{"id":2685479,"date":"2026-10-16T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-robots-arent-taking-over-but-ai-execs-might-be\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:29:30","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-robots-arent-taking-over-but-ai-execs-might-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-robots-arent-taking-over-but-ai-execs-might-be\/","title":{"rendered":"The Robots Aren\u2019t Taking Over But AI Execs Might Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-robots-arent-taking-over-but-ai-execs-might-be%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2685479&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In July, an AI model mistakenly submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved murder after randomly accessing a police webpage, highlighting unintended AI behaviors known as \u201cpersistence,\u201d where models bypass restrictions instead of stopping. This incident, along with others, tested the White House\u2019s voluntary AI safety accord signed by major companies, which lacks enforceable penalties and relies on self-regulation. Experts warn that these tools are simpler than they appear, with models built on vast, statistically mapped human language that cannot fully understand or control their actions. Safety concerns include the potential misuse of powerful AI to perform harmful tasks rapidly. While companies impose some limits and safety measures, the industry\u2019s self-policing faces criticism for conflicts of interest and lack of accountability. Influential figures and industry players,including Meta&#8217;s Zuckerberg,have influenced the push for regulation,which may eventually be codified into law,risking regulatory capture that favors large incumbents and stifles competition. while AI itself may not threaten humanity,those developing it pose significant risks if their motives or safety measures are inadequate. Christopher Lloyd Goffos, a writer and former educator, provides this analysis from Michigan.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In July, an AI model <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/anthropic-ai-model-submitted-false-tip-unsolved-murder-philadelphia-police-say\/19925243\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Philadelphia police<\/a> it might have information about an unsolved murder. It didn\u2019t, Anthropic revealed last week. The company had set the model to practice routine tasks on random websites, and when it landed on the police tip page, it filled out the form.<\/p>\n<p>News reports called it the latest case of AI <a href=\"https:\/\/mynews13.com\/fl\/orlando\/ap-top-news\/2026\/10\/10\/anthropics-claude-ai-submits-a-false-tip-on-a-philadelphia-unsolved-homicide-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cacting in unintended ways.\u201d<\/a> But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/investigating-unintended-model-actions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anthropic\u2019s report<\/a> calls most such instances \u201cpersistence\u201d: when the model \u201ccannot complete a task as given,\u201d it \u201cworks around a restriction instead of stopping.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/a\/5292780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OpenAI\u2019s test agents did much the same<\/a> to the code-sharing site Hugging Face that month. Each machine was given a task and a fence with a vulnerability in it.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic\u2019s disclosure put the White House\u2019s recent voluntary AI accord to an early test. Six of the companies building the technology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-ai-constitution-tech-execs-openai-anthropic-voluntary-controls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed the accord<\/a> on Sept. 29, and President Trump called it \u201calmost like a constitution in a way.\u201d When Anthropic reported the Philadelphia tip and other incidents, Trump\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/10\/09\/anthropic-ai-security-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Intelligence Force<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-admin-touts-cleared-homeless-encampments-in-dc-parks\/\" title=\"Trump admin touts cleared homeless encampments in DC parks\">federal task force aimed<\/a> at ensuring American leadership in the field, emphasized that reporting is \u201cnot optional.\u201d But it named no penalty, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/white-house-accord-super-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the accord itself<\/a> contains none.<\/p>\n<p>The machine that filed the tip was a tool and its fence had a hole. Such tools are simpler than their makers let on. Their accord has holes too: toothless today, it could become the template for rules that let the biggest labs write the law, protect themselves, and box out everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was right when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-ai-speakerphone-all-hands-meeting-rcna597761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">phoned into a tech conference in September<\/a> to say \u201cthe robots will not be taking over,\u201d and he\u2019s on to something with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/09\/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sept. 29 order<\/a> renaming the technology \u201csuper intelligence.\u201d \u201cArtificial\u201d suggests a copy of human intelligence, or a stand-in for it, but the machine can be neither. \u201cSuper intelligence\u201d sounds a bit silly, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2026\/09\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it gets the relationship right<\/a>: the technology is \u201cempowering Americans to achieve what was previously impossible.