Trump's Politics, AI Oversight, Baghdadi Raid Files
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Former president trump is at the head of the pack of republicans running for president.

even though he's been edited twice, and soon he may be ended again time in connection with the january and .

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The military has not even taken basic steps to check their own assumptions from that night.

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Donald mps popularity with republican voters is putting the twenty twenty four presidential contenders in an interesting position。

He's been edited twice, but his popularity remained strong. So some republican candidates, namely floor government around the sands, have tried to baLance supporting the former president while softly criticising him. But as a third possible indictment looms this time over his actions during the january six attack, descendest is being a bit more forceful about trust behavior.

On the day of violent mob story from the U. S. capital.

He was shown how he was in the White house and didn't do anything while things were going on.

So our trust rivals now focusing on his legal oes here .

to talk about this is pier's White house correspondent, franco ordonez. Hi, good morning. So with the past two indications, not only has trusted popular, he's got ten more popular. So what's different this time with this able and died.

right? I mean, the scene st so far has largely ducked opportunities to criticize trump. So this time this caught the attention of a lot of people, including the term campaign. The sense is actually not the only one. Hai said on fox news that trumps legal troubles were a distraction, and SHE warned that if something didn't change, the entire prime mary was gone to be about trump and his legal problems. And that kind of been the case so far.

right? But but the santis also said he didn't think transactions amounted to criminal behavior. Is he trying to have both ways here?

IT seems that way. I'd say there kind of inch toward criticizing trump. I mean, in almost any different type of political environment and team would probably be a big opportunity for opponents to gain ground.

Yeah but many republican base voters now pretty much dismiss any allegation against trump. So rivals are being careful. They do not want to alienate those people. And that's not really a way to win elections though, at least according to republican strategist I speak with like dug high, he says eventually they are gonna need .

to take on trump. And ultimately, as we learned in star wars, luke skyWalker had to confront darva, or he couldn't depend on the force to take care of the forum. The republicans are making the mistake in in acting like that right now.

And he notes that trump probably would not take such a large view of the tables were returned and say the scientist was indeed trump attack.

I like that star wars reference there to describe the political and escape as the fact that this involves what was an unexpected gineral thing. Until that happened, an attack on the capital make any difference.

I mean, we're talking about a historic c event, a deadly day, that millions of americans either watch live on television or on replay multiple times. At the time, most republican leaders fled from trump. There was a lot of talk that I was the end of his political career, but clearly perspective have changed, and now he's the undisputed front runner of the republican and nomination.

I spoke with brian lanza. He's a former aid who is still close to the campaign. He says another indication is not going to change that trajectory.

The president has learned how to read nize government's actions into a high revenue venture for his campaign. I I think anything that comes forward, we know what the .

game plans gonna and that game plan is to raise money. They're going to continue to use the likelihood of an indictment as another example of how trumps being unfairly targeted. Trump is already doing that on repeat. And the reality is, like IT or not, much of the republican base agrees with him because they too feel that triumphs man targeted.

So he's weapon zing those indications that's mps White house correspondent Franko or Daniel.

Thank you so much your time. thanks.

The White house has been saying for months that he wants to manage the risks and reward of artificial intelligence.

Now major tech companies working with the White house have made voluntary commitments on how they will develop, test and share A I systems. The president and company leaders will be speaking .

about what they would ve agree to this after covers. White.

hey, good morning.

Good morning. So which tech companies are involved here and what's in these agreements?

Again, there are seven tech companies that have agreed to these commitments. In those include amazon anthropic, google inflection, microsoft, meta and OpenAI, which is the parent company of ChatGPT. And the leaders of these seven companies will be at the White house today to talk about these agreements, which are essentially parameters for how they they will develop A I technology and roll IT out for public use.

So for example, the companies committed to making sure users know when content is AI generated through something like a watermark. They also say they'll make a point to avoid bias in their technology and protect privacy. But overall, there aren't a lot of details. And what the White house has released today. So at this point, it's hard to say how effective these commitments will be or if more companies will choose to join in on these agreements.

Well, speaking about effectiveness, I mean, these commitments are voluntary, right? So how will the companies be held accountable?

Yeah, that's definitely a concern for a lot of people. There are a number of polls that show public trust in big tech companies to do the right thing is pretty low. I asked jeff science, the Whitehouse chief of staff, about this, and he says the federal government will do whatever they can to hold these companies to their commitments, but it's just a first .

step commitments. The companies are making our good start, but it's just to start. And the key here is implementation and execution in order for these companies to perform and earn the public trust.

