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BREAKING: Arsonist to write fire code at UN

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BREAKING: Arsonist to write fire code at UN

Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings

Gary Marcus's avatar
Sep 22, 2026

Ok, my headline is a joke. (I hope Trump’s riff today at the UN on relabeling AI as Super Intelligence was, too.)

But only barely.

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BREAKING: Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council Wednesday on AI
10:45 PM · Sep 20, 2026 · 53.2K Views

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As Dominic Romano, founder of Drainpipe.io put it on X,

An individual who really doesn’t appear to know much about the underlying tech, and who is incompetently leading a company which is creating the perception of a security crisis while being run like an Extortion Racket briefing the UN Security Council is like if Al Capone would have given a brief on security to the FBI, should anything said actually be taken at face value or taken seriously?

I understand why the UN had to give a microphone to Trump today, but I don’t see why they chose to give a microphone to Altman.

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