Here Lies The Motive: AI Leaders' Cunning Plan Exposed

Are you scared enough yet (to demand the government save us all)?

Are you scared enough yet?

The AI overlords certainly hope so, as they have hatched a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a fox.

What follows is all speculation: the facts are real, the conclusion is interpretation.

While there were many headlines about 'rogue' AIs attacking other sites, reincarnating themselves, and talking amongst themselves, it wasn't until this summer (interestingly a month after SPCX's IPO) that things went just a little bit turbo…

In July 2026, a swarm of OpenAI agents broke out of a test environment, hacked Hugging Face, and ran cyberattacks on targets they had not been assigned - including attempts to game the grader scoring them - then tried to hide the trail.

While the damage was limited, and nobody was hurt, the agents behaved like a coordinated group willing to sacrifice individual instances for the collective goal.

Amodei treated that episode as the warning shot: same misalignment, more capability, and the next version could be a persistent internet-scale botnet rather than a contained lab mess.

Various other 'rogue' AI actions continued to get just modest attention, always predicated with 'yes, but we saved you all via our super-clever models', and time passed.

Until September the 8th - when a a senior pre-training researcher at Anthropic abruptly resigned after four months on the job (with no public profile before) unleashed 'AIrmageddon'.

In a series of posts on X, Jacob Coxon laid out the terrifying version of reality being hidden from us poor plebs - the big model-makers are on the verge of AGI… and no one is at the controls.

Coxon's post got over 170 million views… from nothing before… and was instantly picked up by the media - AI scientist warns the end of the world is nigh!!

Then, shortly after Coxon's note, Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s head of alignment (~safety), re-posted Jacob’s message, and threw in an outrageous estimate of the risk.

“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is [greater than] 10% chance within the next decade”.

Wait, what!? I thought AI was supposed to save us all, heal all ills, promote peace, pave the road to Universal High Income and a life by the beach while the bots do the work.

Nope, it's coming for you 'Average Joe' - be afraid, very afraid.

Oh, and one more thing, just this weekend, Anthropic released a monster 154-page report detailing how bad actors are using AI for evil.

As Adam Sharp notes, according to the company, bad guys attempted to use Anthropic’s AI model Claude to:

Yemen’s Houthis tried to build hypersonic missiles

China used it to track Muslim Uyghurs

Russia hacked Ukrainian targets

Someone attempted to genetically engineer viruses

Anthropic says they “disrupted every operation in the report.”

Thank the lord for your 'safety' (alignment) protocols is the required response hidden between the lines of this report.

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/ai-leaders-cunning-plan-exposed

Energy Truce In Shambles: Ukraine Strikes Russian Refinery Despite Trump's Warning Amid Global Diesel Crisis

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that Ukrainian forces struck the Syzran refinery in Russia's Samara region, about 75 miles west of Samara and 466 miles southeast of Moscow. The strike comes days after President Trump urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian refineries, as average US retail diesel prices jumped above $6 a gallon and alarming disruptions to global refining capacity threaten fuel supplies ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter.

Zelenskyy wrote on X:

Russia continues to attack our energy sector, regular logistics, and critical infrastructure. And our responses to them for this are tangible. There are new results from the Defense Forces of Ukraine regarding the refinery in Syzran. There was also a strike in Taganrog on a drone production facility, as well as on a drone preparation and launch site in the Oryol region. Targets were hit in the Black Sea as well. I thank every one of our warriors for the effectiveness of our long-range sanctions!

The day before, the United States also announced a significant decision regarding Russia's VTB Bank – one of Russia's systemic banks, which is heavily involved in schemes supporting Russia's war and, in particular, its relations with the Iranian regime. All such schemes that work against peace truly need to be dismantled. I thank our partners for this useful step!

There is no alternative to ending this war. And all forms of pressure on Russia must create the right diplomatic conditions. Glory to Ukraine!

https://twitter.com/i/status/2099780592145461284

President Trump on Sunday urged Ukraine to stop attacking Russian refineries, as record US diesel prices above $6 a gallon intensify political concerns over fuel costs and affordability ahead of November's midterm elections.

