The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."
—Eliezer Yudkowsky
US Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would prohibit the development and deployment of superintelligent AI and pause advanced AI development until federal safety regulations are established.
In a Senate address on 23 July, Bernie Sanders compared artificial intelligence to the extinction-level comet in Don’t Look Up, warning that elected representatives are not paying attention and that the consequences for workers could be catastrophic.
Senator Bernie Sanders has urged Trump and Xi to ban superintelligence and negotiate AI safety, invoking Reagan-Gorbachev nuclear arms control as precedent.
AI researcher Professor David Krueger in this exclusive interview tells AI FrontPage editor Vaibhav Jha why he puts humanity’s extinction odds at greater than fifty percent — and why no one is listening.
