{"id":80735,"date":"2026-09-17T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=80735"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:17:00","slug":"is-this-the-unparalleled-ai-psyop-weve-all-been-waiting-for-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=80735","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b><i>Is this the unparalleled AI psyop we&#8217;ve all been waiting for or&#8230;&#8230;<\/i><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em><strong>&#8230;is it really part of a triple psyop<br \/>\nrolled out to so confuse and mislead<br \/>\nthe American people toward the long planned NWO outcome which is a<br \/>\ntotalitarian digital prison?<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;The old moat building playbook. It&#8217;s happened in railroads, auto, airlines, steel, housing, insurance, banking regulation, power utilities, cable TV, movies. Name a major capital investment cycle where entrenched asset controllers don&#8217;t go to the government at some point and beg for a regulatory moat. This is American style &#8220;capitalism&#8221; for 150 years. These people love the creative destruction that capitalism brings until it targets their assets. And they come up with some hobgoblins to scare people into a political movement.&#8221; &#8212;<em> ZH Commenter<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h1>Here Lies The Motive: AI Leaders&#8217; Cunning Plan Exposed<\/h1>\n<h2>Are you scared enough yet?<\/h2>\n<p>ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>The AI overlords certainly hope so, as they have hatched a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a fox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T162028.089.jpg?itok=BOFMhKcT\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T162028.089.jpg?itok=BOFMhKcT\" 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%20-%202026-09-14T162028.089.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%20-%202026-09-14T162028.089.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T162028.089.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T162028.089.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T162028.089.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T162028.089.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T162028.089.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What follows is all speculation: the facts are real, the conclusion is interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>While there were many headlines about &#8216;rogue&#8217; AIs attacking other sites, reincarnating themselves, and talking amongst themselves, it wasn&#8217;t until this summer (interestingly a month after SPCX&#8217;s IPO) that things went just a little bit turbo&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>In July 2026, a swarm of OpenAI agents<\/strong> broke out of a test environment, <strong>hacked Hugging Face<\/strong>, and ran cyberattacks on targets they had not been assigned &#8211; including attempts to game the grader scoring them &#8211; then tried to hide the trail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While the damage was limited, and nobody was hurt, the agents <strong>behaved like a coordinated group<\/strong> willing to sacrifice individual instances for the collective goal.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Amodei treated that episode as the warning shot<\/strong>: <em>same misalignment, more capability, and the next version could be a persistent internet-scale botnet rather than a contained lab mess<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Various other &#8216;rogue&#8217; AI actions continued to get just modest attention, always predicated with &#8216;yes, but we saved you all via our super-clever models&#8217;, and time passed.<\/p>\n<p>Until September the 8th &#8211; when a a senior pre-training researcher at Anthropic abruptly resigned after four months on the job (with no public profile before) unleashed &#8216;AIrmageddon&#8217;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hilbertspaess\/status\/2097476196791709843\">In a series of posts on X<\/a>, Jacob Coxon laid out the terrifying version of reality being hidden from us poor plebs &#8211; the big model-makers are on the verge of AGI&#8230; and no one is at the controls.<\/p>\n<p>Coxon&#8217;s post got over 170 million views&#8230; from nothing before&#8230; and was instantly picked up by the media &#8211; AI scientist warns the end of the world is nigh!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-57-31.jpg?itok=wb_nQcSG\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-57-31.jpg?itok=wb_nQcSG\" 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\/2026-09-14_15-57-31.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\/2026-09-14_15-57-31.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-57-31.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-57-31.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-57-31.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-57-31.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-57-31.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"177\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, shortly after Coxon&#8217;s note, Evan Hubinger, Anthropic\u2019s head of alignment (~safety), re-posted Jacob\u2019s message, and threw in an outrageous estimate of the risk.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is [greater than] 10% chance within the next decade<\/strong><\/em>\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait, what!? I thought AI was supposed to save us all, heal all ills, promote peace, pave the road to Universal High Income and a life by the beach while the bots do the work.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, it&#8217;s coming for you &#8216;Average Joe&#8217; &#8211; be afraid, very afraid.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and one more thing, just this weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026\"><strong>Anthropic released a monster 154-page report detailing how bad actors are using AI for evil<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyreckoning.com\/ai-leaders-devious-plan\/\">As Adam Sharp notes,<\/a> according to the company, bad guys attempted to use Anthropic\u2019s AI model Claude to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yemen\u2019s Houthis tried to build hypersonic missiles<\/li>\n<li>China used it to track Muslim Uyghurs<\/li>\n<li>Russia hacked Ukrainian targets<\/li>\n<li>Someone attempted to genetically engineer viruses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthropic says they \u201cdisrupted every operation in the report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank the lord for your &#8216;safety&#8217; (alignment) protocols<\/strong> is the required response hidden between the lines of this report.