{"slug": "bernie-sanders-tries-to-help-fix-ai-by-complaining-with-steve-bannon-banning", "title": "Bernie Sanders Tries To ‘Help’ Fix AI By Complaining With Steve Bannon, ‘Banning Superintelligence’", "summary": "Senator Bernie Sanders discussed banning superintelligence and AI regulation with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to a report on the pair's complaints about the technology. The discussion centered on Sanders' push for federal guardrails on AI development, a topic the report frames as unlikely to yield meaningful policy protecting innovation, national security, consumer privacy, public safety, and labor.", "body_md": "In an ideal world it’s certainly possible that the U.S. federal government could implement meaningful guardrails for AI development that protect innovation, national security, consumer privacy, public safety, and labor/creatives, while preventing market monopolization by the sector’s biggest players. But we don’t live in that ideal world. We live in a country where an historically […]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-tries-to-help-fix-ai-by-complaining-with-steve-bannon-banning", "canonical_source": "https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/16/bernie-sanders-tries-to-help-fix-ai-by-complaining-with-steve-bannon-banning-superintelligence/", "published_at": "2026-09-16 12:32:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 12:41:15.200478+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Bernie Sanders", "Steve Bannon", "U.S. federal government"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-tries-to-help-fix-ai-by-complaining-with-steve-bannon-banning", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-tries-to-help-fix-ai-by-complaining-with-steve-bannon-banning.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-tries-to-help-fix-ai-by-complaining-with-steve-bannon-banning.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-tries-to-help-fix-ai-by-complaining-with-steve-bannon-banning.jsonld"}}