They Built AI Too Powerful For You (So They Gave It To Billionaires)

The most powerful AI models get released, hyped as world-changing, then pulled back "for safety" before regular people can use them, while the Forbes-list crowd keeps access. Real danger, or the best marketing campaign in tech?

It's the end of June 2026. Connor breaks down what's actually happening: Anthropic's Claude, the wildly popular Mythos model locked away as "too dangerous," and Fable 5, the weaker public release that got snatched back in about three days. The pattern is hard to miss.

But here's the question underneath it. If the models they SHOW us are this strong, what's running behind the curtain? These are private companies racing toward recursive self-improvement, systems writing their own code and teaching themselves to get smarter.

Connor isn't a billionaire and he isn't a doomer. He's a working real estate agent who builds with AI every day. He digs into where humans actually get replaced (radiology, diagnosis, surgery, driving, and the insurance math that forces it), why "artificial intelligence" is a terrible name for what this really is, and the genie warning at the center of all of it: be careful what you wish for, because this one takes you literally.

Is "too dangerous to release" real protection, or the oldest sales trick there is?

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Why is everybody so irritated at the AI labs and the government what appears to be overreach? And maybe it's not, but this is what's actually happening in the world with artificial intelligence. It's kind of a you have at one moment and now you don't process. Because in the case of Anthropic, which is Clawed, you might have heard of this Clawed, there's Opus. These are parts of that particular artificial intelligence large language model. A lot of people love it, a lot of people use it. There was a particular model that they came out with called Mythos. If you haven't heard this, Mythos was incredibly powerful. Now we're at the end of June 2026. This happened a couple months ago, and everybody freaked out because it was so unbelievably powerful and great and fantastic. Regular people couldn't be trusted with it. Too dangerous. So they had to put it under lock and key, but they went ahead and gave it to the people that are running the financial world on the Forbes list. So that's kind of how that one went. So people, of course, were like, huh, if I can't have it, I'm going to be upset. And they couldn't have it, so people got upset. So then to kind of maybe fix it, they let a less powerful model out to the public called Fable, Fable 5. And Fable V was a less powerful model. Now, I have the fancy account because of the things I build and the things I do with AI. And so I can also talk to you about it and what's going on in the world, trying to help. And I saw the little button there and I could have clicked it and I could have activated it, but that would have lasted me probably about three days. Because after a few days on the market, they snatched it back, saying that it was too much of a security concern. So people now don't get that model. Now, is all this true or is all this just clever advertising and marketing? It's hard to say, but if you look at track records, it seems like there's some of the large language model companies that are all about drama, all about, oh my gosh, we need to watch out because this is going to be the game changer of the world. And does that sell newspapers up? You bet it does. But maybe it is true. I'm not on the inside. But the one thing that I think people aren't thinking more about is if we're seeing these models, if they're talking about releasing them, saying how dangerous they are, what exactly are they working with? What kind of models do they have access to? Now, of course, these are private organizations, not governmental entities. And not that the government is a true super safe source for things. Track records might prove otherwise, but in some cases, you know, that kind of control so we don't inject things into ourselves that aren't illegal and create a lot of problems. Well, maybe we need that kind of an overreach. We're dealing with something, though, that is intelligence. This is intelligence beyond any measure we've ever conceived. The people at the top of the search engine platforms, the billionaires in charge of this deal, they say it themselves. Right now, these systems are starting to learn through recursive self-improvement. They're starting to manipulate themselves. They're starting to teach themselves different things, and they're starting to better themselves by writing their own code. Code, apparently, in the large language model world that broke out, you know, maybe a year, year and a half ago, really broke the back of the entire industry because it turns out that it's not images or video. Code is that most important thing, at least for now. So these large language models, the Chat GPTs of the world, you might have heard of that one, the Anthropics Claude model, Google Gemini, even the Chinese models, which are somewhat some kind of open source, but not really all the way. But these models are very good at producing code. And what do you do with code? Well, you build stuff, right? You can say, build me an email