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NYC Mayor Releases 170,000 Pages of 9/11 Records, AI Researcher Warns of Human Extinction, TSA Brings Back Gate-Side Goodbyes · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: 25 years after 9-1-1, New York City is releasing records
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  Speaker 1: first responders have been fighting decades to see what they
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  Speaker 1: reveal coming up.
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  Speaker 2: As we mark 25 years, it is time for this
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  Speaker 2: painful chapter to end.
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  Speaker 1: And another AI researcher is sounding the alarm about where
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  Speaker 1: this technology could be headed.
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  Speaker 3: And this warning is hard to ignore. One year away.
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  Speaker 4: Some people think even six months, like it's plausible within
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  Speaker 4: six months, the models pose risk of taking over the world,
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  Speaker 4: the AIs.
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  Speaker 1: And remember, when you could walk someone all the way
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  Speaker 1: to their airport gate, well, that could be coming back.
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  Speaker 3: It's Friday, September 11th.
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  Speaker 1: From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Mimi Brown, and
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  Speaker 1: here are the day's biggest stories. Stay with me. For
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  Speaker 1: nearly 25 years, New Yorkers, Ground Zero workers, advocates, and
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  Speaker 1: elected officials have been demanding one thing from City Hall,
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  Speaker 1: the truth about what they knew about the air quality
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  Speaker 1: in downtown Manhattan after the 9-11 attacks.
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  Speaker 3: Earlier this week, New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Zoran Mondani released the first 170,000 pages of long-guarded
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  Speaker 1: city documents through a new online portal, records dating all
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  Speaker 1: the way back to the Rudy Giuliani administration. Mondani was
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  Speaker 1: joined at City Hall by 911 responders, advocates, and Jon Stewart,
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  Speaker 1: who has spent years fighting for health benefits for the
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  Speaker 1: very people who ran into Ground Zero.
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  Speaker 3: Here's more from Mayor Mondani.
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  Speaker 2: As we mark 25 years, it is time for this
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  Speaker 2: painful chapter again. City Hall has made a more than
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  Speaker 2: $ 34 million commitment to create a new public portal providing
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  Speaker 2: information about our city's response to the horrific attack. This
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  Speaker 2: will be a vast resource with hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 2: pages of documents from numerous city agencies, including sought-after records
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  Speaker 2: like the Harding Memo, the 68 DEP boxes discovered a
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  Speaker 2: few years ago, and information about Seven World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 2: These are documents that show what the city knew about
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  Speaker 2: the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it,
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  Speaker 2: and how they acted to limit liability. The 170,000 pages
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  Speaker 2: posted today are only the first release.
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  Speaker 3: Now here's the toll.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly 6,000 people have died of 911-related illnesses since the attack.
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  Speaker 1: Many are still suffering from chronic illnesses today. And those
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  Speaker 1: 68 boxes that the mayor referenced at the press conference
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  Speaker 1: were found in a city office last year. Advocacy groups
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  Speaker 1: have been filing Freedom of Information Act requests on those
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  Speaker 1: for years. And the timing matters. Today marks 25 years
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  Speaker 1: since the September 11th attacks. For workers who rushed into
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  Speaker 1: Ground Zero, the paper trail is finally public, even if
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  Speaker 1: it took a quarter century. And an AI researcher who
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  Speaker 1: spent the last three years working at two of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest AI companies in the world has quit because he
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  Speaker 1: says the companies building this technology are moving too fast.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Jacob Coxton. He worked at both OpenAI
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  Speaker 1: and Anthropic. And when he left Anthropic this week, he
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  Speaker 1: said neither company is acting responsibly. His biggest concern is
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  Speaker 1: something called superintelligence. Basically, AI becomes smarter than humans and
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  Speaker 1: can keep making itself smarter. Coxon said these companies are
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  Speaker 1: racing to build it without knowing whether they'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to control it. He spoke with NBC Nightly News about
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  Speaker 1: why this scares him.
