Sanders Calls on A.I. Companies to Pause Development to ‘Avoid Disaster’

Senator Bernie Sanders warned that corporations have already lost control of technology that could cause “potentially cataclysmic results” for millions of people.

By Lisa Lerer

Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity

Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’ Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the US Senate will implement regulation if the companies continue deploying AI at their current pace. In a new letter addressed to the CEOs of three of the country’s leading AI companies, Sanders said the capabilities of these AI models have re...

By Johana Bhuiyan

Bernie Sanders asked the leading AI CEOs to pause development. Read his letter.

Sen. Bernie Sanders demanded OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta "pause AI development." Bloomberg/Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote a letter to Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg. Sanders referenced a rogue OpenAI agent's hack of Hugging Face. "Pause AI development," Sanders wrote. "Stop building machines that humans cannot control." Bernie Sanders has heard enough about rogue AI agents. The Vermont senator wrote a letter to three leading AI development CEOs: Anthropic's Dario Amod...