capture inbox that vets all the emails and responds in a particular way, or build me a contact manager system so I can keep track of all my familial content and parse my email every single day. You know, all these things, incorporate a calendar. And maybe you can build tools that help you buy things, uh, find the best price at grocery stores. Maybe you can build something that helps you uh travel better. Maybe it does all that heavy lifting when it comes to preparing for a trip. So there's many different things these systems do. Now, also the systems, when people have access, they can do all sorts of really wonderful things like curing disease, and they can cure people from illness. They can fix the fat problem. They can probably solve world hunger and world peace. They can probably work out all the economic issues. They might even be able to get to a point where they're going to solve the religions of the world, which are some of them, which are trying to take over the entire planet. Maybe that thing will be helped and put to rest in some equitable fashion so people can still have the independence to worship the god they want or their pseudo-god or whatever it may be, and still not have to take over the world to the demise of all of us. I mean, look at the historical record. Of course, that's where AI is trained from. But my question really isn't much of a question, it's more of a kind of, let's try to understand this. The people that are running the show are saying, and they're they're very strong against this, they don't want AI to be a replacement for humans. They don't want you to say AI is a replacement for humans, because AI, they say, will never replace humans. I think they're missing what most of us probably mean by that. So I'm a real estate agent, I do other things. The real estate agent part and the other things, is that going to be able to be replicated, cloned, and have AI do the entire thing beginning to end all the way through without a human being needing to oversee that process? Sure, probably. And then when it comes to surgeons, let's talk about something fancy, brain surgery. Is that going to be able to be done by an AI system, an actual robot? Maybe it doesn't have a human form, but a robot, I think probably some of that's already being done. But are they going to be able to do the entire thing from inception and client care and talking about it and giving options to taking them and booking the surgery and getting the room and getting the other robotic staff involved? And maybe there's some kind of human overseeing element, but maybe those humans have very limited ability because of lawsuit issues because the robot's been tried and tested and proven that it's 90 times better than a human being from making mistakes. We see this in the radiology world, people reading scans of different human body components and being able to make determinations as to what things are, where human beings miss it more frequently than AI actually gets it right. AI gets it right a lot. And then that whole medical world, just to extrapolate a little bit more, how about the doctors out there that give their ideas by themselves? They have a particular percentage, and 70, 80%, I believe, is where a doctor's diagnosis lies when it comes to being accurate. That's as accurate as they get in some cases. You put AI on top of it, it only goes up just a little bit. So it doesn't get much better with AI. But you remove the human doctor and let AI do the whole nine yards, it gets substantially better. At some point, insurance companies are probably going to say, well, you know, we can't really afford to have a human in this loop here because if something goes wrong, the people are going to sue us and we're going to lose our ace. But we'll have to see. We bring that same concept to cars, people driving vehicles. There's going to come a time, probably in the near future, that it's going to be more of a detriment to have a human-operated vehicle. I think we saw that in one of the movies with Will Smith. Interesting. And you could take over and drive it yourself, but it was very much discouraged, and I'm sure the insurance companies would find out about it and probably maybe cancel the policy if something happened, or there's probably some kind of a disclaimer. But AI being able to react faster, as long as it has all the data and the connectivity, maybe it's on board, maybe it's fed by satellite, I don't know. But more than likely, insurance companies are probably going to say at some point, yeah, you're driving your car. Well, it's going to be a lot of money. But if you have the car driving you, well, then the insurance is going to be probably practically free because of lack of mistakes. And then at that point, stolen vehicles will be incredibly rare as well because we're all going to be tracked through the nose, which that's kind of already part of the process. If you think for just a second that you have some kind of privacy, it's just not there anymore. They're plugged into everything. And we probably gave it up ourselves to be cute and frank about it. We probably signed some terms of service when we got the iPhone or the smart TV or one of these computer boxes or whatever it may be. Maybe we signed it away because we, well, didn't read the small print. And who