Bernie Sanders on Pausing AI at human-genius level to sol…

Bernie Sanders

U.S. Senator from Vermont

Pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control ... Let me be very clear: If you do not take appropriate action now, my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate will.

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Bernie Sanders, letter to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta CEOs, quoted in Axios AM, August 10, 2026.

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

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AI Verified Sanders explicitly calls to pause AI development to avoid disaster, clearly bearing on a proposed pause for alignment. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Recorded for matches Sanders’s explicit call to pause AI development to avoid disaster. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Stored Axios source passage attributes the quoted letter wording to Bernie Sanders; corroborating web search found no contradictory attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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Mandate the CERN for AI to build safe superintelligence

It is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced. That’s why I am introducing legislation to immediately pause the development of increasingly powerful AI and ban the creation of systems that hu...

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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

We must come together to stop Flock and AI mass surveillance. That is why I will soon be introducing legislation to do just that.

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Bernie Sanders votes For

Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens

We cannot allow America to become a surveillance state where a handful of AI oligarchs profit by giving the government the power to track our every movement.

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