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Bernie Sanders AI regulation and safety efforts

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Senator Bernie Sanders has initiated legislative and diplomatic efforts to regulate artificial intelligence and mitigate its economic and existential risks. Initially, Sanders focused on domestic economic protections, proposing measures such as the AI Data Center Moratorium Act and the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. He expressed concern that automation could eliminate nearly 100 million US jobs and advocated for a 32-hour workweek to ensure workers benefit from AI-driven productivity. His efforts subsequently expanded to include international diplomacy. Sanders called upon US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to negotiate a treaty to pause the development of advanced artificial intelligence. He specifically advocated for a ban on artificial superintelligence, arguing that while technology executives have called to ‘pace the frontier,’ a more decisive action is required to prevent potential catastrophe, stating that leaders must ‘hit the brakes’ rather than simply easing off the accelerator. At a Pro-Human Assembly in Washington organized by the Future of Life Institute, Sanders joined political adversary Steve Bannon to advocate for stricter AI controls. Sanders Sanders, alongside Congressman Greg Casar, introduced the ‘Artificial Superintelligence Prohibition Act,’ which seeks to permanently ban the development and deployment of superintelligence and establish a federal agency to oversee safety rules. He warned that AI could eliminate millions of jobs rules and facilitate biological threats, such as the creation of new viruses. decommission dangerous systems. While Sanders pushed for federal oversight, Bannon emphasized the importance of individual states maintaining their own regulatory frameworks and criticized frameworks. Industry leaders have also engaged in the lack of transparency among major tech executives. debate: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that rapid advancements give the world ‘legitimate reason to be concerned’ while expressing confidence in industry self-regulation, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown to allow regulators to catch up.

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