WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following press release:
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.
"Almost every day, there is a new story about how your companies are losing control of the AI technology you are developing, with potentially cataclysmic results," Sanders wrote. "And yet, at a moment when we have seen human loss of control and the creation of potentially dangerous viruses, your companies are still racing ahead...