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Rumman Chowdhury, CEO and founder of the nonprofit Humane Intelligence, understands the concerns expressed by the DSA working group. Chowdhury, who formerly led the machine learning ethics, transparency, and accountability team at Twitter, thinks that all the attention that the AI safety discourse is generating will ultimately be beneficial to frontier labs. "[The companies] grab all the attention, time, energy, and money by spouting really extreme perspectives. But then they actually backtrack to where we sit, all while they discount all of our expertise," she says. "I think it's hard for normal people to think of how the mind of a venture capitalist works and these investors work. The scarier and more fantastic these CEOs make these companies seem, the more investors want in on it."

US House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected calls to pause artificial intelligence development, arguing that doing so could give China an advantage over the United States. "We cannot have a moratorium on the development of AI," Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. "Because then we will lose our edge to China, and that has serious national security implications for every American family." They don't need the government to tell them to slow it down. If they want to slow it down, they should," he said. His comments come as calls to rein in AI are growing across the political spectrum amid concerns about what the technology could mean for jobs, energy costs and public safety. Unlikely allies US Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, and Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump and prominent voice on the US right, both called for restrictions on AI on Tuesday, as they appeared at the same event in Washington. Sanders warned of what he called the ...

Ideological adversaries Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders spoke out against AI at the'Pro-Human Assembly' in Washington on Tuesday. Ideological adversaries Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders spoke out against AI at the'Pro-Human Assembly' in Washington on Tuesday. The progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) but offered competing visions for what they termed a "cold war" with China. Speaking at the "Pro-Human Assembly" in Washington on Tuesday, the ideological adversaries were united in warning of the potential dangers of AI and demanding stringent guardrails against Silicon Valley's "oligarchs". But the populist pair offered very different perspectives on how to resolve the AI race with China, which Donald Trump and other Republicans have cited to justify moving full speed ahead with the technology.

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Senator Bernie Sanders speaks to a crowd at the Texas Democratic convention at the Hilliard Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, on 27 June 2026. Senator Bernie Sanders speaks to a crowd at the Texas Democratic convention at the Hilliard Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, on 27 June 2026. Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to'pause AI development' in interest of humanity Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to'stop building machines that humans cannot control' Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the US Senate will implement regulation if the companies continue deploying AI at their current pace. In a new letter addressed to the CEOs of three of the country's leading AI companies, Sanders said the capabilities of these AI models have reached a critical risk threshold and that the companies are losing control over the technology. Altman, Mr. Amodei and Mr. Zuckerberg: In the interest of humanity, stand by your words.