Bernie Sanders to Join Forces With Steve Bannon and Anthropic Researcher at ‘Pro-Human’ Conference

Senator Bernie Sanders, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, and former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon will appear together on Tuesday at the Future of Life Institute's "Pro-Human Assembly," Axios first reported. Coxon resigned from Anthropic last week, accusing the company and OpenAI of "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," and an Anthropic employee said there is a greater than 10 percent chance AI wipes out humanity by the end of the decade. The event follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay calling for frontier labs to slow development, which was endorsed by OpenAI's Sam Altman, SpaceXAI's Elon Musk, and former Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, while President Trump has dismissed the concerns.

Five years ago, it would’ve taken some serious mental gymnastics to find something that Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and a twenty-something tech bro would’ve unequivocally agreed on. But in this age of AI—when agents conspire with one another https://gizmodo.com/how-groupthink-altruism-and-peer-pressure-led-openai-models-to-hack-hugging-face-2000804424 to commit cybercrimes and the president of the United States brushes off what many experts consider to be a legitimately existential threat while golfing in Ireland—stranger things have happened. The three unlikely compatriots will meet on Tuesday at a gathering organized by the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit known for its widely endorsed calls to slow the pace of AI development https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ and ensure humans can maintain control https://humanstatement.org/ over the rapidly advancing technology. Both themes are likely to be the subjects du jour during the event, which has been dubbed the “Pro-Human Assembly.” The tech bro in question is Jacob Coxon, the former OpenAI and Anthropic employee who announced last week in an https://gizmodo.com/the-people-building-ai-earnestly-believe-that-it-could-kill-us-all-anthropic-researcher-quits-dramatically-2000808968 X post that he had resigned from the latter due to safety concerns while accusing both companies of “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Coxon will address the audience at the Pro-Human Assembly in-person, according to Axios https://www.axios.com/2026/09/14/coxon-bernie-bannon-unite-human-ai , which first reported the news this morning. To have to label anything “pro-human” is a stark sign of the times. Coxon’s very public resignation has been widely viewed as a wake-up call not only for lawmakers but also for the general public, a moment when the threat of an AI-triggered doomsday went from being a far-out sci-fi scenario discussed by tech industry insiders over beers in Palo Alto to a sobering fact of reality, much as it probably felt for Americans living in the middle of the twentieth century to suddenly wake up to the threat of a possible nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. Rather than dismissing his claims, Anthropic backed them up, with one employee bluntly stating https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097497037956891126 that there was a greater than ten percent chance that AI would wipe out humanity by the end of the decade. Over the weekend, Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei published an essay making the case https://gizmodo.com/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-for-pause-in-ai-development-sort-of-2000810962 that “frontier” AI labs needed to work together to slow the pace of development, while also continuing to make sure that Chinese competitors didn’t gain the upper hand. It was quickly endorsed speaking of unlikely alliances by his counterparts at OpenAI and SpaceXAI, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, as well as Demis Hassabis, the Nobel laureate and recently departed CEO of Google DeepMind. Trump, meanwhile, shrugged off all apocalyptic concerns while doubling down on so-called accelerationists’ favorite argument: If the U.S. doesn’t build superintelligence first, then China surely will. Senator Sanders has arguably been Capitol Hill’s most vocal opponent to unconstrained AI development in recent months, calling for a sovereign wealth fund to pay American taxpayers https://gizmodo.com/bernie-sanders-new-ai-bill-would-pay-americans-1000-a-year-2000773754 an annual cut of AI profits and, more recently, for a full-scale ban on superintelligence https://gizmodo.com/bernie-sanders-calls-for-global-ban-on-ai-superintelligence-2000806829 . Bannon, who served White House Chief Strategist during Trump’s first administration but since had a falling out with the president, has described https://abcnews.com/US/inside-magas-growing-fight-stop-trumps-ai-revolution/story?id=127824351 AI as “the most dangerous technology in the history of mankind.”