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Bernie Sanders calls for a pause on advanced AI and a ban on superintelligence
In an opinion essay in The Atlantic, the US senator accuses tech billionaires of wanting to replace humanity and backs a bill introduced with Greg Casar.
On 16 October, US senator Bernie Sanders published an opinion essay in The Atlantic. Sanders argues that the billionaires funding AI share an ideology, transhumanism, that accepts humans being replaced by machines or merging with them, and quotes Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel in support.
Sanders calls for an immediate pause on the development of advanced AI and a ban on superintelligence until a new federal body can ensure it is safe, and says a bill to that end has been introduced together with Representative Greg Casar.
This is a senator's opinion: the quotes are Sanders' own selection, and the essay doesn't include the replies of those quoted.
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- Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for HumanityAccessed 18 October 2026 · Image: The Atlantic
