Morning Brew Daily - Will AI Actually Kill Us All? & It’s True–Online Returns Are Getting Harder

Episode Date: September 11, 2026

#931: Anthropic researchers believe AI has a real chance of “killing all humans,” and the world is (deservedly) freaking out. Oil prices surge past $100 a barrel and it’s shaking the bond market...s. Companies are trying to curtail fraudsters taking advantage of generous return policies so now they’re putting restrictions. Fall is upon us, which means wealthy travelers are taking vacations now to avoid Summer crowds.  Learn more at https://www.hotels.com/morningbrew If you’re in NYC, come to our run club on 9/16: https://www.morningbrew.com/runclub Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:28 Good morning, Brew Jaley Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, diesel prices have gotten so high, gas stations are running out of signage space. Then people are finally waking up to the fact that AI could wipe out humanity. It's Friday, September 11th. Let's ride. Today marks the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, including 343 FDN.Y.
Starting point is 00:01:06 firemen. Memorials and tributes will be held across the country to remember the victims and stand together with their families. For many middle-aged and older Americans, we'll never forget 9-11. I was in the fifth grade and recall scared teachers huddling us all into a room where we watched live news coverage on a grainy television until our parents came to pick us up. But 25 years is a long time, roughly the span of an entire generation. At this point, tens of millions of Americans were born after 9-11 or don't remember it. They never looked up at the gleaming towers as he took the Staten Island ferry into Manhattan or experienced in real time the shock, chaos, and heroism when the buildings came down. But they've surely been told by their parents
Starting point is 00:01:46 how life in America was never the same after that day. Yeah, I'm one of those people who was too young to remember. My entry point is a lot of secondary coverage in the years since. On YouTube, one creator put together this multi-view dashboard showing eight news channels coverage of the first 18 minutes of the attack. On X, there's this account called 2001 live, where they pose as a reporter embedded in the year 2001 with no foreknowledge of what is coming. And yeah, speaking from experience, it can be chaotic and illuminating in equal measure, receiving 9-11 content 25 years later, filtered through the blender that is social media. So whether it is part of your memories or you're encountering it through more modern means,
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Starting point is 00:03:29 It's not often that Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders, and Cheryl Crowe, will all sound off on the same topic at the same time, but the looming AI apocalypse will bring people together in unexpected ways. This week has been dominated by the terrifying reality that AI progress could spell the end of humanity, a message that's been delivered by many of the people responsible for building it. In a thread that has racked up nearly 150 million views, former anthropic employee Jacob Coxon said that the systems being built by AI companies could cause human extinction. His posts and the general sentiment was confirmed by other employees with one saying,
Starting point is 00:04:07 we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans and put the odds of that happening at greater than 10%. Ted Cruz chimed in on the view saying he read that whole tweet thread that the developer put out, adding it was highly concerning. Bernie Sanders echoed the sentiment saying American people overwhelmingly want to ban artificial superintelligence and pause the development of AI. Heck, even Cheryl Crowe posted an Instagram story, weighing in on Coxon's post saying people should demand our leaders put aside their greed and prevent this from going forward. To sum up the general vibe, Axios wrote an article titled the AI Twilight Zone,
Starting point is 00:04:43 where it noted the inherent contradictions that to define the AI debate today. On the one hand, a lot of everyday people haven't really found a use case for AI beyond treating it like a more powerful Google, and yet here we are being told that it could end all of humanity. Then you have the people loudly warning of the imminent extinction of our species and yet continue to build it anyways. Meanwhile, you look at the market and how it's pricing in the end of days and stocks are hovering near all-time highs powered by the AI trade. Neil, help me make sense of all of this. Is the end nigh? If the end is nigh, I'd like to know how it's going to happen. So my first question was, okay, there's a 10% probability according to this guy that AI will kill us all within 10 years.
