The Rip Current with Jacob Ward

The Rip Current with Jacob Ward

Transcript: An A.I. Doomsday Machine...and the Private Club that Has It

Anthropic has put out a piece of software it says could bring down a Fortune 100 company — maybe even an entire economy. And the US government is silent.

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Jacob Ward
Apr 08, 2026
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A decade ago, technologists created something so terrifying that the US government had to pass new rules to control it. Now, Anthropic has put out a piece of software it says could bring down a Fortune 100 company — maybe even an entire economy. And the US g…

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