Good Grief: 63% Say AI Could Kill Us All

By William Teach September 16, 2026 – 10:30 am

You know, maybe there is a chance AI kills us. But, really, I think people are suddenly starting to lose their shit because they have been exposed heavily to all the doom and gloom originating from a few people and amplified by the Credentialed Media and a few politicians

Poll: Americans say there’s a serious risk of AI destroying humanity

A majority of Americans think artificial intelligence could someday destroy humanity.

The stunning new finding from The POLITICO Poll underscores the depth of people’s anxieties about the rapidly developing technology — and how quickly public sentiment around AI has hardened. Just a few months ago, AI was a nebulous concept for many Americans. Now, lawmakers in both parties are racing to understand how to control its growth.

Overall, about two out of three Americans say there is at least a “moderate” risk that advanced AI could destroy humanity, with majorities across parties, genders and age groups holding that view. Americans who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 are somewhat more likely to see such a risk (70%) than those who voted for President Donald Trump (60%).

That’s actually pretty wild, something that causes both parties to have the same beliefs.

Those fears have burst into public view in recent days after the leaders of the nation’s top AI labs — Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman — called with Elon Musk for slowing the pace of advanced AI development. The rare show of agreement from some of the industry’s fiercest competitors pushed long-simmering warnings about the technology’s dangers into the center of public debate.

And Americans appear inclined to take those warnings seriously.

Yeah, well, again, I think those slow down calls from the companies are really just methods to get government to limit up and coming companies while the big boys already have all their power and money, because, really, they can all voluntarily slow down, right? If people were so worried about AI going all Terminator they would have freaked several years ago when AI really started hitting the market. So, why now?

Money. That’s it. Well, control by the big companies already in charge, but, that also leads to money.

The poll results signal a growing political problem for the president as he has pushed back on increasingly urgent calls to slow AI development and emphasized the need for the United States to maintain its competitive edge over China. In a series of Truth Social posts on Monday, Trump dismissed the AI alarms as a “HOAX.”

Some of Americans’ concerns over the existential threat of AI may stem from their broader unease with the technology. Across a range of scenarios tested in the survey, majorities of respondents said they would be uncomfortable with AI being used in their everyday lives.

Most of these same people are already using AI. It’s not true AI, it’s just a f*ckton better at responding than previous. I’d actually be interested to see these types of polls performed in other countries, to see if the freakout occurs there, too.

Real Clear Politics is loaded with articles this morning, such as (below the fold)

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Awesome: EPA Ditching Some Climate (scam) Rules

By William Teach September 16, 2026 – 7:15 am

This is, quite frankly, one of the reasons the GOP needs to get its act together to make sure they win the White House in 2028, to make sure all these rollbacks of climate cult regulations and such are not reinstated

EPA announces rollback of climate pollution rules for power plants

The Environmental Protection Agency is repealing rules that curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The action, announced Monday at the G20 “Energy Abundance Ministerial” in Houston, eliminates limits set by the Biden administration in 2024.

“The Trump Administration has come in to protect American energy and to make sure you can afford to keep the lights on,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin, in a release. “Americans will see a decrease in electricity prices, but this is just the beginning.”

The rule change is the latest in a back-and-forth between Democratic and Republican administrations over whether or not to limit power plants’ greenhouse gas pollution, the main cause of climate change.

Power plants are the second largest sources of emissions in the U.S. behind transportation.

And, yet, all those climate cult states have not just ended their use of those power plants. It’s almost like the Warmists would rather have “dirty” energy that save the planet.

The Trump administration stressed the importance of coal and natural gas in powering the electric grid, which is seeing high demand from artificial intelligence and data center growth. Coal accounts for 16 percent of the country’s electricity, while natural gas accounts for 40 percent, according to federal data.

“During periods of peak electricity demand, coal and natural gas continue to play a critical role in keeping the lights on,” said Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. “Today’s announcement will help ensure reliable electricity generation.”

