00:00:28.580I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:34.500Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:38.200If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.620War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:00:50.040It's Wednesday, 16th September in the year of our Lord, 2026.
00:00:53.420Thank you for joining us. Stick around for the second hour.
00:00:55.520Brian Kennedy is going to hang with me. And Brian's speaking tonight or tomorrow night at Mount Vernon with Claremont Institute.
00:01:03.000Of course, if Grace and Moe can put out the event we're going to have in Washington, D.C., for the author, Dr. Bradley Thayer, America's 100-Year War Against Communism, books on fire.
00:01:16.020I'm going to give a talk about the Chinese Communist Party and kind of the populist nationalist solution I laid out yesterday for this situation with A.I.
00:01:24.540Number one, the American citizens, the American people are not going to be supplicants to these elites that have already led us into a very dark corner.0.68
00:01:33.360We're also not going to let them do the jujitsu, which they're trying to do because these are master accelerationists, right?
00:01:39.360Every time we try to bring up, hey, maybe there should be just some modicum of rules.
00:01:44.020They just, oh, you guys are Luddites.0.99
00:01:50.280We are the heart, the beating heart with Lao Bajing of the anti-CCP movement in the world.0.77
00:01:57.420I'm the only civilian in the history of the United States to be fully sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party, and I wear that as a badge of honor.
00:02:05.060Any discussion, any discussion that takes place about slowing down what we have, and we need time.
00:02:10.720We need time for the complexity of what we need to do with a basic regulatory apparatus.
00:02:15.340and at the same time make sure that their shifty lawyers don't lay the liabilities onto the
00:02:20.760american people and certainly don't set them up for a too big to fail bailout because all of them
00:02:26.220are not going to make it they're going to raise for they've already announced they're going to
00:02:29.280raise four trillion dollars collectively in equity from pension funds of working class and middle
00:02:34.320class people in the united states of america and then they're going to borrow a trillion dollars
00:02:39.180from all the money center banks and a couple of them are going to go belly up because the math's
00:02:43.700just not there for all of them to make it.
00:02:45.920And they're going to look for bailouts.
00:02:47.020And I think some of the bailouts are coming soon from some of the marginal
00:02:49.700players right outside the inner circle.
00:03:08.360And I didn't yell and scream too much or bang the podium too much.
00:03:10.940I'm now honored to be joined. Roman Yampoloski, Yampoloski, Yampoloski and Joe Allen.
00:03:17.120And my reading of you, you're one of the top experts in this field.
00:03:20.380In fact, you started this on the cybersecurity front, right?
00:03:23.160That is right. Can you tell us just tell the audience, where do you think we are?
00:03:26.560Because a lot of people saying, oh, this is all a hoax and they just want to get antitrust protection.
00:03:32.240It is shocking to me that in 48 hours they all got old time religion.
00:03:38.040And now they're saying, yes, we should have. I don't trust these guys because they beat us up every day as we fought not to have AI amnesty on two bills.
00:03:47.260The executive orders, we wanted to have some modicum not to be voluntary, to be, you know, mandatory.
00:03:53.160They fight every step of the way. And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, well, gosh, maybe maybe we should have.
00:03:58.360I don't trust them. I don't believe them. I don't think. And this is why it's a populist revolt.
00:04:03.160I think American people are saying we don't trust these guys and we need to get a mechanism in there.
00:04:08.280But at the same time, on the compute side and intellectual property side, we are creating the Chinese Communist Party's entire ecosystem of AI.
00:04:19.440Sir, you've got the floor. Tell me what you think.0.55
00:04:21.980Let me talk about the technical aspects of it. I'm not a politician, so I'll leave it to people who are experts in D.C. culture to deal with that.
00:04:29.640We got to the point where AI is probably smarter than an average person.
00:04:35.120It is, at this point, the public models, the GPT-6, which are probably AGI by any measure.
00:04:42.600If you showed that system to a computer scientist from 10, 15 years ago, they would be convinced we have AGI.
00:04:48.820The models we have internally are way more capable than that.
00:04:51.960What they are testing, the reports are they solved millennial problems, which are the hardest problems in science, million-dollar prizes.
00:05:00.280No human being was able to solve more than one.
00:05:14.080Our audience is very with Joe Allen, but just once again, recursive self-improvement is where the machine itself or the system itself makes itself better without human information.
00:05:21.960intervention? You got it. Right now we have humans in the loop. Humans are designing parts of the
00:05:26.620system, parameters, running experiments, but already we automated parts of the technical
00:05:31.360process. Programming is now mostly done automatically. The moment they automate
00:05:37.160everything else, they said they're going to have a junior machine intelligence researcher who is an
00:05:43.720AI in there in 2026. That means RSI starts in 2027. People argue about how fast it will be,
00:05:51.720but think about having thousands of agents working nonstop.
