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Michael's Daily Memo
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Something unusual happened Tuesday. OpenAI asked Congress to regulate it. The company endorsed a bipartisan House plan that would require the top AI developers to embed outside evaluators to certify their models are safe, along with a package of bills aimed at the risk that AI could help someone engineer a pathogen. That risk is no longer theoretical. Scientists at Stanford and the Arc Institute used AI to design 16 entirely new viruses this summer, and Anthropic disclosed last week that it caught foreign actors using its models for dangerous pathogen research five times this year. Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, followed with an essay arguing the industry must deliberately slow its own pace.
Meanwhile Washington and Brussels are headed in opposite directions. On September 1, the White House science adviser told G20 innovation ministers in Chapel Hill that regulators should stop treating each new technology as a special case, with Elon Musk on hand to argue new things should be "default legal." A day later, the European Commission served more than 30 AI companies with demands to prove they comply with its new AI Act.
That is the argument at the center of Episode 2 of "Can We Agree?", now on YouTube. Richard Clarke, counterterrorism adviser to three presidents and the nation's first cyber czar, believes we are repeating the mistakes of the early internet and cannot afford to wait for the first catastrophe. Jennifer Huddleston of the Cato Institute believes leaving the internet alone in 1996 is exactly why America won it, and that premature rules will hand the future to someone else. Watch it here, then vote.
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DAILY POLL
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Who should regulate artificial intelligence?
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TOP STORY
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The US House passed a war powers resolution 220-204 for the third time seeking to halt President Trump's military action against Iran, with seven Republicans joining all Democrats, though the measure faces a near-certain veto and has yet to clear the Senate.
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CAN WE AGREE?
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IN OTHER NEWS
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Three people were killed and one was hospitalized when NewsChopper4, operated by Angel City Air for NBC4 and Telemundo 52, went down between two commercial buildings in Chatsworth while covering a Metro bus crash, with victims including reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw.
A federal judge has referred Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and a top deputy to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for possible criminal investigation, alleging they may have pressured prosecutors to present a false narrative in a case involving a 2009 murder conviction.
President Trump's handpicked Kennedy Center board voted Tuesday to immediately close the venue for renovations, hours after a federal judge again blocked the board's attempt to add Trump's name to the building's facade.
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Finneas, Lukas Graham, Aaron Rowe and Irish band Beoga have withdrawn as opening acts on Ed Sheeran's North American tour in solidarity with Macklemore, who was removed after voicing support for Palestine during his MetLife Stadium set.
President Trump dismissed AI doomerism as a "sick conspiracy," declaring on Truth Social that the only guardrails artificial intelligence needs are a "strong and smart" president, and lumping safety warnings in with the Russia probe and his impeachments.
Photos leaked by anonymous U.S. service members reveal extensive destruction from Iranian missile and drone strikes at American bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as a Pentagon inspector general report pegs equipment losses at up to $3.7 billion, including nearly 60 aircraft.
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by Rob Rogers
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The Congressional Budget Office estimates the first five months of the U.S.-Iran war have cost taxpayers $38.1 billion, with monthly costs projected at $2 billion to $3 billion and missile interceptor stockpiles so depleted that rebuilding them could take at least five years.
OpenAI and Anthropic are throwing support behind proposals to embed third-party evaluators inside top AI labs, but critics warn the cozy ties between monitors and industry could entrench the leading firms and invite regulatory capture.
Netflix will premiere "The New Stanford Prison Experiment," a six-episode unscripted series that places 30 volunteers inside a real prison as guards and inmates, on Oct. 21. The original psychological study that tested how social roles and environment shape human behavior occurred in 1971.
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For the Left
VP JD Vance said the U.S. must pursue its own interests in the Middle East rather than make its foreign policy “subservient” to Israel, while acknowledging the countries’ close cooperation on intelligence and military technology.
For the Right
FBI Director Kash Patel declined to rule out agents being present at polling locations during November’s midterm elections, telling senators the bureau would follow the law and respond to election-related violations.
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