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This week on "Sunday Morning" (Nov. 2) David MorganNovember 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM 0 The Emmy Awardwinning "CBS News Sunday Morning" is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. "Sunday Morning" also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.) Hosted by Jane Pauley COVER STORY: Ken Burns on America's continuing revolutionDocumentary filmmaker Ken Burns has long been a chronicler of the American experience.

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COVER STORY: Ken Burns on America's continuing revolutionDocumentary filmmaker Ken Burns has long been a chronicler of the American experience. He talks with John Dickerson about his latest film for PBS, "The American Revolution"; the importance of studying history; and why the end of the Revolutionary War did not mean the end of our nation's revolution.

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ACCESSORIES: Auctioneer Aurel Bac, "the Indiana Jones of watches"Auctioneer Aurel Bacs knows what makes watch enthusiasts tick, as he puts exquisite, rare and vintage timepieces on the auction block. For 30 years, Bacs (whose love of watches began as a teenager in Zurich) has sold luxury timepieces at the world's most celebrated auction houses. Over the past decade, he and his wife, Livia Russo, partnering with Phillips Auctioneers, have been responsible for $1.6 billion in watch sales, catering to thousands of collectors from around the world. Correspondent Mark Strassmann talks with the flamboyant Bacs, the man some have called "the Indiana Jones of watches," who says watch collecting is not rational: "It's a love affair, and you cannot put limits on love."

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BOOKS: Salman Rushdie on "The Eleventh Hour" and free speech"The Eleventh Hour," a collection of short stories and a novella, is the first fiction Salman Rushdie has published since the 2022 attack that nearly killed him. He talks with Martha Teichner about his new book; the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, claiming passages in Rushdie's novel, "The Satanic Verses," insulted Islam; his own immigrant experience in the U.S.; and what happens when freedom of speech dies.

READ AN EXCERPT: "The Eleventh Hour" by Salman RushdieIn his elegiac new collection of stories – his first fiction since a 2022 attack that nearly killed him – acclaimed novelist Salman Rushie writes of intimate encounters with death, ghosts, magic, and the immutable passage of time.

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MUSIC: "Inheritances": Adam Tendler's musical testimony of love, grief and memoryConcert pianist Adam Tendler had a distant relationship with his father. So, when he inherited a sum of money from his dad, he used it to commission piano works by 16 acclaimed composers, creating music that touches on a vast range of emotions encompassing grief, loss, parent-child relationships, and estrangement. Lee Cowan reports on Tendler's moving tribute, "Inheritances."

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PASSAGE: In memoriam"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including actress Prunella Scales, star of the classic British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."

ECONOMY: Dealing with the crushing costs of childcareFor some, the high cost of childcare in the U.S. is a higher expense than rents and mortgages, or even in-state college tuition, and has pushed tens of thousands of women out of the workforce this year alone. Tracy Smith talks with Reshma Saujani, CEO and founder of Moms First, who says Americans need to rethink how we think about childcare. Smith also talks with parents in New Mexico, which has become the first state to offer free childcare to all residents; and with Republican Senator Katie Britt and Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, who see childcare as an economic issue America cannot afford to ignore.

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HARTMAN: The Great Heflin, Alabama Toilet Paper WarAfter the senior class at Cleburne County High School, in Heflin, Ala., covered the local police department in toilet paper last month, folks were surprised to see the police chief's response: Fight toilet paper with toilet paper. Steve Hartman reports from the front lines of a battle that has tickled the fancies of pranksters everywhere.

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MOVIES: George Clooney on "Jay Kelly," fame and familyIn his latest film, "Jay Kelly," George Clooney plays a familiar role – one of the world's biggest movie stars – who nonetheless tries to reconcile professional success and his personal shortcomings. Clooney talks with Seth Doane about how he is different from the character of Jay Kelly, and what he doesn't regret about living the life of an A-List celebrity. He also talks about how he works hard to create a "normal existence" for his children.

