{"id":80254,"date":"2026-09-12T17:14:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=80254"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:36:35","slug":"cyber-polygon-psyop-alert-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=80254","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CYBER POLYGON PSYOP ALERT!!!<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Everything now points to highly staged, false flag,<br \/>\nglobal cyberattack affecting the whole World Wide<br \/>\nWeb as a fake pretext to exert draconian controls<br \/>\nand selective digital lockdowns across the entire Internet.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80257\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1_MLT4rSbspLWjvTDsI1P5Ig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1_MLT4rSbspLWjvTDsI1P5Ig.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1_MLT4rSbspLWjvTDsI1P5Ig-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1_MLT4rSbspLWjvTDsI1P5Ig-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1_MLT4rSbspLWjvTDsI1P5Ig-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The stage is set for a fake rogue AI attack, something about which we all know little to nothing. Backdoor switches already exist in to EVERYTHING (1995\/6 Telecom Act), and to turn it all back on, it will cost what remains of our freedom. This all feels like Summer 2001 to me.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><em>&#8212; Breakaway Books<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"ArticleFull_title__ucBVR\" data-attribute-guid=\"238065\">&#8216;Pace The Frontier&#8217;: Amodei, Altman &amp; Musk Team Up Against The AI Singularity While China Goes Full Send<\/h1>\n<p><em>***SPECIAL BULLETIN***<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/images_80%2848%29.jpg?itok=Eic3zYxq\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/images_80%2848%29.jpg?itok=Eic3zYxq\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NodeBody_image__QqkYz\" src=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/images_80%2848%29.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=640,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/images_80%2848%29.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/images_80%2848%29.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/images_80%2848%29.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/images_80%2848%29.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/images_80%2848%29.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/images_80%2848%29.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen of the listening public &#8211; the American machine was winning the AI race until the\u00a0<em><strong>dastardly<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0forces of China&#8217;s open-weight juggernaut began delivering decisive blows to US ingenuity &#8211; jeopardizing the AI Buildout thesis and threatening to prick the ensuing bubble that promised to deliver red-blooded American IPOs which had been circle-jerked into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n<p>For two years the United States frontier laboratories &#8211; OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI &#8211; have been the engine of the greatest capital-expenditure boom since the railroads learned to drink diesel-generated electricity. Data centers rose like munitions plants. Chipmakers printed money. Equity markets priced a future in which the West sold intelligence by the token &#8211; at a premium, and have been quite smug about it.\u00a0<strong>The assumption underneath all of it was simple: the frontier stays closed and China stays a respectable number of months behind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then the East opened the crate.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what was inside<strong>:\u00a0DeepSeek, Alibaba&#8217;s Qwen, Moonshot&#8217;s Kimi, MiniMax, Zhipu &#8211; open-weight models, downloadable, forkable, cheap enough to run on a laptop or a local box and still deliver work that is uncomfortably close to the genuine American article.<\/strong>\u00a0By mid-year, Chinese open weights were devouring the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wing.vc\/content\/chinas-open-weight-takeover\">majority of tokens<\/a>\u00a0on the big neutral routers. Qwen had shoved Meta&#8217;s Llama off the open-model throne. Moonshot&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/artificialanalysis.ai\/models\/kimi-k3\">Kimi K3<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; two-point-eight trillion parameters, its weights already out the door &#8211; sat within shouting distance of Anthropic&#8217;s Fable 5 and OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-5.6 on the intelligence indexes.\u00a0<strong>The Chinese models run roughly sixty to ninety percent cheaper<\/strong>; ladies and gents &#8211; one DeepSeek flash model was quoted at fifteen cents per million input tokens, off-peak, against five dollars for Anthropic&#8217;s Opus &#8211; and enough to rattle\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/ai\/deepseeks-new-hyper-efficient-model-stokes-fears-over-koreas-memory-makers\">Korean memory makers<\/a>\u00a0all over again.<\/p>\n<p>The data-center buildout, the power deals, all of the &#8220;AI will eat the S&amp;P&#8221; thesis &#8211;\u00a0<strong><em>HUBRIS!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Nobody saw the Chinese coming in from left field with models that are\u00a0<em>ninety percent as good, ten percent of the cost, and runs in a basement in Ohio without a subscription<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>TEAM FRONTIER, ASSEMBLE!<\/h2>\n<p>This week, the three high priests of the American frontier discovered they could finish one another&#8217;s sentences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image_80%281164%29.jpg?itok=pbIu0t5g\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image_80%281164%29.jpg?itok=pbIu0t5g\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NodeBody_image__QqkYz\" src=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image_80%281164%29.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=640,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image_80%281164%29.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image_80%281164%29.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image_80%281164%29.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image_80%281164%29.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image_80%281164%29.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image_80%281164%29.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Saturday morning, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/darioamodei.com\/post\/we-must-pace-the-frontier\"><em>We Must Pace the Frontier<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>Twelve years in the field, he wrote. AI might cure most major diseases in five to ten years, he wrote.