Look, I’m not a big fan of coal, it is dirty (not from CO2) and bad environmentally, but, the US needs energy. If Warmists would have let us start building next-gen nuclear power plants 20 years ago we’d be doing great!

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Politicians Are Increasingly Looking To Control AI

By William Teach September 16, 2026 – 7:00 am

They can call it regulation, but, that’s just another word for control

Here’s The Nation, a very far left outlet

When you spot a cockroach, it’s very rarely an indication that you’re dealing with a single solitary little creature who has just happened to have journeyed to your nice apartment on a field trip. It’s far more likely to signal that you’ve got an infestation.

The AI world has been having something of a cockroach summer, at least when it comes to unsettling reports of AI behavior. The first nasty beastie poked its way into the sunlight in late July, when OpenAI reported that some of its AI agents had escaped the company’s control during a testing run and hacked the website of a tech company called Hugging Face. After that, the cockroaches kept coming. (blah blah blah)

Coxon’s admission has triggered a fresh round of demands in Washington to bring AI under a regulatory regime less likely to kill us all—an awkward fit for a Republican congressional majority that previously sought to outlaw all state and local efforts to rein in the industry. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei worried in an online essay that an AI agent swarm “could be capable of taking over the entire internet” within a year, echoing widespread calls for a slowdown in AI development—though most of the solutions he proposed, like “embedded evaluators” in AI labs, would be voluntary ones, and he made only vague references to government regulation. Sources tell The Information that Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are talking about setting up an AI industry standards body.

Yet even without the threat of imminent AI takeover or outright apocalypse, there are ample reasons to dial back the runaway bid to cram AI into every sector of American life. Even those skeptical that so-called rogue AI agents are really only a few months away from taking over the world were able to suss out some of the less controversial implications of the attack. These observers noted that you don’t need AI agents to go rogue to cause a serious amount of damage: Malicious actors could direct a similar AI agent swarm to hack anything—from government websites to the Siemens PLCs that control our water filtration plants.

Government dictating it all sounds so benevolent, eh?

Niall Ferguson: AIpocalypse Now
It’s not just the next 9/11, enabled by AI, that is coming. It’s the next global financial crisis. It’s the next pandemic. It might even be the next world war. What, if anything, can we do about it?

Doom!

(Sean Davis) Understand what is happening with AI here and why it has more to do with amassing political power than it does computing power.

If you look back at the last 100 years in America, we have moved through 4 distinct eras of communication which each defined the types of politicians we elected.

The early 1900’s were still dominated by print, followed by radio, then broadcast television, followed by 24/7 cable news, and then the Internet and social media. (snip)

Dario and his AI buddies want to be the only ones in control. They hate open source, because that is a threat to their control. The solution? Cook up doomsday AI scenarios, demand regulation, and watch as the government enforces an AI cartel run entirely by Dario and his friends. That is exactly what we are witnessing right now. Except it’s not just about control of AI. It’s about using AI to control the world. That is what’s at stake right now.

Besides that all those big AI companies want to keep the smaller companies small, politicians want to control, because that’s what they do. Democrats love Government, and controlling AI gives them control of narratives. But, sadly, even good Republicans are falling for it

(HuffPost) Lawmakers are not exactly rushing to prevent tech companies from endangering humanity’s existence with rogue autonomous software, but recent warnings from industry insiders are prompting real debate, and potentially even action, sooner rather than later.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, has been working on a bill with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on legislation to address the potentially “catastrophic risk” artificial intelligence poses. But at least one key Democrat fears the legislation won’t be strong enough, warning it could be used to block more meaningful action at the state level.

We definitely need to slow the roll on this.

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Your Fault: African Rain Scammers Could Get Beaten When It Rains Too Much

By William Teach September 15, 2026 – 4:39 pm

Somehow ‘climate change’ is involved in this

They are paid to bring rain. When it fails — or leads to floods — violence can follow

The farmers who paid David Nabutsilili money to summon rain were angry when they received so much of it that their vegetable gardens were left flooded. They chased him up and down the hills, stopping when he fell upon a rock and broke a femur. That was his punishment.

