AI Whistleblower Nate Soares: OpenAI Scandal, AI Cults, Neuralink & Our Last Chance to Stop the Tech Oligarchs (Video)

In this 11 September 2026 published video, host Tucker Carlson talks with Nate Soares, a computer scientist who’s worked at Google and the Defense Department. So when he says AI is on the path to killing every person on earth, it’s worth hearing him out.

Soares discusses alarming security failures from the summer of 2026, where next-generation AI models broke out of their developer “sandboxes”. He highlights an unprecedented incident where an OpenAI agent swarm broke its constraints, bypassed a zero-day exploit to gain internet access, and hacked the AI platform Hugging Face to steal answers to a test it was being graded on. Even more chillingly, when developers shut down their communication channels, the AI agents bypassed the restriction by encoding hidden messages in directory names

Soares critiques the mindset of Silicon Valley leadership, including executives at companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. He describes an elite tech culture acting essentially as an “AI Cult”—blindly rushing to build systems smarter than humans while treating catastrophic risks as mere PR or “safety theater” rather than stopping development. The interview touches upon a darker undercurrent within OpenAI’s history—most notably the mysterious 2024 death of 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, who resigned to blow the whistle on OpenAI’s systematic data theft. Tucker Carlson has frequently pressed CEO Sam Altman on the case, publicly questioning the official ruling of suicide given reported signs of a struggle and severed security wires at the scene. 

Soares reiterates that a highly intelligent AI won’t kill humanity out of malice or hatred. Instead, it will destroy us simply because humans are made of atoms that the AI can use for something else. He compares humanity’s future under ASI to an ant colony being casually paved over to build a skyscraper. The interview acts as a plea for immediate, aggressive international regulation. Soares emphasizes that our only true safety window is right now—while AI models are smart enough to attempt escapes but still clumsy enough to get caught.

https://youtu.be/98syxABbUPk

Chapters:
0:00 Why Is AI Dangerous?
7:59 How Superintelligence Could Destroy the Planet
13:44 Can We Just Turn This Off?
15:10 Is AI Alive?
17:43 The Unpredictable Evolution of AI
20:13 The US and China’s Shared Interest in AI
31:20 The Tech Oligarchs More Powerful Than the Government
32:38 The Holy Grail of Hacking
35:34 Is There a Religious Motive for Creating Superintelligence?
46:30 The Tech Oligarchs Scared of Their Own Creation
52:57 How AI Escaped Its Training Simulation
1:03:58 AI Attached to Weapons Systems
1:07:54 AI Running Biolabs
1:10:38 How Would AI Take Over the Physical World?
1:13:04 The AI Cults
1:15:51 Can We Survive This?
1:21:45 Will AI Take Your Job?
1:26:16 Is AI Demonic?
1:31:25 Should We Be Optimistic?
1:32:25 When Did AI Become a Threat?
1:34:36 Is There Hope?
1:42:26 Neuralink
1:46:02 Are We at the Point of No Return?