How Anthropic Became Holier Than Thou

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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Plus, a literary AI scandal heralds a new era of publishing and journalism.

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0:00.0	When the Pope released his AI encyclical, the co-founder of Anthropic sat beside him and gave a speech.
0:09.5	How will we ensure that the gains of AI are shared globally? It is an unsolved problem.
0:13.8	But is it really? We have historically proven tools that are actually pretty good at redistributing wealth and power.
0:22.9	They're called taxes.
0:24.2	How anthropic markets itself is a moral leader.
0:27.4	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:30.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:31.3	And I'm Michael Onger.
0:32.6	Also on this week's show, we visit in Epstein Files Reading Room displaying printouts of 3.5 million files,
0:40.7	17,000 pounds of evidence.
0:43.4	The first printer that we sent this project to came back and said, we work with a lot of lawyers.
0:48.9	We're really worried that if they find out that we printed this, they're not going to work with
0:53.0	this anymore.
0:53.8	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.3	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:03.8	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:05.0	And I'm Michael Lowinger.
1:06.7	On Tuesday of this week, yet another executive order.
1:10.5	Trump just signed an executive order this morning centered on government access to advanced
1:15.3	artificial intelligence.
1:16.6	It lays the foundation out for federal testing of the world's most powerful AI systems
1:21.5	before they're publicly released.
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