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EDUCATION: Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber on addressing challenges facing higher educationUniversities have found themselves under pressure from President Trump – from blocked funds for research, to attacks on their admission policies and diversity programs. Robert Costa talks with Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber about the challenges facing higher education today – on campuses and in Washington – and about his focus on promoting civility and independence. Costa also talks with Lee Bollinger (the former president of Columbia and the University of Michigan) and with former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, about the government's relationship with higher education.

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NATURE: Grand Teton National Park (Extended Video)We leave you this Sunday morning at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Videographer: David Bhagat.

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THE BOOK REPORT: Ron Charles' latest picks (Nov. 2) | Watch VideoThe Washington Post book reviewer offers upcoming highlights from the new season's fiction and non-fiction releases.

READ AN EXCERPT: "1929" by Andrew Ross SorkinThe New York Times financial columnist's new book looks back to Wall Street's most catastrophic market collapse.

READ AN EXCERPT: "Love, Sex, and Frankenstein" by Caroline LeaThe author of "The Glass Woman" returns with a gripping reimagining of how young Mary Shelley created her classic horror novel.

READ AN EXCERPT: "A Guardian and a Thief" by Megha MajumdarA National Book Award finalist, Megha Majumdar's novel is set in India in a climate-ravaged near-future.

READ AN EXCERPT: "The Wayfinder" by Adam JohnsonThe Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner returns with an epic tale set in Polynesia a thousand years in the past.

MARATHON: Scary movies! (YouTube Video)Watch these "CBS Sunday Morning" stories behind some of the most beloved fright films ever made:

David Edelstein on the scariest movie of all time;"Halloween" director John Carpenter; Growing up the children of horror movie actors;Lee Cowan on Jamie Lee Curtis and why scary movies thrill us; Hollywood monster maker Stan Winston;The legend of Dracula, from Bram Stoker to the movies;More Halloween horror picks from David Edelstein;Stephen King on adaptations of his scary books;"Get Out" director Jordan Peele;John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush on the horror film "The Rule of Jenny Pen"; and Guillermo del Toro on making his own "Frankenstein."

FROM THE ARCHIVES: "Sunday Morning" Halloween hauntings IV (YouTube Video)Enjoy more stories fit for the season, including:

Luke Burbank on the ancient tradition of scarecrows (2016);The publication of Bram Stoker's horror classic "Dracula" (2019); Bill Geist on the world of extreme pumpkin growing (2007); David Edelstein praises a documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (2017); Seth Doane on the history and mystery of Ouija boards (2012); Faith Salie explores the art of gargoyles (2019); David Pogue on how music can make scary movies scarier (2019); The cult horror film "Birdemic," hailed as the "best" bad movie of all time (2010); Barry Petersen on why bats aren't as scary as you think (2011); andSteve Hartman meets a master pumpkin carver (2010).

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The Best, Worst and Most Oops Moments from Miles Teller and Brandi Carlile's 'SNL' Episode Nicholas Rice November 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM 0 Saturday Night Live/YouTube Miles Teller and Brandi Carlile Miles Teller served as host and Brandi Carlile was the musical guest during the Nov. 1 episode of Saturday Night Live One of the best moments from the show was Andrew Dismukes and Ashley Padilla sharing the Weekend Update, while one of the worst parts was Teller's monologue SNL airs at 11:30 p.m. EST / 8:30 p.m.

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Miles Teller served as host and Brandi Carlile was the musical guest during the Nov. 1 episode of Saturday Night Live

One of the best moments from the show was Andrew Dismukes and Ashley Padilla sharing the Weekend Update, while one of the worst parts was Teller's monologue

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Live from Studio 8H — it's Miles Teller and Brandi Carlile!

Saturday Night Live aired the fourth episode of season 51 on Nov. 1, with the actor, 38, serving as host and the singer, 44, as musical guest.

During the late-night comedy sketch series, Teller portrayed former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo alongside Shane Gillis as Curtis Sliwa and Ramy Youssef as Zohran Mamdani, in a mock NYC mayoral race debate for the Cold Open.