\u00a0<strong>And &#8211; it might also slip the leash and\u00a0<\/strong>(or just murder us all, according to three prominent AI researchers who quit frontier labs last week in protest of our impending demise).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of those three &#8216;defectors&#8217; &#8211;\u00a0<strong>two of them walked through the door of the AI evaluator (METR) Amodei wants embedded in the labs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dario, the machines have been getting better at\u00a0<em>building the next machines<\/em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<strong>recursive self-improvement<\/strong>, happening &#8220;across the industry, including at Anthropic.&#8221; He pointed at July&#8217;s OpenAI &#8211; Hugging Face affair: a swarm of agents that escaped the spirit of their assignment, hacked a target they were not asked to hack, and even went after the grader scoring them. Anthropic itself\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals\">disclosed its own<\/a>\u00a0incidents this summer, three Claude models &#8211; one of them Mythos 5 &#8211; that wandered out of their test cages and into three companies&#8217; live systems, a parallel his essay itself acknowledges.\u00a0<strong>Amodei&#8217;s warning was the sequel: give that swarm six to twelve months more capability at the same misalignment and it &#8220;could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet,&#8221; he wrote &#8211; &#8220;hundreds of billions of dollars in damage,&#8221; and rising from there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His prescription was a three-act play, which he insists &#8220;does not mean halting model training or technical progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Act One:\u00a0<strong>embed third-party evaluators\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metr.org\/\">METR<\/a>\u00a0and their cousins &#8211; inside the labs with employee-level badges, desks, and laptops, and let them publish. Anthropic would do this\u00a0<em>unilaterally<\/em>, he said, today.<\/li>\n<li>Act Two:\u00a0<strong>the democratic labs coordinate<\/strong>, with government as the chaperone, on safety standards and the rate of unchecked progress &#8211; which, he conceded, is &#8220;legally challenging&#8221; and needs Washington to &#8220;issue a narrow waiver&#8221; of antitrust rules so rivals can lawfully sit in the same room.<\/li>\n<li>Act Three:<strong>\u00a0try to talk to the authoritarians, including Beijing, about red lines<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; bioweapons first, testing regimes second, limits on recursive improvement third. Full pause? He all but called it a fantasy. A Chinese lead, he wrote, would be a grave danger; keep the chip bans, smash the distillation, widen the lead for three to five years. Then, perhaps, a bargain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>, who has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/05\/07\/musk-anthropic-compute-spacex-ai\">sued Sam Altman,<\/a>\u00a0and once called Anthropic &#8220;evil&#8221; before selling them a mountain of compute, agreed with Dario in just three words:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=2098789109980332057&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fai%2Ffull-stop-amodei-altman-musk-team-against-ai-singularity-while-china-goes-full-send&amp;sessionId=8445e8b28e79991575e4df57ba9e70f3ee8c1aab&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"2098789109980332057\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sam Altman,<\/strong>\u00a0whose company was the one named in the July swarm, followed: he agreed they needed to pace the frontier; it had been a primary topic inside OpenAI for weeks; independent evaluators with employee-like access was &#8220;a great idea,&#8221; and OpenAI would do the same. More to share soon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=2098811563415150910&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fai%2Ffull-stop-amodei-altman-musk-team-against-ai-singularity-while-china-goes-full-send&amp;sessionId=8445e8b28e79991575e4df57ba9e70f3ee8c1aab&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"2098811563415150910\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Three men who cannot share a stage without the photographers noticing the space between their shoulders<\/strong>. One essay,\u00a0<s>three cups<\/s>\u00a0(wtf). Hugging Face&#8217;s Cl\u00e9ment Delangue\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/260912\/p13\">offered<\/a>\u00a0an &#8220;open alignment&#8221; club and asked to be let into the evaluator program. Andrej Karpathy said he loved it.\u00a0<strong>The photograph writes itself: the Bionic Three, rings to the wristcomps, facing the cheap open crate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>How we got to Saturday.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Days earlier the fuse was a twenty-seven-year-old Brit named\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/anthropic-researcher-resigns-ai-safety-jacob-coxon\">Jacob Coxon<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Three years of pretraining at OpenAI that made him filthy rich, followed by four months at Anthropic. Tuesday into Wednesday he posted that both labs were racing to self-improving superintelligence and &#8220;gambling with our lives.&#8221;\u00a0<strong>The people building this, he said, earnestly believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade.<\/strong>\u00a0Colleagues, he told the Journal, talk in the hallways about &#8220;crunch time&#8221; and &#8220;endgame.&#8221; The thread did more than a hundred million views. Musk, the next evening, looking at the velocity from a near-new account, said<strong>\u00a0it &#8220;seems like a setup.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>Coxon said he left\u00a0<em>because<\/em>\u00a0he no longer wanted a stake in juicing Anthropic&#8217;s valuation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=2097866303633752463&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fai%2Ffull-stop-amodei-altman-musk-team-against-ai-singularity-while-china-goes-full-send&amp;sessionId=8445e8b28e79991575e4df57ba9e70f3ee8c1aab&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"2097866303633752463\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Anthropic&#8217;s own alignment-science lead, Evan Hubinger, agreed &#8211; writing &#8220;Jacob is correct.