{"slug": "gel-hair-man-shuts-off-ai-to-please-area-karens", "title": "Gel hair man shuts off AI to please area Karens", "summary": "California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday directing the convening of a group of world-leading experts to produce a guide for California to reinforce and strengthen its AI safety and security laws, with proposals under consideration including an emergency shutoff or kill switch for frontier models. The order drew criticism for lacking concrete action while the U.S. House and Senate had just returned from five-week summer recesses without federal AI legislation.", "body_md": "# Gel hair man shuts off AI to please area Karens\n\nSee more of our coverage in your search results.\n\n[Add The California Post on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=nypost.com)\n\n**1. Congress’ wittle summer wecess**\n\nby Blake Dodge, writer\n\nFriday, Gavin Newsom signed an executive order meant to “dramatically accelerate” the convening of “a group of world-leading experts” so that they can make a … guide … “for California to reinforce and strengthen its [AI safety and security laws](https://nypost.com/2026/09/18/us-news/gavin-newsom-seeks-kill-switch-for-ai-in-new-executive-order/).” \n\nThis, obviously, is code for “we’re not doing anything” and an excuse for Gavin to take a little video in his cute podcast setup.\n\nStill, with “proposals under consideration” including an “emergency shutoff” or “kill switch” for frontier models… it’s a chilling reminder of what’s possible here [Gel Hair Man Shuts off AI to Please Area Karens] given the total absence of any congressional leadership whatsoever.\n\nLiterally, as the world mulls the apocalypse and the heads of AI beg for federal involvement, the House and Senate just returned from their five-week “summer recesses.”\n\nWhat a nice (??) concept for the rest of us, who lost our “recess” privileges … at age 11. Grow up already, and get to work, losers.\n\n## **Download The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters** \n\n**California Post News**: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/TheCaliforniaPost/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/californiapost), [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@CaliforniaPost), [X](https://x.com/californiapost), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@thecaliforniapost), [WhatsApp](https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb6a2IV1NCrL6q2AWq0E), [LinkedIn](http://linkedin.com/company/californiapost)**California Post Sports** [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/capostsports/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/capostsports/?hl=en), [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@capostsports), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@CaliforniaPostSports), [X](https://x.com/capostsports)**California Post**  [Opinion](https://x.com/californiapost) **California Post Newsletters**: [Sign up here!](https://email.nypost.com/#california-post)** California Post App**: [Download here!](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/california-post/id6751343487)** Home delivery**: [Sign up here!](https://subscribe.californiapost.com/defaultCAP)** Page Six Hollywood**: [Sign up here!](https://pagesix.com/hollywood-signup/)\n\n**2. Nursing a grudge**\n\nby Riley Nork, writer\n\nThe members of two California nurses unions decided to handle ongoing labor negotiations with Prime Healthcare in dignified fashion: by going around the neighborhood where Prime Healthcare executives live and posting threatening fliers with detailed displays of their houses, a totally-not-unsettling experience, I’m sure, on the heels of full-blown Mangione bloodlust in this country.\n\nThe California Post reports that [activists for the unions canvassed](https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/us-news/prime-healthcare-ceo-prem-reddy-accuses-california-nurses-association-of-targeting-family-homes/) the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood — home to members of the Prime CEO’s family and other Prime executives — where they “posted fliers featuring aerial photographs, square-footage details, and other information about executives’ private homes,” with charming messages like “track them down” and “[they] can’t hide.” \n\nMeanwhile, a union attorney allegedly claimed the harassment would only stop if Prime’s CEO came to the table for negotiations, but in the spirit of #NeverForget, I’m suddenly remembering a lesson from 9/11 which I hope this CEO heeds: sorry nurses… but we don’t negotiate with terrorists.\n\n**3. Nerd civil war**\n\nby Evan Milenko, writer\n\nComputer geeks and math dorks are fighting. Earlier this month, OpenAI announced that an unreleased model had solved the [Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem](https://nypost.com/2026/09/09/tech/openai-says-it-cracked-decades-old-math-problem-but-professor-claims-they-cribbed-his-work-threatened-him/). \n\nThree days later, 25 Fields Medalists signed an open letter warning that AI has become “severely misaligned” with the mathematical community’s interests.\n\nNow OpenAI says the same model has resolved over *100* other open math problems and is forming an advisory group to help figure out what to do with the results. \n\nSome people have reacted unsympathetically (i.e., math geniuses finding their jobs at risk like the rest of us).\n\nBut, while I *really* put the “C” in calculus, even I find something depressing about rooting for mathematicians’ obsolescence. \n\nThere is something special about the disheveled autist spending sleepless nights at a blackboard to discover fundamental truths of the universe.\n\nIncels solving black holes makes for way better movies than researchers telling chat “yo solve this black hole thing.”\n\n*Pirate Wires [offers](https://www.piratewires.com/subscribe) the wildest stories in technology, politics and culture.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gel-hair-man-shuts-off-ai-to-please-area-karens", "canonical_source": "https://nypost.com/2026/09/23/opinion/gel-hair-man-shuts-off-ai-to-please-area-karens/", "published_at": "2026-09-24 01:53:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-24 01:57:43.984697+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Gavin Newsom", "California", "OpenAI", "U.S. House of Representatives", "U.S. Senate"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gel-hair-man-shuts-off-ai-to-please-area-karens", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gel-hair-man-shuts-off-ai-to-please-area-karens.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gel-hair-man-shuts-off-ai-to-please-area-karens.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gel-hair-man-shuts-off-ai-to-please-area-karens.jsonld"}}