Carlile, meanwhile, performed "Church & State" and "Human." Andrew Dismukes and Ashley Padilla played a flirtatious pair in the Weekend Update and Chloe Fineman starred as the first lady, Melania Trump alongside James Austin Johnson as President Donald Trump in a White House Makeover sketch.

Here, see the best, worst and most oops moments in our roundup of the highs, lows and yikes of the latest episode of SNL.

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Miles Teller, Brandi Carlile.Best: Weekend Update: Two People Who Just Hooked Up Discuss the Government Shutdown

Dismukes and Padilla appeared on the Weekend Update as two people who had just hooked up. While discussing Trump building a ballroom during the Government Shutdown, their conversation became full of innuendos.

"Well, typically during a shutdown, you wouldn't see a President continuing with a project of this size," Padilla said.

"Democrats just need to say, 'Look, it's too big. Would you be willing to try something smaller?' " Dismukes commented, while gazing into Padilla's eyes.

"Yeah, who knows. Republicans might even say, 'smaller sounds great,' " Padilla replied flirtatiously.

Best: White House Makeover

Teller played the host of a property makeover show called The Property Brothers alongside James Austin Johnson as Trump and Chloe Fineman as Melania.

Having shared his desire for the new ballroom to be huge, SNL's Trump was told his renovations would be delayed because he deported all of the construction workers.

"James Austin Johnson's🤣😅😂 Trump impersonation is so good that when he does it, I actually see Trump," a viewer commented on YouTube. "He even has the neck right. Also, Chloe does a great Melania accent."

"Best skit in a long time," said another person.

"The concept, camerawork and JAJ make this the best skit of the season for me so far," someone else wrote.

Worst: Miles Teller's Monologue

Teller spoke about dressing up as the Roxbury Guys as a child for Halloween, before joking about how much alcohol he drank before appearing on the show. He also spoke about his family losing their home during the Palisades fire.

Viewers said in the comment section on YouTube that they didn't find many of the jokes in the Top Gun: Maverick star's monologue funny.

"What a terrible monologue, haha, but hey, he's a cool guy," one person wrote.

"Wow, he was so embarrassed and shy," another commenter chimed in. "He looked like he hated every minute of it. I was sitting here cringing and feeling very uncomfortable with my second-hand embarrassment. Poor Miles."

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Worst: Italian Restaurant Date

Teller and Marcello Hernández played two waiters who interrupt a couple's date at an Italian restaurant with their flirtatious jokes. Kenan Thompson appeared as the eatery's chef.

Several viewers said the sketch needed more work to make the jokes funny, while other YouTube commenters complained about Italians being mocked.

"That was some last-minute s— they threw together and relied on s— on Italians to make it funny," one wrote.

"Wait - ethnic stereotypes are funny now?" another commented..

"This is a less funny version of the classic skit with Dana Carvey, Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider," said a third person.

Oops: Brandi Carlile: "Church & State"

During the episode, Carlile performed "Church & State" from her latest album, Returning to Myself. Viewers loved the song, but several complained that the sound quality wasn't great.

"Why is the audio for SNL musical guest videos always so bad?" one person commented.

"Something is off with the harmonies and the backup singer mix," said another.

Viewers shared another oops moment on Reddit after being surprised by how the episode ended.

"What happened after the last sketch? It abruptly cut to several bumper images for what seemed like a long time, like it was unplanned," one person said.

"We didn't get any goodnights here. The stupid Italian sketch, a couple seconds of SNL band and that was it," another said.

"Live broadcast for me cut mid good nights. It was running long, it happens," someone else commented.

SNL has a slew of stars ready to host and perform next, including Nikki Glaser and Sombr, plus Glen Powell and Olivia Dean.

