MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell talks to Gil Durán, author of the book "The Nerd Reich," about the recent whistleblower concerns about the risks artificial intelligence poses and how Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress refuse to implement the necessary safeguards.
Could AI become the next weapon against your money? Fraud is exploding — and artificial intelligence is making scams faster, cheaper and harder to detect. From cloned voices and fake bank calls to AI agents that could eventually move money on our behalf, the risks are changing fast. On this episode of “Jesse Weber Live,” Weber goes deep with Identity Theft Resource Center CEO Eva Velasquez on the growing threat of AI-powered fraud and what you can do to protect yourself.
Former President Barack Obama weighed in on artificial intelligence dangers just one day after President Trump declared the only "guardrail" the technology needs is a strong president, drawing a sharp line between two very different visions of who should control the most powerful technology in a generation. Obama's public statement came after Anthropic CEO Dario […] The post Obama joins AI slowdown chorus one day after Trump dismissed safety fears as a hoax appeared first on American Almanac .
Former President Barack Obama weighed in on artificial intelligence dangers just one day after President Trump declared the only "guardrail" the technology needs is a strong president, drawing a sharp line between two very different visions of who should control the most powerful technology in a generation. Obama's public statement came after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay warning that AI has been "advancing dramatically faster" since the summer and proposing a three-step plan to bring independent evaluators into AI companies and push governments to set safety standards. USA Today reported that both OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed Amodei's message on X, with Musk writing simply, "Dario is right." Trump, posting on…Open
By Ed Timperlake New ideas in science and technology may seem scary, but you can address that fear without dismissing the idea—and legislation is seldom the answer.
"They're lying to you." Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo resigned over safety fears – and now he's responding to President Trump's claim that AI doomsday is a hoax. He tells Erin Burnett if AI development continues unchecked, "we really will have super-intelligent AI by the end of the decade."
AI companies are acknowledging the risks of their developments after leading their "agents" hacked companies on their own. Roger McNamee says it's these companies have "always been able to put guardrails in. What they've actually done is to create really, really poor software."