Greg Casar

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106 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki · Trump invents excuses for his 'Trump-a-palooza' dud · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

Well, I'm so grateful to the whistleblowers at OpenAI and Anthropic telling us about how serious these threats are.

Again, a bit of a euphemism when they're saying about the deaths of billions or millions of people.

And I think they're really waking Congress up.

And that's why Senator Sanders and I have introduced the Ban Superintelligence Act, which just says no, these billionaires who

Want to become trillionaires cannot develop AI systems that could evade human control, break laws, take away our freedoms, or even cause mass casualty or national security events.

It's that simple.

And I have some hope here, Jen, despite how scary it all is, because we've faced the nuclear revolution, or the generation before me did, and the country came

Yeah.

created the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, passed nuclear non-proliferation agreements with other countries, and banned more nuclear weapons being developed by companies and countries or anybody else.

And similarly,

The CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI have said their technology could be as dangerous as nuclear weapons.

Well then we should treat it like that and pass a superintelligence ban and start working on treaties with other nations to make sure this isn't developed anywhere.

I hear from Republican members of Congress in corners at the airport at the gym all the time that they think that this kind of completely unregulated AI is crazy.

And their constituents think it too.

But the problem is, you've got Donald Trump over here who has taken loads of AI cash, appoints people like David Sachs, who is just the scummiest AI investor to basically lead all of his.

AI policy.

And so when you have whistleblowers saying this could be a serious national security event, usually any president of any party would take that seriously.

But instead, you've got Republicans who lead the Congress doing nothing.

In fact, their main initiative is to get rid of the little state laws that we have.

And so it's critical for Democrats to win back the House and the Senate in November and put forward a

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