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Trump rejects AI's "effective altruism" movement

Marketplace Tech · Sep 18, 2026 · 14:53

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Congress is looking to rein in Flock cameras; plus, Apple has a new way to prove your iPhone photos are real.


But first, it's been a wild week in AI. After the freakout over an Anthropic researcher quitting in protest last week, CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in AI, and his counterpoints Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed. President Donald Trump? Not so much. He called fears of rogue AI a hoax, and even went after a niche intellectual community that's deeply invested in AI safety: the Effective Altruist movement.


Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino to explain more about all this on this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”


Check out our YouTube page to watch more episodes of “Tech Bytes.”

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