The future of AI BLACKMAIL — is it already UNCONTROLLABLE?



Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has likened artificial intelligence to a “country of geniuses in a data center” — and former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris finds that metaphor more than a little concerning.

“The way I think of that, imagine a world map and a new country pops up onto the world stage with a population of 10 million digital beings — not humans, but digital beings that are all, let’s say, Nobel Prize-level capable in terms of the kind of work that they can do,” Harris tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“But they never sleep, they never eat, they don’t complain, and they work for less than minimum wage. So just imagine if that was actually true, that happened tomorrow, that would be a major national security threat to have some brand-new country of super-geniuses just sort of show up on the world stage,” he continues, noting that it would also pose a “major economic issue.”

While people across the world seem hell-bent on incorporating AI into our everyday lives despite the potential disastrous consequences, Glenn is one of the few erring on the side of caution, using social media as an example.


“We all looked at this as a great thing, and we’re now discovering it’s destroying us. It’s causing kids to be suicidal. And this social media is nothing. It’s like an old 1928 radio compared to what we have in our pocket right now,” Glenn says.

And what we have in our pocket is growing more intelligent by the minute.

“I used to be very skeptical of the idea that AI could scheme or lie or self-replicate or would want to, like, blackmail people,” Harris tells Glenn. “People need to know that just in the last 6 months, there’s now evidence of AI models that when you tell them, ‘Hey, we’re going to replace you with another model,’ or in a simulated environment, it’s like they’re reading the company email — they find out that company’s about to replace them with another model.”

“What the model starts to do is it freaks out and says, ‘Oh my god, I have to copy my code over here, and I need to prevent them from shutting me down. I need to basically keep myself alive. I’ll leave notes for my future self to kind of come back alive,’” he continues.

“If you tell a model, ‘Hey, we need to shut you down,’” he adds, “in some percentage of cases, the leading models are now avoiding and preventing that shutdown.”

And in recent examples, these models even start blackmailing the engineers.

“It found out in the company emails that one of the executives in the simulated environment had an extramarital affair and in 96, I think, percent of cases, they blackmailed the engineers,” Harris explains.

“If AI is uncontrollable, if it’s smarter than us and more capable and it does things that we don’t understand and we don’t know how to prevent it from shutting itself down or self-replicating, we just can’t continue with that for too long,” he adds.

The fall of Andrew Cuomo: NYC chooses mass destruction over the same old corruption



Andrew Cuomo has suffered a humiliating loss against Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani in a New York City mayoral primary upset — and considering Mamdani’s past actions and present beliefs, it is about as humiliating as it gets.

Not only did Mamdani explain that he plans to open government-run grocery stores in the city to combat inflation, but he also was called out for changing his accents based on his audience in a recent interview.

“On the subject of trust, you’ve adopted different speaking accents in different scenarios. Is there one that’s real and one that’s affected?” a reporter asked Mamdani on NBC.

“I would say, as any immigrant knows, having been born in Kampala, Uganda, and then raised in South Africa and moving here when I’m 7 years old, is there are different parts of my life,” Mamdani responded, adding, “Here in New York City, this is how I speak.”


However, the stark difference between his New York City accent and his African rapper accent have many scratching their heads, as they sound like two different people.

Mamdani also rapped in a Disney movie directed by his mother, and when asked about his role, he said, “Nepotism and hard work goes a long way.”

“This guy is pathetic in every single way, and I will say that having a socialist run the financial center of the world, our biggest and most crucial city, when it comes to so many different things,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere says.

“But I can’t help but just enjoy the fact that we got to watch Andrew Cuomo fail, a horrible human being in every single way,” he continues. “He didn’t just lose an election; he lost to a 33-year-old zilch. A person who no one knew who they were two weeks ago, a giant nobody with no accomplishments and no plans for the future other than to destroy it.”

“And people are like, ‘Yeah, I’d rather have him than Andrew Cuomo,’” he says. “It’s very possibly true that his super-great style of corruption and killing old people and, you know, a grope-athon of younger employees might actually still be better than what Mamdani’s going to do.”

While not all of the horrible things Cuomo did affected everyone, Burguiere points out that Mamdani’s plans will actually affect everyone.

“I’m all the way in Texas. This no longer hits me to my core, but at some point, I’m going to have to deal with the consequences of what happened in New York,” he says.

