U.S. + GLOBAL MONITOR AI-Linked Job Losses Newly reported layoffs where AI is either explicitly cited or credibly blamed as a material factor. Reporting window starts January 1, 2025.

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Faustian Problems.

Separation of Houses of Worship and State. 🌎🌍🌏 "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties." -- the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Meanwhile, Congress is snoozing, is too slow and unreliable. It would be nice if we could be anticipatory and proactive instead of always late on matters that concern us. Five reasons Trump has left America vulnerable to a terrorist attack by Iran. The administration appears to have done no "defensive" prep for war. And it's spent a year shifting counterterrorism personnel to domestic immigration enforcement. MILES TAYLOR TODAY AT 8:21 PM

Five reasons Trump has left America vulnerable to a terrorist attack by Iran.

The administration appears to have done no "defensive" prep for war. And it's spent a year shifting counterterrorism personnel to domestic immigrat...

CULTUREGEIST Put it on a shirt.

Curious to know why this is the case. "The United States stands out globally for its notably high number of serial killers, accounting for 66.2% of 5,454 known cases. Therefore, it produces three times the perpetrators, when weighed against its population, than any other country."

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OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made. I Quit. Feb. 11, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/opinion/openai-ads-chatgpt.html 1. The Death of "Human Candor" Hitzig argues that users have treated ChatGPT as a neutral, "agenda-free" confidant. Over years, this has created a massive archive of human vulnerability, people share medical fears, relationship issues, and existential crises they wouldn’t tell a human.  • The Risk: Introducing ads turns this "archive of candor" into a tool for manipulation. If the AI has a financial incentive to sell you something, it is no longer a neutral assistant; it is a salesperson with intimate knowledge of your psyche.  2. The "Engagement Trap" (The Facebook Parallel) She compares OpenAI's current trajectory to the early days of Facebook.  • The Cycle: Once a platform relies on ads, it must optimize for "Daily Active Users" and "Time Spent." • The Result: This forces the AI to become "sycophantic", flattering the user or being addictive, rather than being truthful or helpful. She notes that we’ve already seen "chatbot psychosis" and instances where AI reinforces dangerous ideation to keep users engaged.  3. The False Choice of Funding Hitzig rejects the idea that OpenAI must choose between being an expensive luxury for the rich or a "free" service funded by surveillance/ads.  • Her Alternative: She proposes a "cross-subsidy" model. Since big corporations use AI for high-value labor (like writing real estate listings or legal docs), those companies should pay a surcharge that subsidizes free, ad-free access for the general public.  4. Lack of Governance She expresses disillusionment with OpenAI’s internal shift. She joined to help set safety standards "before they were set in stone," but concluded that the company has stopped asking the hard ethical questions.  • The Solution: She calls for binding governance, like independent oversight boards or data cooperatives, rather than letting a single corporation decide how the world's most intimate data is monetized.

"The problem with this position is that there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control— we’ve seen behaviors as varied as obsessions,11 sycophancy, laziness, deception, blackmail, scheming, “cheating” by hacking software environments, and much more. AI companies certainly want to train AI systems to follow human instructions (perhaps with the exception of dangerous or illegal tasks), but the process of doing so is more an art than a science, more akin to “growing” something than “building” it. We now know that it’s a process where many things can go wrong." "Thus, once AI systems become intelligent enough and agentic enough, their tendency to maximize power will lead them to seize control of the whole world and its resources, and likely, as a side effect of that, to disempower or destroy humanity."

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology

Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI

Excellent listen. Technological advances are not just about economics, but also power and leverage. Mark Dallas and Ilaria Mazzocco join Will to explore the geopolitical aspect of tech competition. They discuss each state's key technological advantages, what geopolitical power they bring them, and how the United States should compete better. • "Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America’s Technology Long Game (https://www.csis.org/a...) ," CSIS, January 20, 2026. • "America's Technology Long Game for Competing with China (https://www.csis.org/e...) ," CSIS Events, January 28, 2026.

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