The Trump Administration Sends a New Signal to Alien Disclosure Whistleblowers
The Trump Administration Sends a New Signal to Alien Disclosure Whistleblowers. Aura BogadoThe Trump Alien ‘Disclosure Speech’ Rumors Are Reaching a Fever PitchThe US government has been sharing more information about UFOs.
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Photograph: Dado Ruvić/ReutersAnalysis‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdownRobert Booth UK technology editorFrom the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back slowdown on ‘reckless’ AI development Editorial: controlling AI – humanity cannot outsource its survival The safety debate that ignited when whistleblowers last week warned that the most advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity should come with a health warning: side effects include whiplash.
But AARO has little credibility with the people it was built to hear from, especially after its former director publicly questioned the credibility of whistleblowers, and its March 2024 historical report found no evidence the government had ever recovered alien technology. Unlike AARO, PURSUE is a “presidentially directed initiative” that is reporting ultimately to political appointees in the White House, “versus career bureaucrats. ”“It shows that the Trump administration is taking extraordinary claims about retrievals of a craft of nonhuman origins seriously,” he says.
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It was reinforced on July 31 when Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas sent a memo to 18 intelligence chiefs declaring that any NDAs “prohibiting disclosure to the President, or designees like PURSUE, are no longer in force. ” The memo cited a “Presidential Direction” it never quotes and gave the intelligence community 30 days to set up its own procedures.
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“Bad-faith actors are talking about, ‘Oh, this allows whistleblowers to go and talk to the public. ’ No, it doesn't. “Those of us who already became whistleblowers, we already were told that our NDAs were waived. We were legally allowed to talk to AARO,” he says, referring to the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, created in 2022 to investigate UAP reports and serve as the official channel for whistleblowers. He adds that the new directive essentially “just repeated what we've been told for three, four years. ”A provision Congress passed in December 2022 already states that an authorized UAP disclosure—meaning one made through AARO—"shall not be subject to a nondisclosure agreement," complies with classification rules, and "is not a violation" of the relevant section of the Espionage Act.
Since then, he wrote in his statement to Congress, he has "been prevented from resuming my prior employment" and remains “blacklisted from certain agencies within the Intelligence Community. ”Other UAP whistleblowers have faced similar issues after coming forward, from break-ins at their homes to leaked personal details. Marik von Rennenkampff, a former State Department analyst and Obama-era Pentagon appointee now at the Sol Foundation, a UAP research nonprofit, agrees with that sentiment because of where whistleblowers say the secrets about nonhuman technology are kept.
Only the 2022 statute addresses those types of agreements, and only for disclosures made through the official AARO channel. Despite these shortcomings, UAP researchers and whistleblowers point to, von Rennenkampff argues this week’s announcement is still important.
What has been reported
He points to White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller—who Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently confirmed is working on the UAP portfolio—as someone who would signal the White House is doing more than paying lip service to the topic. “There's enough smoke, and there's enough people behind the scenes,” he says, referring to himself and other whistleblowers. “If Stephen Miller and Trump wanted to actually know some stuff, they could call us into the White House right now, and I can throw down, and so can the rest of them. ”CommentsBack to topJoin the discussionCommentsBack to topYou Might Also LikeIn your inbox: Upgrade your life with WIRED-tested gearMcDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on meBig Story: AI is dead—organoids are aliveThe manosphere is a multibillion-dollar grievance industryHow to find us: Add WIRED. com to your preferred sources in GoogleNathaniel Janowitz is an independent journalist drawn to the strange and unexplained corners of our existence, covering fringe science, true crime, the universe, the paranormal, and whatever else interests him.
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Skip to main contentSkip to navigation The easiest way not to build super-intelligence is for Anthropic to agree not to build it, said David Sacks, co-chair of Trump’s council of advisers on science and technology. Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping in Washington DC on 24 September will test the prospects of any Sino-American coordination.
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An immediate political problem is that Donald Trump appears reluctant to confess to any AI fears. Amodei’s plan requires US government action and Trump said last week he had no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. Losing to China appears to be a bigger worry in Trump’s AI calculus. “If they were to pull away from us on AI, then nothing else would matter. ”People close to Trump also wonder why Amodei and the rest of the AI leaders do not get on with pacing AI development themselves.
Sacks is co-chair of Trump’s council of advisers on science and technology. skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotion“Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system,” he told Amodei. Skip NavigationMarketsBusinessInvestingTechPolitics & PolicyVideoWatchlistInvesting ClubPROLivestreamMenuKey PointsTrump says the U. S. may be nearing the end of its nearly seven-month war with Iran, as he signals Tehran is open to a deal.
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