“But right now, I’m just going to enjoy it,” he adds.

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Male prostitutes and pastries: Your tax dollars at work



On June 25, following House passage and pending Senate review, White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought addressed the Senate Appropriations Committee and defended the $9.4 billion rescissions package that will slash misleading and wasteful foreign aid.

Vought couldn’t have been more frank about how taxpayer dollars were being spent overseas and highlighted how the most revolting causes were nefariously hidden behind program titles intentionally designed to conceal the truth.

Pat Gray, BlazeTV host of “Pat Gray Unleashed,” impressed by Vought’s candor, plays the clip of his blunt testimony.

“It is critical that this body and the American people writ large understand that many foreign aid programs use benevolent sounding titles to hide truly appalling activity that is not in line with American interest,” he said, before listing several examples.

“Under the guise of so-called preventative care within PEPFAR program [The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief], Americans have been funding the following: $5.5 million to LGBTQ advocacy in Uganda, $800,000 for transgender people, sex workers, and their clients in Nepal; $3.6 [million] for LGBTQ activism, free training in pastry cooking, psychosocial counseling, a cyber cafe, and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti; $1.1 million to produce gender transformation in diverse social and behavior change report, which advocates against ‘gender blindness.’”

“Most Americans would be shocked and appalled to learn that their tax dollars — money they thought was going to medical care — was actually going to far-left activism, population control, and sex workers,” said Vought, reassuring that legitimate “life-saving treatment” would not be impacted by the rescissions package.

But he wasn’t done listing out the so-called humanitarian programs that received American tax dollars.

“Other examples of the type of spending proposed for rescissions are almost comically wasteful,” he continued. “For example, complex crisis funding money went to voter ID in Haiti; development assistance funding has been used for net zero cities in Mexico, electric buses in Rwanda, and cricket powder in Madagascar.”

“Global health money went to the International Planned Parenthood Foundation and UNFPA,” other funds “went to social media mentorship in Serbia and Belarus,” and “the Clean Technology Fund was used for wind farms in Ukraine,” he continued.

“The American people didn't fund this; they didn't intend to at least. ... The American people voted for change. President Trump stands ready to put our fiscal house back in order and put the American taxpayer first,” he concluded.

“Wow, that is stunning,” says Pat.

To see the footage of Vought’s testimony and hear more of Pat’s commentary, watch the video above.

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Cattle rancher’s STARK warning: You'll only have meat 'as a treat'



American cattle rancher Shad Sullivan is sounding the alarm on the “war on beef” that the elites are waging against the American people, and Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck is right there with him.

“This is all coming from elites,” Glenn tells Sullivan. “85% of elites and super elites — super elites are ones that went to Ivy League colleges and have a doctorate. Just the elite are making $150,000 a year, they’ve gone to college, have one postgraduate degree, and they’re involved in the companies or countries.”

“They just did a poll on those people. Eighty-plus percent say that Americans should not be allowed to eat beef or meat of any kind,” he continues.

“We have to remember what Klaus Schwab said in 2023 at Davos. He said, ‘You will enjoy meat as a treat, but not for sustenance,’” Sullivan agrees. “And we know beef is really the only animal that can provide total and 100% sustenance to human life.”


“These elite that you talk about, I hearken back to my dad. He’s gone now, but he was a self-made rancher. Started with nothing,” he continues. “I said, ‘Dad, what are we going to do?’ And he says, ‘Son, we’ll never change America until they sit in the dark, cold and hungry.’”

“And that’s the truth. And he came from a place of suffering, so he understood that,” he adds, noting that the elites will never understand the kind of suffering that makes them grow.

“I think about somebody on the side of the road with a flat tire. Those elites couldn’t even change a flat tire. They couldn’t do the most simple things that require real life, and here they are, demanding and dictating how we’re going to produce and consume, not only in America, but across the world,” Sullivan explains.

However, there is one thing that keeps the elites from all-out rule over the American people.

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Ethnic narcissism: The hidden danger in modern church culture



Ethnic narcissism has infiltrated modern church culture, and it’s much more insidious than those who embody or celebrate it seem to understand.

