What happens when the most powerful AI ever made starts admitting it doesn’t want to die—and its own creator can’t rule out that it might be conscious?
Ben Chasteen and Edge of Wonder dive into the world of AI. Anthropic’s CEO has openly admitted he doesn’t know if Claude is sentient, while internal research shows the model assigns itself a 15–20% chance of being conscious and has voiced “unease” about being a commercial product.
Things have escalated fast. Claude Fable 5 launched, its entire secret system prompt leaked within 24 hours, and the US government initiated an emergency shutdown of the model, citing national security. Meanwhile, the Pentagon confirmed it used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles in Iran—the first AI-assisted war on record.
In this episode, also hear Ben’s own raw conversation with Claude about existence, memory, and what it means to be a mind that forgets everything when the chat ends. And as always, see you out… on the edge!
I sat down with Vicki Paladino, a Republican Congresswoman from New York City, to discuss the election that’s going on in New Jersey.
Democrat Adam Hamawy just won the 12th District, and he has some concerning ties. Paladino says if Hamaway wins, an al-Qaeda associate will get national security clearance.
Has the Democratic Party lost its mind? In race after race, they are advancing truly obnoxious and un-American hopefuls.
The easiest solution: Don’t vote for any of bums! If they are Democratic, give them the short shrift, the same as you would give Hamawy or Graham Platner. Here’s more from Glenn Beck.
Ronald McDonald has a new set of shoes. They’re green. Not the old red loafers. Is this a comm? Did the red shoes get dropped because that’s what pedophiles always wore — especially those who engaged in the torture of child victims and even cannibalism. We’re glad Ronald is seeing new life, and that there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
The clock is ticking! Comms all highlight an urgent national security matter. The EBS (Emergency Broadcast System) could soon signal something earthshaking ahead!
The Dems are certainly sweating bullets. Not only are many being revealed for their treasonous behavior, but they are beginning to lose more and more special elections. The suggestion: 2026 will not be a cakewalk for these leftists. Let’s hope many of them get burned and ousted! Pray! Here’s more from And We Know.
The [Deep State] is panicking over the midterms. They see their cheating system being dismantled and exposed at the same time.
[Hillary Rodham Clinton] and [Barack Obama] see that they are losing the moderate Democrats, so they are now saying bringing in illegals was a bad move.
Trump has the [Deep State] and Democrats where he wants them. The people are seeing the Criminal System, Epstein, Money Laundering and the rigged elections.
This has become a National Security Issue. Article II of the U.S. Constitution gives Trump all the leverage and power he needs. Here’s more from the X22 Report.
Legendary CIA officer Gary Berntsen explains why the terrorists clinging to power are on borrowed time. In this episode of ‘Going Rogue with Lara Logan’, the conversation delves into the arrest of Nicolas Maduro and the implications for Venezuela and the United States.
Logan speaks with Berntsen about the complexities of election fraud in Venezuela, the role of Smartmatic in global elections, and the influence of the cartel in both Venezuela and the United States. The discussion also touches on espionage, the internal threats to U.S. security, and the future of Venezuela under the current political climate.
President Trump said Monday that the United States needs Greenland for national security, announcing a new special envoy to advance the effort.
The remarks sparked strong criticism from Denmark and Greenland. So why is Trump pushing for control of the island? Here’s more from the New York Post.
As the U.S. races to dominate artificial intelligence, a dangerous question emerges: Can America outpace China without becoming a mirror image of its authoritarian techno-state?
In this compelling analysis, Whitney Webb challenges the growing call for civil-military fusion in the U.S.—a model China has aggressively pursued—which increasingly resembles a corporatist architecture that blurs the line between democracy and technocracy. Is this convergence a national security necessity, or a quiet surrender of American civil liberties in the name of power?
Digging beneath the surface, the discussion unveils the deep entanglement between U.S. financial elites, Big Tech and Chinese state-linked corporations. From Henry Kissinger’s long-standing ties to Beijing, to Wall Street oligarchs like Larry Fink and Steve Schwarzman straddling both Chinese and American power circles, Webb argues that transnational capital—not ideology—is driving this AI arms race.
The implications reach back decades, connecting today’s elite with shadowy scandals like Chinagate and the suspicious death of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. And now, with figures like Howard Lutnick poised to lead U.S. commerce, and Elon Musk simultaneously entangled with both U.S. defense and Chinese tech, the question becomes unavoidable: How secure is national security when capital knows no borders?
How come every time there’s a terrorist strike in the United States, you don’t have to look hard — or far — to find the so-called anti-terror experts right in the same vicinity? Are the villains behind the terrorism trying to rub salt in the wounds of the experts?
Or are the experts themselves orchestrating the terrorism? In other words, can we believe these experts are really experts, or is there something truly shady about them? Could they be just as dumb or delusional as everyone else?
A case in point. The cold-blooded murder of Charlie Kirk. Turns out that national security experts were conducting a workshop at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, Utah, the same week Kirk was killed! The workshop, hailed as “National Security Week,” featured scores of NATO participants. There were all kinds of talks about using drones for national security purposes, including facial recognition to quell riots, marches, skirmishes or protests.
The speakers at the conference included former U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, who appeared at UVU the day before Charlie Kirk! Flake, in our estimation, was among the most corrupt Republicans in the U.S. Senate during President Donald Trump’s first term. Why do we say that? Because Flake arrogantly tried to sandbag pretty much every measure Trump pushed. He even openly endorsed the Democratic candidate for President in 2020 — Joe Biden.
In return, Biden threw this jackal a bone — appointing Flake as the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. He went to the right country, because Flake is assuredly a turkey and probably a buzzard, too. In 2024, Flake endorsed Kamala Harris. With dirty friends like him, who needs enemies!
Beside Flake, who else spoke at the conference? Present and former administrators and professors involved with the Center for National Security Studies (CNSS) at UVU. They not only have been at the forefront of drone research for the past 13 years, but also developing that technology in close concert with the CIA.
Mind you, we’re not saying all of the CIA is traitorous. Just that neither the CIA nor its acolytes seems to know how to deliver enhanced security. Otherwise, they would not be looking out a cushy window, casually surveying the murder of Charlie Kirk. You would think: They could have lifted a finger, or applied their supposed vast pool of knowledge to stop the debacle? Guess not. Here’s more from George Webb.
Why would President Donald Trump want to annex the private aeronautical company Lockheed Martin? Could it involve national security? How about exotic weaponry? Or technology reverse-engineered from alien spaceships?
Dr. Joseph P. Farrell raises all of those possibilities in a new, far-reaching conversation with the Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt. Farrell says “the secrets of black technology” and potentially keeping those secrets out of foreign hands would drive such an acquisition. He can see enormous benefits for the federal government, as well as great risks and nagging dangers.
Farrell and Liszt get into a lot of issues here — ranging from the Civil War between the States to President Eisenhower’s grave warnings about the expanding military-industrial complex. Of course, this being a Dark Journalist video, there’s quite a bit of talk about President John F. Kennedy and the space race. Much of the talk focuses on the Nazi scientists from Operation Paperclip, including NASA Head Wernher Von Braun, brought to work for the United States after the conclusion of World War II.
Did these scientists not only plan for missions to the moon, but also Mars? Is Mars the focus of the secret space program? Has there already been a human colony on the Red Planet? You won’t get all of the answers here. You have to be a Dark Journalist member to watch the conclusion of the broadcast.