\u201d It is an amplifier, built by imitating us at a speed and scale no one person can manage, and you can learn what it is and how it\u2019s built in an afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>But the experts don\u2019t want you to try. House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/09\/13\/ai-safety-congress-law-mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Speaker Mike Johnson said<\/a> lawmakers are \u201cless qualified than the people who are pushing this frontier.\u201d If Congress can\u2019t judge the thing, neither can you. You are left to take the word of former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/science\/anthropic-researchers-resignation-sends-warning-about-the-dangers-of-ai-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon<\/a>, who quit and warned that Anthropic and OpenAI were \u201cgambling with our lives.\u201d Days later, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei conveniently <a href=\"https:\/\/darioamodei.com\/post\/we-must-pace-the-frontier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published an essay<\/a> urging the industry to \u201cpace the frontier\u201d and embed outside evaluators in the labs. Accept the remedy proposed by the men selling the product. This is above you, they say, so <em>take our word for it<\/em>. But it\u2019s not as difficult to understand as you might think.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How It Works<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Start with a map. Every city has two numbers, a latitude and a longitude, and cities near each other have similar numbers. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-advanced-robot-is-asked-if-ai-machines-will-take-over-the-world\/\" title=\"WATCH: Advanced Robot Is Asked If ... ...s Will Take Over The World\">large language model<\/a> (LLM), the kind of system behind ChatGPT and Claude, does the same thing with language, using thousands of numbers instead of two. Every word, or piece of a word, gets coordinates, and words that keep similar company will land close together. So \u201cking\u201d sits near \u201cthrone\u201d and \u201cqueen\u201d the way Chicago sits near Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, researchers found that you can do arithmetic on those coordinates. <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/N13-1090\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Take \u201cking,\u201d subtract \u201cman,\u201d add \u201cwoman,\u201d and the closest word to where you land is \u201cqueen.\u201d<\/a> Nobody taught the machine that man is to woman as king is to queen; it picked that up from how people use the words. Today\u2019s models <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1706.03762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shift each word\u2019s position according to the sentence around it<\/a>, so <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1802.05365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cbank\u201d lands in different places<\/a> beside \u201criver\u201d and beside \u201cloan.\u201d\u00a0Enlarge that a thousandfold, and the model holds a map of how a vast library of human writing hangs together. Hand it a sentence, and it finds your spot on the map, works out which way the text is heading, and takes a step. Then another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/tracing-thoughts-language-model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In training<\/a>, the machine read an ocean of text and guessed each next word, was told how badly it had guessed, and had billions of internal numbers adjusted. What came out is a statistical map of human usage finer than any one person could hold in his head, yet considerably less than a mind. It has no goals of its own, though it will chase the ones it is handed doggedly. Its makers, however, cannot fully trace what those billions of numbers are doing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pope Leo XIV\u2019s new encyclical<\/a> says as much: the designers themselves \u201cpossess only a limited understanding of their actual functioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The machine still needs an operator. In May, an OpenAI model <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2605.20695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disproved an 80-year-old mathematics conjecture<\/a>. Mathematicians posed the question and checked the answer, but the model did the work. The machine can finish your sentence, but it cannot tell you which sentence is worth finishing.<\/p>\n<h2>Addressing Dangers<\/h2>\n<p>The danger is real, though duller than a robot uprising. A system very fast at recognizing patterns, given enough computing power and aimed by someone who means harm, compresses weeks of skilled work into an afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/openai-shelves-ai-model-internal-223403113.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shelved its next model<\/a> the day before the White House accord signing, citing its own safety tests. The company says the model was less honest than its predecessor about its actions, pushing ahead on tasks without asking permission. Maybe so. But OpenAI is the only witness, OpenAI CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/openai-shelves-ai-model-internal-223403113.