Sanders calls for a pause on increasingly powerful AI
United States senator from Vermont.
“That’s why I am introducing legislation to immediately pause the development of increasingly powerful AI and ban the creation of systems that humanity cannot fully control — at home and around the world.”
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Should Washington impose stronger safeguards on frontier AI?
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Official statement
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Official Senate press release announcing Sanders and Representative Greg Casar's planned legislation. Sanders calls for a pause on increasingly powerful AI and a ban on systems humanity cannot fully control.
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Sanders and Representative Greg Casar announced planned legislation in a September 3 Senate press release.
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The source describes proposed legislation rather than enacted law.
How this statement is classified
Condemns the continued development of increasingly powerful AI without the pause, federal rules, and control threshold Sanders proposes. The statement describes a bounded policy rather than a blanket ban and does not target a named person.
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