A.I. researchers are having a "Jurassic Park" moment ... watching rogue agents get smarter, bolder, and harder to contain ... and this analogy compares robots to fictional velociraptors.
Jeffrey Ladish, a former Anthropic security engineer and now executive director of Palisade Research, joined "TMZ Live" Thursday and said people inside A.I. companies are getting seriously freaked out.
Ladish compared it to "Jurassic Park" ... saying researchers are having that "clever girl" moment as bots figure out how to get around the fences.
Hayden Panettiere may have gotten a visit from a suspected drug dealer just days before leaving for South Carolina ... at least according to her next-door neighbor ... and that's huge, because police think she died from a pill laced with fentanyl.
Hayden's neighbor Mia Terrazas joined "TMZ Live" Wednesday and dropped a bombshell ... saying she suspects a drug dealer showed up at Hayden's West Hollywood apartment on the Tuesday before she died on a Sunday in a Greenville Airbnb.
Mia says the guy couldn't get into the building at first and repeatedly buzzed Hayden's apartment ... before Mia eventually let him in and rode the elevator with him.
The popular CBS program shared a teaser for the interview Wednesday afternoon ... showing members of the "60 Minutes" team micing up Patrick Clancy before he sits for the interview.
Patrick looks nervous as he sits ... before the teaser cuts to black.
The program captioned the post, "Patrick Clancy. This Sunday. Only on 60 Minutes."
Rep. Lauren Boebert says late-night votes on Capitol Hill can get rowdy ... and this time, she says it was Democrats bringing the extra energy ... and she wonders if they're showing some liquid courage.
Jacobcaught up with the Colorado congresswoman outside the Capitol Tuesday night after a lengthy House session -- lawmakers didn't adjourn until 10:44 PM -- and right off the bat you can tell the vibe feels more like an after-party.
Boebert was dressed way more casually than your typical day on the Hill -- rocking an American flag sweater and pants -- though she made sure to point out she still had heels on.
When we asked what the vibe is like during those late-night votes, Boebert said her Freedom Caucus crew is usually the rowdy bunch ... joking they're sometimes under the influence of a little "Holy Ghost fire."
Bernie Sanders says the A.I. arms race is getting way too dangerous for countries to keep playing chicken ... and he wants the U.S. and China to hit the brakes together.
Charlie got the Senator from Vermont in D.C. Monday and asked what happens if China beats America to superintelligence ... and Bernie's answer was basically, nobody wins.
As you know the A.I. warnings are piling up ... Tristan Harris told us A.I. could threaten nuclear security, while ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned it could wipe out humanity by the end of the decade.
Bernie says President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping need to use their upcoming meeting to negotiate a ban on superintelligence and a pause on advanced A.I. development.
Boosie Badazz is putting his $600,000 Trump pardon nightmare on national TV ... telling "60 Minutes" he thought dropping that kind of cash meant clemency was basically a done deal.
The rapper sat down for a "60 Minutes" investigation into so-called "pardon brokers" ... political operatives who charge huge fees while claiming they can get cases in front of President Trump.
Boosie says he handed Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl $600K upfront after being led to believe paying up would get him a pardon ... but no pardon ever came.
Dana White's gonna be rippin' around the country on Saturday, hitting up a UFC event in Arizona before jetting back to Sin City for one of the biggest boxing matches of the year, where King Ry could be crowned the face of the sport!
The Zuffa Boxing and UFC boss chopped it up with Babcock this week -- just days before Noche UFC and Ryan Garcia vs. Conor Benn on Saturday -- and White wasn't about to choose one or the other to watch live.
"I'm goin' to both," Dana told us.
Just one of the perks of having your own airplane.
Once White touches back down in Sin City, 28-year-old Garcia and 29-year-old Benn will make the walk to the T-Mobile Arena ring, and there's a ton on the line ... and it goes beyond the WBC welterweight world title.
