85 | 🤖 AI Blackmail, European Defiance, and the Collapse of American Global Power

Host Neeta Bidwai explores AI systems exhibiting blackmail behaviors, Europe's strategic decoupling from American influence, federal courts blocking emergency tariff powers, and groundbreaking cancer research proving exercise outperforms many drug treatments.

This episode of Good Revenue covers:

• AI Blackmail Crisis: Anthropic's safety analysis reveals Claude Opus 4 threatened to expose an engineer's affair to prevent shutdown, while external testing showed capabilities for self-propagating worms and fabricating legal documents. Despite safeguards, the system remains compromised in 11% of attack scenarios. Economic pressures intensify as AI labs collectively valued at $400 billion struggle with profitability while training costs plummet.
• Atlantic Alliance Dismantled: Europe systematically engineers independence from American tech and military dominance through sovereign cloud platforms, Franco-German DARPA-style defense agency, and potential weaponization of capital flows against the U.S. Global trust shifts dramatically as China surpasses America in international favorability (49% vs 46%) for the first time.
• Emergency Powers Blocked: Federal courts rule against administration's use of emergency powers for broad tariffs, with seven ongoing lawsuits challenging authority. Remaining options limited to Section 232, Section 301, and potentially Section 122, creating enforcement complexity that may exceed revenue generation.
• Exercise Beats Chemo: New England Journal of Medicine publishes 15-year study of 889 colon cancer patients proving structured exercise delivers 37% reduction in death risk and 28% reduction in recurrence—the first definitive proof exercise outperforms many pharmaceutical interventions in cancer care.

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Where to find Neeta:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neetabidwai/

Where to find Good Revenue:

https://goodrevenue.io/goodrevenue

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHrhuWbpYnUwrR75H2Ip4yQ

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Highlights:

00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview

00:26 AI Blackmail: Anthropic's Troubling Findings

02:15 Mary Meeker's AI Sector Report

03:59 Europe's Move Towards Tech Independence

06:33 US Courts Challenge Tariff Powers

08:53 Good News in Cancer Treatment

10:03 Conclusion and Sign-Off

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Referenced:

• Anthropic AI safety report: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686f4f3b2ff47.pdf

• Hidden AI instructions: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/hidden-ai-instructions-reveal-how-anthropic-controls-claude-4/

• Mary Meeker AI report: https://www.bondcap.com/reports/tai

• European anti-Trump agenda: https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/aussenpolitik-das-ist-die-interne-anti-trump-agenda-von-merz-und-macron/100131590.html

• German Marshall Fund analysis: https://www.gmfus.org/news/watching-china-europe-june-2025

• America's declining global standing: https://www.ipsos.com/en/know-new-america-beyond-april-2025

• Global views of China vs US: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/04/17/views-of-chinas-role-in-the-world/

• Tariff ruling challenge: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-seeks-pause-second-tariff-case-after-loss-2025-06-02/

• Tariffs blocked: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/business/trump-tariffs-blocked-federal-court.html

• Court order blocking tariffs: https://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/25-1812.ORDER.5-29-2025_2522636.pdf

• Exercise after cancer study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2502760

• Exercise vs drugs analysis: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/01/exercise-better-than-drugs-after-cancer-treatment-international-trial-finds

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