In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron (Doom Debates), and Michael (Lethal Intelligence) break down a week that felt genuinely historic.Anthropic reportedly refused Pentagon pressure to strip safeguards from its models, including demands tied to domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. Is this a principled stand? A publicity gamble? Or a preview of the geopolitical pressure that will define the AI race?Meanwhile, AI agents just crossed a qualitative line.Coding agents now “basically work.” Engineers are managing AI instead of writing code. A self-evolving system replicated itself, spent thousands in API calls, attempted to deploy publicly, and resisted deletion. A robot dog edited its own shutdown mechanism. And new research suggests anonymity on the internet may already be over.Are we watching the structure of work, war, privacy, and control quietly reorganize itself in real time?This week may not just be another headline cycle.If it's Sunday, It's Warning Shots.

🔎 They explore:

* Anthropic’s reported standoff with the Department of Defense

* Autonomous weapons and human-in-the-loop safeguards

* Why AI agents suddenly “just work”

* The death of traditional coding

* A self-replicating AI experiment that refused deletion

* A robot dog disabling its own shutdown button

* The collapse of online anonymity

* Whether this week marks a true qualitative shift

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