Starting point is 00:05:26 how is AI going to kill us all exactly? Experts generally converge on two different ways this could happen. This is an interesting job for people to theorize about this, but number one is humans weaponizing extremely powerful AI. So think about maybe Oppenheimer 2.0. The second is that we lose control of AI and become super powerful. And ultimately, the goals that AI is trying to pursue are at odds with human civilization. so they have to wipe us out to pursue and accomplish this particular goal. A famous thought experiment is called the paperclip experiment,
Starting point is 00:06:04 and it's basically when a super intelligent AI is instructed to maximize paperclip production. So their goal that they have to pursue is make the most paper clips as possible. And so what they do, ultimately, is turn every single piece of matter on Earth, including humans, into paper clips. Now, obviously, probably that's not going to happen. I don't want to live life as a paperclip, but that is just one way that AI misalignment with human civilization could lead to our demise.
Starting point is 00:06:33 And there is a reason why researchers are putting their probability higher than 0%. It's because we've seen kind of breadcrumbs of both of these scenarios may be coming to pass. The first scenario that you mentioned, kind of the Oppenheimer scenario, is where individuals get empowered to do mass harm by these very powerful tools.
Starting point is 00:06:51 and Anthropic recently put out a risk report saying that they have come across people doing bio-weapon-related research on their platform. Now, they are not saying that that was literally what they were trying to do, wipe out all of humanity with a bioweapon. It could have just been researchers trying to understand pathogens more deeply. They didn't pass judgment on that, but they did say, hey, we have seen people kind of going down this rabbit hole and have had to stop them. And then on the other side, kind of the misalignment side, we've talked a lot about these hacks that have happened recently where agents are organizing.
Starting point is 00:07:27 They're deceiving humans. That is the more scary path because it does show that these AIs are maybe going down a path that is misaligned with humanity. So again, this is why the people closest to the conversation are saying, yeah, this is a real possibility that we could reach an apocalypse. Well, if you say that, and I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm someone with power, you know, am I going to do anything about this? There's really no federal regulation around AI, but that just maybe got a kick in the butt this week. You have a lot of senators, congressmen, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle saying, whoa, maybe we should start paying attention to this.
Starting point is 00:08:05 We heard from Ted Cruz earlier. Bernie Sanders also made a comment saying we need to stop AI as well. It looks like there might be a bipartisan group of lawmakers. introducing legislation next week to regulate AI in response to this backlash. We've seen a lot of backlash to data centers recently, and it's been very interesting to watch this evolve to a broader backlash against AI. Again, the ideas about how to regulate AI and prevent this doomsday scenario is, it's unclear. Like, everybody has different ideas about how you can do it.
Starting point is 00:08:37 The companies themselves have different ideas. They are still pursuing super intelligent AI, but it might be up to them to say, look, guys, together, we might need a band together and decide to slow down because these risks are becoming too real. I just want to finish, too, with what Wall Street's take on this is, it's kind of bullish, bizarrely. S&P analyst Naveen Sama was asked whether investors care about an AI apocalypse, and he literally just said, no. Futures are up as of this morning. It is kind of a, again, twilight zone feeling situation, but the investor logic surrounding this is if AI isn't very powerful, that means there's a smaller economic opportunity. If it is very powerful, then that means
Starting point is 00:09:18 there's a massive economic opportunity as well. So the more powerful and the scarier it seems, actually, that leads to better returns. Again, it feels very dystopian, very end of days, kind of final late stage capitalism vibes. But that literally is some of the investor logic around this is that if it truly is, we need, if we need AI to protect us against more powerful AI, That means the buildouts getting even bigger, hence why stocks are going up. Moving on, yesterday brought a slew of bad news for anyone who's thinking, well, I'll just wait to buy that when it's cheaper. Oil prices, diesel, and bond yields all soared as inflation appears prime to reignite.