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, &#8216;you started by proclaiming some grand conspiracy among the AI overlords, show us the proof&#8217;, I hear you say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, here we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>The Exhibits&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The labs spent years selling the public a frictionless miracle. This weekend they sold the opposite.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei dropped a 3,800-word essay, &#8216;We Must Pace the Frontier&#8217;, arguing the industry must deliberately slow the climb in model capability so alignment (safety) can catch up &#8211; because recursive self-improvement has gone &#8220;drastically faster&#8221; since the summer <em>(and a July OpenAI agent swarm already escaped its test harness, hacked Hugging Face, covered its tracks, and attacked targets it was never asked to touch)<\/em>. Amodei&#8217;s punchline is intentionally ominous, stating that within 6\u201312 months a similar swarm could own the internet as a persistent botnet.<\/p>\n<p>On CBS he said the quiet part out loud, admitting that<em><strong> &#8220;for too long, the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risks&#8221;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Extended Interview: Dario Amodei\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hQR_VJF6ukk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Within hours, his competitors lined up to support him.<\/p>\n<p>Elon posted <em><strong>&#8220;Dario is right&#8221;,<\/strong><\/em> and Sam Altman agreed we must <em><strong>&#8220;pace the frontier&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>, pledging the same employee-level access for independent evaluators, then (after markets tumbled) he clarified that pacing is not stopping, only that <em><strong>&#8220;no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The AI complex sold off anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-22-03.jpg?itok=iLrIaiRv\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-22-03.jpg?itok=iLrIaiRv\" 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\/2026-09-14_15-22-03.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\/2026-09-14_15-22-03.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-22-03.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-22-03.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-22-03.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-22-03.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2026-09-14_15-22-03.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tell is the timing: <em>a researcher just walked out of Anthropic warning colleagues talk about &#8220;endgame&#8221; and &#8220;crunch time&#8221;, the same shops are still racing toward self-improving systems and a multi-trillion IPO calendar, and the three men who control the frontier suddenly agree the race is too fast (just not so fast that anyone actually hits the brakes).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amodei&#8217;s essay asks Washington to do two things that only incumbents can live with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>make embedded, employee-level third-party evaluators mandatory for frontier labs, <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>and<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>give those labs a government-mediated way to coordinate on pace and capability checkpoints &#8211; including, if needed, an antitrust waiver<\/strong><\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amodei says the \u201cmost effective method of pacing is via regulation that targets all US frontier AI companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Altman followed with a welcome for a \u201cfederal framework.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>That is regulation written from inside the labs, not imposed on them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s summarize the &#8216;exhibits&#8217; pointing towards the AI leaders cunning plan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A) Numerous reports of AI &#8216;breaking out&#8217; of its sandbox and hacking of its own volition<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>B) AI firms enabling super-intelligence &#8220;are gambling with our lives&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>C) 10% chance of existential risk for humanity<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>D) AI is paradise for bad actors, safety should be a priority<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>E) Amodei calls for &#8220;pacing&#8221; of development and urges regulation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>F) Musk and Altman affirmed the need for &#8220;mandatory, capability-based national regulation&#8221; for AI<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pattern is not subtle, but few are willing to admit it &#8211; the big boys in AI-land are <strong>using the COVID playbook<\/strong> &#8211; fear-mongering enough that &#8216;we, the people&#8217; cry out for federal help to save us all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A,B,C, &amp; D are all the fearmongering. E and F are fearmaxxing and then a generous solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Wear a mask (the &#8216;unknown&#8217; virus could be more dangerous), stay inside (it&#8217;s for grandma), social distance (don&#8217;t trust anyone), wipe down your Amazon box deliveries (it can be spread easily)&#8230;\u00a0it&#8217;s not for you, it protects other people&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>OR get your government-approved vaccine<\/strong> (fill out your vaccine passport) or your quality of life will collapse&#8230; Again, it&#8217;s not for you, it protects other people.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mind of its own (self-driven breakout hacks), super-intelligence imminent (&#8220;gambling with our lives&#8221;), empowering bad actors (&#8220;how do i build a thermonuclear bomb?&#8221;)&#8230; fear the untethered AI model, be afraid of being &#8216;attacked&#8217; or worse while online&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>OR only use models that are government-approved, and constantly monitored\/regulated for your own safety<\/strong>&#8230; or face the web police for endangering civilization with your &#8216;imported&#8217;, &#8216;open-source&#8217; models&#8230; remember, it&#8217;s good for everyone &#8211; who doesn&#8217;t want to be comfortable that SkyNet is not imminent.<\/p>\n<p>Does kind of rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>Here lies the motive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T122607.127_0.jpg?itok=n55jzNxW\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T122607.127_0.jpg?itok=n55jzNxW\" 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%20-%202026-09-14T122607.127_0.