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In the news · NBC News · September 25, 2026

Bill Gates says AI ‘powerful enough’ to cause ‘a billion deaths’

Gates tells Meet the Press that AI is powerful enough to cause a billion deaths. A warning is useful only if Congress can act on it.

In the news · CNN · September 24, 2026

‘Godfather’ of AI reacts to AI CEOs’ UN warnings

Hinton answers CNN after Altman and Amodei take the UN warning to the floor. A warning is useful only if Congress can act on it.

In the news · CBS News · September 17, 2026

“Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton calls Hugging Face incident “little Chernobyl”

Hinton calls a Hugging Face incident a “little Chernobyl.” A warning shot is useful only if someone in power hears it.

In the news · NBC Bay Area · September 15, 2026

AI safety takes center stage at Dreamforce in San Francisco

Dreamforce put AI safety on the main stage. A conference is not a statute—Congress still has to write rules that work.

In the news · The Hill · September 15, 2026

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon join forces to call for AI regulation

Unusual allies want humans in charge of AI. Agreement on a stage is not a statute—Congress still has to write rules that work.

In the news · NBC News · September 15, 2026

‘This is not a hoax’: Tech ethicist Tristan Harris warns AI takeover ‘no longer a hypothetical’

Harris tells NBC the takeover risk is no longer hypothetical. That is a policy issue—not a reason to freeze American research.

In the news · Forbes Breaking News · September 15, 2026

Bill Gates warns AI will be designed ‘by and for the richest’ without regulation

Gates says the market will aim AI at whoever can pay. Who the systems serve is a policy issue—not a reason to surrender the frontier.

In the news · MS NOW · September 14, 2026

‘They are in PANIC mode’: Why AI CEOs are agreeing to a slowdown

CEOs calling for a slowdown is not a governing plan. America still has to lead—and keep humans in control.

In the news · CNN · September 14, 2026

Anthropic CEO tells CNN how AI ‘agent swarms’ could threaten humanity

Anthropic’s CEO warns CNN that autonomous agent swarms could threaten humanity. Frontier systems this powerful need human accountability—not slogans.

In the news · NBC Bay Area · September 14, 2026

Should artificial intelligence companies take a pause?

NBC Bay Area asks whether AI companies should pause. We reject a freeze that only America honors—and we reject racing ahead with no human accountability.

In the news · CNN · September 13, 2026

Former OpenAI employee: ‘Yes, AI might really kill us all’

A former OpenAI employee tells CNN the extinction risk is real. The public still has to decide how America keeps humans in control.

In the news · CNBC · September 10, 2026

The world got a ‘warning shot’ with Hugging Face AI attack: Center for Humane Technology’s Harris

Tristan Harris calls a Hugging Face incident a warning shot. Cybersecurity for frontier systems is now a national-security test for Congress.

In the news · CNN · September 9, 2026

Ex-Anthropic insider tells CNN how AI could kill all humans by 2030

CNN airs an extinction-risk warning from a former Anthropic employee. Catastrophe is not science fiction—and panic is not a policy.

Announcement · September 4, 2026

American AI Safeguards launches a national movement for responsible American AI leadership

The future is being decided now. The public deserves a voice in it.

Policy · September 3, 2026

Five questions every major AI policy should have to answer

Before America adopts a major AI policy, we ask whether it will still work as the technology becomes dramatically more capable.

In the news · CNN · August 26, 2026

Bill Gates stakes reputation: AI is not like past tech

Gates tells CNN this wave is not another gadget cycle. If the technology is different, the rules have to be different too.

Child safety · August 21, 2026

Children should not become an experiment for rapidly evolving AI

Products used by minors deserve stronger rules than products used by adults. That is not controversial. Policy should catch up.

Essay · August 12, 2026

Not anti-AI. Pro-safe AI.

Fear cannot be America’s AI strategy. Neither can blind acceleration.

In the news · The Economist · July 23, 2026

Elon Musk on AI: humans will no longer be in control in ten years

Musk tells The Economist that humans may not be in control within a decade. That is the last question we ask of every major AI policy.

In the news · Hook Global · November 27, 2025

How exactly will AI take over humans? ‘Godfather of AI’ spooks Bernie Sanders with his prediction

Geoffrey Hinton’s warning to Sen. Sanders is the same test we apply to every bill: will humans still be in control as the systems get more capable?

In the news · Joe Rogan Experience · November 2, 2023

Joe Rogan & Elon Musk: AI is more dangerous than a nuclear bomb

A nuclear weapon is built to be used by people. The risk with frontier AI is systems that act without them.