As whistleblowers in the artificial intelligence industry speak out about the extraordinary risk posed by their technology if it remains unchecked, a new poll out Wednesday reveals that more than two-thirds of US voters agree with a new proposal in Congress to pause artificial intelligence development until guardrails are set up and ban…
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AI pioneers warn their creation could end humanity; Trump's counteroffer is his own IQ.
As it ran on the front
On Monday morning the man with his finger nearest the button read an essay and answered it with a nickname. Dario Amodei, who runs Anthropic, had warned — alongside rivals at OpenAI and xAI — that the technology their own companies are building could go badly wrong for humans. Trump's reply, posted to Truth Social, was that Amodei is "pretending to be a 'perfect little angel'" and running a "SICK conspiracy." The guardrails Amodei asked for, Trump does not think the country needs. What the country needs, he wrote, is a "SMART PRESIDENT." He has one. Him.
Five days earlier, on September 9th, a researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic. He had worked in pretraining at both Anthropic and OpenAI, and he left saying both companies were "gambling with our lives." A poll that week found 68% of voters wanted Congress to pause AI development until guardrails existed and to ban superintelligence outright — a number large enough that Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon, two men who agree on almost nothing, are now sharing a stage with Coxon to say AI "should serve humanity." Chip Roy, who built a career on the phrase "limited government," is asking for federal intervention too, because he does not trust "soulless entities" more than he distrusts Washington. That is the tell. When the limited-government guy and the democratic socialist and the populist agree the government has to step in, the vacuum they are stepping into is real.…
…(cont) It is real because someone already filled part of it. In August, a federal judge ruled that the War Department had illegally blacklisted Anthropic after the company refused, earlier this year, to hand the Pentagon a tool for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Anthropic sued and won. Microsoft did not wait for a court. On Monday — the same day Trump was calling Amodei sick — Microsoft released its own "Humanist AI" code of conduct, a draft rulebook stating that AI models should stay under human control and that anything that cannot be contained should be rejected. No one elected Microsoft. No one voted on its draft. It wrote the rules itself and published them like an announcement, because the president who holds the actual authority spent the day on a nickname instead.
That's not a regulatory vacuum. That's the business model.
“They didn't write a safety plan, they wrote themselves a permission slip and mailed it out before anyone in government picked up a pen. When the man with the nuclear codes calls the loudest warning "sick" instead of reading it, the company doesn't wait for him to catch up — it publishes its own rulebook the same day. That's not caution, that's a company that already knows the White House isn't going to stop them, because the president thinks his own IQ is the whole regulatory system.”
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The receipts
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent that companies need to ensure every generation of AI model being released is properly tested. Kent joins to break down her interview.
President Trump downplayed recent warnings from leaders of major AI firms about tech regulation and development. In a post on Truth Social, he accused Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of "pretending to be a 'perfect little angel.'" CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns has more.
A growing chorus of artificial intelligence leaders are calling for a slowdown of the technology's development following a researcher's ominous warning that AI could soon destroy humanity. Shortly after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called to slow down AI capability development, several of his competitors, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…
Altman and rival Elon Musk, who were earlier this year locked in a legal battle, made a rare alliance over the weekend as they backed a lengthy letter from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urging global companies to slow their work on top AI models.
AI development is "walking a narrow middle path," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
‘A close reading … reveals its hidden agenda’
Former President Barack Obama is urging Democrats to make regulating artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” in this year’s elections, but when it comes to what exactly he wants Democrats to do policy-wise, he appears to have no answers. Not that Republicans seem to have much of an AI agenda either.
President Donald Trump rejected the idea of placing guardrails on artificial intelligence, saying a “High IQ” president is all the U.S. needs to address risks.
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Debate explodes over AI 'doomsday' warnings A former Anthropic researcher’s warning that AI could soon destroy humanity broke past the typical tech circles last week, setting off a new firestorm of debate over the technology’s rapid development. © Envato Researchers have warned of AI’s…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is teaming up with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon to argue that artificial intelligence “should serve humanity,” after major industry leaders warned humans could lose control of the future to AI.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) pushed for more federal oversight of artificial intelligence before he leaves Congress, arguing that guardrails are needed to keep “soulless entities” from taking over, despite his long-standing skepticism of government interference.
Microsoft released a draft of its “Humanist AI” code of conduct on Monday as the top leaders in artificial intelligence call for slower development of the technology. The preliminary guidelines published by Microsoft essentially state that AI models should remain under human control, and that any models that cannot be contained must be…
President Trump threw cold water on momentum for AI guardrails, saying all the U.S. needs is a "SMART PRESIDENT."
In a post on social media, President Trump downplayed the need for regulatory guardrails on artificial intelligence, instead saying a "high IQ" president is enough to oversee it. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez and Jonathan Allen report on the calls for lawmakers to get involved on AI regulations.
In a Truth Social post Monday morning, Trump doubled down on his dismissal of safety concerns.
· Lawmakers sound alarm on AI dangers after Anthropic researchers' warning from the morgue, 9 Sep 2026
· Anthropic researchers warn out-of-control AI could destroy humans from the morgue, 9 Sep 2026
· Anthropic researcher quits over existential fear of AI: ‘Gambling with our lives’ from the morgue, 9 Sep 2026
· Federal judge rules that War Department’s designation of Anthropic as a national security risk was illegal from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
· Judge rules Trump administration illegally punished Anthropic from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
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