Shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
4/26/202643 min
After a shocking shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, Fareed is joined by CNN Presidential Historian Timothy Naftali to discuss what this suggests about American politics and society. Next, after President Trump canceled a US delegation trip to Pakistan for possible talks with Iran, Fareed talks to retired US Admiral William McRaven about how the war might end. Finally, Anthropic's new AI model “Mythos” is so powerful that the company hasn’t released it to the public. Sebastian Mallaby, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins to discuss AI’s rapid advancement and the risks that come with it. GUESTS: Timothy Naftali (@TimNaftali), William McRaven, Sebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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[upbeat music] This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria, coming to you live from New York. Today on the program, we'll bring you some perspective on the shooting at last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner. Then, will they meet again or won't they? Talks between the US and Iran were supposed to be held this weekend. The US delegation was ready to go, but then it was all called off. I'll talk about that stalemate with Retired Admiral William McRaven. Finally, what you need to know about Mythos, Anthropic's new AI that is so powerful and so dangerous, potentially, that the company refuses to publicly release it. But first, here's my take. [beep] I was recently in Shenzhen, the heart of China's industrial machine, talking to one of that country's legendary businessmen. I asked him about the Iran war, and his response surprised me. He said, quote, "For us, Trump's attack on Iran is less consequential than his threat to attack Greenland. When he did that to America's oldest allies, I knew that Europe would not follow America's approach to China." Unquote. In the US, Trump's periodic insults hurled toward Europe