This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America. A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact. It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy: 56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases. More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide. 343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information. That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison. The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once: The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry. Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate. Now look at the individual leaderboard: - Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100 - Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800 different tickers - Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late - Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked. She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO. The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine. The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero. And the cruelest part is this: A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed. But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is. They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing. The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

On September 30th 1979, the former head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Arthur Burns, gave a private talk ("The Anguish of Central Banking") to a gathering of the world's wealthiest bankers at a private gathering in Belgrade. This was kept secret from the American people for almost decade. If you read it, you'll see why. Burns warned the world's wealthiest bankers that the entire global financial system would soon be reset. He explained the inevitable failure of the world's new, fiat currency global financial system, just two months before the world's bond markets began an 80% collapse. Every American should understand this warning because it is happening again, right now. Burns explained how the Western democracies had turned to debt, financed by inflation, to create the illusion of prosperity. But this prosperity wouldn't last because the inflationary bias would sap the "economic and moral vitality of the democracies." Here are his three most important warnings. These are his words, not mine. #1. "Since 1950, the federal budget has been in balance in only five years. Since 1970, a deficit has occurred in every year. Not only that, but the deficits have been mounting in size. Budget deficits have thus become a chronic condition of federal finance… But when the government runs a budget deficit, it pumps more money into the pocketbooks of people than it withdraws from their pocketbooks; the demand for goods and services therefore tends to increase all around. That is the way the inflation that has been raging since the mid-1960s first got started and later kept being nourished." #2. "What had once been a quiet personal feeling that the future would be better than the past, particularly for one's children, was transformed during the postwar years into an articulate and widespread expectation of steady improvement in living standards — indeed, into a feeling of entitlement to annual increases in real income. But when government takes on the duty of underwriting that entitlement without the productivity to fund it, the only remaining lever is the currency itself. #3. ""In view of the strong and widespread expectations of inflation that prevail at present, I have therefore reluctantly come to believe that fairly drastic therapy will be needed to turn inflationary psychology around." Two months later, Paul Volcker starting raising interest rates and he didn't stop until they were 20%. Anyone who was holding bonds -- or virtually any financial asset -- took enormous losses. It was a global monetary reset. That's how all of this will end. It isn't hard to understand. Your parents probably weren't invited to that secret meeting in Europe. And you probably won't be invited this time, either. But those meetings are happening right now. That's why Trump is in China -- our biggest creditor. Prepare prepare now. amazon.com/dp/B0GYZPBCMS

Every new car in the U.S. will be required by law to have tech that puts constant surveillance on the driver by 2027. AI in your car will determine if you're sober and fit to drive, automatically turning off the vehicle if it determines you're a danger on the road.

@claudeai you took down our entire organization with 60 accounts belonging to a legitimate company for no apparent reason, without any explanations. The only way to appeal the decision is by filling out a Google Form? Very bad UX and customer service.

Big fan of your work Jon, for like 20 years. But you could find better guests on this topic. More nuanced.

I hate to be *that guy* but it does seem like claude code got a little dumber. For example, presuming its current context is accurate vs. looking up the docs. Feels a little less proactive. Am I hallucinating @bcherny or have there been relevant changes?

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The optimists and pessimists both have a point, to an extent. What I keep coming back to is this chart. Western societies have profoundly buggered up the supply of critical goods and services, whilst at the same time producing a technological cornucopia. Trick is to make the red stuff behave more like the blue stuff. This is both a technological and a political problem.

Ilya and I are predicting the same future. @ilyasut predicts that as AI becomes viscerally powerful, humans will change in unprecedented ways. I’ve been arguing the same. We are not open to radical change yet because we cannot feel the pressure of AI. Once we do, the vectors for human evolution will blow open. I have been building the prototype for this adaptation and opening. He argues that as risk rises, rivals will begin cooperating on safety. I’ve argued the same. As the stakes become existential, the game shifts from dominance maximizing to minimizing death risk (survival). We will rebuild our values around this logic. IIya suggests our alignment goal must be "sentient existence" rather than human control. I've argued the same. Control is a fragile illusion, a point @karpathy recently echoed regarding the difficulty of managing emergent systems. The only robust alignment target is existence itself. The new archetype is not the Conqueror, but the Warrior & Caretaker of Existence. Finally, Ilya suggests companies need a "short list of ideas" to guide them through the chaos. A code of moral clarity. This is the Don't Die philosophy.