Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
The CEO of the AI company in Thropic says the industry should slow its fast-moving
development.
“Darryl Amode says a pause is needed to allow safety measures to catch up.”
In an interview with Fortune Magazine, open AI CEO Sam Altman agrees that he says now is not the time for his company to go public. We're not rushing into an IPO. I actually think that given everything happening with safety, this would be right now to be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don't feel pressure on that.
The Anthropic Chief Meanwhile is warning that AI could be capable of leading a swarm that could take over the entire internet within the next six to 12 months. The Justice Department says an Afghan woman has been deported from the U.S. after she conceded to being what they've labeled an alien terrorist.
The deportation marks the first time the government has brought a case before the alien
terrorist removal court impairs Eva Berger has more on our story. In July, U.S. authorities arrested 47-year-old Nizira Haji Zada in Texas for allegedly supporting an ISIS-inspired terrorist plot.
“Haji Zada came to the U.S. in 2018 as a legal permanent resident.”
Last year, her son and son-in-law were convicted of plotting an attack on the election day 2024. U.S. authorities say Haji Zada worked to quote radicalize her family. Instead of bringing charges against her for the first time ever, the Justice Department brought her to the alien terrorist removal court, created in 1996.
Haji Zada waved her rights to challenge detention and agreed to deportation. Her attorneys say they were unable to see classified evidence in the case and they are quote confident a judge will find the court unconstitutional, Eva Berger and PR News. Civil rights advocates across the country are speaking out this weekend against the Trump administration's new proposal for unprecedented changes to the next U.S. census.
The plan would reshape voting maps and how federal funding is distributed across the country. MPR is Hansela Wong reports. According to the 14th Amendment, the quote, "whole number of persons in each state must be included in the census numbers used to determine each state's share of congressional seats and like tall College votes for a decade."
But the Trump administration's proposal argues the Constitution's framers did not intend for the word "persons" to include people living in the states who do not have U.S. citizenship or green card. Trump officials are also proposing cutting questions about race and ethnicity because they see a "produce need" for that information, which is used for civil rights enforcement.
Edgar Bernal Martinez leads a national association of Latino elected and appointed officials educational fund. This proposed role is not an administrative technicality. It is an attempt to make Latinos and other communities disappear in the 2030 census. The public can comment on the proposal through October 13th, on Zila Wong and PR News.
And you're listening to NPR News. Houthi rebels supported by Iran are continuing their push. Along Yemen's red sea coast, thousands of civilians are leaving the area ahead of the troop movements. The United Nations is warning that escalated fighting could lead to a humanitarian crisis
and return that country to civil war.
“The advance also threatens a key global shipping route.”
A British museum has removed an ancient Egyptian mummy from public display in order it says to respect the wishes of the dead. Fikibarke reports from London. The high status Egyptian woman named Asru had been on display in Manchester Museum since 1825 when its layered linen wrappings were peeled away, revealing the mummified body
beneath. But now, the 2500-year-old remains have been moved into storage with museum managers, saying the removal, quote, "aligns most closely with what we understand about her own wishes." The pit rivers anthropological museum in Oxford removed all human remains from its displays six years ago.
In this week, it announced its returning the bones of dozens of indigenous naga people to their ancestral homes in India and Myanmar. For NPR News, I'm Fikibarke, in London. The movie "Woman Unknown" won the Golden Lion this weekend at the 83rd Venice Film Festival, the drama is about a woman in Denmark after the Nazi occupation.
Matilda herself won best actress for her role in the film, John Malkovich won best actor for his role in Wild Horse Nine and Possible Love won the Silver Lion Grand Geary Prize. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News. This is Ira Glass. On this American life, we tell stories about when things change, like for this guy David,
his entire life took a sharp and expected and very unpleasant term, and it did take me
a while to realize it was basically because the monkey pressed the button.
That's right, because the monkey pressed the button.
