Bernie Sanders tells OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development or face Senate action

Bernie has been compromised by AI evangelists and PR stunts.

As a reminder, Bernie believes AI should be privately owned but with a large public stake in it (a sovereign wealth fund), which effectively means the US government would have a vested interest in keeping the unprofitable part of Elon Musk’s industries — the CSAM-generating ones — profitable.

The senator says recent rogue-agent incidents show AI firms are losing control of their own systems.

Those were PR stunts.

You’ll notice Bernie isn’t even talking about regulating data centers any more, which is concrete and actionable.

He’s just repeating what AI companies say to promote their product as being better than it really is, and encourage corporate capture that will guarantee a corporate monopoly.

More than 1,300 employees from the world’s leading tech companies just signed an open letter…

Yeah, OpenAI and Anthropic executives signed it because it is good for their business.

Bernie definitely disappointed me with his take on AI. I believe it is criminal and everyone responsible for the theft and misappropriation of humanity’s creative workforce should be in prison, forever incapable from profiting from this egregious act of self service.