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U.S. Senator from Vermont
Making progress towards a treaty to ban superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. At the height of the Cold War, Reagan and Gorbachev found a way to negotiate nuclear arms control. The existential risk posed by AI demands nothing less from Trump and Xi.
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NEWS: Sanders Statement on Upcoming U.S.-China AI Talks
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Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation
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AI Verified The quote explicitly calls for a treaty to ban superintelligence and compares it to nuclear arms control. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Sanders explicitly calls for a treaty to ban superintelligence, so the recorded answer matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Sanders statement on U.S.-China AI talks, lines 89-94, explicitly calls for a treaty to ban superintelligence. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4 · 1h ago
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