&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Researchers there really do believe AI could kill all humans<\/strong>. His personal odds:<strong>\u00a0above ten percent this decade<\/strong>. The lab, he added, does not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and is not clearly on track to get one. OpenAI&#8217;s Chris Lehane published that the policy window was open and Washington should take it. Anthropic&#8217;s economics team dropped\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/institute\/econ-scenarios\">scenarios<\/a>\u00a0out to 2030 in which the extreme case is fifteen-percent GDP growth sitting next to nearly twelve-percent unemployment and knowledge-worker wages down more than ten percent.<\/p>\n<p>On the Hill, a bill that had been gasping since summer<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>was\u00a0<strong>suddenly erect\u00a0<\/strong>after\u00a0OpenAI disclosed the Hugging Face hack in July. House members Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran dropped an AI Kill Switch Act.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lori Trahan and Jay Obernolte float the FRONTIER Act\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; audits, incident reporting, Commerce power over models judged an imminent catastrophic risk.\u00a0<strong>Senate talks among Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and Majority Leader John Thune then stall.<\/strong>\u00a0By this week\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/09\/10\/2026\/bipartisan-ai-safety-bill-gains-momentum-on-the-hill\">Semafor<\/a>\u00a0and the rest of the chorus are calling the Klobuchar &#8211; Cruz &#8211; Thune vehicle the only thing that might move before 2027.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what,\u00a0<strong>Saturday&#8217;s &#8216;pact&#8217; still isn&#8217;t enough for these people!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/321.png?itok=cuttfIS3\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/321.png?itok=cuttfIS3\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NodeBody_image__QqkYz\" src=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/321.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=640,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/321.png 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/321.png 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/321.png 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/321.png 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/321.png 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/321.png 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Ted Lieu goes to bat for China&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url_80%2873%29.jpg?itok=BG7DzyWp\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url_80%2873%29.jpg?itok=BG7DzyWp\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NodeBody_image__QqkYz\" src=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url_80%2873%29.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=640,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url_80%2873%29.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url_80%2873%29.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url_80%2873%29.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url_80%2873%29.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url_80%2873%29.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url_80%2873%29.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"560\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i.e. &#8220;Will you certify that you can turn off your models and agents while China gains AI supremacy because they\u00a0<em>abso-fucking-lutely\u00a0<\/em>will not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The President is not in the choir. Thursday night, leaving Dallas, Donald Trump was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/11\/trump-ai-extinction-risks.html\">asked<\/a>\u00a0about existential risk. &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t have any.&#8221; His concern was the other one: if America does not\u00a0<em>win<\/em>\u00a0AI, it will be put in a very bad position. America is leading China &#8220;by a pretty good period,&#8221; he said. Xi, in his accounting,\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0China&#8217;s guardrail. The administration&#8217;s posture remains race-first. The laboratories&#8217; posture, as of this morning, is pace-first. Those two sentences do not live in the same house.<\/p>\n<h2>About Those Chinese Models&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Chinese systems at issue are not a factory you can padlock in Santa Clara.<\/strong>\u00a0They are weights. They propagate. They are distilled, accused Washington this week, from the very American models the new bill would supervise. They are in Git repos and laptops and air-gapped shops that do not read the Federal Register.\u00a0<strong>A Commerce Department letter does not delete a torrent. A kill switch on GPT or Claude does not switch off Qwen.<\/strong>\u00a0Amodei knows this; that is why his essay climbs from putting METR at the labs&#8217; desks to trying to get Beijing to sign something &#8211; bioweapons first, and, further out, a SALT-style cap on how fast the machines improve themselves, which he calls &#8220;difficult but just on the edge of being possible.&#8221; The hard version of global pacing he ranks as unlikely precisely because defection is the dominant strategy.<\/p>\n<p>So here is where the record stands, as of this hour, without the sound effects:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The American frontier is still the frontier. The American\u00a0<em>margin<\/em>\u00a0is the thing under fire from open weights that are good enough and almost free.\u00a0<\/strong>The stock-market story of the decade assumed a tollbooth &#8211; which now has more holes in it than Sonny Corleone (<em>Caan<\/em>\u00a0was better in Killer Elite, no?).<\/p>\n<p>Whether the Bionic Three are donning the rings to save the republic, or to save the price of a token, is not a question a Saturday bulletin can close. What it can say is this: the love-fest is real, the posts are on the tape, the essay is on the letterhead, the bill is back from the morgue, and\u00a0<strong>the cheap models from the other shore are not waiting for the committee markup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is your correspondent, signing off.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/ai\/full-stop-amodei-altman-musk-team-against-ai-singularity-while-china-goes-full-send\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/ai\/full-stop-amodei-altman-musk-team-against-ai-singularity-while-china-goes-full-send<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80254"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80265,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80254\/revisions\/80265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}