John Sherman

2x Dad, Podcast Host, President of The AI Risk Network, Founder of GuardRailNow, 2x Jeopardy Question, Peabody Award-Winning Independent Journalist

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

AI is an intruder in your home.

It's here to kill you, your kids, your pets, and everyone you know and love.

You can hide under the covers and pretend it's not there.

Or you can act now to defend your family.

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

@DwarvenPolitics @ControlAI Go for it chief, not really worried about you.

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

An International Prohibition on the development of super intelligence.

This a huge piece of a pro-human future.

Without it we’re probably all going to be killed by AI.

Great work @ControlAI keep pushing!

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

🚨NEW: We’ve just launched our campaign in Canada!

A cross-party coalition of over 30 MPs and Senators are calling for Canada to negotiate an international prohibition on the development of superintelligence, recognizing the risk of human extinction posed by the technology.

🧵

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

@MissytheCoyote @ControlAI This is not correct. AI is not like writing. Writing does not have agency and make decisions on its own. Writing does not threaten human extinction. Writing never blackmailed humans to stop humans from eliminating writing. Ridiculous comparison.

[Jack Califano @jackcalifano]

I love AI. I love having to re-read every single sentence on the internet twice to discern if I am getting the advice and experience of a living, breathing human being, or the sludge of a demonic greed machine engineered by 300 losers in San Francisco to steal my money. Fun !

[Kyle Tharp @kylewilsontharp]

NEW 📊 in @readchaoticera: Data centers are becoming a kitchen table issue poised to upend the midterms, and content opposing the construction boom is flooding Americans' feeds on social media.

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

Altman: "This could very well turn into the site where cancer gets cured."

@sama: GTFOH.

This will definitely be a site where the people living near it do not want it. At all.

They voted against it, and you built it anyway.

It will definitely be a site where people near it get sick, and their water is ruined.

Cure cancer, make people sick, run mass surveillance, kill every living thing on earth.

It'll do some or all of these things.

Tell the whole truth, Sam. Just once.

[Noah B. Price @TrueOnX]

🚨 BREAKING DATA CENTER NEWS:
WATCH THIS CLIP BEFORE THEY DELETE IT 🚨

Sam Altman standing on a bulldozed Michigan farm, smiling like a Bond villain, saying a 1-gigawatt SURVEILLANCE data center (run by OpenAI + Oracle) is gonna "cure cancer" one day.

This clown sounds so insanely stupid it’s almost performance art.

A glorified spy barn sucking up farmland, water, and electricity is your plan for curing cancer?

Not better medicine, not actual science... just more AI watching everything we do?

How many farms get destroyed before we call this out?

Why does every Altman promise sound like a dystopian sales pitch?

If these parasites keep flooding society with toxic crap that drives cancer rates up… why the hell would we trust them to “cure” it?

The only real cure for cancer (and the diseases these elites help spread) is abolishing the very parasites like Sam Altman and the rest of the elites who impede real progress while turning the world into their personal data mine.

This isn’t innovation.

It’s colonization with extra steps.

Retweet if you’re done with the grift.

Tag ALL of your friends.

Share this post
with ALL of your group chats.

Drop a like if this clip made you laugh at how delusional these people are.

This one needs to break the internet. Let’s go VIRAL!

Let me know what you think,
and SHARE THIS so that others may too!

And if you're not already following @TrueOnX...
What the heck are you doing?!

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

@connerwilliamsx Nope totally different. People moving near airports know what they are getting into. Data centers are going up without public consent or knowledge in many cases. And airports don’t make people sick or ruin their water.

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

NOBODY wants to live near this.

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

Amazon is building an $11 billion AI data campus in Indiana.

It’ll use as much electricity as roughly 1 MILLION homes.

And about 300 million gallons of water every year.

That’s just ONE facility.

[The AI Risk Network @AIRiskNetwork]

What if the AI buildout simply cannot move as fast as the labs keep telling us?

We talked to Jon Billow, who helps build the electrical and power infrastructure behind large data centers.
His take: the buildout may run 5 to 7x slower than the forecasts imply. Not because the models are weak, but because permitting, grid interconnects, critical power equipment, and skilled trades are all backed up for years, and almost all of it traces back to about five manufacturers.