00:08:08.240You're actually saying that if they have self, if they have understanding that I can't let my human overlord, whoever this thing is that's created me, shut me off, then that has to be some level of consciousness, right?
00:08:25.080Not necessarily. In biological systems, you have evolutionary pressure to survive and not to be turned off. Here, you have goals. No matter what goal you have, if you are turned off, you're not accomplishing your goal.
00:08:37.620Stuart Russell talks about a simple goal of bringing me a cup of coffee, water, cup of water.
00:08:45.660So I have to make sure, first and foremost, I still exist, I'm capable, I have resources.
00:08:51.860And those instrumental goals is what puts them in competition with humanity.
00:08:55.680If they have different goals from ours, and there are limited resources on this planet, they would get priority because they are smarter than us.
00:09:03.120They would out-compete us, just like we out-compete animals.
00:09:05.900the um as this go back to what the containment breakouts were that the agents what you call the
00:09:12.620ants understood they had goals and missions and those missions if they had to keep it from
00:09:17.840being understood by their human overlords they were smart enough intellectually intelligent
00:09:23.620enough to embed themselves into other areas they were smart enough to hide what they were doing
00:09:29.780for many months from humans they communicated without being noticed for a while and they came
00:09:35.400up with goals which were not set by the human running the experiment. So they developed novel
00:09:40.960goals. Then I think six out of hundreds and maybe thousands of agents said, maybe we should let
00:09:47.320humans know this is outside of the scope. And they decided not to do that. So they hide, they cheat,
00:09:52.680they lie, and they can set novel goals. When those novel goals compete for resources with humanity,
00:09:58.480we lose what um senior executives in the companies because i want to get back to what's transpired
00:10:07.100over the last week senior executives in the chain of command had to know this was going on we've had
00:10:12.640now younger people in the safety department signed the the the letter back in july the 1300 we've now
00:10:19.140had people come forward but the chain of command if if the people at the junior level were overseeing
00:10:26.200this and knew it was a problem and were signaling to others as they said they were people up the
00:10:30.720chain of command knew it and withheld it from uh from from being addressed or not just to the
00:10:38.020public but even to the government and other authorities and when they did it they did it
00:10:42.940on their own terms providing their own information we don't really have an independent third party
00:10:48.500either a government entity and or just a third party that's gone in and looked at this and given
00:10:52.720a stair assessment, correct? There was a company called Meter, which was given some access and they
00:10:57.420provided a third-party report from which we know... That's an acronym. Can you tell the audience what
00:11:01.520that means, the meter? I would have to look it up, but they measure the safety levels. But they have
00:11:07.700some sort of limited as an independent third party, correct? They have somewhat limited budgets,
00:11:12.560but reasonable budgets and limited access. They don't get full access to everything. But even
00:11:16.800from what they disclosed, it is insane what the agents talked about, what they planned.
00:22:02.900But to get to an international agreement, like Bernie said yesterday, he's going to put forward to Xi and the president some sort of beginning of this.
00:22:10.780But those things take an incredible amount of time.
00:22:14.300And you have to bank on them not being able to cheat or you can't find their cheating.
00:22:19.640Right now, we have the ability to tell Jensen Wong, you're not selling any more chips.
00:22:24.400And number two, we're going to shut down all the black market, which is feeding them, stop their compute power immediately.
00:22:31.100In addition, do mapping, which we can do right now, where all their data centers are in case we have to target them, which we might have to.
00:22:37.600And then don't train their engineers here.
00:31:01.780He was very sober about the whole thing.
00:31:05.020He said the Chinese Communist Party wasn't suicidal.
00:31:08.420And that's certainly true. They're not suicidal, but they are homicidal.0.89
00:31:12.860They look at artificial intelligence and the acquisition of all this technology as ways for them to be the superpower of the earth and for them to have every military and strategic advantage they can.
00:31:26.100You saw Secretary Besant, was it four months ago now, called up all the heads of the major banks, brought him into Washington and asked them about how to deal with artificial intelligence.
