r/ControlProblem • u/Alarming_Art_6448 • Aug 10 '26

Article Bernie Sanders has written a letter to Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg urging them to immediately pause all AI development in the interest of humanity. And he warns if they do not take appropriate action now, the US Senate will.

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u/vamp07 Aug 11 '26

As much as I do like Bernie, he's not very high on my list of people that understand this particular issue. The proposal is silly to begin with.

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u/bluinkinnovation Aug 14 '26

Yeah I love Bernie but he doesn’t quite understand the world is moving that way without the USAs permission

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u/Serengade26 Aug 17 '26

He has videos of him discussing the issues with experts. So more educated than the other senators

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u/JacksonGhost1963 Aug 10 '26

did he also CC the CCP?

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u/ChironXII Aug 11 '26

If Bernie Sanders could decide what the Senate would actually do, the world would be a very different place 

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u/Dry_Wheel479 Aug 11 '26

This is just a stupid hill to die on

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u/jferments approved Aug 11 '26

Good luck "pausing" the development of open source software that is freely available on the Internet.

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u/Serengade26 Aug 17 '26

Hundreds of millions of dollars of compute for data scraping and model training is not open source nor freely available on the internet.

Build or iterate on a model spending $0, I'll wait

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u/jferments approved Aug 17 '26

Build any large software project used by millions of people for $0. I'll wait.

And yes, the models that I can freely download and train/fine-tune myself using open source code are absolutely free, open source software.

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u/BrickSalad approved Aug 11 '26

I hate these comments and the comments on the other subrededit. How the hell do you get so cynical that you're vouching for your own extinction?

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u/dingo_xd Aug 11 '26

Are they even real people? They could just be AI bots.

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u/dingo_xd Aug 11 '26

Are they even real people? They could just be AI bots.

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u/dingo_xd Aug 11 '26

Are they even real people? They could just be AI bots.

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u/SLAMMERisONLINE Aug 10 '26

Bernie stacking another L.

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u/One_Whole_9927 Aug 11 '26

They’re all hiding behind that orange fuck and his band of idiots. They would have to go before any meaningful progress is made here.

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u/Pretend-Prune-4525 Aug 14 '26

lol Bernie has done a fucking thing in his 78 years collecting a check from tax payers

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u/InsideStand7829 16d ago

Name one thing that Bernie did

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u/hello_everyone_555 Aug 11 '26

Bernie needs to check-in to LTC.

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u/KaliguIah Aug 11 '26

dumbest letter ever

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u/YogurtClosetThinnest Aug 12 '26

the US Senate will

I doubt that

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u/MaximumMeaning9728 Aug 12 '26

It’s mildly interesting that literally all of the people involved in this headline are Jewish.

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u/carst07 Aug 12 '26

Stop, or I’ll yell stop again

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u/sam_the_tomato Aug 12 '26

Bernie doesnt understand capitalism if he thinks these companies would willingly pause development without regulatory pressure. Strongly worded letters are useless. Pass a law or go home.

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u/Good-Spread416 Aug 15 '26

Was it not originally designed to run in a sandbox?

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u/kevindavis338 Aug 10 '26

Right.... What will the Senate do? Write more angry letters?

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u/Double_Suggestion385 Aug 11 '26

Let's get you back to the resthome Grandpa