#094 - The Downgrade You Will Never Be Told About

We Are Still Human · Oct 30, 2026 · 8m

Let's talk about the instruction the US government handed AI companies this week — and the part of it almost nobody read. On the eighth of September, the NSA, CISA and the FBI published a joint advisory, AA26-251A. Six Chinese AI companies, they said, had been stripping capability out of American frontier models at industrial scale. Billions of tokens, tens of thousands of fake accounts. That's the version that ran everywhere. Here's the version that didn't. In the mitigation section — the part written for…This episode of WE ARE STILL HUMAN examines the human stakes behind the downgrade you…