Bernie Sanders Calls for an AI Pause, Says Companies Have 'Already Lost Control'

The senator urged top labs to halt development, warning of 'potentially cataclysmic results' — arriving the same week OpenAI reportedly paused a model itself.

Senator Bernie Sanders called on the leading AI companies to pause development, saying the corporations "have already lost control of models that could cause potentially cataclysmic results," @BostonGlobe reported. It is the sharpest framing yet from a sitting senator, and it lands in a week that hands both his critics and his allies ammunition.

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