{"slug": "bernie-sanders-and-steve-bannon-call-for-curbs-on-ai-at-pro-human-summit", "title": "Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on AI at ‘pro-human’ summit", "summary": "Senator Bernie Sanders and strategist Steve Bannon both called for restrictions on artificial intelligence at the \"Pro-Human Assembly\" in Washington on Tuesday, uniting across ideological lines to demand guardrails against Silicon Valley \"oligarchs\" while offering competing visions of a \"cold war\" with China. The event, covered by The Guardian, featured the progressive senator and the rightwing strategist warning of AI's potential dangers.", "body_md": "# Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on AI at ‘pro-human’ summit\n\nBy David Smith in WashingtonSource: \n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)\nLeftwing senator and far-right strategist rail against tech oligarchs but offer competing visions on Chinese ‘cold war’\n\nThe progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on [artificial intelligence](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/artificial-intelligence) (AI) but offered competing visions for what they termed a “cold war” with China.\n\nSpeaking 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](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/guardrails) against Silicon Valley’s “oligarchs”.\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/15/bernie-sanders-steve-bannon-ai-summit)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-and-steve-bannon-call-for-curbs-on-ai-at-pro-human-summit", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/bernie-sanders-and-steve-bannon-call-for-curbs-on-ai-at-pro-rb17", "published_at": "2026-09-15 19:51:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-15 21:36:16.170862+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Bernie Sanders", "Steve Bannon", "Pro-Human Assembly", "The Guardian", "China", "Silicon Valley"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-and-steve-bannon-call-for-curbs-on-ai-at-pro-human-summit", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-and-steve-bannon-call-for-curbs-on-ai-at-pro-human-summit.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-and-steve-bannon-call-for-curbs-on-ai-at-pro-human-summit.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-and-steve-bannon-call-for-curbs-on-ai-at-pro-human-summit.jsonld"}}