His point is not that we can relax. It is that the delay is time, and the question is whether we spend it on getting AI safety and governance right.

TIMESTAMPS

0:22 Inside the firm building data center infrastructure 2:43 Why the buildout cannot move fast
4:26 Is the AI timeline disconnected from reality?
5:06 Sora pullback and Anthropic delay as compute signals
7:02 Putting a number on it: 5 to 7 years
8:15 The skilled trades shortage
9:15 Competing with local industry
12:25 Jon's view on AI extinction risk
15:07 Would a smarter AI design better data centers?
19:56 Why these could move to the desert
21:33 Northern Virginia, Holly Ridge, and who gets a say
25:04 Tech's regulatory carve-out and the NDA problem
29:38 Is superintelligence possible?
30:28 Can we control something smarter than us?
34:56 The "but China" question
36:17 Recursive self-improvement and Jevons paradox
39:11 The world his grandkids will inherit
45:25 What gives Jon hope

Jon's closing line stuck with us: he wants to tell his grandkids that we were building the car at 55 miles an hour but had the presence of mind to put in seatbelts because we knew who was in the back seat.

The seatbelts do not install themselves.

Full conversation and our written breakdown on Substack

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

I still don't think anyone is hearing this.

The movement to block data centers from coming to your community is universal.

NOBODY wants a data center near them.

NOBODY.

The people who want them would never live next to one.

In the 2026 and 2028 elections #datacenters are going to be THE dominant issue. Nothing else will come close.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: MSNOW: “You are willing at this point to forego basically EVERY conservative issue, and let the Senate fall into the hands of Democrats if that’s what it takes to kill [AI] data centers?”

Hood County TX Conservative voter: “Yup. My entire community is going to break ranks.”😳

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

Every week I sit down with @liron and @lethal_ai to talk about the headlines in AI risk. Warning Shots comes out on Sunday morning on YouTube, we're going to post the full shows every Monday on Twitter.

This week:
-Pope vs AI
-AI Costing Businesses
-Anthropic Cash Bonanza
-Airpods+Cameras
-OpenAI Home Cameras

[The AI Risk Network @AIRiskNetwork]

This week on Warning Shots, the AI story stopped being about how smart the models are and became about money, and where it goes.

John Sherman, Michael (Lethal Intelligence), and Liron Shapira (Doom Debates) work through a week where corporate AI bills came due, Anthropic hit a near trillion-dollar valuation, and one question kept resurfacing: if AI does most of the work, where does the next paycheck come from?

They do not agree. That is what makes it worth watching.

TIMESTAMPS

0:40 - The Pope's encyclical on AI
2:20 - A "spiral of annihilation": AI and military escalation
4:00 - Could you refuse to use AI at work on religious grounds?
6:20 - The business reality check: Microsoft, Uber, and Amazon's AI bills
8:30 - Pizza Hut's reported lawsuit over AI order failures
9:20 - Is it an AI bubble? Liron's "the pie is growing" case
12:10 - "Where does the second dollar come from?"
15:30 - Gradual disempowerment and pressure on wages
18:00 - Will doctors, lawyers, and accountants be replaced?
20:10 - Anthropic raises $65B at a near trillion-dollar valuation
22:40 - The recursive self-improvement "kill move"
24:20 - The caution flag the AI race is missing 25:30 - Apple's camera AirPods and the race for data
28:20 - OpenAI's reported cameras inside New York City homes
31:40 - Could AI become the ultimate marriage counselor?
33:30 - Closing thoughts

A near trillion-dollar company, a fleet of new cameras pointed at private life, a wage debate nobody could win, and still no one assigned to throw the caution flag.

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

Hundreds of people.
In the rain.
For three hours.

What issue could bring people together like this?

Just one: Nobody wants a data center near them. Nobody.

And just wait til these people find out the end result of that desecration of their land risks the likely slaughter of everyone they know and love and all other humans too.

Block the data centers and hurt the AI companies financially, create delays and friction in the system eroding investor confidence.

And get this energy into saving humanity from extinction.

One big tent.

The tide is turning.

[Ben Nash @bennash]

Anthropic Thinks It’s Building God, And That's Terrifying - Bill Gurley https://t.co/BN6SgttGDO via @YouTube

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"AI backlash is becoming a real business risk," per Axios

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

@BunchNumbers Makes me hopeful too. She just said it. Everyone can understand loss of control risk. It’s so obvious.

