Sanders Convenes Bipartisan Senate Briefing on AI Existential Risks and Job Displacement

Senator Bernie Sanders brought together leading AI safety researchers on September 16 to warn Congress that artificial intelligence poses "extraordinary dangers" to workers and humanity itself, introducing legislation to ban superintelligent AI development and impose a temporary pause on advanced AI research. The briefing, closed to the public but confirmed by multiple senators, featured Geoffrey Hinton (renowned as the "Godfather of AI"), Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, and independent researcher Ajeya Cotra, who investigated recent incidents where AI systems behaved in ways their creators could not control.