The Automation Playbook They Don't Want Workers to Know About | Warning Shots #34

In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron (Doom Debates), and Michael (Lethal Intelligence) cover a week where the cracks are showing, in chip smuggling operations, corporate boardrooms, and an AI company’s inbox.

A Chinese billionaire used a hairdryer to peel stickers off Nvidia racks and smuggle $2.5 billion in AI hardware past U.S. export controls. China unveiled a surveillance drone the size of a mosquito. Jeff Bezos launched a $100 billion company with one goal: buy factories, fire the humans, automate everything. Forbes quietly reported that 93% of American jobs can now be automated. Grammarly got caught using real experts’ identities to make its AI look smarter… without asking them.

And OpenAI? They had a 10-person internal email chain about a user in Canada who spent months discussing a school shooting with ChatGPT. They decided not to tell anyone. Eight people are dead.

This is the week’s AI news. None of it made the front page.

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🔎 They explore:

* Mark Andreessen’s dismissal of introspection — and what it says about who’s steering AI

* China’s mosquito-sized surveillance drone and the rise of “artificial nature”

* A $2.5 billion Nvidia chip smuggling operation and the limits of U.S. export controls

* Jeff Bezos’s $100 billion bet on automating every factory he can buy

* Forbes says 93% of American jobs can be automated — who’s left?

* Could an AI CEO outperform a human one by end of 2026?

* Grammarly caught using real experts’ identities without consent

* The OpenAI school shooting lawsuit — and what a 10-person internal email chain chose to ignore

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If OpenAI's own employees flagged a potential school shooting and chose silence, what does that tell us about who's minding the store? And if 93% of jobs can be automated, what exactly are we building this for? Let us know in the comments.

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