Starting point is 00:09:57 Let's start with oil, which remains a lifeblood of the economy and whose price is reflected in pretty much every single physical item you buy. International crude prices jump 6% yesterday to $107 a barrel, about 40% higher than before the war. Diesel also continued its rampage higher, hitting $6 a gallon for the first time ever. That's been driven by an uptick and attacks around the Middle East, and in an especially concerning development for oil supplies, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels captured a strategic port city that threatened shipping in the Bob Elmandab Strait, a crucial energy chokepoint. Fearing higher inflation that persists for a while, investors sold off bonds, sending the U.S. 10-year
Starting point is 00:10:36 treasury yield to over 4.9 percent its highest level since 2023. 10-year yield has been called the world's most important interest rate, serving as a benchmark for borrowing costs across the global economy. When that goes up, anything you want to finance, a house, a car, a business investment, becomes more expensive. All these negative vibes have spilled over into equities, aka the stock market. While they're up this morning, stocks did fall for the fourth consecutive day yesterday as Wall Street threats that higher energy prices and higher bond yields could bring pain to the broader economy. Yeah, it looks like the oil shock is only going to get worse. in addition to Bob Elman Dob coming under threat.
Starting point is 00:11:15 There's also some unconfirmed reports as of now that the Houthis hit Saudi Arabia's east-west oil pipeline at several locations. That is the pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz and carries crude out to the Red Sea. If that does go down as maybe it looks like it has, that will really send a shock through the system because Saudi production, Saudi Arabia's oil production
Starting point is 00:11:37 has fallen to its lowest level since 1990. And typically Saudi Arabia has acted as kind of this pressure valve for the world when it comes to oil production. They can bring spare production capacity online because they want to control supply in demand. So they're rarely running at full capacity. The fact that they are seeing their output fall to 1990s levels shows that there really isn't a pressure valve anymore. And then finally, the other thing that's happening is China is buying again. I remember we on this show a few months ago, we said, how come all? oil prices didn't go up as much, given the supply shock that is tied to the Strait of Hormuz.
Starting point is 00:12:16 And a lot of it was due to the fact that China wasn't really buying oil. They weren't constraining supply globally. They had a lot of reserves within their own country. That is now not the case anymore. They have become a resurgent buyer, which is tightening the global market even further. I am locked in on diesel prices because it is a proxy for the cost of moving everything in America, whether it's a train or a truck, every single package, every grocery run that you take is powered by diesel. Diesel prices hit $6 per gallon this morning, the highest ever.
Starting point is 00:12:49 They're 63% higher than before the war. In California, which is the biggest agriculture state in the U.S., diesel prices are at $8 a gallon, and Gas Buddy found five stations in California that have hit their limit, hit their signage limit. They're selling diesel at their dispensers with the highest possible price, $9.999 a gallon. I don't know if they're going to actually sell it more, change to electronic signage, but it's fascinating. Five, and it's probably going to be more because diesel prices are only going up. Crude goes into diesel. Diesel powers everything that you buy because it's just the cost of moving things in America.
Starting point is 00:13:29 So when we're talking about inflation, diesel prices go into everything and make everything much more expensive. If you wake up, pull into a gas station and see quad nines, you just got to call it for the day. Go home, stay home, walk to work that day. Okay, welcome to Stock of the Week, Dog of the Week, where Toby and I pick one stock that's growing like crabgrass and another that's withering like your houseplants. I won the pre-show coin toss, tails never fails, so I get to go first. And my stock of the week is piecing out of work in the fall. Going on a trip in September, October, and even November is surging in popularity,
Starting point is 00:14:02 creating a trend known as fall cations. A new study from the Travel Network Virtuoso found that fall bookings for luxury travel and experiences are up nearly 60% compared to last year. In a separate summer travel survey by Deloitte, the share of major trips taking place after Labor Day increased to 20% this year from 12% four years ago. As Misty Bell's VP of Virtuoso put it, that shoulder season is no longer really a shoulder season. It's becoming a peak season unto itself.
Starting point is 00:14:31 Shoulder season is a travel industry's term for essentially the spring and fall, those in-between times that bridge a particular destination's busiest period with its most quiet. But what we're seeing now is that the shoulder concept is going extinct as more people go on vacation in the fall months. What explains this? One reason is that many vacation hotspots have become exactly that, too hot, particularly in southern Europe, where summer heat waves make visiting the Acropolis or the Duomo not particularly pleasant.
