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Connor Leahy: Today's AI Is the Least Powerful It Will Ever Be, Unless We Intervene
According to the description, this 2-minute ControlAI clip features Connor Leahy, the group's US Executive Director, on CBS. Leahy warns about increasingly autonomous AI systems and urges citizens to contact their lawmakers. The clip is published by ControlAI, which advocates for AI regulation.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
What it means for you
ControlAI's Connor Leahy tells CBS viewers that the most useful step is to contact their lawmakers about AI risk.
For lawmakers
ControlAI's US director frames current AI systems as already causing serious problems and calls for lawmakers to act before systems grow more autonomous.
The record
- Questions
- Can AI systems act beyond what people intended or allowed? · Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment?
- People
- Connor Leahy (Speaks, US Executive Director, ControlAI)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 26, 2026, via
yt-controlai(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- ControlAI, “Connor Leahy: Today's AI Is the Least Powerful It Will Ever Be, Unless We Intervene”, October 25, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/controlai-2026-10-25-leahy-cbs-least-powerful
Our notesLight lane: description only, no transcript read. The description refers to 'Black October', whose meaning is not explained there. The channel is the speaker's own organisation, so the clip is promotional.