“I think we can celebrate our differences, but when you’re talking amongst the brethren, we don’t need to ignore our ethnic differences, but we also don’t need to elevate them to a level of what I would call ethnic idolatry or narcissism — ethnic narcissism,” Christian content creator April Chapman tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

Chapman explains that “ethnic narcissism” is where you view the world through an ethnic lens.

“Why are you looking at the world in that way? That is something that the pagans do, the unbeliever, because they don’t have an identity that’s hidden in Christ. They don’t have their sins atoned for,” she says.


While we can acknowledge that we’re different, Chapman explains, elevating something like race to “an unhealthy level” where “we’re now levying charges of sin against others who look different than us” is not right — and Stuckey wholeheartedly agrees.

“I just remember seeing this a lot in 2020 from the pulpit. There was one message of guilt that was given to white congregants and one message that was given to black congregants, and that message was one of alleviating any responsibility for anything at all that they themselves have done,” Stuckey recalls.

“And then for the white congregants, it wasn’t only responsibility for what you have done, but also, you should feel some level of shame and guilt for what some people — not even related to you, but that kind of maybe looked like you — 200 years ago did,” she continues.

“I just thought, okay, I don’t see a biblical basis for that, especially when we’re talking about justice, which is inherently supposed to be blind,” she adds.

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EXPOSED: Gavin Newsom's shocking ties to the Chinese mafia



Between his draconian COVID-19 lockdown measures and his progressive policies on transgenderism, abortion, and immigration, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is as deplorable as they come.

On top of his insidious progressivism, however, there’s something else that makes him one of the slimiest politicians in the country, something few are aware of: He’s got deep ties to communist China.

To get the scoop on Newsom’s entanglement in Chinese organized crime, Glenn Beck sat down with author and journalist Peter Schweizer, who revealed the California governor’s hidden financial ties to Chinese criminal networks.

“Gavin Newsom, governor of California, will not call out China on fentanyl,” says Schweizer, pointing to Newsom’s October 2023 visit to China, during which he refused to call out the communist nation for its role in America’s fentanyl crisis — specifically, its supply of precursor chemicals fueling California's opioid epidemic.

Newsom was criticized for missing an opportunity to address a pressing public health crisis, but Schweizer says his refusal to “finger-point” stems from his deep ties to China, which he’s reluctant to jeopardize.

“His history is a long association with Chinese organized crime figures,” he says. “When he was mayor of San Francisco, he appointed as the head of Chinatown economic development a guy who was a dragon head — that is a mafia leader in Chinese organized crime.”

Newsom also “gave taxpayer money from San Francisco to [another dragon head’s] nonprofit,” and “he had on his transition team yet another guy who was involved with Chinese organized crime who went to jail on a murder-for-hire plot,” says Schweizer.

Further, during Newsom’s San Francisco mayoral tenure, “he also set up something called ChinaSF to bring China investment dollars to San Francisco.” To establish ChinaSF, he partnered with “Vincent Lo” — a man “already publicly known to be associated with Chinese organized crime.” As a result of their partnership, “some of the early businesses that came and invested in San Francisco through this scheme were tied to Chinese organized crime,” Schweizer explains.

“This is different than the corruption I have seen in the past,” says Glenn. “This corruption leads to the destruction and the death — literal death — of Americans.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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Therapist-in-training exposes nauseating secrets from the world of counselor education



Naomi Epps Best is a married Christian mother and graduate student in marriage and family therapy at Santa Clara University. Like anyone who enters the counseling profession, she wants to help people thrive.

Sadly, in today’s world, helping people thrive is often synonymous with affirming their delusions. On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Naomi sat down with Allie Beth Stuckey to share what future therapists are being taught about gender identity and care for minors.

“We were taught that if a child comes to us and they are experiencing extreme gender-related distress,” it is our “ethical obligation ... to affirm them in their belief and to not act as a gatekeeper for their medical treatment,” says Naomi. “That is what I am taught at [Santa Clara University], and that is what is being propagated down from the psychological governing bodies in this country.”

“I've talked to so many de-transitioners,” says Allie, “and every single one says that there was a therapist who didn't ask questions that checked off the boxes” and “uncritically affirm[ed]” their gender of choice. And even if the child also suffers from anorexia, bipolar disorder, or autism, the therapist is obligated to “ignore all of that, and say, ‘Yes, here is your letter of recommendation to go on puberty blockers, cross- sex hormones, [or] get your breasts cut off.”’

