Head in the Office

JD Vance Wants Another Chance & Will AI End Humanity?!

September 18, 2026·1h 36m
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The boys explore the AI drama, including calls for regulation on AI companies and the recent incidents that spawned them. Later, the boys provide brief economic updates as they pertain to the Iran war, and a new $2.8 billion arms deal that would send 40,000 2,000lbs bombs to Israel at the expense of the U.S. tax payer. Early access on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headintheofficepodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4iJ-UcnRxYnaYsX_SNjFJQSubscribe to second channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3UoTN328OA7fK2dzicP-ZATikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headintheoffice?lang=enInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/headintheoffice/Twitter: https://twitter.com/headintheofficeThreads: https://www.threads.com/@headintheofficeDiscord: https://discord.gg/hito Collab inquiries: headintheofficepod@gmail.com(0:00) JD &quot;Second Chance&quot; Vance(2:50) Intro(5:35) Will AI end humanity?(58:00) Iran war, troubling economic indicators(1:08:45) U.S. giving Israel free weapons (and Cory Booker)(1:17:00) Reviews/endingSeen on this episode:AI - https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#july-8th-9th-phaseone10841-establishes-the-primary-message-board-and-agents-collaborate-to-reverse-engineer-their-flagshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1143013/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face/https://www.newsweek.com/chinas-stance-on-ai-regulation-amid-trumps-post-against-formal-guardrails-12440150https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-definitions/what-is-ai-alignmenthttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-previously-undisclosed-ai-breakout-this-2026-09-04/https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/11/openai-reveals-another-rogue-ai-attack-01073312https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/anthropic-whistleblower-congress-ai-companies-regulation-rcna597465https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/technology/doomsday-discussions-ai-companies.htmlIran war updates - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/fed-raises-rates-defying-trump-rcna598148 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/business/10-year-treasury-yield-5-percent.html" t

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