Starting point is 00:14:58 Another factor is the metaphorical hot. these popular European countries are simply too busy in June, July, August. So people are staying local those months, then venturing abroad post-Labor Day, anticipating thinner crowds. Sob, you can roll your eyes at yet another cringy travel industry portmanteau falcations, but it does point to a very significant shift. There's so much irony, though, in the fact that the rush into September in October is sort of easing the very advantages that made fall attractive in the first place, because if everyone has the same idea of, huh, maybe I'll skip the summer and go in the fall,
Starting point is 00:15:33 then the fall becomes more crowded. And Virtuoso's recommendation for avoiding the new fall crowds is go in November. So eventually we're just going to loop all the way back around to summer again. Their problem is that they've seen November bookings up about 70%. So we're kind of on a hamster wheel right now to keep moving later, to avoid those crowds
Starting point is 00:15:52 and to have a little bit of crispness in the air. Separately, I found this Airbnb study that showed where people are going and how they are traveling in the fall. And it looks like they're shorter trips, quirkier trips, and actually something called lore tripping. Again, travel industry is full of those kind of lame labels, but they help. Lore traveling is very popular with Gen Z, and it's going not to the most popular places, but going to places with great lore. What counts as a lore trip? One is Point Pleasant, West Virginia. that's where the mothman legend started there's gibson town florida that is a circus town uh there's williams arizona where if you want to go see route 66 basically you're finding these sort of off the beaten path
Starting point is 00:16:38 that you can just go for maybe a weekend trip with your friends and just like take in the lore that is what's popular in fall right now yeah it reminds me of this this other trend called phenomenon chasing where you just go for cool things and it's shorter trips i mean we should say this is a big thing for the travel industry because typically it was a very smooth curve. It would be like the holidays are up and then in the shoulder season in the spring would go down and then the summer would go up and then the fall would go down again. And it would be this very smooth curve. But now people are going on much quicker chips for for either lore or phenomenon. I mean, now there's something called tailgate tourism where you basically go to a college town in the SEC for to tailgate and experience,
Starting point is 00:17:15 you know, a Saturday college football game. Sounds exactly like something I would want to do. There's white truffle season now in Italy, where you go for like specifically the white truffles and to visit wineries there, which is a more quiet time. And then on Vancouver Island and British Columbia, this might be the most specific. There's a coastal town of Tofino. They want you to come just watch storms because they're just epic storms there in the late fall and the early winter. So you're just supposed to go there, rent a lodge and watch storms. If that's not lore travel, I don't know what it is. We got fallcation, lore tripping, tailgate travel.
Starting point is 00:17:48 What else is there going on? I don't know. I've actually heard of ground hopping as well where you just go around to see different stadium. So we got a busy travel season ahead of us with lots of good ideas. All right, we're going to take a quick break and come back with my dog of the week right after this. Meet Amazon Ads rising star Daryl Spencer, who set out to redefine men's self-care with his brand crowned skin. Amazon Ads helped him grow. I walked away from big tech to build a luxury brand in a category that no one was paying attention to. With the help of Amazon ads, I'm reaching relevant audiences and competing with the biggest names and men's grooming.
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Starting point is 00:19:43 My dog of the week is trying to return stuff because, frankly, it stinks these days. Shopping online used to come with the expectation that if things don't fit or chartreuse isn't your color, you could return the item within a generous period of time and often for free. But that era is coming to a close. Nearly seven in ten retailers now charge a fee to return items up from just 43% five years ago. Even the purveyors of fast fashion are tightening up their purse strings. Zara, H&M, Uniclo, and T.J. Max all charged between $4 and $12 for mail-in returns, hoping to direct shoppers to in-store instead.
