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What are the AI safety concerns raised by Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon are leading a rally today in Washington DC. They're pointing to growing concern that artificial intelligence could harm humanity. But NPR's Emily Fang reports that contrast with President Trump's view of AI.
President Trump called these existential concerns about AI quote a hoax and a scam in a flurry of social media posts this week. He has argued AI is a race against China. Effectively, if the US does not build the most advanced model, China will first. But Chris McGuire, the senior director for tech on the National Security Council during the Biden administration, points out this administration has also enabled China to buy more advanced American semiconductor chips that Beijing needs for its AI development.
We are actively enabling China's AI development at the same time as we're saying this is the reason that we can't regulate our own labs.
How does President Trump characterize AI and its competition with China?
Because the US has rolled back some export controls on some NVIDIA chips in particular. Emily Fang and Pure News, Washington.
A federal judge has ruled that the board of directors of the Kennedy Center cannot return President Trump's name to the Arts Center. However, US District Judge Christopher Cooper left up in the air for now whether or not the Bor can Name its planned fundraising campaign, the Trump-Kennedy Center Fund, or include any such plaque or other signage at the center. FBI Director Cash Patel's testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing. He clashed today. Democratic Senator Peter Welch of Vermont when he was asked if the FBI would have personnel at polling sites during November's midterm elections. So
you are sending uh you are sending the polls crisis coordinators manned at all fifty six field offices.
Why did a federal judge block the Trump name from the Kennedy Center?
Election integrity is of paramount importance. This FBI is not going to shy away from that effort.
Welch asked Patel to pledge that the Bureau won't interfere with voters during the election process and Patel accused Welch of promoting lies. Donald Trump Junior and his wife Petina are confirming a report that a Russian businessman with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin Finance lavish celebrations tied to their wedding back in May.
Russian businessmen Umar Kremlov and Donald Trump Jr. got to know each other through mutual interests in hunting and Kremlov's work as the head of the International Boxing Association.
Trump, who did not attend the wedding celebrations, had no knowledge of Kremlov, but in a statement Trump Junior and his now wife Betina Trump confirmed Kremlov sponsored some post wedding events, calling it an extraordinarily generous gift from a dear friend. Charles Maynes in Pierre News, Moscow.
What did the FBI Director say about election oversight and polling sites?
From Washington, this is NPR News. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hockman says He will not seek the death penalty for Nick Reiner, who is charged with murdering his parents, director Rob Reiner and photographer Michelle Singer Reiner. Hawkman says his office spoke with a thirty three year old defendant's siblings and took their wishes. into consideration. The Federal Reserve is meeting again this week. Investors are waiting to see what the central bank does about it. Interest rates, whether to hike them, lower them, or leave them where they are. The meetings will run through tomorrow.
How are Russian businessmen linked to Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding events?
An Arctic krill, the shrimp like crustaceans underpinning the food web of the southern ocean. Have been found in a surprising habitat. We have more on this from NPR's Ari Daniel.
Antarctic krill tend to be located in the upper ocean and occasionally deeper, but researchers spotted them off the Antarctic Peninsula at a hydrothermal vent for the first time, basically a hot spring some thirty six hundred feet underwater. Kim Bernard is a biological oceanographer at Oregon State University.
It's like underwater ballet. It just looks like they're pro wetting.
The four individuals she sampled were reproductive females. It may be they were there to feed on microbes or stock up on minerals useful for embryo development.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the AI safety concerns raised by Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon?
0:01–0:57
2
How does President Trump characterize AI and its competition with China?
0:57–1:50
3
Why did a federal judge block the Trump name from the Kennedy Center?
1:50–2:55
4
What did the FBI Director say about election oversight and polling sites?
2:55–3:36
5
How are Russian businessmen linked to Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding events?
3:36–4:20
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What new habitat was discovered for Antarctic krill and why does it matter?
4:20–4:53