Greetings on this Tuesday, July 1st, 2025.

Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins' narrator, voicing today's daily article written by friend, philosopher, and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Mark Zuckerberg is creating a new super-intelligence division within meta-platforms and recruiting

AI, artificial intelligence experts to lead it.

He is racing to build AI technology that is smarter than humans, seeking to advance what he calls

a new era for humanity.

He plans to spend upward of $70 billion on capital expenditures, largely on AI investments.

Is creating AI that is smarter than its creators a good idea?

Recent tests have shown that several advanced AI models will act to ensure

their self-preservation when confronted with the prospect of their own demise. This will sabotage

shutdown commands, blackmail engineers, or copy themselves to external servers without permission.

For example, when Palisade research tested various AI models

by telling each one it would be shut down after it completed a set of math problems,

one of the models fought back by editing the shutdown script in order to stay online. Another,

upon receiving notice that it would be replaced with a new AI system, tried to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal an extramarital affair.

Other research shows that advanced AI models are increasingly willing to evade safeguards, resort to deception, and attempt to steal corporate secrets in fictional test scenarios.

Many of the models were willing to cut off the oxygen supply of a worker in a server room

if that employee was deemed an obstacle and the system was at risk of being shut down.

We cannot always know the future consequences of present choices. However, when we can,

we are wise to make our decisions in their light. To this end, let me continue a conversation

we began yesterday on one of the most consequential issues our society faces today. The Bible

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