Maria Bartiromo

AI position

Aware of x-risk

Her show ran segments on Anthropic's "agentic misalignment"/blackmail research and let a guest (David Sacks) dismiss it as an irresponsible, engineered result; she has not staked out a personal position but has repeatedly surfaced x-risk-adjacent stories (rogue AI behavior, safety studies) for her audience.

Why influential

Uses a recurring national platform to frame events for a politically identifiable audience; campaigns, officials and rival media monitor the program's themes and guest choices. Primary policy lanes: economics; markets; republican politics; trade.

Who pays attention

Executives, investors, Republican economic staff, small-business owners and conservative viewers

Work samples

• OpenAI's Sam Altman touts GPT-5 capabilities: Gives entrepreneurs 'superpowers'

  Aug 8, 2025 · article

  Mornings with Maria interview with Sam Altman on GPT-5, enterprise AI, and job impacts.

• Expert rips 'irresponsible' AI study over blackmail scenarios

  Apr 21, 2026 · article

  Mornings with Maria segment; David Sacks criticizes Anthropic's agentic-misalignment/blackmail study as engineered and irresponsible.

• From rogue AI blackmailing humans to condensing school days, the AI revolution is already reshaping life

  Apr 24, 2026 · article

  Mornings with Maria week-long special 'AI: The Intelligence Revolution' rounding up interviews with Meta, Microsoft, Google Cloud advisors, Anthropic's Logan Graham, and David Sacks.

• Inside America's AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition

  Jan 23, 2026 · video

  Bartiromo moderates/hosts David Sacks and Michael Kratsios discussing U.S. AI policy and global competition.

AI-world contacts

• Dario Amodei — Co-founder & CEO, Anthropic

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Apr 24, 2026 — Article from Bartiromo's Mornings with Maria AI special covers Anthropic's agentic-misalignment/blackmail study and quotes Anthropic's Logan Graham (Head of Frontier Red Team) directly, with commentary framing it as an Anthropic study.

• Sam Altman — CEO, OpenAI

  • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Aug 8, 2025 — Video record of the same Fox Business interview with Altman on ChatGPT-5.

• David Sacks — Former White House AI & Crypto Czar, now PCAST co-chair, White House / PCAST

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Repeat guest on Mornings with Maria discussing AI policy and dismissing Anthropic's AI safety/blackmail study as irresponsible; central to a week-long Bartiromo AI special.

• Michael Kratsios — AI policy figure, former Scale AI managing director, co-author of the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, White House OSTP (Director); Foundation for American Innovation

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Appeared alongside Sacks in a Bartiromo-hosted discussion on U.S. AI strategy, infrastructure, and global competition.

• Logan Graham — Head of Frontier Red Team, Anthropic

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Quoted directly in Bartiromo's Fox Business AI special discussing Anthropic's Mythos model and cybersecurity capabilities.