The Ben Shapiro Show - October 01, 2026


Elon, Dario, Zuck, and Karp Walk Into the White House

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8 minutes

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193.76

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1,605

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00:00:00.000 A couple of days ago, the president held a super intelligence luncheon featuring everybody from Elon Musk to Jensen Huang over at NVIDIA to Dario Amode to Mark Zuckerberg.
00:00:11.000 They all showed up.
00:00:13.000 Again, it was kind of amusing if you know the people involved to look at who had to sit next to whom because it got kind of awkward.
00:00:21.000 You have Chamath sitting across from Dario Amode.
00:00:25.000 Those two did not get along particularly well.
00:00:28.000 So it was kind of funny.
00:00:30.000 You had Musk and Jensen flanking the president.
00:00:33.000 There are some pretty memeable moments from this particular event.
00:00:36.000 Alex Karp from Palantir, who's great, actually took the microphone from a CNBC reporter outside the White House and told them to ask better questions.
00:00:44.000 Mr. Nadella, can you give us a sense of what you're going to tell the president today?
00:00:48.000 Mr. Nadella?
00:00:49.000 Just a minute.
00:00:50.000 You want me to get a question for you?
00:00:51.000 Sure, go ahead.
00:00:52.000 You want to talk to me?
00:00:53.000 I'll do this.
00:00:53.000 Okay.
00:00:54.000 This is how you do it.
00:00:55.000 Okay, like, Sean, tell me about how AI works on the battlefield.
00:00:59.000 That's a question he'll answer.
00:01:01.000 Or, see, I think we found Karp's second career.
00:01:06.000 Again, yes.
00:01:07.000 I mean, he's, again, some of these people are very, very amusing.
00:01:10.000 Dario Amodi was there.
00:01:12.000 It got very awkward because Dario is an awkward person.
00:01:16.000 He's also the one who's been suggesting that everybody needs to be regulated up the wazoo or we're all going to die.
00:01:20.000 He showed up at the White House nonetheless, apparently wearing the suit that Tom Hanks wore in Big.
00:01:26.000 We all need to work together to make sure that we can win and we can win safely.
00:01:30.000 If we do this right, we work with the president and everyone here, we can win safely.
00:01:34.000 And Dario's been.
00:01:39.000 Do you think that self policing is a knock?
00:01:42.000 Hold it, hold it, hold it.
00:01:43.000 CNN fake news.
00:01:44.000 Do you think that self policing is a knock?
00:01:46.000 The worst.
00:01:47.000 Look, Dario has been fantastic.
00:01:52.000 Zuckerberg breaking up in the background there.
00:01:55.000 Well, the United States put out a statement on super intelligence.
00:01:59.000 Unfortunately, they spelled it United States wrong in the announcement on super intelligence, it was a little bit awkward.
00:02:04.000 But the basic announcement was that there is going to be collaboration between all of these various AI companies to ensure that super intelligence serves the American public and is not victimized.
00:02:13.000 The American public.
00:02:14.000 NVIDIA has also debuted, they've now reported, an open agent safety platform.
00:02:20.000 What they say is this To understand where agentic AI stands today, consider the last seismic shift in technology, the rise of the internet in the 90s.
00:02:26.000 It brought endless opportunity, but also a lot of risk.
00:02:28.000 A website could run code on your machine, steal your sensitive information, or infect your computer with a virus.
00:02:32.000 People loved it anyway.
00:02:34.000 To introduce a layer of trust, the community built things like encrypted connections and a lock icon to know when a connection was safe.
00:02:39.000 The step function change in safety came from a radical security idea at the time isolate each page in its own sandbox, a tab, and a browser so a rogue page couldn't infect the rest of your computer.
00:02:48.000 Amazon, Google, Netflix, and Meta were all built on this trust layer.
00:02:51.000 We need to build this trust layer for agents.
00:02:53.000 Again, these people are thinking about what has to be done.
00:02:55.000 And that is a very good thing because, for national security purposes, we cannot drop behind the Chinese.
00:03:02.000 Naturally, you have the left.
00:03:04.000 Again, if the left ever gains control of all three branches of government, if they get the House, the Senate, and the presidency, the American economy will just be cratered because the left is fully invested in the idea that AI is going to kill us all, just as they were invested in the idea that capitalism was going to kill us all with tsunami like weather.
