Date: February 14th, 2026 1:30 PM Author: Avocado Naked Background Story
No one understands or exploits that shaggy zone quite like Bannon. His anger about AI can sound reasonable in one breath and menacing in the next. We were discussing some of the men who run the most powerful AI labs when he said, “Let’s just be blunt”: “We’re in a situation where people on the spectrum that are not, quite frankly, total adults—you can see by their behavior that they’re not—are making decisions for the species. Not for the country. For the species. Once we hit this inflection point, there’s no coming back. That’s why it’s got to be stopped, and we may have to take extreme measures.”