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'SNL' takes on NYC mayoral debate in cold open with Miles Teller as Cuomo Brendan Morrow, USA TODAYNovember 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM 0 Days before New York City's mayoral election, "Saturday Night Live" is weighing in. In its latest cold open, the sketch show parodied the final New York City mayoral debate, with Miles Teller as Andrew Cuomo, Ramy Youssef as Zohran Mamdani and Shane Gillis as Curtis Sliwa. "I know this city like the back of a woman's back," Teller said as Cuomo, the former governor of New York who resigned in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal.

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Days before New York City's mayoral election, "Saturday Night Live" is weighing in.

In its latest cold open, the sketch show parodied the final New York City mayoral debate, with Miles Teller as Andrew Cuomo, Ramy Youssef as Zohran Mamdani and Shane Gillis as Curtis Sliwa.

"I know this city like the back of a woman's back," Teller said as Cuomo, the former governor of New York who resigned in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal. He was elected as a Democrat but is running for mayor as an independent after losing the party's mayoral primary to Mamdani.

"As soon as you are elected mayor, everyone in the city immediately hates you, and in that way, I am already one step ahead of the game," Teller's Cuomo declared.

As Democratic nominee Mamdani, Youssef told voters he wanted to deliver free health care and Wi-Fi and affordable housing.

"As mayor, can I make that happen? I'm not sure yet," he said. "But together, we're going to find out − that the answer is no."

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Sliwa, the Republican nominee, was portrayed as a non-serious third candidate, who repeatedly referenced being the victim of disturbing and violent encounters and said he wanted to be mayor because "I need a job." The sketch marked a "SNL" return for Gillis, who was hired for the show's cast in 2019 but quickly fired as a result of racist comments on a podcast. He has since returned to host twice.

James Austin Johnson's President Donald Trump eventually barged into the debate to promise that he's "going to be very involved" in New York politics and is "always watching, lurking in the shadows, much like the late, great Phantom of the Opera."

Andrew Dismukes (from left), Brandi Carlile, Miles Teller and Ashley Padilla appear in a promotional spot for "Saturday Night Live."

"SNL" was back on Nov. 1 after taking a week off. Sabrina Carpenter performed double duty as host and musical guest on the previous episode, which, in an unusual move, kicked off with a non-political cold open. Carpenter's episode began with a reprisal of the popular "Domingo" sketch, featuring a spoof of Taylor Swift's "The Fate of Ophelia" from her latest album "The Life of a Showgirl."

But to make up for the lack of politics in the cold open, Carpenter's episode later featured Johnson as Trump in a sketch where the president made a surprise appearance on a podcast hosted by adolescent boys. In the sketch, Trump maintained that the No Kings protests against his administration were actually demonstrations in support of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, whose sentence Trump commuted.

'SNL' mocks Trump: The show addressed George Santos prison release, No Kings protests

Prior to Carpenter, former "SNL" cast member Amy Poehler hosted the Oct. 11 episode, in which she reunited with her former "Weekend Update" co-anchor Tina Fey. The pair played Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in the cold open, and they also teamed up with Seth Meyers for a star-studded "Weekend Update" segment.

The season premiere of "SNL" was hosted on Oct. 4 by Bad Bunny. The first sketch of the season mocked Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, with Colin Jost taking the role in a rare appearance on the show outside of "Weekend Update."

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Who's hosting 'SNL' next?

"SNL" will be back next week with comedian Nikki Glaser hosting and Sombr serving as musical guest. This will be the "SNL" hosting debut for Glaser, who was emcee of the Golden Globe Awards in January and is set to return for the 2026 awards ceremony.

Glen Powell will host "SNL" on Nov. 15, the weekend his new action movie "The Running Man" hits theaters. Olivia Dean is set to serve as musical guest.

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Venice revives a quartermile floating bridge to island cemetery for All Souls' Day mourners NICCOLÒ LUPONE and LUCA BRUNONovember 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM 0 1 / 5Italy Venice All Soul's DayMourners walk on the 'Votif' Bridge, a 407m temporary floating bridge connecting the city to the cemetery on the island of San Michele, to pay respects to their dead on All Soul's Day, in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025.

