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Trump pushes back as AI leaders fuel calls to rein in rapidly advancing technology

President Trump rejected calls for greater oversight of artificial intelligence despite the dire warnings of some in the industry. The president's pushback comes after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay arguing for a slowdown across leading AI companies, warning rapid advances in the tec…

Trump pushes back as AI leaders fuel calls to rein in rapidly advancing technology

President Trump rejected calls for greater oversight of artificial intelligence despite the dire warnings of some in the industry. The president's pushback comes after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay arguing for a slowdown across leading AI companies, warning rapid advances in the tec…

Trump pushes back as AI leaders fuel calls to rein in rapidly advancing technology

President Trump rejected calls for greater oversight of artificial intelligence despite the dire warnings of some in the industry. The president's pushback comes after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay arguing for a slowdown across leading AI companies, warning rapid advances in the tec…

Could AI really kill us?

AI insiders have increasingly been sounding the alarm on the risks of out-of-control superintelligence, with some claiming a non-zero chance that AI could kill all humans before the end of the decade. Author and investigative journalist Stephen Witt lays out the potential scenarios and the corporat…

Catherine Rampell and Stephen Witt: Can We Avert Economic Disaster and the Robot Apocalypse?

The Fed raised interest rates to curb inflation, as expected, but mortgage rates are surging and flailing Scott Bessent remains the treasury secretary. Meanwhile, the alarm raised in the AI community is not an op despite the backlash from people like Nvidia's Jensen Huang, who seems to get everyt…

Andrew Egger: Donald, You’re Rattled

As Trump’s war of choice continues to expand in the Middle East, it’s clear that the president is desperate not to show how weak he really is. The administration is out of time and out of both strategic and rhetorical options in Iran. Another sign that he is flailing: Trump is trying to ban CNN, …

AI Has Gone Rogue. Here’s What We Should Do About It.

"This Is Really Bad." That's the not-so-comforting headline of Stephen Witt's mega-viral New York Times essay about a dawning realization among Silicon Valley researchers that "AI may no longer be entirely within human control." The piece is a sobering account of the rogue-AI incidents that have ev…

Experts Say AI Could Kill Us. Why Should We Trust Them? A Conversation w Jennifer Reich, Stephen Witt & Rachael Bedard

AI’s story feels like it's gotten a lot scarier. Some people in the tech world building AI now say it poses a meaningful risk of catastrophic harm, or even human extinction. Others insist this kind of “doomerism” is wildly exaggerated—that the warnings amount to crying wolf, and that the real dange…

Ryan Nowicki Stewart (CEO, Pennant AI): AI, Proxy Voting, and the Future of Governance

(0:00) Intro (1:28) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel (2:12) Start of interview (3:25) Ryan Nowicki Stewart’s Origin Story (5:06) The origin of Pennant AI and Ryan’s goal of building a “world model for corporate governance” (5:21) Why institutional investors stru…