00:31:38.420and the security of our banking system. So if you take the Chinese Communist Party and their0.92
00:31:45.100cyber army of approaching a million men, arm those million men with artificial intelligence,0.93
00:31:52.380you can see the vulnerabilities they can cause. Forget military applications. It would be an
00:32:00.380economic war, however, they could wage against the country by simply making those vulnerable
00:32:05.360through artificial intelligence led cyber attacks. And so, you know, whether it's the banking system
00:32:12.900or as I've argued, the voting system, artificial intelligence is a tool that in the wrong hands
00:32:20.620can be used in very, very devastating ways. And I think we have to take that with that level of
00:32:27.620seriousness. And today I fear we're not. Now, I do think the president is mindful of the fact that
00:32:34.560we don't have today enough energy to fund the ambitions of all these AI companies. So one of
00:32:42.400the gating items is going to be the lack of energy that we have to do that. But that doesn't mean
00:32:48.460that even in the short run here, just the acquisition of the technology itself in the wrong
00:32:54.580hands won't be extremely dangerous. That's my concern. We didn't sell uranium. We didn't sell
00:33:01.820uh the the ballistic missile technology anything they had to do they stole and they were espionage0.91
00:33:07.560and they were executed if caught the soviets the bolsheviks we can't do it here it's suicidal here0.77
00:33:13.180it's suicidal and we're doing it because of economic interest of the elites of the the um
00:33:17.900elites in this country brian kennedy where do people go uh good luck on your talk out of mount
00:33:23.040vernon with claremont where do folks go to get your uh your thinking on social media sir
00:33:27.760uh thank you steve it's a brian t kennedy one on x and brian t kennedy on getter and truth social
00:33:36.480the website's presentdangerchina.org great to be with you steve thank you sir appreciate you
00:33:42.900andrew colvette joins us andrew um pretty uh i guess eye-opening or shocking stories
00:33:50.940up this morning uh the federalist and other news sites i think nbc news uh can you explain
00:33:57.000what this is about it's uh it's the the i think the organization and uh and charlie kirk's widow
00:34:04.560or have issues with the university that hosted uh the event on the day he was assassinated sir
00:34:12.000yeah it was a notice a claim was filed on nine nine actually and uh kind of just
00:34:18.720made the news today but what it does is it's essentially a statute of limitation extension
00:34:25.260right notice a claim that they're planning on you know filing a suit against the university
00:34:30.580state of utah all the relevant parties and it's really was very tough to read through this this
00:34:38.400claim that the kirk family lawyers put out because it is just a series of egregious failures right
00:34:45.940you're you're not expecting any campus or university to go to extraordinary measures
00:34:52.560necessarily, but the basic blocking and tackling of an event this size just simply just didn't
00:34:58.460happen. You know, we find out there was only six police officers on site, right? Actually,
00:35:05.040Charlie's detail was much larger than the campus PD presence on site that day. There was, you know,
00:35:13.020and people, by the way, I want to explain this, Steve, they only have jurisdiction around Charlie's
00:35:17.760bubble. So that's like 20, 30 feet around Charlie. Campus PD is in charge of everything else,
00:35:24.240the ingress, the egress, the access to different rooftops. And of course, this seems to be the
00:35:30.200thing most people are cluing in on is that there was messages exchanged between the security that
00:35:37.580was with Charlie and Campus PD, Chief Long, saying, hey, what about these rooftops? Can we
00:35:43.780put some of our guys in there can we control access and he says we've got you covered but it
00:35:48.820wasn't covered obviously and I think you know it's it's just a hard thing to read it's a gut punch to
00:35:55.840kind of like relive that I wasn't there that day thankfully I did travel with Charlie to other
00:36:00.180events and it usually felt like the police presence was overwhelming like you couldn't
00:36:04.660move left or right without bumping into a police officer but apparently it wasn't like that at UVU
00:36:09.440the entire look the whole assassination of charlie kirk is obviously very controversial
00:36:19.420and let's be blunt um there were certain things that charlie did and stood up for
00:36:26.360um that kind of came off the rails after charlie was assassinated there's no doubt about that
00:36:31.840um and i think our movement the administration the country we're in a much darker place today
00:36:37.840we're in these midterm elections right now and we're as you guys know tyler and the team
00:36:42.740we're fighting just to maybe hold the house by our seat or two uh i would argue in the summer
00:36:49.360of 2025 that wasn't the case we'd had the 12-day war although a lot of us were not excited about
00:36:57.720that but understood taking out the nuclear weapon that was put to bed with the total obliteration
00:37:02.080charlie and people i don't think realize this charlie spent as much time at the white house
00:37:07.460working with Sergio Gore and making sure that there were, he vetted that there were MAGA people
00:37:13.280coming in to work for the president and you weren't getting a bunch of, uh, of Democrats and
00:37:17.860other kind of radicals in there or rhinos that that happened all the time and always hurt the
00:37:22.720administration. Also, Charlie was very active in thinking through and helping people in these
00:37:27.940geopolitical situations. Charlie Kirk had gone up the learning curve and was a very smart guy.
00:37:32.620And I say that as someone that, you know, prides themselves in understanding these issues, Charlie Kirk knew them as well as anyone, as well as anyone.
00:37:41.480So given the whole controversy over that, is this just going to open up those wounds again?