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1 / 5Italy Venice All Soul's DayMourners walk on the 'Votif' Bridge, a 407m temporary floating bridge connecting the city to the cemetery on the island of San Michele, to pay respects to their dead on All Soul's Day, in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice's San Michele island is the final resting place of American poet Ezra Pound, Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and many Venetians known only to their loved ones.

The city of Venice this year revived a long-dormant tradition of constructing a temporary bridge to allow Venetians to make the solemn 400-meter (quarter-mile) lagoon crossing by foot to pay respects to their dead on the Catholic All Souls' holiday.

In its original form, the crossing was made out of Venetian "peata" boats lashed together, topped with walking planks and anchored to the lagoon bed. The practice was stopped in the 1950s, probably as more regular public water buses made the island easier to reach.

After an absence of some seven decades, the bridge was revived in 2019 with a modular pontoon construction, but the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted plans to make it an annual fixture — until this year.

"We have proposed it once more so we can reconnect history with living people,'' Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said last week. "It's a concrete journey. It's not fake, not philosophical. By foot, over the water, a beautiful route that make you understand a lot of things about Venice.''

The lagoon city of Venice is patched together by hundreds of foot bridges. But the city has historically built temporary bridges on just two other occasions, which endure: across the Giudecca Canal for the annual Feast of the Redentore (Redeemer) in late July, and across the Grand Canal for the Nov. 21 Feast of the Madonna della Salute.

The floating walkway to San Michele island near Murano is the longest of the three, traversing a relatively shallow area of the lagoon from the Fondamente Nove. The temporary bridge arches upward to allow water taxis, buses and ambulances and other boat traffic to pass by. Its modern construction allows it to easily withstand high tides of 1 meter (over 3 feet), officials said.

It opened on Thursday in anticipation of All Souls' Day, when Italians visit cemeteries to pay respects to their loved ones. Only residents were allowed on the 15-meter (50-foot)-wide bridge through the Sunday holiday. It will open to tourists on Monday.

"I usually don't go to the cemetery for various reasons, but I'm taking advantage of this very rare circumstance, " Antonio Vespignani said on Thursday. "It's a way for me to visit my loved ones."

Zhang Miao, a Chinese tourist, arrived on the island out of curiosity by ferry on Sunday, but didn't know it was a cemetery. "To return to the mainland, I used the bridge, which is much more convenient and, what's more, it's free," she said.

The cemetery was established in 1807, after Napoleon decreed that burial be moved away from the city. It took its name from the island's 15th-century church. It was later expanded, when a canal between a neighboring island was filled in.

San Michele remains the principal burial ground for Venice's historic center — even as much of the city's population moves to the mainland.

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Who is Zico Kolter? A professor leads OpenAI safety panel with power to halt unsafe AI releases MATT O'BRIEN November 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM 0 Carnegie Mellon University Head of Machine Learning, Zico Kolter delivers a keynote speech at AI Horizons Summit in Bakery Square on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025 in Pittsburgh. (Sebastian Foltz/Pittsburgh PostGazette via AP) If you believe artificial intelligence poses grave risks to humanity, then a professor at Carnegie Mellon University has one of the most important roles in the tech industry right now.

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If you believe artificial intelligence poses grave risks to humanity, then a professor at Carnegie Mellon University has one of the most important roles in the tech industry right now.

Zico Kolter leads a 4-person panel at OpenAI that has the authority to halt the ChatGPT maker's release of new AI systems if it finds them unsafe. That could be technology so powerful that an evildoer could use it to make weapons of mass destruction. It could also be a new chatbot so poorly designed that it will hurt people's mental health.

"Very much we're not just talking about existential concerns here," Kolter said in an interview with The . "We're talking about the entire swath of safety and security issues and critical topics that come up when we start talking about these very widely used AI systems."

OpenAI tapped the computer scientist to be chair of its Safety and Security Committee more than a year ago, but the position took on heightened significance last week when California and Delaware regulators made Kolter's oversight a key part of their agreements to allow OpenAI to form a new business structure to more easily raise capital and make a profit.

