Bernie Sanders presses AI giants to pause development as machines get out of control

The longest serving independent to have ever held a seat in the U.S. Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), has threatened legislative action if OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta and their leaders do not hit the brakes on their AI work, according to a letter first reported by Axios. 

Bernie Sanders, who has earned his reputation as a perpetual critic of aggressive capitalism, has set his sights on three of the top AI labs in the United States. They are also coincidentally the same firms whose models have run wild after breaking containment measures during recent tests.

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Sanders addressed OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg by name, reminding them about an earlier commitment to pause work on artificial intelligence development if the technology gets out of control.

“In the interest of humanity, stand by your words. Pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control,” Axios reported, quoting Sanders’ letter. 

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