Hello and welcome to the Borg podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. On today's show, we are going to take a little swerve into AI politics with the authors of a New Yorker profile on OpenAIs, Sam Altman.

But first, a programming note and a little bit of what's on my mind.

It's across to the Iran War.

Tonight, the next level podcast will be live on Substack and YouTube at 745 p.m. Eastern to cover the latest war crime redline from the madman that the American

people elected president again. So make sure to tune in from that. Here's the latest. It was a bleat

from his social media account this morning, Tuesday morning. A whole civilization will die tonight,

never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that

we have complete and total regime change, where a different, smarter, and less radicalized minds

prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen. Who knows? We will find out tonight

one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world, 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end.

God bless the great people of Iran, you know, treating death of a civilization as some like apprentice reality show thing where there's a cliffhanger.

Can't wait to see what happens on next week's episode.

It's truly sick.

It's truly deranged.

It's obviously deranged.

And even people who otherwise supported Trump can see that.

We know this morning that Iran recognizes it as completely deranged. and they recognize that they have a counterparty

that's not rational or worth dealing with. They announced that they're cutting off all

negotiations following the threat. So pretty ominous stuff ahead. And we don't exactly know

what will happen tonight, but what we do know is that the

consequences of his chaos and lunacy are going to impact people's lives, not just in Iran,

but here at home and around the world. We saw last night a Saudi petrochemical plant get hit

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