00:03:19.000 Here is Jimmy Kimmel doing this routine yesterday.
00:03:22.000 He's obsessed with changing the names of things.
00:03:25.000 Ever since he had Don Jr., he has been in love with changing the names of things.
00:03:30.000 The idea that our guardrails against AI are being erected by an addled 80 year old man.
00:03:35.000 It's like asking your grandpa to set up a Wi Fi router in your house.
00:03:39.000 You just wouldn't do it.
00:03:41.000 Again, like, here's the thing Donald Trump doesn't want to set up the Wi Fi router.
00:03:47.000 You know who wants to?
00:03:47.000 Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren.
00:03:50.000 So here are your choices.
00:03:50.000 You can either have some of the smartest people on the planet building the coolest things, or you can have some of the dumbest people on the planet.
00:03:56.000 Restricting people from building the things that actually build our economy.
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00:04:58.000 Yesterday, Pete Hegseth announced a number of moves.
00:05:02.000 At the Department of Defense.
00:05:05.000 He says that obviously they are focused on the war fighting machine.
00:05:08.000 This is what the Secretary of Defense has always suggested.
00:05:11.000 But it's worth saying again so that the fake news understands it.
00:05:16.000 We are no longer the woke department or the weak department.
00:05:21.000 Simple translation of that no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals.
00:05:31.000 Just warriors.
00:05:32.000 Just tough.
00:05:33.000 Ready, committed troops.
00:05:36.000 The War Department, as you know, is colorblind, gender neutral, and merit based.
00:05:43.000 Again, this is right.
00:05:45.000 The Pentagon has now also moved to tap Elon Musk and Palmer Lucky to plan out the future of war, according to Pirate Wires.
00:05:51.000 They've announced Project Meridian, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Lucky, and former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
00:05:56.000 They're going to investigate where future military engagements will happen, Mars, the Mariana Trench, or space, the new technologies the Department of War must buy in order to win.
00:06:04.000 They have 120 days to release their report.
00:06:07.000 So, Elon and Palmer Lucky, Palmer Lucky, of course, is the head of Andoril, which is a very high tech defense firm.
00:06:13.000 They have carte blanche alongside the other private sector experts to think about what Pirate Wire's authors call a weird bleep for war.
00:06:20.000 So, they're going to explore unknown unknowns, going beyond the Pentagon's known shortcomings like software, AI, and manufacturing to investigate future vulnerabilities.
00:06:29.000 This is a good thing.
00:06:31.000 It is a useful thing.
00:06:34.000 The fact that the Trump administration has attempted to build up the military, is trying to think creatively, all of that is a good thing.
00:06:39.000 Obviously, the left is very exercised because How dare you have high IQ people trying to make our military better?
00:06:45.000 Instead, we have to orient towards self destruct.
00:06:47.000 Elbridge Colby has also released an update on the implementation of the 2026 National Defense Strategy.
00:06:53.000 It prioritizes four items to first defend the American homeland, second, deter China and the Indo Pacific through strength, not confrontation, three, increase burden sharing with U.S. allies and partners, and four, supercharge the U.S. industrial defense base.
00:07:07.000 He points out that defending the homeland, the United States has taken seriously threats from the border.
00:07:13.000 When it comes to deterring China, that's building up defense capabilities, especially air and naval mines and undersea forces.
00:07:19.000 Burden sharing with allies means that we have put more of a burden on NATO 3.0.
00:07:23.000 That's working, by the way.
00:07:24.000 Here's the NATO Secretary General Mark Rudy saying that NATO is going to step up and do more for Ukraine, not less.
00:07:30.000 Russia continues its reckless campaign of hostile actions against NATO allies.
00:07:36.000 It is trying to weaken our resolve and stop our support for Ukraine.
00:07:41.000 But Russia is failing.
00:07:44.000 It is failing on the battlefield in Ukraine.
00:07:46.000 And it is failing to undermine our unity and support for Ukraine.
00:07:52.000 Our message to Moscow is clear.
00:07:55.000 We will do even more for Ukraine and not less.
00:08:00.000 Again, this is part of the United States actually shifting some of the burden of world policing onto our allies, which is a good thing.
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