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‘More Dangerous Than Drugs’: Bill Gates Warns Of Risks Posed By Artificial Intelligence

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The man behind one of the most significant technological revolutions of the last 50 years expressed dire warnings about the consequences of unregulated artificial intelligence during a Sunday interview on CNN.

Speaking with “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper, Microsoft founder Bill Gates warned of the risks unregulated artificial intelligence (AI) — recently rebranded as “super intelligence” by President Donald Trump and other industry leaders — could pose. The concern by the tech icon follows Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, penning a Sept. 12 letter calling for a slowdown of AI development so safety and oversight efforts could catch up with the rapidly evolving technology.

When asked by Tapper if his beliefs would fall under OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s label of “doomerism” for those who envision AI in worst-case scenarios, Gates replied, “Well, all responsible AI leaders, including Sam Altman, including Dario Amodei, they are telling the world, ‘This is very concerning.’”

“The way that gets articulated in terms of potential negative scenarios: yes, it can get overblown. When people act like all of humanity is at risk in some imminent way, that is going too far. But, say, compared to cars or planes or drugs — all things that I think we’re pleased that we have significant regulatory capability to try and keep people safe — this is more dangerous than any of those.”

Tapper also questioned if Gates thinks world leaders are doing enough to prevent a bioterrorist attack, to which he responded, “Well, no, we’re not doing enough.” (Read more from “‘More Dangerous Than Drugs’: Bill Gates Warns Of Risks Posed By Artificial Intelligence” HERE)

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Anthropic to Users: Be Nice to Claude AI — New Policy Bars ‘Abusive or Cruel Behavior’ to Tech

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Anthropic on Thursday updated its usage policy to bar people from “abusive or cruel behavior” behavior toward its Claude AI – even though it’s not, ya know, actually alive.

The strange update came as debate continues to rage about regulating AI, and as oddball corners of Silicon Valley insist the tech has a soul.

“We’ve added a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models,” Anthropic says on a webpage about the updated policy.

“The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research,” the company adds.

Other changes to the user policy include new guidelines against using Claude for election interference, surveillance without the consent of the surveilled, and building weapons. (Read more from “Anthropic to Users: Be Nice to Claude AI — New Policy Bars ‘Abusive or Cruel Behavior’ to Tech” HERE)

Americans Turn to AI Chatbots to Decide How to Vote in Midterm Elections

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Americans are turning to chatbots created by Silicon Valley leftists to determine how they will vote in the midterm elections. For example, Adam Johnson, a West Virginia Republican who despises the MAGA movement, spent a September evening asking ChatGPT to help him make sense of his midterm ballot.

NPR reports that Johnson, who is studying to become an illustrator, already uses ChatGPT for meal planning, job hunting and other household tasks. This time he wanted help with something bigger: deciding how to vote. He typically votes Republican but refuses to support the MAGA movement, picking Democrats or third-party candidates instead. That night, he wanted to compare Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) with challenger Rachel Fetty Anderson in West Virginia’s Senate race.

Johnson isn’t unusual. About half of American adults say they use AI chatbots, according to Pew Research Center, and roughly 42 percent of those users turn to the tools to search for information.

Johnson opened his ballot research by bringing up an earlier run-in with the chatbot’s caution around politics. “A previous time I brought up politics you didn’t seem to want any part of it. You just gave a simple ‘I can’t help you with that.’ So, I don’t know if we want to go into what my guiding principles are,” he wrote. ChatGPT responded: “We can discuss your guiding principles. I shouldn’t try to manipulate your political views or tell you how to vote, but I can help investigate candidates according to criteria you choose, compare evidence, discuss political philosophy, and reason through priorities.”