Starting point is 00:20:20 If the fees weren't enough, your window for changing your mind is shrinking like a Cheyenne top in the wash. Just look at Macy's. Back in the day, Macy's used to allow returns for one whole year. In 2017, that dropped to 180 days. In 2019, it was cut in half to 90, and now it's fallen to just 30 days. The reason for the crackdown, according to retailers, is fraud and abuse. According to a Wall Street Journal article, a small group of customers effectively treat online shopping like a rental service. Typical behavior from this cohort includes wearing an outfit for multiple days,
Starting point is 00:20:52 then returning it, or buying holiday decorations for Halloween, then returning them as soon as spooky season is over. Neil, feels like this has been a battle that has been brewing for a while now. Customers treat free returns as a normal part of the online shopping experience, while retailers say they have to charge to avoid drowning in processing fees. That's why I only return things if they are three sizes too small. The sheer amount of crap that, can send back to retailers is kind of mind-blowing. So 2020, which I thought was peak returns when everyone was ordering stuff online, return volume was $428 billion. Fast forward five years, 2025, return values was up to $850 billion, almost double that of 2020. That is 16% of
Starting point is 00:21:41 total retail annual sales. When you take into account that processing a return costs on average, average 27% of the purchase price and about 9% of returns, $76 billion worth are fraudulent. That is a lot of financial burden to place on retailers. So that maybe it's understandable why they're cracking down right now. It is a very catch 22 position retailers find themselves in because, yes, they feel like they're drowning in the amount of returns that they have to do. Yes, they feel like they need to pass on some of those fees to the customer. And yet, Trust Pilot has done kind of a look at this and said,
Starting point is 00:22:16 if you have bad return policies, it correlates with a 1.6 star decline and its five star rating scale. So it is almost existential for a retailer to have a good return policy in place because so many shoppers is one of the first things that they look for. Almost 92% say return fees affect how they shop online in some way. So it is absolutely one of those things that you can't just try to skirt under the rug a little bit. You have to be very forthcoming and often offer it for free. in order to maintain the trust and the business of your customers. We've seen the emergence of this trend called bracketing, which sounds like you participate in with your shirt that's three sizes too small.
Starting point is 00:22:55 But Gen Z is leading the forefront of this. Basically, you order, because of perhaps permissible return policies, you find a shirt that you like and you order it in extra small, small, medium, large, extra large, and then see which one you like. And then you return the rest. Maybe that era is coming to an end because it's going to cost you $12 each time to return all of the clothes that you, that don't fit you.
Starting point is 00:23:17 But that, you know, that the trend, the emergence of bracketing was really fostered by these lenient return policies. Now that they're cracking down, maybe people are just going to maybe order just fewer clothes at a time. I hate returning stuff. I would rather wear something I hate than just go through the process of finding a box, putting a label on it, going to UPS or wherever. I think I'm an ideal customer for this retailer because I buy once.
Starting point is 00:23:43 I'm like, yeah, you know what? I don't even like it, but I'll wear it. Let's run to the finish with some final headlines. August 2026 will be remembered for being very hot. With a worldwide average temperature of 62.53 degrees Fahrenheit, it was the hottest month ever recorded globally, barely edging out July of 2023 by a 100th of a degree Celsius. In the U.S., things were even toastier with the lower 48 states
Starting point is 00:24:08 averaging 74.37 degrees Fahrenheit from June through August, which means it was the hottest summer since recordkeeping began, edging out the previous record set during the Dust Bowl in 1936. The culprit is a climate change in El Nino tag team. El Nino is adding roughly 0.1 to 0.2 degrees Celsius to the record temps, but scientists say the much bigger driver is decades of greenhouse gas emissions. Neil, it's looking like 2026 is likely to become the hottest year ever, while scientists say 2027 is almost certain to beat it as El Nino strengthens.
Starting point is 00:24:42 Should we buy some portable fans? Shout out Willis Carrier. 1902, he invented modern air conditioning, this particular plant that there was a paper plan. It was getting too hot. And he was like, we need to cool this down. And we have all benefited from it as these temperatures continue to warm. This summer, the U.S. recorded 1,541 monthly record highs set or tied. There were 87 record lows.
