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Bernie Sanders Calls on Tech Giants to Pause Development of Out-of-Control AI (www.sanders.senate.gov)
submitted 1 week ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1326814/bernie-sanders-calls-on-tech-giants-to-pause-development-of-out-of-control-ai

Following recent and repeated public reporting about artificial intelligence (AI) technology breaking outside of human control and creating potentially dangerous viruses, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today urged America’s largest AI companies — Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI — to immediately pause their development of Artificial Intelligence.

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[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 15 points 1 week ago

Well he’s not wrong, but good luck getting them to stop. It’s one big corporate circle jerk with everybody investing in each other. Kudo’s to Bernie for bringing it up though.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

narrator: they did not

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bernie you were supposed to see past the Big Tech propaganda for corporate capture, not consume and regurgitate it!

This is your brain on cult leaders , I guess.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I think overall his views are good but he's an old guy and does not understand tech that well.

The last thing AI bros want is limitations, that brings in way less money from investors.

[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Bernie swallowed the critihype hard, it’s painful to see