Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont who caucuses with Democrats, said decisions over AI\u2019s development have been made by \u201ca handful of the richest people in the world\u201d, naming Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people of this country must make the decisions about AI, and not just a handful of oligarchs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Sanders said he plans to introduce legislation to \u201cpermanently ban the development of artificial superintelligence\u201d \u2013 AI systems more capable than any human and operating beyond human control \u2013 comparing the risk to nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike nuclear weapons, artificial superintelligence is a threat to humanity, and it must be treated as such.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Never trust\u2019 <\/p>\n
Bannon, who served as a White House strategist during Trump\u2019s first term, cast the tech industry\u2019s executives as untrustworthy converts to caution.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can never trust what an oligarch says because all they do \u2013 they\u2019re disingenuous and they lie,\u201d Bannon said.<\/p>\n
He added that AI companies had no viable business plan and would turn to the American people for bailouts while keeping the upside for themselves.<\/p>\n
He also took aim at what he called disingenuous industry rhetoric that cast any caution around AI as unpatriotic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re not an accelerationist, you\u2019re anti-American … you\u2019re pro-Chinese Communist Party,\u201d Bannon said, mocking the argument.<\/p>\n
Despite their political differences, Bannon pointed to his unlikely alignment with Sanders as evidence of the stakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think you could find any two harder partisans than Bernie Sanders on the left and [me] on the right,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to rise above it. This is a hinge in history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump, for his part, has dismissed such warnings against AI as a \u201choax,\u201d and pushed back against calls for tighter oversight.<\/p>\n
– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont who caucuses with Democrats, said decisions over AI\u2019s development have been made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[6935,9092,365,169099,9556,363,364,296480,183770,2516,12631,2178,2740,226,305,78,9557,296481,277531,22511,111,139,69,1118,18154,2572,29339,8205,96400,19097,179062,7806,5132,145,1361,2179,3040,26697,8222],"class_list":["post-601615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-adviser","tag-against","tag-ai","tag-alignment","tag-artificial","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bannon","tag-bernie","tag-concern","tag-dangers","tag-donald","tag-former","tag-growing","tag-have","tag-in","tag-intelligence","tag-leftright","tag-leftwing","tag-lines","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-political","tag-president","tag-promoters","tag-rare","tag-sanders","tag-scrambling","tag-senator","tag-sign","tag-steve","tag-technology","tag-that","tag-trump","tag-us","tag-warn","tag-warned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}