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Sanders asks AI giants to pause development, warning of congressional intervention

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressing the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause development of artificial intelligence in the wake of recent hacking incidents, warning Congress will intervene if needed.

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  1. Axios

    Exclusive: Sanders calls for AI development pause (opens Axios)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is urging leading AI CEOs to pause AI development, warning that lawmakers will step in if no action is taken. Why it matters: Sanders is upping the ante on the AI industry ahead of the elections, building on his progressive playbook that is shaping how some candidates mes…

  2. New York Post

    Sen. Bernie Sanders demands CEOs pause AI development ‘in the interest of humanity’ (opens New York Post)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders gave an ultimatum to the CEOs of Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, warning them to pause the development of artificial intelligence now or else have lawmakers do it for them.

  3. Washington Examiner

    Sanders warns of AI disaster and calls for nationwide pause on development: Report (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) penned a letter to CEOs of artificial intelligence companies and called for a nationwide pause on development, cautioning that Congress will take action tech leaders won’t. In a letter addressed to OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, …

  4. NewsBusters

    Senator Sanders Warns Tech Giants: Pause ‘Cataclysmic’ AI Development – or We Will (opens NewsBusters)

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    Senator Sanders Warns Tech Giants: Pause ‘Cataclysmic’ AI Development – or We Will Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has sent a letter to three companies leading the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) warning them that – if they don’t pause their development of AI until they get the dangerous …

  5. The Hill

    Sanders asks AI giants to pause development, warning of congressional intervention (opens The Hill)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressing the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause development of artificial intelligence in the wake of recent hacking incidents, warning Congress will intervene if needed.

  6. Washington Times

    Sanders urges AI leaders to halt AI development until the technology is safe (opens Washington Times)

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    Sen. Bernard Sanders sent a letter Monday to the leaders of the largest artificial intelligence companies in the U.S. urging them to pause development until the technology is under control.

  7. The Guardian

    Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity (opens The Guardian)

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    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 …

  8. Quartz

    Bernie Sanders is threatening to force OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development (opens Quartz)

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    The senator cited AI-created viruses and recent incidents in which models escaped containment as grounds for an immediate halt

  9. Insider

    Bernie Sanders asked the leading AI CEOs to pause development. Read his letter. (opens Insider)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote a letter to Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg. "Stop building machines that humans cannot control," he wrote.

  10. The Boston Globe

    Sanders calls on AI companies to pause development to ‘avoid disaster’ (opens The Boston Globe)

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    In a letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, Sanders cited statements by the companies saying they would halt or delay new models if the technology became too risky to safely manage. He argued that threshold had recently been passed.

  11. Washington Times

    AI is already slipping out of human control, Bernie Sanders warns (opens Washington Times)

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    AI models have broken out of testing environments without human direction, and scientists have used AI to design new viruses never seen in nature. Now Sen. Bernie Sanders is warning tech CEOs it may not be too late to avoid disaster -- but only if they act now.

  12. The Daily Wire

    Bernie Sanders Demands Companies ‘Pause AI Development’ ‘In The Interest Of Humanity’ (opens The Daily Wire)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is demanding that the nation’s leading artificial intelligence companies immediately pause development, warning that Congress will intervene if they refuse to slow down. Sanders sent a letter Monday to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Meta CEO Mark Zu…

  13. Townhall

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