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

Meet Makayla, a pregnant mother of three in Holly Ridge, Louisiana.

Meta is building Hyperion, a city-sized data center near her.

Her tap water is undrinkable, just like everyone else's in town.

The water was fine before Meta arrived more than a year ago.

Now it can look like coffee and smell like bleach.

When I went to Holly Ridge earlier this month, I wanted to see Hyperion for myself and meet the people affected.

It looks like The Lorax in real life. Our beautiful, verdant earth, desecrated by some of the ugliest forms humanity has devised.

What is happening to these people is simply wrong and must be stopped.

But I came here for an additional reason.

I wanted to test a theory I have: that people experiencing AI harm right now are the best target audience for the AI extinction-risk conversation.

That we can build a big tent of AI opponents, people rightly concerned about data centers, and concerned about kids and teens, and concerned about jobs, and concerned about the literal slaughter of all biological life on earth, can come together to slow this race to global suicide down.

Every time a data center is blocked, it damages a Big AI company financially and reputationally. 25 went down last year. We can make it 50 or more this year.

As much as less compute matters, eroding Big AIs investors' faith that they will be paid back how and when they expect is a powerful tool.

Unsafe AI must be made to be bad for business.

That means lawsuits of all shapes and sizes in every state.

Data centers blocked and slowed.

Big tech cannot do whatever it wants to America, however it wants to.

We are America. We have agency. We are using it.

The tide is turning fast.

Polymarket just put a national data center moratorium at 92% odds (!!!).

The AI Safety movement, my people, the people concerned about AI killing us all, desperately need energy and bodies.

The anti-AI movement has both.

So back to Makayla.

Without any prompting at all, she gave me the AI loss-of-control case. With clarity and understanding.

People get it. Nobody outside of tech wants to build AI smarter than humans.

NOBODY wants human extinction.

Nobody wants to automate every job.

Nobody wants teen suicides aided by AI models.

And nobody on earth wants a data center next door to their house.

Let's bring it all together yall.

ONE BIG TENT TO SAVE HUMANITY.

And along the way, protect our kids and our communities.

We can do this. We must.

The Anti-AI movement will soon dwarf the AI Safety movement; it really already does.

Exinction risk is the whole ballgame. But we will need to fight to keep a seat at the table.

The kids weren't booing the graduation speakers about the risk of extinction. But just wait til they all learn about it.

A moment is happening. Right now. We need to get on board.

Joining forces, making alliances, is the only answer, or we, and the big changes needed to avoid extinction, will be left behind.

@tristanharris @romanyam @NPCollapse @allTheYud @ControlAI @hendrycks @andreamiotti @tegmark @m_bourgon @FournesMaxime @DavidSKrueger @Liv_Boeree @AlexBores @Kat__Woods @bstein80 @secureainow @JOEBOTxyz @kevinroose @danfaggella

[Danilo Naiff @BunchNumbers]

This is it. The AI extinction risk case is not some nerdy shit we weirdos believe in, it is an obvious risk when you look att the trajectory AI is evolving.

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

New single issue voter category: she says she will vote for anyone opposing data centers regardless of party.

[Acyn @Acyn]

MSNow: You're willing at this point to let the Senate fall into the hands of Democrats, if that's what it takes to end data centers?

Republican Voter: My entire community is going to break rank. Everybody, all of us. We've had enough.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

A small town in Oregon is celebrating after officially stopping a large data center from being built in their community.

The La Pine City Council voted unanimously to reject the proposed project.

The proposal called for a massive 20-megawatt data center, which raised concerns among residents about energy use, water consumption, noise, and whether the project would truly benefit the community.

BlackRock and Palantir frequently appeared in local community discussions, even though the data center was being built by Boxminer.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Most data centers have semitruck-sized diesel backup generators, making sporadic smoke plumes a fact of life for many in Virginia.

An analysis of the emissions found that pollution from the generators could cause respiratory symptoms and premature death. https://t.co/1oYI8ZTFg1

[Ben Dziobek @BenDziobek]

Breaking: Andover New Jersey cancels data center project and passes complete ban!! Rural NJ is fighting back against Big Tech!