{"slug": "sanders-and-bannon-call-for-ai-limits-as-public-unease-grows", "title": "Sanders and Bannon call for AI limits, as public unease grows", "summary": "US Senator Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon, a close ally of President Donald Trump, both called on Tuesday for restrictions on AI systems at a Washington gathering, with Sanders urging Trump to negotiate a treaty with Chinese leader Xi to pause AI development when they meet next week. Sanders warned that AI \"has the potential to eliminate tens of millions of jobs, wiping out entire professions and making it harder for our young people to enter the workforce,\" and said the industry needs binding safety rules. The joint appeal from two political adversaries reflects growing public unease about AI risks beyond Washington and Silicon Valley.", "body_md": "# Sanders and Bannon call for AI limits, as public unease grows\n\nSanders called on Trump to negotiate a treaty with Chinese leader Xi to pause AI development when they meet next week\n\nProgressive US Senator Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, called on Tuesday for restrictions on AI systems, uniting two political adversaries around concerns that the technology will harm humans.\n\nThe two appeared at the same Washington gathering and warned of the potentially catastrophic consequences AI poses to humanity, as concern about its risks spreads beyond Washington and Silicon Valley.\n\nSpeaking first, Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, warned about the “growing threat” of AI and said the industry needed to be regulated with binding safety rules.\n\n“AI has the potential to eliminate tens of millions of jobs, wiping out entire professions and making it harder for our young people to enter the workforce”.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sanders-and-bannon-call-for-ai-limits-as-public-unease-grows", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3367642/sanders-and-bannon-call-ai-limits-public-unease-grows?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-09-15 19:00:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-15 19:18:59.871632+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Bernie Sanders", "Steve Bannon", "Donald Trump", "Xi Jinping", "United States"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sanders-and-bannon-call-for-ai-limits-as-public-unease-grows", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sanders-and-bannon-call-for-ai-limits-as-public-unease-grows.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sanders-and-bannon-call-for-ai-limits-as-public-unease-grows.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sanders-and-bannon-call-for-ai-limits-as-public-unease-grows.jsonld"}}