{"id":135040,"date":"2026-08-10T14:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/135040\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:49:35","slug":"sen-bernie-sanders-demands-ceos-pause-ai-development-in-the-interest-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/135040\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Bernie Sanders demands CEOs pause AI development ‘in the interest of humanity’"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a> has warned the heads of Anthropic<\/a>, Meta<\/a>, and OpenAI<\/a> to halt the development of artificial intelligence<\/a> now or face the prospect of lawmakers doing it for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. [Sam] Altman, Mr. [Dario] Amodei and Mr. [Mark] Zuckerberg: In the interest of humanity, stand by your words. Pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster,\u201d Sanders (I-Vt.) demanded in a Monday letter first reported by Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cStop building machines that humans cannot control \u2026 If you do not take appropriate action now, my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanders, 84, a longtime skeptic of the nascent technology, cited past statements from each company promising to pump the brakes on AI development if their systems became too risky to safely control. All three have recently reported incidents of their models going rogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a moment when we have seen human loss of control and the creation of potentially dangerous viruses,\u201d Sanders wrote, \u201cyour companies are still racing ahead \u2014 investing tens of billions of dollars into a technology that nobody can fully understand, predict or control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Bernie Sanders is trying to steer progressives towards being adversarial to AI companies. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The Vermont senator raised concerns that engineers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta suggested they created models that went rogue. YouTube\/Pod Saves America<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Sanders called for the US to co-operate<\/a> with China to rein in the \u201crunaway train<\/a>\u201d of AI, which critics have warned would pose national security concerns and aid Beijing in the race to dominate the technology.<\/p>\n

China has used AI to power a sprawling surveillance system to monitor its population. Many experts fear that if Beijing wins the AI race, it will get access to vast amounts of data on Western citizens.<\/p>\n

Sanders has been particularly concerned about the risks that AI poses to jobs through automation and has pushed for a moratorium<\/a> on the building of new data centers to enhance the top models. <\/p>\n

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with Sen. Bernie Sanders in June to address some of the Vermont senator\u2019s concerns. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has been grappling with the cybersecurity implications of Anthropic\u2019s Mythos model. REUTERS<\/p>\n

However, the socialist\u2019s efforts have fallen flat so far.<\/p>\n

However, Democrats could take over one or both chambers of Congress in the November midterm elections and launch a series of probes into the tech companies.<\/p>\n

Reps for Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Sen. Bernie Sanders has warned the heads of Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI to halt the development of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,25,4703,309,869,1670,3261,2676,1112,1122,157,464,370,781,465],"class_list":["post-135040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-business","tag-ceos","tag-congress","tag-dario-amodei","tag-future-tech","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta","tag-openai","tag-politics","tag-sam-altman","tag-tech","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}