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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 · 56min 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 · 56min 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 · 56min ago
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