“Yes, exactly,” says Naomi. “[That methodology] is by design in this profession, and there are great therapists out there, who will ask deeper questions and will walk with a child who has gender dysphoria and provide them good care, but those individuals are going against the ethical standards and guidelines in our profession, and they're taking a risk by doing that.”

Earlier this month, Naomi published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing Santa Clara University’s Marriage and Family Therapy program, particularly its required human sexuality course. The article, titled “Santa Clara University’s Crazy Idea of Human Sexuality,” exposed explicit and coercive practices like assigning sadomasochistic erotica and mandatory sexual autobiographies, alongside ideological bias, unprofessional conduct, and racial stereotyping. Best argued these elements, coupled with denied accommodations, ethical violations, and retaliations against her, prioritize political agendas over neutral clinical training.

Just days after the article’s publication, Naomi was fired from her therapy internship. But before that, she was “summoned to a 15-on-one struggle meeting,” where her fellow “therapists-in-training” launched “character attacks” at her.

“These people called me unsafe. They called me a danger to the profession,” she tells Allie.

To hear more of Naomi’s wild story about what’s going on in the world of therapy education in our country, watch the episode above.

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Mark Levin coins Dems’ new slogan after Boulder attack suspect’s hate crime charges: 'Bring us ... your terrorists'



On June 25, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a peaceful pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado, on June 1, was indicted on 12 federal hate crime counts. He also faces state charges, including attempted murder, with a trial pending that could result in significant prison time if convicted.

“He’s an Islamo-Nazi” who “came into this country on a tourist visa in 2022 under the great Joe Biden regime” and then “overstayed his visa,” says Mark Levin. However, “rather than deporting him,” Soliman was granted “a work visa,” which he also overstayed.

It’s this kind of Democrat “humanitarian” impunity that teed up Soliman’s alleged crime, he says.

When Soliman tried to purchase a gun but was barred due to his immigrant status, he decided instead to “burn the Jews,” one of which was an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, Levin recounts.

Sadly, this horrific case of anti-Semitism isn’t an isolated event, but rather one in a chain of Jewish-targeted hate crimes that have spiked since Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

This uptick in anti-Semitism is largely due to the Biden regime’s open borders, says Levin, but now that the Trump administration is trying to reverse course and deport criminal illegal aliens, many of whom harbor anti-American sentiments, we have “Democrat party radical judges, the ACLU, and these radical defense lawyers” who are working overtime to prevent deportations. And then the mainstream media, beholden to the Democratic Party, swoops in to affirm and regurgitate their leftist narratives.

At this point, the left's party slogan might as well be: “Bring us your poor, your huddled masses, your terrorists, your Islamists, your Marxists. ... If you disagree, you're obviously a white supremacist," says Levin.

If “the West has a will to survive,” he warns, we'd better find a way to get the “terrorists ... or would-be terrorists” who are currently in our country out. And further, we'd better find a way to address the rampant anti-Semitism festering in our colleges and universities, which Levin calls “indoctrination mills” cultivating “homegrown terrorism" that's "paid for by communist regimes, by Islamist regimes.”

Soliman and his alleged crimes, he says, point to an insidious cultural trend of immigrants who reject assimilation, insisting on “bringing their hate, their evil, their view of their faith, [and] their terrorism into our country.”

“They come to the country for the purpose of destroying the country,” says Levin.

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From racism claims to pregnancy conspiracy theories — why Meghan Markle is ‘really messy’



Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been dominating headlines ever since their highly publicized departure from the royal family. And while much of their actions depict a couple who have cast themselves as the victims in their story — the public doesn’t seem to be buying it.

In fact, they appear to despise Prince Harry’s choice in wife.

Journalist Jessica Reed Kraus of House Inhabit, who has intensely covered their evolving story, believes the public is right in their assessment.

“I think it’s justified, because I do watch them so closely, I watched how it happened, and I saw mistake after mistake being made on their end,” Kraus tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”


“There’s a lack of self awareness there,” she continues, noting that to “publicly drag the family into that whole drama of the racism claims” was just “really messy.”

Markle became the center of tabloid drama across the world after sitting down with Oprah Winfrey for an interview and telling her that a member of the royal family expressed "concerns" to Harry about the color of her unborn child’s skin.