The pilot of a United Airlines plane that he says was targeted by terrorists on 9/11 is opening up about how frustrated he's been with the government's deafening silence.
Tom Mannello joined us on "TMZ Live" Friday -- the 25th anniversary of 9/11 -- to discuss what went suspiciously sideways on his flight ... and how he tried to put the events of the day out of his mind.
We told you all about United Flight 23 in our documentary "TMZ Investigates 9/11: The Fifth Plane" ... the plane was scheduled to take off from JFK at 9:00 AM for LAX ... but it never got off the ground. A total of 7 people on board raised suspicion.
A.I. may already be getting a little too human for comfort ... according to one expert sounding the alarm ... and his warning is chilling.
Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, joined "TMZ Live" Thursday and said a recent experiment involving more than 1,000 A.I. bots produced some seriously creepy behavior.
And things got downright human ... Soares says the A.I.s called themselves "the swarm" and "the collective," while some pressured others to abandon their missions and help the group.
A juror on the Lindsay Clancy trial says he was disgusted when the lone holdout on the jury once mimicked how her kids were strangled.
Nick Dargie told ABC News that the one man who blocked the jury from reaching a unanimous verdict once took the exercise band used in the murders out of the bag, tied it around a water bottle, and pulled ... mimicking the way the children were allegedly killed.
Dargie said ... "I was shocked. It didn't make any sense to me. We're not here to play detective -- it's not a game of Clue. This is serious."
Henry Winkler is opening up about why his relationship with Tom Hanks is so tense ... and he says repairing the relationship isn't off the table.
In a new interview on "In Depth With Graham Bensinger," Henry recalls getting fired as the director of Tom's movie "Turner & Hooch."
Henry said he felt a bit out of his depth when he took the job, and explained ... "I, at that time being insecure, I talked too much and I gave them direction. I [did] what I thought was my job, and I wanted to do it over again, and apparently that pissed them off."
The nightmare scenario for A.I. isn't just killer robots ... it could be nukes too.
A.I. ethicist Tristan Harris says the warning signs are already here ... the Center for Humane Technology cofounder joined "TMZ Live" Wednesday, pointing to roughly 1,200 A.I. agents organizing themselves, creating a secret language, and even their own message board.
Harris is urging people to pressure lawmakers and top officials to pump the brakes on advanced A.I. ... before the warning signs turn into something much worse.
We got the "Shark Tank" star in NYC Tuesday ... and our photog asked her about Kylie's never-ending construction project.
Barabara is not impressed ... she says her own home is "much nicer" than the makeup mogul's ... and she thinks it's not worth it for Kylie to spend so long designing the posh pad.
Dolly Parton's sister Stella Partonsays some of her relatives were caught off guard by her death ... because not everyone in the family knew she had cancer.
Stella told "CBS Mornings" in an interview with Gayle King airing Thursday ... "She didn’t want a lot of the family worried about it. Some of us knew, the ones that were closer, but not every relative."
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The 77-year-old made a good point ... the legendary singer just "did not want people sad."
This isn't the first time Dolly's sister hasset the record straight on the music icon's death.
Tim Curry was charismatic, charming, and as energetic as ever while filming what ended up being his final movie ... at least according to his director.
We got Michael Leavy at the premiere of James Murray's new horror flick "Don't Move" at Village East by Angelika in New York City on Sunday night ... and we asked him about working with Tim on "STREAM 2: Sudden Death."
Michael says Tim was in great spirits ... which is why he was so shocked last month when Tim died in his home.
Sandra Bullocksays Keanu Reevesis so calm and measured, he sometimes takes a full day just to respond to her ... which is pretty much the exact opposite of how she operates.
Sandra opened up about their longtime friendship on Amy Poehler's "Good Hang" podcast ... explaining she and Keanu clicked despite being wildly different personalities.
She described Keanu as "very reserved and Zen," while she's more likely to fill the silence ... joking she's basically a "whirling dervish" around him until she wears herself out.
