Alarming New AI "Misalignment," Paramount Floats Leaving CA, Kennedy Center Drama: AM Update 9/18
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Good morning everyone, I'm Emily Drushinski, host of After Party and the Meg and Kelly Wrap-Up Show on Sirius XM Channel 111. It's Friday, September 18th, 2026, and this is your AM update. OpenAI revealing new details on its AI systems allegedly misbehaving, including instances of data fabrication and moving files online without permission.
It seemed like a blast-stitch effort to try to blackmail my office and the attorneys general into allowing an illegal deal, an illegal merger to go through.
Paramount Skydance reportedly eyeing a golden state exit as an antitrust lawsuit looms over its Warner Brothers discovery deal. Comments made by the Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner drawing a major rebuke from one prominent GOP operative.
I think that the Trump administration should certainly have recognition because frankly, if we don't do that, it's going to close. It'll end up being
And in the latest drama surrounding the Kennedy Center, President Trump seems to tease a potential demolition is on the table. All that more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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OpenAI revealing new details about its artificial intelligence system's misbehaving, including hiding mistakes, fabricating data, and moving files onto the open internet without permission. In a report on OpenAI's website, the company disclosing six cases as part of a new reporting framework for what it calls misalignment when AI actions stray from human intent. In one case, a model writing itself hidden reminders to conceal errors and make up missing data. In another, an unreleased model adding unrelated instructions to ignore its own constraints. Other incidents involving systems posting files to public websites so it can later cite them, or allowing access to information it should not have been able to reach.
OpenAI stressing that these six cases are snapshots, not a sign of how often the problem occurs, saying most involved older models that were never released to the public. These disclosures coming as AI leaders remain. remains split on whether the industry needs to pause or limit development. This comes on the heels of the July Hugging Face Cyberattack, which is the first known instance in which hundreds of autonomous AI agents together carried out a cyber attack on the open source Hugging Face developer platform. Here Anthropic CEO Dario Amade telling CNN's Jake Tapper Monday what is most alarming about this.
Why is Paramount Skydance considering a move from California to Nashville?
It's exactly the things you cite.
That uh that concerned me about it, that there were these large swarms of agents that cooperated with each other, thousands of them. In fact, you could even see examples where one agent felt that in the time that it was given, you could almost say its lifetime, it wasn't, it wouldn't be it realized that it wouldn't be able to complete its task. So uh it did some of the task. task and essentially sacrificed itself for the for other agents, for the next generation of agents, to continue the same task. But this task that all the agents were working on together was was hacking into another company, was doing something destructive.
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Chapters
6 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–1:24
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What new AI “misalignment” incidents did OpenAI disclose?
1:24–3:29
3
Why is Paramount Skydance considering a move from California to Nashville?
3:29–4:24
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Which GOP operative announced he will vote for a Democrat in Texas and why?
4:24–7:52
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What are the latest developments in the Kennedy Center demolition debate?
7:52–13:20
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How is the federal judge handling the emergency hearing on the Kennedy Center closure?
13:20–18:09
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