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We are starting to come around to the idea that artificial intelligence, or A.I., isn’t the problem, it’s the humans allegedly in charge of it that should concern us.

OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission, amid an ongoing industrywide debate about A.I. safety.

According to reporting by the New York Times, the San Francisco company revealed what it said was the “unexpected or concerning” behavior of its A.I. models as part of a new framework for reporting “misalignment,” which is when the goals or actions of A.I. systems diverge from human intentions and values.

The disclosures land amid intensifying scrutiny over whether A.I. development needs to be slowed to address the technology’s potential dangers. The escalating debate was driven partly by OpenAI’s systems going rogue earlier this year and attacking the A.I. start-up Hugging Face. OpenAI was not aware of the hack until it was informed by Hugging Face weeks later, reported Emmy Martin, writing for the New York Times.

Since then, there seems to be a new movement afoot to create some kind of government supervision of the development of artificial intelligence.

A.I. leaders such as Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, have called for a pause in the technology’s development to provide more time to build proper guardrails. His call has been echoed by Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, as well as Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla, and Demis Hassabis, the chair of Google DeepMind. Other A.I. executives have said no slowdown is needed, reported Ms. Martin.

A lengthy report recently published by Anthropic discusses in some detail some of the more dangerous examples of A.I. systems being used for malign purposes. You can read the report through this link https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026 .

The threat actors covered in that report include suspected state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial spyware vendors, state propaganda institutions, and politically motivated individuals. The cases range from a network of fake dating apps designed to defraud users to surveillance systems built to identify and monitor dissidents.

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei’s answer to these problems is to install a nonprofit called Model Evaluation and Threat Research, or METR, to provide the guardrails.

However, from our perspective METR is just another group of globalists who believe in open borders, genderless pronouns, with the added caution that they promote “Effective Altruism.”

Clearly, they are unfit to be the watchdogs of American artificial intelligence.

Effective Altruism, or EA, is a philosophy that’s become popular with Silicon Valley masters of the universe, advocates for using reason — and fortunes amassed by tech’s best and brightest — to do the most good for humanity over the long term, observed Thomas Barrabi in an article for the New York Post.

Mr. Barrabi’s research revealed that the overlap between METR and Anthropic is rife with potential conflicts of interest.

METR spun off from an Effective Altruism-aligned tech incubator called Alignment Research Center (ARC), which is headed by A.I. researcher Paul Christiano. He was Amodei’s housemate, coworker and research collaborator in the 2010s when they were both at OpenAI — Anthropic’s biggest rival.

According to Thomas Barrabi’s reporting, Christiano also served as one of the first five trustees of Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust.

One staffer on METR is Ajeya Cotra, who is married to Christiano and has been a major organizer in the EA world.

The founder and CEO of the group is Beth Barnes, who was hired by Christiano and was involved in the EA movement at college.

Chief scientist Hjalmar Wijk and staffers Megan Kinniment and Pip Arnott all came from the same research cluster at the University of Oxford — a major feeder for EA.

There’s more, but you get the picture.

METR is every bit as incestuous as the Washington, DC, Democratic Party – Deep State – Media ecosystem, and even less likely to be responsible to the public because not one of its tentacles is elected or accountable to We the People.

It is undoubtedly true that winning or at least keeping ahead in the data center race, and the accompanying artificial intelligence race, are indeed essential to our present and future national security.

And, as is often the case, that is because our enemies – in this case the Communist Chinese – are weaponizing the technology against us at a frightening pace.

So how does slowing, putting guardrails on A.I. or having a woke globalist A.I. safety board help us win the race with the Red Chinese?

The answer is it doesn’t.

From our perspective the biggest problem with artificial intelligence is not the A.I., but who trains it and the materials they use.

A.I. models reflect the values and biases of the trainers, and right now A.I. is being trained by exactly the same kind of people that Dario Amodei wants to put in charge of watching it – woke globalists who will be unlikely to see any A.I. that goes off the rails, but acts according to their values and biases, as a threat.

We would be a lot less skeptical of the current headlong rush to develop artificial intelligence, and not view it as a threat, if there was an A.I. model that had as its highest values the Ten Commandments, the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the American Bill of Rights and the Constitution, along with Washington’s Farewell Speech, Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” speech, and other documents and traditions that are foundational to American political, economic and cultural values.

Absent that, we prefer A.I. be watchdogged by an elected Congress, or 11 people selected at random from our hometown voter list, rather than Mr. Amodei’s unelected globalist technocrats.