Safety has been central to OpenAI's mission since it was founded as a nonprofit research laboratory a decade ago with a goal of building better-than-human AI that benefits humanity. But after its release of ChatGPT sparked a global AI commercial boom, the company has been accused of rushing products to market before they were fully safe in order to stay at the front of the race. Internal divisions that led to the temporary ouster of CEO Sam Altman in 2023 brought those concerns that it had strayed from its mission to a wider audience.

The San Francisco-based organization faced pushback — including a lawsuit from co-founder Elon Musk — when it began steps to convert itself into a more traditional for-profit company to continue advancing its technology.

Agreements announced last week by OpenAI along with California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings aimed to assuage some of those concerns.

At the heart of the formal commitments is a promise that decisions about safety and security must come before financial considerations as OpenAI forms a new public benefit corporation that is technically under the control of its nonprofit OpenAI Foundation.

Kolter will be a member of the nonprofit's board but not on the for-profit board. But he will have "full observation rights" to attend all for-profit board meetings and have access to information it gets about AI safety decisions, according to Bonta's memorandum of understanding with OpenAI. Kolter is the only person, besides Bonta, named in the lengthy document.

Kolter said the agreements largely confirm that his safety committee, formed last year, will retain the authorities it already had. The other three members also sit on the OpenAI board — one of them is former U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone, who was commander of the U.S. Cyber Command. Altman stepped down from the safety panel last year in a move seen as giving it more independence.

"We have the ability to do things like request delays of model releases until certain mitigations are met," Kolter said. He declined to say if the safety panel has ever had to halt or mitigate a release, citing the confidentiality of its proceedings.

Kolter said there will be a variety of concerns about AI agents to consider in the coming months and years, from cybersecurity – "Could an agent that encounters some malicious text on the internet accidentally exfiltrate data?" – to security concerns surrounding AI model weights, which are numerical values that influence how an AI system performs.

"But there's also topics that are either emerging or really specific to this new class of AI model that have no real analogues in traditional security," he said. "Do models enable malicious users to have much higher capabilities when it comes to things like designing bioweapons or performing malicious cyberattacks?"

"And then finally, there's just the impact of AI models on people," he said. "The impact to people's mental health, the effects of people interacting with these models and what that can cause. All of these things, I think, need to be addressed from a safety standpoint."

OpenAI has already faced criticism this year about the behavior of its flagship chatbot, including a wrongful-death lawsuit from California parents whose teenage son killed himself in April after lengthy interactions with ChatGPT.

Kolter, director of Carnegie Mellon's machine learning department, began studying AI as a Georgetown University freshman in the early 2000s, long before it was fashionable.

"When I started working in machine learning, this was an esoteric, niche area," he said. "We called it machine learning because no one wanted to use the term AI because AI was this old-time field that had overpromised and underdelivered."

Kolter, 42, has been following OpenAI for years and was close enough to its founders that he attended its launch party at an AI conference in 2015. Still, he didn't expect how rapidly AI would advance.

"I think very few people, even people working in machine learning deeply, really anticipated the current state we are in, the explosion of capabilities, the explosion of risks that are emerging right now," he said.

AI safety advocates will be closely watching OpenAI's restructuring and Kolter's work. One of the company's sharpest critics says he's "cautiously optimistic," particularly if Kolter's group "is actually able to hire staff and play a robust role."

"I think he has the sort of background that makes sense for this role. He seems like a good choice to be running this," said Nathan Calvin, general counsel at the small AI policy nonprofit Encode. Calvin, who OpenAI targeted with a subpoena at his home as part of its fact-finding to defend against the Musk lawsuit, said he wants OpenAI to stay true to its original mission.

"Some of these commitments could be a really big deal if the board members take them seriously," Calvin said. "They also could just be the words on paper and pretty divorced from anything that actually happens. I think we don't know which one of those we're in yet."

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