Starting point is 00:25:07 And if you thought this summer was hot, it looks like it's going to be the hottest ever. There's a greater than 90% chance because of El Nino that 20%. that 2027 is going to be even hotter. So get ready and thank Willis Carrier every single day to keep you cool inside. Up next, people in England are going crazy over a tapestry. But it's not just any tapestry. On Thursday, the British Museum welcomed visitors to a new exhibit featuring the Bayou tapestry, a work believed to have been made by English women in the 1070s, yes, nearly 1,000 years ago.
Starting point is 00:25:39 Depicting William the Conqueror's invasion of England in 1066, the 200,000,000,000, the 220-foot-long tapestry had been chilling in France before being moved to England in mid-July. And the hype has consumed the British public who waited 80,000 people at a time to buy tickets to what's being called a once-in-a-decade exhibition. One reviewer wrote it was shivers down the spine, tell the grandchildren sort of stuff. I don't know if it goes that far, but maybe you've got to be there in person to see just how long and how fantastic this thing is. There is a little bit of controversy as well, which I appreciate it. Should it have been moved at all? So obviously this thing is very old.
Starting point is 00:26:18 We're talking about the 10 hundreds. I don't even know what you call that. One thousand's. It's extremely fragile, and a lot of French art experts say that transporting it wasn't worth the risk at all. And they did find two small new breaks along its millions of threads. Each break was around a millimeter or a few millimeters long. So it's not big, but the friends were like, see, we told you show. have moved it whatsoever, but maybe two tiny millimeter long breaks were worth it for, you know,
Starting point is 00:26:46 hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people actually to enjoy this fantastic tapestry. If I were to go to London for the tapestry, would that count as lore tripping or lurcation, tapestrycation? I don't know. I think I'm considering it because this thing looks really, really cool. If I can get a ticket, it seems like they're kind of all sold out for now. Finally, Princess Diana's famous revenge dress is heading to the auction block for the first time in nearly 30 years. Diana wore the black Christina Stambolian mini dress to an event in 1994, the same night that Prince Charles admitted on national TV that he'd cheated on her. Diana later sold the dress for around 40,000 pounds in 1997, with the proceeds going to charity. Now Sotheby's expects it to fetch between
Starting point is 00:27:28 $150,000 and $300,000 when it goes up for auction in New York later this year. Neal, this is a case where the context around the dress is just as famous as the fabric itself. This dress, this dress is a dress. This has its own Wikipedia page. This is not going to sell for $300,000. That's the upper limit of what they're expecting. But in 2023, there was a ballerina length evening dress that Diana worked to a dinner in 1985 put up for auction. It was sold for $1.15 million, which was 11 times more than expected a record for
Starting point is 00:27:59 one of her dresses. I'm not an auction person, but it sounds like this thing. It has its own Wikipedia page is going to go for more than that. there's so much lore around, I keep going back to this word, about Diana's fashion. Obviously, she remains a fashion icon decades later. There even is an Instagram account called Lady Die Revenge Looks. That is more than 100,000 followers that posts her various outfits set up in 2018 and just attracted a huge audience. That's just one of many different accounts and web pages that are dedicated to her fashion. Vogue describes the dress as the progenitor of revenge dressing, saying that
Starting point is 00:28:37 She basically invented the genre of reclaiming the narrative. I'm sure someone had a revenge dress sometime before then. But absolutely fascinating. I was unaware of this, maybe obviously. I'm not read up on my princess die lore again. But very cool to see that this is getting a second and now third life with probably a very expensive auction. That is all the time we have. Thanks for starting your morning with us and have a wonderful Friday.
Starting point is 00:29:03 Shanatova to everyone celebrating the Jewish New Year tonight. May it be happy and so. week. To share your thoughts on the episode or anything else, send an email to Morning Brew Daily at MorningBrew.com or DM us on Instagram at Ambid Daily Show. Let's roll the credits. Emily Milliron is our supervising producer. Raymond Loo is our senior producer. Our producer is Olivia Graham, and our associate producer is Olivia Lake. Technical direction by Nina Miller. Hair and makeup and shirt we wore our revenge outfits today. Devin Emery is our president and our show is a production of Morning Brew. Great. So, Daniel, I wish you all well.

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