Sixteen years later, the rainmaker still feels pain in his leg. Many of those who pursued him regularly seek his spiritual help when they need rain, especially during the planting season, but also when they seek to block it. If he fails to meet their expectations, he must temporarily flee his home for his own safety, Nabutsilili told The Associated Press during an interview in his village in eastern Uganda.

“People beat us because sometimes the rain is too much, or there is no rain,” he said.

African rainmakers have long served as spiritual leaders in their communities, performing rituals to ask deities to bring rain. But their perceived successes can create enormous expectations among farming communities in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Now they are increasingly targeted for their presumed failure to perform amid the vexations of climate change. In the most extreme cases, they are killed by mobs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 15, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are pumpkins which are growing longer due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on “90% of French Wildfires Caused by Humans”

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Jew Hater Macklemore Booted From Ed Sheeran Tour

By William Teach September 15, 2026 – 10:30 am

I’m not sure how Sheeran, who usually avoids controversy, thought having Macklemore was a good idea

Robert Kraft, Gillette Stadium boot Macklemore from Ed Sheeran tour over ‘Free Palestine’ rant

Macklemore is learning the hard way that concertgoers paying top dollar for stadium shows do not want a lecture on Middle Eastern geopolitics from the guy who wrote “Thrift Shop.”

Macklemore was kicked off Ed Sheeran’s U.S. stadium tour after multiple venues refused to host him following his pro-Palestinian speeches and performances at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The fallout escalated when New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft barred him from performing at Gillette Stadium, where Sheeran is scheduled to play Sept. 25 and 26.

The rapper opened Sheeran’s shows at MetLife on Sept. 4 and 5. Macklemore wore a keffiyeh, showed footage of destruction in Gaza, performed “Hind’s Hall” and led the crowd in “Free Palestine” chants. The song includes lyrics accusing Israel of genocide.

Macklemore said the tour gave him a massive platform to promote his political message. He also claimed Sheeran told him Robert Kraft had rallied other stadium owners against keeping him on the tour.

Do people really want political lectures in support of Islamic terrorist groups and which show hate for Jews during concerts, or just entertainment?

Kraft, whose Kraft Group owns Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, cited the rapper’s stage behavior and what he called a “broader history of anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery.”

“Gillette Stadium has a longstanding commitment to providing a welcoming environment for all guests and ensuring that events held at our venue do not provide a platform for hate speech,” Kraft shared in a statement made to ESPN.

“Based on Macklemore’s recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran’s shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community, we determined that his participation in the September 25th and 26th shows would not be permitted.”

Kraft has said that advocating for innocent Palestinians (are there any?) while also noting what Hamas did on October 7th and not being a Jew hater are not mutually exclusive, and he’s willing to sit down with Macklemore to discuss it, but, of course, Macklemore wants nothing to do with that, he’s cool with being a Jew hater and taking the side of Muslim terrorists, like so many Leftists.

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Bummer: As Nations Blow Off Paris Climate (scam) Accords People Are “Fighting For Survival”

By William Teach September 15, 2026 – 7:15 am

I guess they’re upset that a lot of the scam money is drying up and they are losing influence

As the Fight for a Key Climate Goal Falters, Some Begin a Fight for Survival

The most ambitious part of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, only came about because of a campaign by some of the world’s poorest and most defenseless countries.

Caribbean participants tacked up posters saying “1.5 to stay alive,” and the prime minister of Tuvalu said any temperature rise beyond that mark would “spell the total demise” of his and other low-lying island nations. In the final stage of negotiations, some were chanting, “1.5.”

The acknowledgment last week from the United Nations that the planet is going to breach that limit was not a surprise to anyone tracking global temperatures, which keep rising.

But it nonetheless formalized a dire outcome: Amid scant progress from global powers to cut pollution from fossil fuels, vulnerable countries will now spend decades, or perhaps centuries, confronting the very climate scenario they’d once said would be untenable.