When Johnson raised immigration, telling the bot “Immigrants/refugees is an interesting one because I am left on that issue. Let’s touch on that,” ChatGPT laid out the candidates’ positions in detail: “We briefly separated border enforcement, illegal immigration, asylum, legal immigration, and refugee resettlement. Capito has supported stronger border enforcement, ICE/CBP funding, the Laken Riley Act, and Trump administration border policies. Fetty Anderson had less detailed immigration material publicly available at the time, so I avoided assigning her generic Democratic positions without evidence.” Johnson had wanted something shorter. “I just wanted to touch on it,” he replied. The chatbot conceded the point: “Fair – I turned ‘touch on that’ into an immigration policy seminar.” (Read more from “Americans Turn to AI Chatbots to Decide How to Vote in Midterm Elections” HERE)

Top Federal Regulator Opens Probe Into Whether AI Will Kill Us All

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Federal regulators are preparing to make the companies building the most powerful artificial intelligence answer for its apparent risks.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to compel documents and testimony from executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs as it widens a probe of the companies an anonymous senior agency official told the New York Post on Wednesday. These demands land after executives from several of those companies signed an agreement at the White House pledging to regulate their own models, which President Donald Trump called “morally binding” Tuesday.

“The agency has plans to compel the executives at these firms to testify about their product [and] about the dangers they allege their products may have to consumers, to Americans,” the official told the Post.

The probe is examining possible unfair or deceptive practices under the Woodrow Wilson-era FTC Act, according to the Post. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson believes the government does not need new laws to police the companies, the official said.

“People talk about how we need new laws for these companies, and the chairman’s been very clear … we have plenty of laws in the books,” the official told the Post, adding that the investigation is not meant to slow the AI industry down. (Read more from “Top Federal Regulator Opens Probe Into Whether AI Will Kill Us All” HERE)

AI Giants Reportedly Neared Deal To Safety Test Each Other’s Models

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Two of the largest artificial intelligence labs held talks to safety-test each other’s models, according to a report.

OpenAI and Anthropic negotiated a legal agreement to test each other’s models, The Information reported Monday. The two AI labs reportedly held a joint safety evaluation in August 2025, during which OpenAI tested Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, while Anthropic tested OpenAI’s GPT-4.0, GPT-4.1 and other models.

It remains unclear if the two companies finalized the agreement; however, both have called for industry-wide efforts to pace the scale of AI development.

Anthropic and OpenAI each did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

This is not the only time that leading AI executives have floated testing competitors’ models.

Elon Musk, who founded xAI — the developer of the Grok family of AI models — said that American AI creators and Chinese competitors should test each others models while speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, California in September, according to the New York Post.

(Read more from “AI Giants Reportedly Neared Deal To Safety Test Each Other’s Models” HERE)

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: ‘0% Chance’ of Humanity Ending by 2030, AI Doomers Are ‘Irresponsible’

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Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang rejected warnings that AI could wipe out humanity within years, calling such predictions unscientific and irresponsible in an interview with CBS News.

In an interview with CBS News, Huang pushed back on warnings of AI doom that have circulated widely in recent weeks. “2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world,” he said. He called the AI doomsday framing harmful, adding, “Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible.”

Huang was responding to comments made earlier this month by Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, who wrote on social media that AI developers “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon’s remarks set off a broader public debate over AI risk, one that has drawn in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other industry leaders who have called for slowing AI development. Huang dismissed the extinction scenario as “not grounded in science.”

Asked why the public should trust his assurances given Nvidia’s financial stake in AI’s growth, Huang said, “Our company’s success is directly connected to the safe deployment of products and services.” He added, “If we don’t continue to do that, our value would be diminished.” Nvidia’s chips power the large language models behind AI agents from OpenAI and other companies. The company’s market value stands at $5.3 trillion, the highest of any company in the world.

Huang argued that existing law, not new AI-specific rules, already covers much of the risk. “You have all kinds of liabilities associated with cybersecurity,” he said. “Apply that first, don’t let this doomsday narrative allow someone to relieve them of the laws that currently exist.” That position lines up with President Trump’s, who has said the AI industry does not need additional guardrails. (Read more from “Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: ‘0% Chance’ of Humanity Ending by 2030, AI Doomers Are ‘Irresponsible’” HERE)

REPORT: Sports Gambling App Allegedly Uses AI To Target Those Most Likely To Lose Money On Bets

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A popular betting company built artificial intelligence to hunt down the customers most likely to bleed money, then flooded them with incentives to keep wagering.

DraftKings created a machine learning system in 2023 that ranked online casino players by how much they were expected to lose after collecting a free bet or bonus, according to a New York Times investigation published Friday. The Times reviewed internal memos, presentations and betting records, and spoke with more than 40 former staffers.

