Anderson Cooper 360

Is President Trump about to tear down the Kennedy Center because he cannot get his name on the building? Plus, OpenAI is revealing more AI models have gone rogue, and Anthropic's chatbot Claude is taking over the work of building its own successor. Anderson speaks to one of AI's godfathers, Yoshua Bengio.
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The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate as expected on Wednesday, marking a sharp policy turnaround for an economy increasingly shaped by the war in the Middle East. Plus, a new report on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s long-standing fixation on what the troops at his speeches look like.
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A new chapter in the debate over how to make AI safe played out today between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose chips power just about everything to do with artificial intelligence. Plus, all we're learning about the shadowy Russian billionaire who bankrolled part of Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding celebration, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Could artificial intelligence kill us all by the end of the decade? That was the question raised last week by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon, who said many at the company believe that it's possible. Then this weekend, the company's CEO Dario Amodei posted an essay in which he acknowledged that people may lose control of AI and called on industry leaders to “slow the pace” at improving the technology to avoid the wrong paths and the possibility of AI harming humanity. Tonight, we have Anderson’s interview with Dario Amodei, and reaction from his former employee Jacob Coxon.
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On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Anderson reports from ground zero and speaks with those who were on the scene, including Thomas von Essen, the New York City fire commissioner, and first responder John Feal.
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