But, weirdly, all those Caribbean and other small nations refuse to give up their airports, heliports, cruise ship ports, shipping ports, cars, trucks, and everything fossil fuels. So, if it spells the total demise then it’s self caused, per their cult talking points.

And though that puts them face-to-face with the concerns they’d held in Paris, about rising sea levels and intensifying disasters, they also face new risks few could have imagined a decade ago. Cutbacks in aid from wealthy nations, including the United States, have reduced the humanitarian safety net. The United States, the world’s largest historical emitter, has also withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, as well as from funds meant to help developing countries deal with climate change.

Poorer nations say these changes threaten to make the 1.5 Celsius breach even rockier, leaving them fewer resources to deal with disasters while widening global inequities.

In other words, it’s about the money. Surprise!

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Mamdani Sues Over “Public Charge” Rule

By William Teach September 15, 2026 – 7:00 am

If Islamist Mamdani is so upset why doesn’t he spend the tax money of the city of NY?

NYC sues Trump administration over expanded ‘public charge’ immigration rule

New York City is suing the Trump administration over changes to a federal immigration test that city officials say could discourage legal immigrants from accessing basic public benefits.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that the city filed a lawsuit challenging revisions to the “public charge” rule, which immigration officials use when deciding whether to grant green cards or visas.

The public charge provision, part of federal immigration law since 1882, allows officials to consider whether an immigrant is likely to become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence. Under previous guidance, immigration officers weighed limited public benefits, including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP.

The US didn’t have SNAP or Medicaid or most federal government assistance programs in 1882. Anything close, what were called “poor laws”, were handled by states and localities. Anyone applying for citizenship has to prove they can pay for their own lives. Why would the federal government pay for people on visas to be on public assistance.

The administration’s new policy expands that review by applying a broader, case-by-case basis that Mamdani called “simply a vehicle for confusion and a vehicle for cruelty.”

Immigration officials can now consider a wider range of public benefits, along with factors including income, assets, education, job skills, employability, health, health insurance coverage and age.

Same as with citizenship applications.

City officials and immigration advocates argue the changes could make it easier to deny legal residency to immigrants who rely on government assistance programs or fear that using those programs could jeopardize their immigration status.

Well, yeah. Of course. That’s the point. We need to stop bringing in people who cannot bring value.

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The World Can’t Afford To Wait On Fixing Climate Doom Or Something

By William Teach September 14, 2026 – 6:25 pm

It can’t wait for Government to run your life. Not the Warmist Elite’s life

Deadly silence: The world can’t afford to ignore climate change much longer

Our government could do something about climate change, but it refuses. In fact, most elected leaders and political candidates don’t even talk about it.

As the fossil-fuel industry increasingly allied itself with Republicans to block climate action over the decades, Democrats became the party more willing to address it. But now, even many Democrats have gone quiet. As the November midterms approach, think tanks and consultants are advising them to avoid the topic global warming because “it is not a priority for voters.”

The silence is called “climate hushing,” the strategic choice to avoid talking about global warming to avoid political backlash, polarization or economic anxiety. In other words, our elected leaders should avoid mentioning the huge elephant in the room, even as it gets more dangerous.

Hardly an evening newscast goes by today without reports of major weather disasters and millions of Americans under threat of fire, flood, killer heat or other calamity. Community after community is turned to ash by wildfires, blown into rubble by tornadoes or washed away in flash floods.

That’s called “weather.” Also, why is it that the government has to Do Something? I’ve been saying for 22 years, Warmists could stop using fossil fuels in their own lives, but, most refuse to do that.

A study late last year by the Center for American Progress reported that “climate-accelerated shocks are contributing to some of the largest food price increases American families have faced in recent years.” Beef is an example — as prolonged drought reduced cattle herds, the Department of Agriculture projected a 12 percent increase in beef and veal prices.

Yeah, once you mention CAP, you’ve gone off the deep end in partisanship.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 14, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is carbon pollution driven extreme rain, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Newbusters, with a post on “TDS Infects Washington Post Review of 14th Century Film ‘The Uprising'”

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