The tool weighed each gambler’s playing frequency, daily balances and the ratio of losses to wagers, the Times reported. Workers referred to the resulting figure as an “elasticity” score, and a higher number meant a customer was worth chasing with more perks.

Jayden Butts, a former data analyst who tested the system on thousands of casino players, grew uneasy about who the math favored. “We are looking for traits and features that we can target that indicate a good investment,” Butts told the Times. “The best investment would be a problem gambler.”

The company could have pointed the same data the other way. A data scientist named Nestor Hernandez began building a model in 2024 to flag gamblers sliding toward crisis, but DraftKings shelved the project, according to the Times. Chief Responsible Gaming Officer Lori Kalani said leaders reached a “collective decision” against predictive tools because the approach was not “evidence-based.” (Read more from “REPORT: Sports Gambling App Allegedly Uses AI To Target Those Most Likely To Lose Money On Bets” HERE)

Trump Announces Creation of ‘AI Force’ — and Calls Fears of Artificial Superintelligence a ‘Hoax’

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President Trump announced he was creating a new “AI Force” and designating a new AI “czar” Saturday to keep the industry from engaging in bad practices – after doubling down that apocalyptic fears of AI superintelligence are just another “hoax.”

Trump insisted Saturday he would not “stand by” and let his political opponents take down an industry he views as paramount to US competitiveness, and likened those urging caution to his political enemies.

“Over the years, there have been many Hoaxes, all generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, Global Warming, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender for Everyone, and now, the decimation, or destruction, of AI, commonly known as Artificial Intelligence — And I, as President of the United States, will not stand by and let this happen,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account Saturday afternoon.

The president mentioned what he termed the “crazed Data Center attack” – swelling political opposition to infrastructure that fuels AI’s exponential growth – and compared it to an effort “going straight at AI” that must be countered.

“We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows! However, we will also be looking for BAD” through the existing criminal justice system, he wrote. (Read more from “Trump Announces Creation of ‘AI Force’ — and Calls Fears of Artificial Superintelligence a ‘Hoax’” HERE)

Staffers at Tech Giants Knew AI Tools Posed ‘Existential Threat’ to News Publishers: Court Docs

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High-level staffers at a pair of top tech companies knew that scraping online news content to bolster their AI models could have devastating impacts on publishers – but that didn’t stop them, according to a bombshell legal filing.

One OpenAI executive even warned that the shady tactic, in which tech giants circumvent paywalls to access stories to train their AI, could pose an “existential threat” to news organizations, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing the newly unsealed court documents in a massive copyright case.

A director at Microsoft had also sounded the alarm over the dodgy practice.

“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time,” said Brent Hecht, Microsoft’s director of applied science, the filing shows.

“It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain,’” said Hecht. (Read more from “Staffers at Tech Giants Knew AI Tools Posed ‘Existential Threat’ to News Publishers: Court Docs” HERE)

Joe Rogan Has ‘Crazy Hope’ that AI Could Take Over Government to Prevent Military Conflict

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Joe Rogan said Tuesday that he hopes artificial intelligence could eventually take over government and foreign-policy functions, including decisions involving military conflict, as he believes AI could help prevent wars that human leaders have failed to stop.

Rogan, speaking with theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli during a conversation on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” acknowledged that handing government functions to artificial intelligence could alarm people but described it as a possible way to remove human decision-making from international conflicts.

“It sounds like a crazy hope, but my hope is that as AI becomes more and more omnipresent, as we start farming off various tasks to it, one of the things that we’re going to farm off is government,” Rogan said.

“One of the things we’re going to farm off is how we interact with other countries. I know that’s terrifying to people, but just think of the disastrous effects that we’ve had so far with humans doing it.”

Republican National Committee National Committeewoman for Georgia and Humans First Chairwoman Amy Kremer, who has pushed for greater safeguards around AI while opposing a blanket halt to American development of the technology, rejected Rogan’s proposal. (Read more from “Joe Rogan Has ‘Crazy Hope’ that AI Could Take Over Government to Prevent Military Conflict” HERE)