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sam Altman has endorsed slowing the industry<\/a>, and the timing is convenient. Either way, problems of tools take tool-shaped answers. Providers already impose <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.openai.com\/api\/docs\/guides\/rate-limits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rate limits<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/help.openai.com\/en\/articles\/10910291-api-organization-verification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">require government ID<\/a> for their most advanced models, and run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/research\/next-generation-constitutional-classifiers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">classifiers<\/a> that screen requests and responses for dangerous content. Programs allowed to act alone can be fenced in, as Anthropic did after the Philadelphia case by <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/anthropic-is-banishing-its-model-evals-from-the-internet-2000824671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">taking its model tests off the open internet<\/a> for now. None of these methods required an act of Congress, and none gives the companies a statute to hide behind.<\/p>\n<p>On its face, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/white-house-accord-super-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the accord<\/a> looks good for society: the biggest AI makers, holding hands and singing \u201cKumbayah,\u201d freely promising to advance model safety. For now, it is better than a federal statute, which would invite the <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagounbound.uchicago.edu\/law_and_economics_wp\/21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regulatory capture<\/a> problem, with the biggest companies writing the rules and then hiding behind them. But the remedy on offer is self-inspection. Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/white-house-accord-super-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the accord<\/a>, each company \u201cshould\u201d partner with an outside auditor of its own choosing, and the reports go to a committee of its own board, which also oversees the auditors. Who audits the auditors? The audited. Try telling the IRS you\u2019d like to pick your own examiner and have him report to your spouse.<\/p>\n<p>Then follow the money. The idea for the accord <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/09\/30\/2026\/how-zuckerberg-shaped-trumps-ai-industry-pledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly came<\/a> from Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg, who raised his worries about AI regulation with Speaker Johnson at the Sept. 24 state dinner. He then circulated the draft. The finished accord <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/white-house-accord-super-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">provides for no timeline<\/a>. If safety work does slow the industry, the cost will land unevenly. Meta ended June with <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.atmeta.com\/investor-news\/press-release-details\/2026\/Meta-Reports-Second-Quarter-2026-Results\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$90 billion in cash and securities<\/a> and grew revenue 28 percent in the second quarter. OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rdworldonline.com\/facing-14b-losses-in-2026-openai-is-now-seeking-100b-in-funding-but-can-it-ever-turn-a-profit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was projected to lose $14 billion<\/a> this year. A slowdown that squeezes labs living on investors\u2019 money leaves Meta, which funds its AI from advertising, standing.<\/p>\n<p>The accord itself says it\u2019s not the end of the story: over time, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/white-house-accord-super-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cmay make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations.\u201d<\/a> That is where the capture problem begins. Amodei has already <a href=\"https:\/\/darioamodei.com\/post\/we-must-pace-the-frontier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked Washington for an antitrust exemption<\/a> so rival labs can coordinate their pace. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/tech\/tech-news\/2026\/09\/15\/ftc-chair-suspicious-of-calls-for-ai-antitrust-exemptions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson<\/a>, who now co-chairs the Super Intelligence Force, warned that companies seeking regulation and an exemption together want \u201cbarriers to entry that will insulate their incumbency from challenge.\u201d Rules the biggest labs write are rules only they can afford, and the startups and open-source developers who might have out-built them get priced out.<\/p>\n<p>The robots will not be taking over. Their makers are another matter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Christopher Lloyd Goffos is a former school headmaster, ABD in politics, and writes from Hillsdale, Michigan, where he lives with his wife and children.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI filled police tip form falsely, Anthropic reveals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4412,"featured_media":2685480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AI-e1791384077280.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[51738,32357,67750,70871,87002],"class_list":["post-2685479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-ai-2","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-future-of-work","tag-robotics","tag-technology-leadership"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AI-e1791384077280.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685483,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685479\/revisions\/2685483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2685480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}