US senator Bernie Sanders amplified his recent criticism of artificial intelligence on Sunday, explicitly linking the financial ambition of “the richest people in the world” to economic insecurity for millions of Americans – and calling for a potential moratorium on new datacenters.
Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with the Democratic party, said on CNN’s State of the Union that he was “fearful of a lot” when it came to AI. And the senator called it “the most consequential technology in the history of humanity” that will “transform” the US and the world in ways that had not been fully discussed.
“If there are no jobs and humans won’t be needed for most things, how do people get an income to feed their families, to get healthcare or to pay the rent?” Sanders said. “There’s not been one serious word of discussion in the Congress about that reality.”
Nuclear weapons be damned.
I rather be killed by nuclear hell fire than die from thirst and starvation from all of the data centers overheating the earth because Fuckerburg needed more AI slop on Instagram
Wow, you ever stop to think about how fucking stupid your anti-AI agenda can make you?
There are enough nuclear weapons to kill every human a few times over but hey, I guess that means it’s not the most consequential technology yet known.
Instead, you have to make up some bullshit doomsday scenario to justify such a stupid fucking statement.
Or tools, the boat, agriculture and animal husbandry, the wheel, metallurgy, writing…
Yeah just a few things more consequential.
Bernie riding a populist wave? Shocker.