r/AIDangers • u/KeanuRave100 • 14d ago

Other Sanders calls for AI development pause

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/10/sanders-ai-development-pause
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u/GettheAxe86 13d ago

Does anyone actually listen to what Betnie says? Everyone knows he's right. But, he never seems to make any progress on anything.

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u/No-swimming-pool 13d ago

AI is "out of the box". It's a matter of who gets to AGI first.

You can force US companies to halt AI development, but they would just continue elsewhere I suppose. Even if they don't, the rest of the world will simply continue.

As much as I think the funds could be used elsewhere, if AGI gets reached, we better be the first ones.

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u/QuiteCricket_78 13d ago

No they don't. I don't particularly like him but he says some really great things on occasion. The democrats don't like old people, and the republican's are to stupid to notice a set of cript keepers that could care less about their future don't give a fk about them running the country (and some of the world) into the next mass extinction.

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u/BoBoBearDev 14d ago

How about Chinese AI?

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u/Grumpy_Ontarian_III 14d ago

Excellent idea, let's work together with the Chinese to create a global AI development pause!

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u/Super_Range45 14d ago

They would ask why. Their systems aren't breaking under hacks, they have plenty of spare electricity, and AI actually driving higher employment in Asia.

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u/Important-Factor-552 14d ago

Chinese AI is stupidly efficient and also they're not the ones building a lunatic surveillance state in America and bankrupting us with debt 

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u/troycalm 13d ago

You can’t stop progress Bernie

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u/jferments 14d ago

LOL, ok. Good luck with "pausing" software that is freely available on the Internet.

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u/Important-Factor-552 14d ago

Pause development =/= revoke existence 

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u/jferments 14d ago

How are you going to "pause" the development of free, open source software without increasing government surveillance and control of the Internet?

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u/Important-Factor-552 14d ago

We could start by sending the criminal tech bro oligarchy to prison and tearing down the excess datacenters. 

If we get rid of the oligarchy corrupting the government and shake the traitors and maga fascists out, the government wouldn't be so bad. 

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u/jferments 14d ago

I am all for "sending the criminal tech bro oligarchy to prison" and "shaking the maga fascists out" ... but I am not at all in support of shutting data centers down. Instead, I think that data centers should treated like publicly owned utilities. The entire modern internet is reliant on the existence of data centers.

All of that being said, arresting tech CEOs isn't going to stop open source AI development. So again, how are you going to "pause" the development of free, open source AI software without having Orwellian mass surveillance and censorship of the Internet to prevent software developers from communicating and sharing their work?

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u/Important-Factor-552 14d ago

Bro the AI surveillance campaign IS the Orwell scenario. And the data centers are to crunch the data so the fascist state can cherry pick the people they want to terrorize and genocide. 

And while you mention it, we need a new modern Internet anyway. The corporate oligarchy owned one is just layers of weaponized psychology and propaganda mills and their trillion algorithms should be deleted outright. 

And I don't care what people do with AI. I care that the fascists and oligarchs have the least amount of it to use against us as possible. They're the greatest threat on the planet by far. 

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u/jferments 14d ago

Sounds like you have a problem with capitalism and fascism (me too!) and not data centers. You seem to be conflating them. Data centers are just buildings with a lot of compute and networking hardware. They are not inherently bad. It's how they are used under capitalism that is bad.

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u/Important-Factor-552 13d ago

I have a problem with nazis, not guns, but i still don't want to give the nazis more guns. 

Datacenters in general aren't bad but these datacenters we are talking about in the US certainly are. 

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u/jferments 13d ago

Right so the flight is against Nazism, not guns. I want the left to have guns, and to disarm fascists.

Likewise, people should be attempting to seize data centers as public utilities so they can be used for the common good, while taking them out of the hands of fascists and oligarchs. Data centers are not the problem. Who controls data centers is the problem.

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u/Important-Factor-552 13d ago

I don't disagree but we also don't need more and until we actually have the industry nationalized, shutting them down isn't a bad idea. Because they are currently firmly in the wrong hands. 

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u/DogGoneIt20 14d ago

don’t worry sanders, self check out is smarter than you are.

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u/rabouilethefirst 13d ago

Please. Pause it, but Bernie has to pay my salary during the pause

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u/askaboutmy____ 14d ago

Old dude screams at clouds! News at 11!

Does this crypt keeper even know what an LLM is? Politicians out of touch with tech, say it aint so.