Bernie Sanders Tries To ‘Help’ Fix AI By Complaining With Steve Bannon, ‘Banning Superintelligence’

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.

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 …