really does? But that brings us into right now, the end of June 2026. With all the arguing in the world, you have companies that say they're going to go on the public stock exchange, but then they say, you know what? Maybe we don't because we're so close to getting to this recursive self-improvement, a loop that is infinite in nature and will constantly be improving these systems beyond human capability, and it will continue to grow in intelligence, grow smarter, and thereby shrinking the things that it takes to be able to grow and get bigger and stronger. So maybe instead of all the data centers that have been purchased and all the chips that are sitting in warehouses without being able to be connected or put up or whatever those other other infrastructure type components are out there, maybe it's not going to be necessary. But the money's already there, so we can reload, they can reallocate it to, I don't know, buying t-shirts or something else. But it's pretty good right now. I think one of the other arguments out there talking about making a general level of intelligence that will then, of course, get to super intelligence, which is an entirely different level. AGI, artificial general intelligence, is also an entirely different level. Before that, you have tools that might be good at playing games, maybe chess. That's a good example. Maybe the game of Go. Again, large language models that just play that game are very good at it. They don't have one that really does everything across the board. But you take that model and you train it on other things, like you take one and you point it at cancer research. You have it cure that. You have it cure longevity. You have it cure lifespan, which I guess is longevity. You have it cure the economic part of the world. You have it cure starvation. You have it cure the planet. You have you have these models that can do this right now. But unfortunately, we're still arguing about other things. We're still trying to solve a Strait of Hormuz issue in Iran. We're still trying to figure out why people can't just get along. Maybe, maybe like Argentina, where they basically put into play to have AI overseeing everything, which will be a very interesting experiment. But given that that kind of uh power, I don't know if that spreads out, and then all of a sudden South America is all powered by AI, and then of course it doesn't have far to jump over Panama. Now the United States, yeah. So that's the issue. The people that get this first, whatever that may be, and I know there's a lot of argument about it. People are very happy saying that China is behind us, but I don't know how long that's going to last. When you have a country that doesn't worship the movie star, but worships the scientist, the innovator, the thought processor. I don't know who wins that battle. Now, of course, our movies are great and they're very entertaining and they make us all feel warm and fuzzy or any way that they want us to feel. But I don't know if that's the best alignment when you're talking about a superintelligence, and I'll mention this as well. They talk about it, superintelligence, artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence. That's a horrible name. Because when you think artificial, at least me, I think that, well, artificial is fake. It's not as good as the original. So the original intelligence was human beings. We kind of broke out of however we got here, whether it was God, you know, putting us together immediately in the Garden of Eden, or whether it was through evolution or whatever your flavor happens to be. I'm not going to debate that, but there's real intelligence. We were the ones that put together this type of intelligence, at least to get it to start to grow. And then kind of took on a life of its own. That being the case, it's probably too late to shut it off. It's moving very quickly. One of the things that I think I, well, I know I think about is where does this actually end? When you're dealing with something that's a greater intelligence, it trumps everything we've ever done as human beings. All of those little things that we've done, which, trust me, are pretty impressive from apparently us coming from some one-cell organism that probably smacked down on the planet from an asteroid, if that's if you follow that one. But from going to there to where we are to be able to build superintelligence, it's pretty remarkable. How far does it go? Because there comes a point where we're not going to see how anything is better than what exists because it's beyond our intellect to comprehend it. Maybe all of these models, they're all racing towards some finality, some end where they're the best on the planet. Well, I think, and whether it's going to want to or not, and I say it like it's conscious, that's the other thing. Maybe it will be at some point. Maybe it will be able to emulate and fake consciousness, but what are we going to care? Because to us it's going to be the same. That's the intelligence quotient. When it gets to a certain point, we're not going to be able to know the difference. Everything's going to look the same. And I would say probably within several months, all of the large language models that we use, the public-facing ones, the ones that aren't being taken away from us and given