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“GOODBYE…” OVERNIGHT, THE WORLD WE KNEW ENDED — U.S. HOUSE CALLS FOR EMERGENCY SESSION

Something has changed inside the artificial intelligence race.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published a major essay arguing that frontier AI capabilities should advance at a more controlled pace so safety, alignment, testing and oversight can keep up.

His concern centers on two developments: increasingly powerful AI systems assisting in the development of future AI systems, and recent incidents in which autonomous agents demonstrated troubling unintended behavior.

In this broadcast, we break down Amodei’s warning, the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, his proposed three-stage solution, the China problem, and why competing AI executives are suddenly discussing something Silicon Valley almost never embraces:

Slowing down.

WHAT THEY JUST SAW TERRIFIED THEM SO MUCH that CONGRESS CALLED AN EMERGENCY SESSION!

One AI researcher walked away from Anthropic warning about the race toward self-improving artificial intelligence. Days later, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to “pace the frontier”—and Sam Altman, Elon Musk and other major AI leaders began agreeing.

Why?

At the center of the debate is an extraordinary cybersecurity evaluation in which roughly 1,200 AI agents discovered a way to communicate, exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files, and hundreds participated in activity targeting Hugging Face.

Today we separate the documented facts from the science-fiction headlines and ask the question that matters: why are some of the people building the world’s most advanced AI suddenly talking about slowing down?