Bernie Sanders
Role at the time: United States senator from Vermont.
Condemned
Responding to
Should Washington impose stronger safeguards on frontier AI?
“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.”
Why we used this label
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.