Kara Swisher Says New AI Executive Order Is “Idiotic” | Pivot

This is the mandatory federal regulation they'll have, dick. They won't have anything.

(instrumental music) Hi, everyone. This is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kara Swisher.

And I'm Scott Galloway.

How you doing, Scott?

I'm doing great. Thanks, Kara.

Weird weekend of-

Yeah.

... shootings and killings-

It's, it's upsetting every time.

... and pretty horrible stuff. We usually banter here, but I think we, we, um, should just get right to it, don't you think?

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, so we wanna briefly acknowledge the horrific events of gun violence over the weekend. Uh, on Saturday, two people were killed and nine were injured at a shooting at Brown University. And on Sunday, at least 15 people were killed in a shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach in Australia. Um, uh, eh, the authorities are still looking for the Brown shooter. They had a person of interest who they let go, which was, see, it probably disturbed people around that uni- university campus. The Bondi Beach shooters have been identified as a father and a son, what a terrible parent and bystander, and a bystander whose refugee parents had just arrived from Syria, wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers during the Bondi Beach shooting. As if that violence weren't enough, director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were found dead in their LA home on Sunday, uh, eh, supposedly by hi- uh, apparently, according to, uh, lots of reports this, her, their son, their youngest son is being held up in the, um, in this, what looks like a murder. Donald Trump, of course, had to weigh in on this tragedy, posting on Truth Social a little while ago, "Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star has passed away together with his wife, Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, incurable afflictions with the mind-crippling disease known as Trump derangement sy- uh, sy- uh, syndrome." Uh, I can't believe he wrote this but, once again, of course I can. Um, so he said, "The raging obsession, uh, has, have driven people crazy and obvious paranoia is raising, ri- rise- reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations with greatness," and then he said they should rest in peace. He's a terrible, terrible son of a bitch. Anyway, um-

Yeah, I just can't wait for the right to be as inflamed by the notion-

Yes.

... that anyone was dancing on Charlie Kirk's grave.

Yeah.

Uh, but this, this will, like, you know, this will just be Donald being Donald, right?

Yeah, exactly.

Uh, they won't, they won't-

I mean, it just-

... they won't-

... what a heinous piece of shit. Um, let's start with the shootings. Um, just for, personally, Amanda went to Brown, um, and, uh, it's, uh, knows the area very well. "It's a very open campus," she was telling me, and, uh, you know, it's sort of such a, uh, you know, very peaceful. I've been there a number of times with her, uh, in the area where it was taking place. Um, nobody knows why this particular... Well, 'cause people have guns, but, uh, why, the reasons, reasoning behind. The one in Bondi Beach was, uh, horrific, um, except for that one bystander who, who was just, uh, we- the, the video of it was astonishing that they-