WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Progressive US Senator Bernie Sanders and right-wing firebrand Steve Bannon will together on Tuesday call for restrictions on AI systems, uniting two political adversaries around concerns that the technology will harm humans.

The two will speak at the same Washington gathering on Tuesday, as concern about AI’s risks spreads beyond Washington and Silicon Valley. Recent surveys have found majorities of Americans worry the technology could be used to eliminate jobs, raise costs for families or otherwise cause social harm.

Residents in several states have also challenged proposals for new data centers, a critical component of the AI boom. 77 percent of Americans worry AI-driven data centers will raise electricity costs, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published in June.

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon captured public attention last week when he said he resigned from the company, in part because the “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

Bannon, a longtime ally of US President Donald Trump, has criticized Trump’s approach to overseeing AI, placing the blame for the president’s unwillingness to regulate the technology........

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