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Bernie Sanders calls for AI development slowdown due to existential risks

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Senator Bernie Sanders has urged for a slowdown in AI development, citing scientists' warnings of potential cataclysmic impacts on humanity. He criticized the current economic system for incentivizing reckless behavior and prioritizing financial gains over responsible conduct and existential safety. Sanders suggested that society's overarching focus on money drives these risks and that alternative systems are possible. AI

IMPACT Highlights concerns about AI's existential risks and the economic systems that may accelerate them.

RANK_REASON Commentary from a public figure on AI safety and economic incentives.

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Bernie Sanders calls for AI development slowdown due to existential risks

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    ""When scientists tell you there is a chance, a chance that it could have a cataclysmic impact on humanity, you've got be a moron not to say, slow it down," he

    ""When scientists tell you there is a chance, a chance that it could have a cataclysmic impact on humanity, you've got be a moron not to say, slow it down," he [Bernie Sanders] said on Thursday on BBC's Newsnight." It is even worse. We have built an economy that incentivises reck…

    LINKS bbc.co.uk/…/cx2zrrpkx20o

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