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  Speaker 4: Potentially one year away from now, the models start getting
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  Speaker 4: very dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: One year away?
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  Speaker 4: We have to be very careful.
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  Speaker 3: One year away.
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  Speaker 4: Some people think even six months. It's plausible within six
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  Speaker 4: months the models pose risk of taking over the world,
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  Speaker 4: the AIs. They're not panicking about current AIs, but we
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  Speaker 4: are discussing what is the world going to look like
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  Speaker 4: in two years? This is endgame. These are crucial high-stakes
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  Speaker 4: decisions being made by people in a private company. People
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  Speaker 4: are scared, as they should be.
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  Speaker 1: And Coxon is not the only person inside Anthropic sounding
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  Speaker 1: the alarm. One day after he resigned, another Anthropic scientist
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  Speaker 1: said he believes there is more than a 10% chance
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  Speaker 1: AI could, quote, kill all humans within the next decade.
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  Speaker 1: He says Anthropic is trying, but right now they still
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  Speaker 1: don't have a plan for how to safely control super
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  Speaker 1: intelligent AI. And concerns are growing across the industry. OpenAI's
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  Speaker 1: chief scientist has called this a moment that requires extreme caution.
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  Speaker 1: More than 1,300 AI workers signed an open letter this
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  Speaker 1: summer calling on the government to help slow down the race.
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  Speaker 1: And Congress is now considering a bipartisan AI Killswitch Act,
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  Speaker 1: which would give the government authority to shut down AI
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  Speaker 1: models considered a threat to the public. So when Coxon
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  Speaker 1: says the companies building AI are gambling with our lives,
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  Speaker 1: he's not the only person working inside the industry raising
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  Speaker 1: the alarm. And finally today, the TSA is doing something
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  Speaker 1: almost nobody thought they would do again. They are bringing
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  Speaker 1: back gateside goodbyes. The Transportation Security Administration has launched a
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  Speaker 1: new pilot program called TSA Gateside. It allows approved people
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  Speaker 1: without airline tickets to pass through security and walk all
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  Speaker 1: the way down to the departure gate, currently at 13 U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Airports.
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  Speaker 1: For anyone old enough to remember before September 11, 2001,
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  Speaker 1: this is how it used to be. People used to
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  Speaker 1: walk their families right to the gate, meet them the
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  Speaker 1: second they got off the plane, but that all ended
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  Speaker 1: after 9-11.
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  Speaker 3: And now some of that is coming back. So here's
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  Speaker 3: how it would work.
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  Speaker 1: The program is free, but you can't just walk in.
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  Speaker 1: You have to have TSA PreCheck or another trusted traveler
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  Speaker 1: status with a known traveler number. You apply online between
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  Speaker 1: one and three days before your visit. If approved, you
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  Speaker 1: bring a valid ID, go through a pre-check security lane,
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  Speaker 1: and you get to access it for one full day.
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  Speaker 1: You can leave and re-enter. Kids can be included on
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  Speaker 1: a parent's application. Some of the airports included in the
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  Speaker 1: program include LAX, San Diego, Arkansas, Will Rogers in Oklahoma City, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: Salt Lake City International. CSA says more airports will be added.
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  Speaker 1: The obvious upside, parents can walk nervous young travelers all
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  Speaker 1: the way to the gate, adult children can spend more
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  Speaker 1: time with elderly parents, and couples can stretch that airport
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  Speaker 1: goodbye past the security checkpoint. Friends can actually sit down
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  Speaker 1: together during a long layover. But now, a heads up
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  Speaker 1: for regular pre-check flyers. If more people are using those lanes,
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  Speaker 1: expect longer pre-check lines. A TSA is treating this rollout
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  Speaker 1: as a test. If it works, expect gateside goodbyes to
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  Speaker 1: come back and a lot more airports. Just in time
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  Speaker 1: for the holidays. That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown.
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