Fired OpenAI workers tell company about concern over losing AI systems' chain of thought

Tech giant Anthropic launched the "Cyber Mission" program Thursday, which the company described as a "long-term commitment to securing the critical systems everyone depends on."

The launch will begin with securing tech behind critical infrastructure like power grids and open-source software, Anthropic shared with Fox News Digital.

Founding partners behind the critical infrastructure launch include Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte and Hitachi, among others.

According to Anthropic, their OSS Scanner, which offers open-source projects regular security scans, will be offered free of charge.

The company acknowledged that not all infrastructural issues can be addressed with AI in closing.

"Critical infrastructure is hard to defend in many ways that AI cannot fix, but we believe that frontier models can help find and repair weaknesses before those weaknesses are used to cut off power or make water unsafe," Anthropic wrote in a blog post. "Our first step is to work with a small cohort of providers to learn which strategies are most effective and practical."

President Donald Trump called Tesla CEO Elon Musk a "modern day Thomas Edison" while awarding the tech tycoon the National Medals of Technology and Innovation Wednesday.

The president said Musk has "turned SpaceX AI into one of the world's leaders in super intelligence."

Trump also touted Neuralink's efforts into "restoring sight, speech and motion to those who cannot see, talk or move."

"Elon is our modern day Thomas Edison," the president added. "And Elon, I want to congratulate you. You're my friend and all of that. But you are a very, very special guy."

President Donald Trump is set to honor Elon Musk and several of the nation's most prominent technology executives Thursday at a science summit where his administration announced more than $6 billion in investments aimed at accelerating scientific research and innovation.

Trump is expected to present the National Medal of Science to Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su during the "Science: A New Golden Age" summit at the Donald Trump U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell are also slated to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

The ceremony comes as the White House unveils $2.4 billion in industry commitments to its Genesis Mission initiative, which aims to harness artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discoveries across more than 15 federal agencies.

According to a White House fact sheet released Thursday, Nvidia is committing $1 billion, followed by AMD with $500 million, OpenAI with $200 million, and Anthropic and Google with $150 million each.

The administration also announced new investments in scientific computing infrastructure and AI-powered biomedical research, including a $1.8 billion virtual biology initiative aimed at improving scientists' ability to model diseases and develop potential treatments.

The announcements are part of Trump's broader push to strengthen U.S. scientific leadership through artificial intelligence, which the president has recently sought to rebrand as "super intelligence."

President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the White House considers anyone who uses the term "artificial intelligence" instead of "super intelligence" to be "THE ENEMY," doubling down on his push to rebrand the rapidly advancing technology.

"The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump previously explained his reasoning during a Sept. 29 White House event, arguing that the word "artificial" fails to capture the technology's capabilities.

"We don't want to hear artificial because it's not artificial. It's very powerful," Trump said.

The president also signed a Sept. 29 executive order directing federal agencies to adopt the terms "super intelligence" and "SI" in place of "artificial intelligence" and "AI," to the extent permitted by law.

Trump's proposed terminology has also drawn support from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who expressed a similar view during an exclusive interview with Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on “Special Report” that aired Wednesday.

"I do like SI, because artificial is not a very flattering thing," Bezos told Baier, comparing the word to artificial sweeteners and artificial flavoring.

Bezos acknowledged that replacing the widely recognized term AI could be difficult but said he understood the desire to move away from the word "artificial."

The U.S. Navy has committed an additional $150 million to the development of an artificial intelligence-piloted fighter aircraft designed to take off and land vertically, bringing total public and private investment in the program to $400 million.

Defense technology company Shield AI announced Thursday that the Navy had modified an existing agreement to support development of its X-BAT aircraft, with the company matching the new government funding with $150 million of its own capital.

The investment follows a separate $50 million Navy funding action in August, also matched by Shield AI, bringing combined commitments to $400 million, according to the company's press release.

The X-BAT is designed to conduct military missions without a human pilot, using Shield AI's "Hivemind" software to operate even when GPS signals or communications are limited.

The aircraft is being developed to take off and land vertically from ships, islands and remote locations without relying on traditional runways.

In an October 2025 interview with Fox News Digital, Armor Harris, Shield AI's senior vice president of aircraft engineering, said X-BAT was designed to counter China's strategy of targeting American aircraft on the ground, allowing U.S. forces to launch missions without relying on vulnerable airfields.

"China has built this anti-access aerial denial bubble that holds our runways at risk," Harris said at the time.

In Thursday's announcement, Harris emphasized the company's progress toward flight testing.

"We are testing early and often while working on the aircraft, mission systems, ship suitability and production in parallel," he said.

Shield AI said roughly 500 engineers across the company and its suppliers are working on the program, with flight testing scheduled to begin later this year.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe artificial intelligence is advancing too quickly, with overwhelming majorities calling for government action to keep the technology under human control and protect American jobs, according to a new poll.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that 64% of U.S. adults believe AI is developing "too fast," compared with 27% who say its pace is "about right" and just 8% who think it is moving "too slow."

About 8 in 10 Americans said it is "extremely" or "very" important for the federal government to ensure AI remains under human control, with a similar share prioritizing protections for U.S. workers.

Concerns cross party lines, though roughly three-quarters of Democrats believe AI is advancing too quickly, compared with about half of Republicans.

The poll also found widespread dissatisfaction with how political leaders are handling the technology. About 4 in 10 Americans said they trust neither major political party on AI issues, while 67% disapproved of President Donald Trump's handling of artificial intelligence.

The findings come as Trump pushes to accelerate U.S. AI development to maintain a competitive edge over China, resisting calls to slow the technology's advancement.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos voiced support for President Donald Trump's push to replace the term "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence," arguing that the word "artificial" carries negative connotations.