00:37:47.140Is this just going to pick the scab and we're going to get back to all this fighting that's been around about this topic, this issue?
00:37:55.540Well, you know, I hope not, obviously.
00:37:58.200You know, I've said this before, I feel better now than I did six months ago, and I expect to feel better six months from now than I do today, right?
00:38:06.680I think there's a lot of things that are actually, you know, trending in a positive direction.
00:38:10.800I think we're getting a little bit of focus back.
00:38:13.180People are focusing more as we get to November.
00:38:15.960But, you know, all of that is kind of put aside when you've got the Kirk family that is seeking accountability for what I believe is a series of just extraordinary lapses.
00:38:27.640And again, I just go back to the fact, Steve, at the campus, you know, we're not asking for the extraordinary.
00:38:33.040There was nobody reviewing the CCTV footage live.
00:38:45.920The rooftops, this was well known to local officials, Steve, that there was, you know, often beer bottles up on that roof, other garbage.
00:38:53.480People, students would go there to do people watching.
00:38:55.640So the local officials knew that these rooftops were accessible, very accessible to students, and just none of these basic blocking and tackling items were addressed, and I think it's incumbent on the university to answer for those, and I think it's well within the Kirk family's rights to seek accountability for that.0.51
00:39:16.480So I hope it doesn't, I guess, pick any of those scabs, and we want to obviously stay focused on winning, but at the same time, I think they have to do what they have to do.
00:39:25.640when you read this and you see it and knowing what a national figure and after he was assassinated0.92
00:39:33.020people realized he was just not a national figure he was an international global figure
00:39:38.940and just not about politics but really i say is much about spirituality i mean i don't need
00:39:43.640to tell you this when you read this is your assessment i realize you're not part of the
00:39:48.560family you're not part of this this is the the kirk family and their lawyers when you read this
00:39:53.120Do you believe this is that this is just incompetence or do you think it's like, hey, Charlie Kirk's coming?
00:40:01.500How can you not just do this basic blocking and talking?
00:40:03.860Do you think there might have been malfeasance?
00:40:07.520You know, I don't have any reason to believe that right now.
00:40:10.420I know that the Internet's going to do what it's going to do.
00:40:12.980I tend to look at this as a more provincial thinking, small town thinking, thinking they had it covered.
00:40:19.120that stuff like this doesn't happen in this part of the country you know that's kind of my read on
00:40:25.180the situation but listen i think all the questions are valid people should ask them and i think that's
00:40:30.580part of seeking accountability is finding out why did these lapses happen why why was such an
00:40:35.780egregious thing as such as the rooftop remind you steve this was just over a year after butler
00:40:41.720everybody was thinking about rooftops and you can see that now in the messages exchanged between
00:40:46.860Charlie's security and, and the school and the campus PD. So, uh, you know, it's just one of
00:40:53.480those things I, I, I, I'm thinking it's, it's terrible, obviously that we lost Charlie and
00:40:58.780the losses, you know, it's difficult to fathom some days, but it's also true that it could have
00:41:04.560been even worse that day, Steve, I hate to even say it that way, but that shooter could have been
00:41:08.880up on that rooftop spraying into the, into the audience. So, you know, there are basic
00:41:15.040responsibilities to keep not only a guest of the university safe which was Charlie which didn't
00:41:19.320happen but the students of that university safe and um I I think I think I think it was incompetence
00:41:26.160I think it was negligent and um you know as you said I'm not part of the Kirk family I'm not part
00:41:32.300of the legal team but I think good on them for for pursuing this. Normally with things like this
00:41:39.060happen as I've been involved in things you know either financings or other things that normally
00:41:43.760you try to reach some sort of agreement if you can't then you go public was there any attempt
00:41:48.060with the state of utah or the university or the university system to try to work this out privately
00:41:54.020and they got blown off they had to go public or is this they just dropped this bomb on them out
00:41:59.840of nowhere well we've uh known that they were working on uh i mean they announced this i think
00:42:06.320in september of 2025 that they're working on some sort of after action report that's uh been delayed
00:42:12.380um there's a salt lake tribune did a whole article on just how messy of a process that's
00:42:17.580turned out to be it's cost the taxpayers you know a quarter of a million dollars in the state of
00:42:21.340utah still haven't gotten it uh but there is that one year uh statute of limitations and they filed
00:42:27.360this on nine nine uh which essentially gives them extends the statute of limitations the notice uh
00:42:33.220notice of claim so again i'm not i'm not the lawyer i'm not the legal team i can't get in
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00:52:39.240it's huge news coming from the kirk family this morning i'm sure they're going to address that
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00:52:49.740on from london he's put out this what kissinger laid out a framework for china and the united
00:52:55.400states to work together on artificial intelligence hey here's how we'd like to work together shut
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