{"id":24342,"date":"2026-08-11T08:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/bernie-sanders-calls-on-silicon-valley-to-pause-ai-development-in-interest-of-humanity\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T08:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:37:32","slug":"bernie-sanders-calls-on-silicon-valley-to-pause-ai-development-in-interest-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/bernie-sanders-calls-on-silicon-valley-to-pause-ai-development-in-interest-of-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to \u2018pause AI development\u2019 in interest of humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to \u2018stop building machines that humans cannot control\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the US Senate will implement regulation if the companies continue deploying AI at their current pace.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/AI-Pause-Letter-FINAL.pdf\">letter<\/a> addressed to the CEOs of three of the country\u2019s leading AI companies, Sanders said the capabilities of these AI models have reached a critical risk threshold and that the companies are losing control over the technology.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/aug\/10\/bernie-sanders-ai-development-pause-letter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a0a85c92c66d043112ebdf2fc0fb7dde3a5b1fe7\/754_377_3212_2569\/master\/3212.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3f579c816d438ae04357fb91e22464f4\" title=\"Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to \u2018pause AI development\u2019 in interest of humanity\" \/>Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to \u2018stop building machines that humans cannot control\u2019<br \/>\nSenator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the US Senate will implement regulation if the companies continue deploying AI at their current pace.<br \/>\nIn a new letter addressed to the CEOs of three of the country\u2019s leading AI companies, Sanders said the capabilities of these AI models have reached a critical risk threshold and that the companies are losing control over the technology. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to \u2018stop building machines that humans cannot control\u2019 Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the US Senate will implement regulation if the companies continue deploying AI at their current pace. In a new &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/bernie-sanders-calls-on-silicon-valley-to-pause-ai-development-in-interest-of-humanity\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to \u2018pause AI development\u2019 in interest of humanity<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}