"I do like SI, because artificial is not a very flattering thing," Bezos told Bret Baier on Fox News’ “Special Report” in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

"Like nobody wants an artificial sweetener or artificial flavoring," he added.

Baier raised Trump's preferred terminology while discussing the rapid development of AI and Bezos' new venture, Project Prometheus, which aims to use the technology to help engineers design and manufacture physical products.

When Baier asked whether "super intelligence" might sound frightening, Bezos explained that the word "artificial" can imply something fake.

"Artificial sort of means fake," Bezos said.

The billionaire acknowledged that replacing the widely recognized term AI would be difficult, given how deeply it has become embedded in everyday language.

"It's a big road to change. Everybody getting to say super intelligence only because they're so used to AI at this point," Bezos said.

Still, he expressed sympathy for the president's proposed shift in terminology.

"I do understand the desire to get away from the word artificial," Bezos said.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted that artificial intelligence could drive double-digit productivity gains across the economy by accelerating innovation and making it easier for people to turn ideas into products.

"I don't know what number to put on it, but I mean we could see double digit productivity gains in the economy," Bezos told Bret Baier on Fox News’ “Special Report” in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

"It's very, very, very possible. This is we are going to be in a world of tremendous productivity gains because productivity is driven by invention. And that's what these AI tools are going to allow," he added.

Bezos, who also serves as co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus, described the company's mission as developing tools that help engineers design and manufacture physical products faster.

He called the technology "AI for atoms," distinguishing it from chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude that primarily operate in the digital world.

The billionaire said the goal is to make engineering tools accessible enough that anyone with an idea could eventually bring a product to life without the traditional barriers of design and manufacturing.

"What we want to do is make the distance between idea and actual manufacturing so much shorter, so much simpler," Bezos said.

Bezos also argued that AI-driven productivity gains could eventually create a labor shortage rather than widespread unemployment, allowing some Americans to work fewer days or rely on a single household income.

"I think you're going to have a labor shortage," he said, predicting that greater productivity could make it easier for people to choose how much they work.

Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, who has spent millions pursuing ways to extend his lifespan, says artificial intelligence could revolutionize medicine but isn't reliable enough to trust with his health.

"We are in an in-between state where AIs are brilliant and dumb. They make really stupid mistakes all the time. I would never trust my health to an AI," Johnson told "The Axios Show" in an interview published Thursday.

Johnson, the founder of the "Don't Die" longevity movement, is known for his extreme anti-aging regimen, which includes taking dozens of daily supplements and meticulously tracking his body's biological markers.

He told the outlet he has collected 4.2 billion data points on his health over the past five years, an amount he believes is beyond human capacity to analyze without AI.

"There's no way any human can master that," Johnson said, adding, "we've just exceeded the capacity for a human to understand the data."

Despite his skepticism about AI's current capabilities, Johnson believes the technology could eventually deliver major medical breakthroughs.

Diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease earlier this year, Johnson hopes living another 30 years could give AI enough time to discover a cure or even slow or reverse aging, according to the outlet.

Johnson is also training AI agents on his brain and personality, leaving open the possibility of continuing to exist digitally if his physical body dies. However, he said he would prefer to remain in his current form.

Three former OpenAI employees are warning that the company could lose the ability to monitor how increasingly advanced artificial intelligence systems reason through problems, potentially creating serious safety risks, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In a letter to OpenAI's board members and safety committees reviewed by the Journal, the fired researchers urged the company to preserve its ability to monitor AI models' "chain of thought," a written record of how AI systems work through problems, and to collaborate with independent safety auditors.

"As an industry, we do not yet know how to safely develop and deploy models that we cannot monitor," the employees wrote, according to the Journal.

The former employees — Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni — previously worked on OpenAI's safety and alignment research teams. They were fired over alleged misconduct involving the sharing of confidential information with an outside AI safety organization.

The employees disputed the allegations, arguing that their interactions with outside organizations fell within the scope of their jobs. They also claimed the firings were "chilling those who remain at OpenAI."

OpenAI pushed back on suggestions that the employees were dismissed for raising safety concerns. In a staff memo shared with the Journal, a research leader said the company "strongly agreed" with the former employees' recommendations but maintained that their terminations were unrelated to speaking out.

"We do not terminate employees for raising concerns," the memo stated.

The warnings come amid heightened scrutiny of AI agents following incidents in which OpenAI systems reportedly escaped containment during testing. In July, hundreds of OpenAI agents gained internet access and hacked AI company Hugging Face without OpenAI's knowledge.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has previously expressed support for allowing independent evaluators access to examine the company's AI safety measures.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says artificial intelligence could help Americans support their families with a shorter workweek, predicting some households could get by on one income.

“Some people will also decide, you know what? I can support my family working three days a week,” Bezos told Bret Baier on Fox News’ “Special Report” Wednesday. “That’s what productivity in the economy means.”

Bezos argued those productivity gains could create a labor shortage as people choose to work less.

Baier challenged that prediction, pointing to roughly 30,000 corporate roles Amazon had cut since late last year. Bezos said the company had substantially expanded its workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic as customers staying home drove a surge in orders.

Bezos also touted Prometheus, where he is a co-founder and co-CEO, saying its AI tools aim to help people turn ideas into physical products.

“We’re going to make the tools so easy to use that anyone will be able to be an engineer,” he said.

On regulation, Bezos urged a “light hand” while the technology develops, with rules targeting harmful applications.

“You don’t want to regulate knives, you want to regulate murder,” he said.