thinking about the upcoming midterm elections. Now, speaking of Dallas, we just wrapped up the first ever midterm RNC you were there on the ground. Do you think that it will tip the scales one way or the other? Yeah, it's a great question. It's the question that everyone's been asking. And, you know, I don't think anyone's really come to an answer for a couple of reasons. One is, as you pointed out, Georgia, we've never done this before, right? Usually conventions are these big celebratory things that happen at the end of presidential campaigns right before general elections. They're kind of like coronations. They're kind of like rallies. The mood in Dallas was electric. It felt like one big campaign rally. It felt like a smaller version of a presidential nominating convention. Of course, with the one difference being that no one's won anything yet. So, I mean, look, I think that Republicans brought in money for this, right? The president, of course, pretty famously at this point is sitting on a lot of money that he has yet to distribute to midterm candidates. Although, as I keep saying, it's a long time until November. There's still plenty of time for the president to spend this money if he wants. And so, I think that we will see some positive follow-on effects from the convention, whether that is in terms of increased fundraising, increased voter turnout, increased voter excitement, and also increased candidate excitement, right? I think we forget sometimes, especially those of us who cover this for a living. This is a hard thing, right? When you've been out there campaigning for a year plus, these candidates are going to exhaust it, especially those of them that are in very high profile, close races, especially in a year like this, where the margins in both houses are so slim that any Republican could feasibly be the Republican who loses the majority. So, I think that, you know, three days in Texas coming together, seeing that a huge chunk of the American voting block still supports you, seeing that you're fellow members of Congress, the president, the vice president, folks like that support you, I think it could really gas people up in the coming days. Now, will any of this be enough to help repub any individual Republican clinch their race or help the GOP as a whole maintain or build their majorities in both houses? That we won't know until much closer to, if not after, the actual election. But contrary to a lot of the doomers out there, I do think that in the long run, we'll decide we'll see that the RNC convention was good for candidates. I will just 52 days out now, and I'm sure you're glad to be back in D.C. after that really busy week in Dallas. Thanks so much for joining us anytime, guys. In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the CIA has released 71 of the president's daily intelligence briefings. The briefs contain new details about warnings the U.S. had leading up to the 2001 attacks. Here to discuss the content of those briefings is former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams. Sarah, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. So these new 9/11 files came out Friday, and you've since written a report on them for the daily wire that says these files show that I want to quote this, "America heard the warning and missed the war." That really turned my head, I know. Break that down for us. What warning did the U.S. get before 9/11? Yeah, the key warnings came in 1998. It was July and August where they really were confident that Bill Lawton wanted to attack the U.S. and then it was September 10, 1998, where for the first time they heard about this plot to maybe use explosive-laden airlines to do it. So that's at least where some of the pieces came together, but as you know, for a long time, we viewed terrorism through a certain lens. So when you say an airplane, people think hijacking, and it's hard to get beyond that and to think differently and to believe that your enemy is evolving in that way. Now, did the U.S. have sufficient information to prevent the tragedy or what could they have done with that information? Yeah, I think they had a lot of pieces to where they likely could have thwarted parts of it, could we say they would stop all 19 to 20 individuals. I don't know if we could say that's so easy to armchair quarterback, but I'm not sure we had the best centralized system to say we're going to screen for this and then we're going to implement it fast enough. Now, we did make a lot of mistakes. First off, not considering increasing airport security, but second, there wasn't even the thought of let's kind of tabletop this, you know, can you use planes as bombs? All those type of things weren't done. And when you're not focused on that, you're not going and collecting. So we weren't looking at who might be taking flight training, right? Who has been reported in these suspicious activities and airports? And so a lot of information was also missed that you're never going to see in these files. Now, the last time we talked, you mentioned we're nearing the end of the prison sentences for many American citizens arrested on terror charges. Do you think another attack is coming? And if so, how can we best prepare? Yeah, we have multiple things going on. So we have a lot of ISIS terrorists that their prison sentences are coming up. Of course, anyone who had been involved in the early era of al-Qaeda, it's been 20, 25, 30 years. Obviously, they're getting out of prison. And then a lot of people came over the southern border who weren't vetted, including terrorists. So we have multiple issues piling on top of each other, which has elevated our threat environment. And yes, it will lead to, unfortunately, more terrorist events on US soil. Now, you were a former CIA targeting officer. What do you see as the biggest threat potential for the US right now? I think the biggest terrorist threat is from the sons of Osama Bin Laden. They're planning another 9/11 style event. They started plotting it in December of 2021. If you look at the timing of when 9/11 plotting started to when it was carried out, we are getting into a dangerous window. We do have a lot of hubris to where people can't picture the enemy evolving in hitting us again and maybe even hitting us harder. Now, you also have a new documentary on daily wire about 9/11. Tell us about that documentary. Yeah, I mean, it just asks a simple question, is history repeating itself? And then we go through who's leading Al Qaeda, who's leading the Taliban, and the fact they have Afghanistan back. We walk through several of the key terrorists camps that 9/11 hijackers trained at and shows you, hey, they're open again. And then we talk about, of course, how many people came into this country, you know, unvetted and the risks involved in that. So it's just asking people, hey, look at the evidence. You know, what do you think? Because yes, history does seem to be repeating itself. What sounds like a pretty scary confluence of potential threats, really converging here. Thanks for waking up with us. And before we sign off, we have an all-access live show this afternoon starting at 5 p.m. Central on daily wire. We'll be answering questions from our all-access members and also talking about the daily wire's new film Run Height Fight infidel starring Marvel star Jonathan Majors. In fact, if you have questions about the film, we're going to be talking to the director this week so you can send those questions in during the show, along with any other questions you might have for us. 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