Condemned
“Mr. Coxon is right.”
Sanders explicitly endorses Coxon's warning and says he will introduce legislation to ban superintelligence and pause AI development. This is an announced policy intention, not evidence that a ban has been enacted.
- Speaker
- Bernie Sanders
- Capacity
- U.S. political figure; statement on his own public account.
- Observed
- September 10, 2026
- Published here
- September 10, 2026
- Targets
- Anthropic, OpenAI
- Classification rationale
- Explicit endorsement of Coxon's criticism with a proposed ban and pause.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Sanders directly names Coxon and invokes the concerns expressed by the people developing AI.
After the quotation
He presents a prospective superintelligence ban and development pause as his response to the danger he believes the developers acknowledge.
Evidence
Complete source record
Bernie Sanders on Coxon’s warning and the frontier AI safety debate (opens in a new tab) · Bernie Sanders
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