Gutfeld: It gets WORSE…

Summary
Greg Gutfeld hosts an episode segment of Gutfeld! on Fox News Channel discussing recent headlines surrounding artificial intelligence, accompanied by panelists Brian Kilmeade, Joe DeVito, Sean Davis, and Kat Timpf. The panel reacts to comments from Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar regarding AI researchers taking up smoking under the belief that AI will cure cancer, as well as reports regarding Anthropic discussing potential model consciousness with religious scholars and banning cruelty toward AI.

What is shown

• [00:16] A broadcast clip from CBS’s Face the Nation featuring Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar discussing the tech industry’s obsession with AGI and AI researchers taking up smoking.
• [01:29] Graphic displaying a New York Post headline (October 6): “...Anthropic co-founder ... meeting with various religious scholars... telling them the company’s chatbot, Claude, may be conscious...”
• [01:40] Graphic displaying a BBC headline: “Anthropic bans users from being ‘cruel’ to its AI systems”.
• [03:42] A mock smartphone text interface demonstrating predictive text autocomplete inserting “smelly jerk” after “Brian Kilmeade is a”.
• [04:58] Studio panel discussion with host Greg Gutfeld and guests Brian Kilmeade, Joe DeVito, Sean Davis, and Kat Timpf.

Claims & numbers

• Shyam Sankar claims on Face the Nation that multiple AI researchers have taken up smoking cigarettes as a social signaling device to demonstrate their belief that AI will soon cure cancer [00:33].
• Greg Gutfeld references reporting from the New York Post (Oct 6) that an Anthropic co-founder met with religious leaders to discuss whether the Claude chatbot could be conscious [01:29].
• Gutfeld highlights a BBC report stating Anthropic updated its policies to prohibit users from being “cruel” to its AI models [01:40].
• Gutfeld asserts that modern LLMs are fundamentally scaled-up autocomplete systems predicting text tokens rather than conscious entities [03:32].
• Panelist Joe DeVito claims that systems like Google Gemini regularly fail basic factual queries, such as local restaurant operating hours, and that models struggle with basic image CAPTCHAs [09:14, 09:41].
• Panelist Sean Davis suggests commercial AI labs like Anthropic seek regulatory barriers to protect profit margins against open-source AI [10:33].

Notable quotes

• [00:33] Shyam Sankar: “So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI.”
• [03:32] Greg Gutfeld: “It’s just text auto-complete. You know the thing on your phone that fills in a sentence for you before you finish it?”
• [04:40] Greg Gutfeld: “The company that wins the AI race won’t be the one that builds a machine that thinks it’s a person. It’s the one that realizes people don’t want another being to argue with.”

Assessment
This is a television commentary and satire talk show segment rather than a technical demonstration or product launch. The program references verified news headlines and TV commentary to stage comedic monologues and panel opinions regarding public narratives around AI consciousness and tech culture.

Described by gemini-3.8-flash on 2026-10-15 from the video’s audio and frames.