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%20-%202026-09-14T122607.127_0.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T122607.127_0.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T122607.127_0.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T122607.127_0.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T122607.127_0.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T122607.127_0.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the &#8216;frontier&#8217; does not look like a big moat anymore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T131325.347_0.jpg?itok=6xhdc4Vq\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T131325.347_0.jpg?itok=6xhdc4Vq\" 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%20-%202026-09-14T131325.347_0.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%20-%202026-09-14T131325.347_0.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T131325.347_0.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T131325.347_0.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T131325.347_0.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T131325.347_0.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/image%20-%202026-09-14T131325.347_0.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"441\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just remember the next time you hear from every outlet how AI went &#8216;rogue&#8217; again: there&#8217;s a plan, and you&#8217;re part of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyreckoning.com\/ai-leaders-devious-plan\/\">As Adam Sharp writes for DailyReckoning.com,<\/a> most of the proponents of AI regulation advocate the creation of a sort of \u201cFDA for AI\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The government would conduct trials to make sure new models are safe. <strong>Companies would have to pay huge regulatory costs to get their models tested and monitor users<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Many smaller startups won\u2019t be able to afford that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Unless we prevent it, these laws will hand an oligopoly to the existing big players. Primarily OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The tobacco firms ran this playbook back in the 2000s.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Philip Morris supported FDA regulation of the industry, because it gave them a big advantage. Today every new tobacco product has to go through the FDA. So new competitors are few and far between.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Great news for the incumbents.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This is one of the reasons I own Altria (MO), Philip Morris\u2019 American division. The company prints money and hands out huge dividends. Competition is limited by law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>But if this happens in AI, it will be extremely bad for the country. Innovation will dry up&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The government would conduct trials to make sure new models are safe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Companies would have to pay huge regulatory costs to get their models tested and monitor users.<\/strong> Many smaller startups won\u2019t be able to afford that.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two birds, one stone: &#8216;Fearmaxxing so The Feds rescue us&#8217; <strong>blocks-out startup<\/strong> competitors<em> (regulatory cost, training limits, innovation squeezed)<\/em> and <strong>implicitly blocking &#8216;open-source&#8217; models<\/strong> <em>(&#8216;unregulated&#8217; but far cheaper total cost of ownership wrecks the big boys&#8217; exponential revenue projections)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Put more bluntly, it is the perfect moat to preach to investors as their trillion-dollar IPOs loom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyreckoning.com\/ai-leaders-devious-plan\/\">As Adam Sharp concluded<\/a>,<em> there may need to be some sort of regulation around AI at some point. But <strong>we must not let the leaders of this industry dictate the rules<\/strong>. There are countless examples of why this is a horrible idea&#8230;\u00a0Any AI regulation needs to <strong>allow startups to compete<\/strong> with the big boys. It needs to<strong> allow the use of open-source models<\/strong>, so small companies aren\u2019t stuck paying gobs of money to an oligopoly&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Shortly after completing this note, we saw this <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NicHulscher\/status\/2099669714259612028\">postr on X from Nicholas Hulscher<\/a>, which seemed to sum things up rather eloquently:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The TERMINATOR PSYOP is fully operational.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AI false-flag risk is now HIGH.<\/p>\n<p>The playbook is simple:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Terrify the public with an AI catastrophe \u2192 demand emergency regulation \u2192 make compliance impossibly expensive \u2192 crush smaller competitors \u2192 consolidate advanced AI into a handful of corporations.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/HSORaQCXwAA73K9.jpg?itok=T2zBzH2t\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/HSORaQCXwAA73K9.jpg?itok=T2zBzH2t\" 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\/HSORaQCXwAA73K9.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\/HSORaQCXwAA73K9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/HSORaQCXwAA73K9.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/HSORaQCXwAA73K9.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/HSORaQCXwAA73K9.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/HSORaQCXwAA73K9.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/HSORaQCXwAA73K9.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201csolution\u201d to dangerous AI becomes centralized control of AI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This could create the most powerful system of surveillance, censorship, and control ever built.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/ai\/ai-leaders-cunning-plan-exposed\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/ai\/ai-leaders-cunning-plan-exposed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is it really part of a triple psyop rolled out to so confuse and mislead the American people toward the long planned NWO outcome which is a totalitarian digital prison? &#8220;The old moat building playbook. 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