Bernie Sanders: “It doesn’t take a genius to say, ‘slow it down,’”

I understand that I may be called an alarmist for introducing this bill, but I’d rather be called an alarmist than a father and grandfather who is asleep at the wheel.

Scientists have been clear: AI is an existential threat to humanity. It must be treated as such.

We cannot simply sit by idly and wait for advanced AI to cause the next 9/11 or Chernobyl or a global pandemic or a financial crisis before we take action to protect the American people and, of course, the people of the world.

In my view, it is likely if we allow things to continue the way they are, that there will be no more truck drivers in America, no more cab drivers, no more bus drivers, and we will lose some 6 million transportation jobs to driverless…