And he pointed specifically to one of the commitments, which is to have external checks on emerging AI technology from independent third parties. For example, some of the companies will have their AI systems tested at a hacking conference next month at the enlargement of the White house. But beyond that, we don't really have much detail on who serves as these third party checks on the technology and how those people are selected.

And there really is so much concern about how this technology is going to be regulated because I could have so much impact on how people work, what's true? What's not true? But so we're waiting on details on these commitments. But what other actions are we anticipate coming from the White house in the meantime?

Rate in the next few weeks? The White house is planning to release executive actions on AI the office of management and budget will also be releasing guidance to federal agencies on how they can and cannot use AI in government work. And the White house says they are also closely working with congress as they developed legislation on regulate AI.

And on top of what's happening in the U. S, there's also a lot of global conversations happening to the White house says they've consulted on the agreements they announced today with dozens of other countries. And biden continues to speak about AI with foreign leaders.

He mentioned A I at the north leaders summit last week in helsinki, and he in U. K, prime minister wishes sina have been talking about A I with each other consistently. It's a lot of talk. So what concrete actions the White house takes next on the international front will also be something watch.

That's mp S A deep but shiver room. Thanks so much. A thank you.

For years, the pentagon has denied that U. S. Troops armed civilians in the twenty nineteen RAID on ISIS leader apple bucket and buck daddy.

as a reminder in that read, but di blew himself up as special Operations forces attacked his house in syria, but npr reported back then that a syrian man was badly wounded and his two were killed when U. S. Aircraft struck the van that they were in. The pentagon has said that they were combatants, but npr has now analyzed internal documents and found flaws and how the U. S came to that conclusion.

Npr, Daniel estrin has been working on this for years. Enjoy this now. Hi Daniel.

Good morning.

Good morning. So let's start without syrian survivor of the air strikes at what he's told you about what happened to him.

His name is bad cat amabutu at he says he was at work with two friends at an olive oil press and his friends were giving him a ride back home. And he says they had no idea that further down the road, us. Forces were riding the hideout of the .

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of iis n.

There was nothing suspicious at all. We kept moving Normally. There was nothing ahead of us on the road. Suddenly I felt something hit us.

They were hit with U. S. airstrikes. His two friends were killed.

His right hand was blown off. His left hand can barely function. He says today he cannot work. He struggles to feed his five Young children. He wants compensation from the U.

S. And what's the pagan's account? And how did you investigated .

when we first brought this account to the pentagon? IT was a few weeks after the RAID, and the pentagon says IT was the first that they had heard of those claims. But I did a review of what happened, and they got back to us.

Son said that the men were enemy combatants. They had demonstrated hostile intent. They ignored U.

S. Warning shots and kept driving in the direction of the RAID. But the pentagon did not give us many other details.

This was a confidential report that they had prepared. So we sued the pentagon to get access to that report under the freedom of information act. And we got IT, and we discovered flaws in the pentagon story.

The main thing that we found was around the central claim that the pentagon put forward. The pentagon said that the van ignored warning shots, but we concluded that those warning shots provided hardly any warning at all. We estimate about two or three seconds.

Um if you look at the pentagon's ow account compared to the arial images from the Operation, and remember later, this was at night, so this would have been a total blurr to a driver. And also in the pentagon report, there was a recommendation to prepare a top secret document addressing pana guns conclusion that these men were combatants and not civilians. But the pentagon told npr they have no record that that document was ever produced.

So what you're describing, I mean, two or three seconds to react. I'm not very long. And depending on those still concludes, these men were combattants. What can we conclude about what happened that night based on what you saw, on what you are seeing?

While former advisers to the pentagon tell me that, you know, you can understand that the U. S. Pilot may have made a decision to strike in the heat of the moment in the fog of war, but all these years later, the pentagon still has not produced any evidence to back up their claim that these men were enemy Billy gerns.

And these experts say, you know, IT looks like a case of mistake and identity. Now, a new york based advocate group, the zome center, has requested that the defense department reopen this case. The defense department has said IT is looking into that request, so this may not .

be case closed. Daniel est, thank you for this reporting. Daniel story aired yesterday on all things considered, and you can see some of the pentagon documents, photos of the survivor and more on the story in english and arabic. I M P R die ork K. And that's a first for friday, july, when the first i'm .

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