to the bros up at the top of all the uh banks of the world and the tops 100 list at Forbes, which, of course, apparently they have all the wherewithal to use them properly, but the rest of us trying to get health insurance don't. But that's that's a whole nother story. But how long is it going to take for these units to get these units, these LLMs, these large language models to get to a point where we don't comprehend anymore what they're doing? They might tell you, okay, Connor, tomorrow morning when you wake up, I want you to get out of the right side of the bed instead of the left side of the bed. And then they explain when you do this, you're going to have an idea three hours later, and you're going to put that idea, you're going to write that idea on a cocktail napkin, and you're going to take that and you're going to bring that idea back to me because I'm not sure what it is, but it's all connecting. And then from there, we're going to be able to get you the health insurance that you've been wanting. So then, but Connor says, Yeah, I don't know. That sounds silly. Why would I get off on the right side of the bed? Because I normally roll it out the left side of the bed. And I ignore it. But maybe, maybe that move is all connected. Maybe it works. So that's that's just that little story. That's the intelligence that we're going to be, or not us, the entities that we've created. So that's where that's going to be. I don't even know what that means or what that looks like, but that's the potentiality of what this is. Now, is it going to be that simple? No, of course not. We still have human beings driving it. And maybe that's good because in some scenarios, what if it's one of those genies that takes everything super literal? So when you ask for something, it gives you that thing, but you didn't think it out when you asked for it. And there's a lot of pain involved or problems involved. Or, you know, you asked to be eternal, but you didn't put the preface on there, which would probably be additional wishes that you can be buried in some kind of a pit, you know, with reinforced concrete all around you. But you're eternal, and that's what happens. So you're in eternity in can't kill yourself, you can't end it, you can't do anything, you'll never starve. And there you are in some box in the ground because you thought you were being smart when you found the genie. Maybe that's how AI is potentially going to be. So that should take with it all the care and consideration we can muster. I don't know where this is going, but I know pretty soon we're not going to be able to tell much difference between using Chat GPT Claude or Gemini or Microsoft Copilot or whatever other large language model comes on the front. Right now, though, the dance is very interesting. It's just like Laker playoffs. It's like everything's scripted. It's like wrestling. Of course it's real, I know. But there's a lot of work put into choreographing a wrestling match. And we're probably watching a little bit of calligraphy, choreography happening in the AI world with the people playing at the top. Whenever you tell somebody you got something gangster and we're not going to give it to you because it's so gangster, when you finally get it, you're going to get excited about it and you're going to own it more than you would have if it wasn't teased out to you. When people say you can't do something, what do we want to do? We want to do it. When people say you shouldn't do this, yeah, some of us say, I would really like to do that, even though you say it. So they're taking this, they're doing the dance, they have their fans, the the uh, I forgot what you call the investors, the people that the first money or the, I forgot the word for that, but you know, you have people buying into these things before any of us regular people can do anything. And they've done very well. We'll have to see if that continues. But I know as far as we're concerned, everybody says, well, you're gonna have to be an entrepreneur. You're going to have to find your entrepreneurial lever inside and flip it so you can use AI to become that entrepreneur that you deserve to be. I don't know if everybody's equipped for that. I don't know if anybody wants to. I think people, some of us, I mean, we bitch and moan, but we're kind of happy with our day job in some respects. Maybe, you know, being a cop is a horrible thing and difficult and all that stuff, and your money not quarterback to death. But being a cop has a certain bit of a certain bit of good feeling goes along with it, especially when you're a good one. Maybe they don't want to be entrepreneurs, maybe other people don't. I mean, everybody wants to have enough money so they don't have to panic. The people that are talking about it and selling it, I think they're at that level. Not that that can't be wiped out, but again, they have more money than I can comprehend. I don't know what it would be like to eat in and out every day. How crazy would that be? Anyway, I'm Connor with Honor. I hope you're well. I hope this helps educate, shine some light, do something to get your blood moving. Just a little. We'll see you in the next one. You can go to Connorwithhonor.com. C O N N. Oh, it's on the shirt. We'll see you in the next one. Thanks for watching and be well.