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As if Americans didn\u2019t have enough to worry about \u2014 making ends meet and planning for the future \u2014 the heads of the world\u2019s largest artificial-intelligence companies are now warning that their groundbreaking technology could leave us with no future at all: We may all be dead.<\/p>\n
It really is a shame, given that we just survived climate change and COVID-19. Now this? Maybe we can just shut down AI for two weeks to flatten the curve.<\/p>\n
This week, Democrats have been jumping all over themselves to hop on board this moribund bandwagon to do what they always do \u2014 regulate industry to death and hamper growth.<\/p>\n
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., conduct a news conference to announce the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act in the U.S. Capitol on March 25, 2026. (Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
SANDERS PUSHES ‘DEATH PENALTY’ FOR CRUCIAL US INDUSTRY THAT COULD GIVE ADVANTAGE TO FOREIGN ADVERSARIES<\/a><\/p>\n According to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., “Congress, under both Democratic and Republican control, has been asleep at the wheel, and we now have a president whose ignorance regarding this issue is truly embarrassing.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned, “AI technology can be very dangerous when pursued without any guardrails.” But given her repeated predictions that the world will end within five years because of climate change, it\u2019s unclear why it matters.<\/p>\n RESEARCHER WHO DEPARTED AI ROLE OVER FEARS OF RACING INTO EXTINCTION SAYS PEOPLE ARE ‘BEGGING’ FOR REGULATION<\/a><\/p>\n Look, AI is not going to destroy humanity in the next decade, as Jacob Coxon, a former employee and so-called whistleblower at Anthropic \u2014 a leading AI company \u2014 warned recently. Frankly, the notion is absurd, which is why nobody can actually explain it.<\/p>\n One must seriously ask oneself, how exactly is AI going to kill me? Is it going to come to my house with a gun, is it going to hack the nuke codes or unleash a deadly virus? Surely, it’s not that hard to have human beings as fail-safes in those scenarios.<\/p>\n THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERA ON YOUR STREET CORNER: LAWFUL SPYING OR CONSTITUTIONALLY PROBLEMATIC?<\/a><\/p>\n No, the dangers attendant to AI are not sci-fi fantasies of super intelligence going rogue and plotting the demise of the meat puppets. As exciting as all of that is, the real dangers are much more mundane, and much more implacable.<\/p>\n Across the country, local school boards are struggling with whether and how to use AI in kids\u2019 education. County commissioners are balancing the crime-fighting capability of AI-driven cameras against personal freedom. And in Congress, lawmakers are debating outdated laws governing Big Tech\u2019s liability, including Section 230 of the Communications Act<\/a>, which was written in the technological Stone Age of 1996.<\/p>\n White House AI proposals highlight growing concerns over scams, censorship and the future of jobs in an increasingly automated economy. (Jay L Clendenin\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS SEE AI REGULATION AS URGENT, RANK SAFEGUARDS AHEAD OF INNOVATION<\/a><\/p>\n These practical applications of AI are what Americans are most concerned about, not fabulist movie scenarios meant to scare us all into handing power over to the smart set, again.<\/p>\n All the usual suspects, like Bill Gates and Anthropic\u2019s Dario Amodei, are out there saying that the threat of AI requires some kind of woke world governing body, but Americans will not accept such trampling of their freedom. Not this time.<\/p>\n TRUMP UNLOADS ON TECH TITANS PUSHING FOR SLOWDOWN ON EMERGING INDUSTRY: \u2018WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n At the end of the day, AI is a product. It’s not magic. It’s not some unstoppable force of nature. And like any product, from toothpicks to tractors, the government has a role to play in making sure it is safe for the public.<\/p>\n Viewed from this product angle, it is easy to see why Big Tech would rather talk about esoteric threats of Armageddon than what they are doing to fight bias in their algorithms, or take the safety of children online seriously.<\/p>\n Big Tech and retail leaders are promising faster scam detection, stronger verification and better reporting tools for consumers. (Halfpoint\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n In fact, what Big Tech is really doing is inventing a problem that isn\u2019t there to avoid addressing the very real ones that are.<\/p>\n Even if we did force AI companies to shut down for two months and put their servers six feet apart with masks on, it would have no impact on the actual issues that people care about regarding so-called artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n Big Tech doomerism is a distraction, because, after all, who has time to worry about teenagers getting addicted to social media or chatbots happily cheering on suicide<\/a> when the world might end in 10 days?<\/p>\n![\"Students](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/trump-ai-policy-3.jpg\")
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