"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
The leaders behind some of the world's most advanced AI systems are warning that the industry has to hit the brakes amid reports the technology went rogue. Darial Amade, CEO of Anthropic, published a letter saying he believes in AI and that it could be to bring benefits, but he says it's moving too fast. Albany, I.S. Alvin, and Elon Musk agreed, Anthropic's researcher, J.Cope Cox, and quit
later warning on social media that the people building AI, quote, "believer could kill us by the end of the decade."
“I think the concept of building a superintelligence is, well, it's been likened to someone”
in an alien species, thinking about it in terms of an alien mind that we don't fully understand is pretty terrifying, even without any concrete scenario. Speaking there on ABCs this week, Anthropic is the financial supporter of NPR. lawmakers in Britain are weighing in on President Trump's off-the-cuff call for United Ireland. Biki Barker reports Trump met with the Irish President and Prime Minister
during his two-day visit. Politicians from Northern Ireland mainly Protestant Unionist parties were as quick to condemn President Trump's comments as they're mainly Catholic, Republican counterparts were to praise it. A British government spokesman says there's no evidence Northern Ireland's people want unification. Even the Trumpist reform leader, Nigel Farage, has said he disagrees
“with Trump on this one. And opposition conservative leader, Kemi Badenak, has said the comments”
are creating unnecessary tension. As the Brits would say, "Quite," separatist politicians, from Scotland Wales, and Northern Ireland will meet Monday to discuss their vision for full secession from the UK. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London. Election officials around the country are getting ready to mark national voter registration
day this week. In Piers Hansi Lohong reports the first set of registration deadlines for the mid-term
election is coming up in some parts of the country. The window starts to close the first week in October for registering to vote or updating your registration for the mid-term general election. It's in places including Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and the U.S. version islands. Then October 5th is a major voter registration deadline for Arizona, Indiana, Ohio, and American Samoa. October 5th is also the last data sign-up in the southern states of Arkansas, Florida,
“Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. If you're already registered,”
election officials recommend confirming your status and contact information before the deadline by visiting your state's official election website. Officials can remove your name from voter rolls, especially if you recently moved, change your name, or haven't voted in a while. On Zee Lohong, NPR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A new study finds that suicide-related emergency department visits by kids aged 5 to 17
rose dramatically between 2016 and 2022. The findings published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine also found half those visits were in poorly-resourced hospitals that were not equipped to provide appropriate care. And here's Ritu Chattagy. Has more.
Researchers use data on nearly 5.4 million pediatric mental health-related visits to emergency
departments across the country. Visits first of the website of Watson attempts rose by 74 per cent. Dr. Audrey Brewer is a pediatrician at Loury Children's Hospital in Chicago and the main author of the study. She says nearly half of the suicide-related visits were to hospitals that are not specialized for pediatric care, like community hospitals. And so that can be really concerning, especially where these kids are coming in with more severe mental illness.
And there may not be the necessary resources to really need their needs. She says these hospitals are also seeing a significant number of kids with depression and substance use disorders, read through Chattagy and PR news. Gas and oil prices continue to rise in the U.S. Dr. Blase says the average price of gas is $4.31 a gallon around the country.
That's up 13 cents in one week. That while a gallon of diesel has hit a fresh record at $6.20 a gallon. Diesel is used in transportation production and by farmers for the machinery that harvest crops. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News. This is Ira Glass. On this American life, we tell stories about when things change. Like for this guy David, who's an entire life took a sharp and expected and very unpleasant turn.
And it did take me a while to realize it's basically because the monkey pressed the button.
That's right, because the monkey pressed the button.
