Steve Bannon Breaks With Trump on AI, Teams Up With Bernie Sanders to Demand Restrictions As Warnings Grow Over the Technology’s Threats
Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is set to join Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a bipartisan push for tighter AI rules as concerns grow over the risks posed by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems. Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Find Common Ground On AI Sanders and Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, will speak at the same Washington event Tuesday. The pair are expected to call for restrictions on AI development, despite their sharply different political views. Bannon has increasingly criticized the tech industry’s influence over AI policy and argued that Congress should not stop states from imposing their own rules. "The American people are not going to be supplicants to these tech oligarchs," Bannon said on his podcast Monday. Read Also: Elon Musk Could Fund Every $1,000 'Trump Account' Through 2028 and Still Be Worth Over $900 Billion Growing Fears Over AI Risks The push comes as concerns about the potential dangers of advanced AI systems intensify. Earlier this month, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, saying some people developing AI "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." AI-linked stocks als
Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is set to join Sen. ) in a bipartisan push for tighter AI rules as concerns grow over the risks posed by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems. Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Find Common Ground On AI Sanders and Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, will speak at the same Washington event Tuesday. The pair are expected to call for restrictions on AI development, despite their sharply different political views.
Bannon has increasingly criticized the tech industry’s influence over AI policy and argued that Congress should not stop states from imposing their own rules. "The American people are not going to be supplicants to these tech oligarchs," Bannon said on his podcast Monday. Read Also: Elon Musk Could Fund Every $1,000 'Trump Account' Through 2028 and Still Be Worth Over $900 Billion Growing Fears Over AI Risks The push comes as concerns about the potential dangers of advanced AI systems intensify. 96 and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
41. Trump Pushes Back Against AI Safety Concerns The unusual Sanders-Bannon alliance also puts Bannon at odds with Trump’s approach to AI. S. already has safeguards for the technology.
Sanders, meanwhile, has joined Rep. S. government" until a new federal agency can oversee the technology. The proposal comes as lawmakers debate whether states should retain the power to regulate AI risks independently.
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