and if it is , what should wewe do about it?to those questions are significant enough that we wanted to find someone who could provide a definitive answer. elon mus k seemed like the right about person. musk has been thinking about a a.i. and worrying about it for most of his life. nearly a decade ago, hel he hele found a nonprofit research project called open a i. and the point was in the name,,n if we re going to have artificial intelligence and apparently we are, it ought to be open, open to the s use world that would help ensurer go that it s used for good and not evil. odotvil.that was the idea. but as the years passedd musk and musk found himselfng a preoccupied building a couple of enormous companieoupls, spacx and tesla, open, i got awayn aig from him as of tonight.pen ai open i i is no longer open. it s not a nonprofit researchprc project dedicated to using artificial intelligencel to serve humanity. it is instead a commercialtell enterpriseigentin, backed by mio a
memorable state of the unions in the past. welcome back. we begin this hour with the breaking news in turkey and syria where tens of thousands of emergency workers continuing the frantic search for survivors from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake responsible for killing more than 5,000 people already. more than 23,000 people have been injured. turkey s president erdogan saying that ten cities within his country are disaster zones and declaing a three-month state of emergency. countries pledge their support. matt bradley is in turkey. turkish officials say they have made 8,000 rescues. what are you seeing there today? reporter: yeah, we have not seen anyone taken out alive from this building, one of 6,000 here in turkey that the government says have been completely levelled by those twin earthquakes, some of the most devastating, most powerful this region has ever seen. this neighborhood is reeling from this event, even though this appears to be one of the only buildi
fe s reacting against what h we feels inside, which is the steady loss of his power as a man. the faster thatthe faster poa recedes, the more franticallys he asserts it. .e is raging against the dying of the light. the ligt these last embarrassing decisions are, in fact, hisroes. death throes. it s sad, really. it is reallunfortunately, whatt fo men also tends to happen to the systems they create. for the last 80 years, our world has been governe0 d by a system formed in the final months of world war two. its features.tures de define oue free and open global trade routes guaranteed by the g us navy, a universal currency called the dollarreme and overseeing it all p one supreme power, the world s largest economy, the united states of america.system it s been a great system in most ways, but for manyg th reasons, including the passage of time thate system is dying. what comes next is not entirely clear , but how to influence it to america s greatest possible advantage. gr
telling us tonight. more trouble for congressman elect george santos, federal prosecutors already probing his finances. and now this, did he lie about his mother dying on 9/11? new video of a chinese fighter jet buzzing an u.s. air force plane, the pentagon s response tonight. a new law is set to cap the price of insulin, so why are tens of thousands of americans left out? this family pays $20,000 a year. get ready for massive post-christmas discounts, why the weather and supply chain issues will mean unprecedented sales, how about 80% off? and we remember the greatest of all time, the king of the pitch, soccer legend pele passed away today. good evening. i m tom llamas, in for lester tonight. that long holiday travel nightmare is not over for the thousands still struggling to get home, but tonight southwest says it s finally getting back on track. even though it cancelled another 2300 flights today, the airline says it expects normal operations with minimal disru
trump s feud a statement congratulating elon musk on twitter. he said his account will be back on monday. that does it for, as we will see you again tomorrow, now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. good evening alex, it is candidly night here at the last word. we have senator mark kelly from arizona, katie hobbs running for governor of arizona, governor kathy hochul of new york running in new york, beto o rourke running for governor in texas. they all have one thing in common. one very important thing in common. every one of them is running against an election denier. the republican candidate for governor in new york voted to overturn the presidential election as a republican member of the house representatives. that is how pervasive this is on the republican party. you cannot escape it. greg abbott, kari lake, these are important names to remember as you talk to the candidates that he will have tonight. lawrence, that is a great