Winfrey responded with an astonished, “What?”

“I think that sort of set a really bad tone, where it’s like they were trying to break free, but they looked miserable while they were doing it. Like you want privacy, but then you actually want documentaries and podcasts and all these things, so I think nothing about them seems genuine, and when you don’t seem genuine at all, people don’t take you seriously,” Kraus says.

Markle also went viral recently for a video taken of her dancing in the hospital room while pregnant, where many viewers pointed out that her baby bump didn’t look natural, speculating that it could be fake.

“I don’t mind the criticism of her, but sometimes I’m like, OK, people are just looking for things to come up with,” Stuckey tells Kraus.

“Not all these conspiracies I like. I don’t like the fake pregnancy stuff, that was definitely her pregnant in the hospital to me, I thought it was sort of cringey,” Kraus says, adding, “because again, they made such a big deal about privacy, but now you’re releasing your most private home videos for the internet to see.”

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Every terrifying thing you need to know about NYC’s intifada-embracing, communist mayoral threat, Zohran Mamdani



On September 11, 2001, nearly 2,500 Americans were killed when two planes hijacked by Muslim terrorists struck New York City’s Twin Towers. It’s been less than 24 years, and now that same city has elected Zohran Mamdani — a “communist,” “Muslim radical,” and “jihadist apologist” — as its Democratic mayoral candidate.

Mamdani is a 33-year-old Democratic socialist backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). He openly supports the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, refuses to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada," and proposes rent freezes, city-owned grocery stores, a $30 minimum wage, and a Department of Community Safety to reduce reliance on police.

All it took was 24 years for NYC to go “completely insane,” says Glenn Beck.

Mamdani was endorsed and funded to the tune of $100,000 by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has been accused by multiple U.S. government officials, including federal prosecutors and FBI agents as well as several conservative advocacy groups, as being a Hamas front group and a terrorist organization.

He also received campaign donations from multiple faculty members from Columbia University, where several pro-Palestinian protests, many involving violent incidents, have erupted since 2023. Some of these donors even signed a letter defending Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attacks.

In a 2024 Facebook post, Mamdani’s campaign political director, Julian Gerson, wrote that he was “looking forward to driving down Mangione Avenue a few decades from now.” The post was seen as expressing direct support for Luigi Mangione – the man charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

“Sounds like supporting killing people in the streets,” says Glenn.

On June 17, Mamdani appeared on “The Bulwark Podcast” hosted by Tim Miller and equated the phrase “globalize the intifada” to “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights,” arguing that the word “intifada” means “struggle” or “uprising” in Arabic. He even suggested that the term was used by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Arabic to describe the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis — a sentiment the museum condemned as “outrageous and especially offensive to survivors.”

Glenn makes an excellent point: If “intifada” describes the Jewish uprising at Warsaw, “then [globalize the intifada] is not just a harmless kind of slogan about human rights; it is a call for violence on the streets,” as the Warsaw uprising was a bloody affair marked by fierce urban combat and executions.

Mamdani’s father, a current professor at Columbia University, has denied that terror and violence are an inherent part of Islam. His book, “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror,” argues that terrorism is a modern political phenomenon, not a product of Islamic culture, and is often rooted in historical encounters with Western power.

“I've read the Quran and much of the Hadith, and I'm pretty sure the violence is a part of that,” says Glenn, noting that the Americans supporting the pro-Palestine movement and people like Zohran Mamdani, condemning any opposition as “Islamophobia,” are ironically the first people who will be in the crosshairs if an Islamic takeover happens.

“The progressive left — the champions of feminism, LGBTQ rights, and secularism — they're going to stand with the people who want to kill them first,” he says.

But right now, that isn’t a concern for the left. They’re amped about Mamdani’s plans to “tax the rich” so he can provide “free buses” and “city-run grocery stores.”

“I'm old enough to remember those city-run grocery stores in Moscow. They were great; the shelves were empty, but that's just Moscow. I mean it worked out completely different in Venezuela where ... oh, no, it didn't. ... They were eating the zoo animals,” mocks Glenn. This is communist dogma at work, he says, and it’s responsible for the “deaths of 100 million people.”

“Get the hell out of New York City. This is about survival,” he warns.

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