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Sep 18, 2026

Trump rejects AI's "effective altruism" movement

Plus, Congress wants to rein in Flock's surveillance network, and Apple is set to roll out anti-AI-generated tech. Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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Trump rejects AI's "effective altruism" movement
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Congress is looking to rein in Flock cameras; plus, Apple has a new way to prove your iPhone photos are real.

But first, it's been a wild week in AI. After the freakout over an Anthropic researcher quitting in protest last week, CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in AI, and his counterpoints Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed. President Donald Trump? Not so much. He called fears of rogue AI a hoax, and even went after a niche intellectual community that's deeply invested in AI safety: the Effective Altruist movement.

Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino to explain more about all this on this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

Everything we talked about

“This obscure philosophy has become Trump's new AI bogeyman” from Axios

“Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Condemn Tech ‘Oligarchs’ and Demand A.I. Reforms” from The New York Times

“Lawmakers Want States to Crack Down on Flock Cameras—or Pay the Price” from Wired

“Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as ‘Made in the USA.’ Now It’s Not So Clear” from Wired

“Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography” from Apple

“Apple launches a new way to prove a photo was shot with an iPhone (not generated by AI)” from Nieman Lab

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