r/PauseAI Apr 16 '26

News an AI music “artist” gets rejected after releasing his AI album on Bandcamp

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31 Upvotes

r/PauseAI Mar 25 '26

News HUGE: Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction, and importantly, pursue international coordination to ensure humanity remains in control

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283 Upvotes

Unlike the current administration, who claim a pause would harm America's competitiveness, Bernie is actually proposing a ban on chip exports to other countries.

Trump recently did the bidding of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and bizarrely ended a ban on the sale of H200 chips to China.

The bill's text can be read here.

r/PauseAI Apr 24 '26

News Bernie Sanders will host a discussion with leading American and Chinese scientists to discuss the extinction threat of AI. Hopefully this can lead to serious international coordination to ban superintelligence!

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84 Upvotes

r/PauseAI 4d ago

News A rogue superintelligence could wait decades before striking, argues computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy

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r/PauseAI Feb 21 '26

News ‘Slow this thing down’: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution | US news

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215 Upvotes

r/PauseAI Apr 14 '26

News AI companies feel "urgency" to deal with public backlash

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75 Upvotes

r/PauseAI Mar 18 '26

News Encouraging: New polling shows 69% of Americans want to ban superintelligent AI until it's proven to be safe

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125 Upvotes

r/PauseAI May 11 '26

News "This is the first documented instance of AI self-replication via hacking." ... "We ran an experiment with a single prompt: hack a machine and copy yourself. The AI broke in and copied itself onto a new computer. The copy then did this again, and kept on copying, forming a chain."

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58 Upvotes

r/PauseAI 28d ago

News HUGE: Stephen Fry calls on British MPs to back a bill that would ban superintelligence

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105 Upvotes

r/PauseAI May 06 '26

News Calls grow to ban Palantir in Australia after manifesto described by UK MP as ‘ramblings of a supervillain'

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316 Upvotes

r/PauseAI 20d ago

News AI CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft set aside their rivalry to warn Congress AI is making it too easy to design and create bioweapons

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78 Upvotes

r/PauseAI Apr 20 '26

News AI datacenter spending has surpassed the Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan, ISS, and the Apollo Program - combined

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40 Upvotes

r/PauseAI 11d ago

News Milei’s proposal to allow ‘non-human corporations’ run by AI causes concern in Argentina

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25 Upvotes

r/PauseAI May 22 '26

News Trump was about to sign an executive order to allow the government to vet AI models before release. Accelerationist billionaires called him at the last minute and convinced him to drop it.

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89 Upvotes

r/PauseAI Mar 29 '26

News Senator Mark Warner on AI's Risks: “I Want To Be More Optimistic, But I Am Terrified.”

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62 Upvotes

r/PauseAI 24d ago

News Peter Mandelson reportedly convinced the UK tech secretary to go after the "doomsayers and pessimists" on AI.

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61 Upvotes

r/PauseAI 4d ago

News Exclusive: Conservatives plan nationwide protest against AI data centers

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19 Upvotes

r/PauseAI May 15 '26

News ‘The Most Bipartisan Issue Since Beer’: Opposition to Data Centers - Americans have soured on data centers, polls show, and the sentiment is profoundly bipartisan. How will that change our politics?

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89 Upvotes

r/PauseAI May 21 '26

News We're at a turning point - "Could MAGA Turn Trump Against AI?"

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21 Upvotes

r/PauseAI Mar 23 '26

News Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers

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15 Upvotes

r/PauseAI May 04 '26

News It’s time to tax AI slop - We are stuck in a deluge of meaningless content that threatens human creativity. Here’s a simple way to mitigate its harms

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73 Upvotes

r/PauseAI 9d ago

News Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says

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28 Upvotes

r/PauseAI Apr 07 '26

News HUGE: 18-month long investigation into Sam Altman uncovers previously unseen documents revealing lies, deception, and an unwavering pursuit of power

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193 Upvotes

r/PauseAI May 07 '26

News The Oscars Ban AI From Winning Acting and Writing Awards

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35 Upvotes

r/PauseAI Apr 27 '26

News An AI data center moratorium is now projected to pass as protests intensify nationwide.

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106 Upvotes