Bernie Sanders: Ban Superintelligence
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/opinion/bernie-sanders-case-ai-policy.html
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Bernie Sanders: Ban Superintelligence
[from NYT -
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/opinion/bernie-sanders-case-ai-policy.html]Sept. 21, 2026
Will A.I. wipe out humanity in 10 years, 20 years — or never? I don’t know. You don’t know. But I don’t want to wait to find out.
Call me a raging conservative, but I don’t want to see a dangerous technology continue to evolve rapidly when the owners of that technology acknowledge they can’t control it and they don’t know where it’s going.
For the sake of all humanity, the United States and China must reach an agreement to stop dangerous A.I. development.
link to PDF file with his article - https://drive.proton.me/urls/N3K8T5K5Z8#0bPsOZ6g54vT
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Bernie Sanders has apparently lost the plot completely. Whoever is advising him must be an industry plant. This criti-hype is really counterproductive to reigning in these companies.
from my outside perspective he just seems like a grifter for a while now.
Or he’s actually keeping up with the news.
I refuse to talk to anyone who calls it “superintelligence”
I thank the fucking morons for identifying themselves and saving me the strife.
Can I interest you in…
Ultraintelligence
No, how about
Extremeintelligence
No, how about
Megaintelligence
No, how about
Terrificintelligence
No, how about
Colossalintelligence
Would you like it here or there?
Would you like on a plain or a valley?
Would you like it next to your house?
You do not like it you say. So you say. Try it! Try it! And you may!
Best I can do is “super-mega-ultra intelligence” named Zordon
Maybe start by doing something about all the crimes the AI companies admitted to allowing after they plugged their text generators into a computer terminal.
They could hook a nuclear missile silo computer up to a hamster wheel, and leave a hamster nearby. That would also have a pretty high chance of ending the world.
Don’t worry, no superintelligence exists in america…
And why change the name AI, NYT?
Because of Trump’s dumbfuck proclamation, I’m sure
Shame upon anyone that heeds the proclamations of an idiot.
People in the know are simply referring to them as large language models.
Bernie is playing right into the AI companies’ hands. Everyone knows (including the AI vendors) “superintelligence” isn’t coming with LLM technology. They’ve got Bernie fighting against imaginary monsters, while the companies devastate the environment and ruin the economy today.
While I completely agree with you, I think we should give him a break on this one. The man’s 85 after all.
And before that, don’t adopt the MAGA branding. It’s AI.
Its LLMs.
LLMs are large language models, so you’re excluding image and video models with this term
The change that made LLMs more effective than older approaches was the transformer model, and extended to transducers/encoders+transformers for general, non language based models. But I doubt anyone is going to call current ‘AI’ tech transformer models, maybe if it’s shortened to TMs.
There was ai used as the concept for machines that can think and reason as well as humans. I think around when marketers got people to accept splitting ai and AGI for general Intel and ai was left with whatever was left I guess reduced the scope of the meaning that continued to today’s common use of ai for non thinking, non rational models and a bit of a vacuum for the original usage.
As a person that only reads headlines and is a potential member to Mentos, I am highly offended that someone wants to get rid of super intelligent people like myself!
Republicans need not to worry.
We need more intelligence. Moar, not less intelligence.