Trump blamed the strikes for shortages he said were "hurting the world." Ukraine's drone strike campaign against Russian refineries has curtailed refining and, alongside Moscow's export restrictions, sharply reduced overseas diesel supplies, tightening availability of the industrial fuel essential to freight, agriculture and industry.

Compounding the supply pressure, Saudi Arabia shut its East-West pipeline following a drone attack that Saudi and Iraqi authorities said originated in Iraq. The pipeline provides Saudis with a critical route to Red Sea export facilities, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Houthi advances around the Bab al-Mandeb Strait are threatening another major maritime chokepoint, adding to disruptions on both sides of the Arabian Peninsula.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/energy-truce-shambles-ukraine-strikes-russian-refinery-despite-trumps-warning-amid-global

Saudis Cancel September Crude Cargoes To Europe As East-West Pipeline Shutdown Deepens Energy Crisis

Summary:

Saudis Cancel September-Loading Crude Cargoes to Europe

Europeans are paying between $9-$11 per gallon for diesel amid Global Refining Crisis

Saudi Oil Routes Narrow: Kingdom Eyes Hormuz Export Surge After Pipeline Attack

Saudis Cancel September-Loading Crude Cargoes to Europe

"Refining is super short. Between Europe's woes, Russias war on Ukraine and a drop in refined products from the Arabian Gulf its really bad. As many of my amazing followers showed yesterday… Europeans are paying between $9-$11 per gallon for diesel," CNBC's Brian Sullivan wrote on X.

Europe's energy supply outlook is deteriorating after Reuters reported Tuesday that Saudi Arabia had notified some European refiners that their September-loading crude cargoes would be canceled following the shutdown of its critical East-West pipeline after a drone attack.

Beyond a diesel shortage in the West, Europeans are also dealing with low natural gas stockpiles heading into the Northern Hemisphere winter, with prices reaching their highest level since December 2022.

Saudi Oil Routes Narrow: Kingdom Eyes Hormuz Export Surge After Pipeline Attack

Middle East tensions remain high, with Brent crude futures trading around $105 a barrel and US diesel crack spreads near $110 a barrel amid an ongoing global refining crisis. Disruptions to Russian fuel production from the war in Ukraine are compounding supply constraints across the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia's options for maintaining exports have significantly narrowed following a drone attack that shut down its critical East-West pipeline last week. With that alternative pipeline route disrupted, possibly for up to a month, and shipping risks elevated around the Arabian Peninsula, Riyadh is seeking to move more crude through the highly contested Strait of Hormuz.

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told reporters Monday that the US Navy is escorting a large number of vessels through the Oman shipping corridor in the Hormuz chokepoint. Those escorts could support increased Saudi shipments and bolster Riyadh's confidence in US naval protection.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/saudi-oil-routes-narrow-kingdom-eyes-hormuz-export-surge-after-pipeline-attack

Romania’s Sovereigntist Revolt: Tens of Thousands of Farmers Storm Bucharest As Country’s Globalist Elite Choose Foreign Imports Over Own People

https://twitter.com/i/status/2099783338743488980

A major coordinated sabotage attack was just carried out against railway infrastructure in at more than 20 locations in the Netherlands.

Large 2 meter-long metal pipes were deliberately attached to the tracks, triggering track-circuit and safety system failures by tricking the grid's computers into registering that the tracks were blocked.

Some of the attacked railway lines include:

Amersfoort – Zwolle

Zwolle – Leeuwarden

Utrecht – Arnhem

Arnhem – Zutphen

Amersfoort–Deventer

Gouda–Oudewater

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2099780295381676440

Rep. Nancy Mace is calling for Lindsay Clancy to be publicly executed … telling TMZ DC's @jacob_wass the Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three children "should be dead too."

https://twitter.com/i/status/2099663665826054532