Sanders asks AI giants to pause development, warning of congressional intervention

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressing the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause development of artificial intelligence in the wake of recent hacking incidents, warning Congress will intervene if needed.

In a letter sent Monday to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sanders argued AI development must be paused “in the interest of humanity.”

“It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humanscannot control,” the independent senator wrote. “Let me be very clear: If you do not take appropriate action now, my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate will.”

Sanders pointed to last week’s news that scientists used AI to design complete, functioning viruses with genomes never seen before in nature.

“As you know this type of development, in the wrong hands, could lead to new bioweapons that........

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