# Sen. Bernie Sanders just gave top AI CEOs a choice: voluntarily pause AI development now, or Congress will intervene.

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> Published: 2026-08-10 19:47:50+00:00

# Sen. Bernie Sanders just gave top AI CEOs a choice: voluntarily pause AI development now, or Congress will intervene. Sanders sent letters to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking the companies to "stop building machines that humans cannot control."

Sen. Bernie Sanders just gave top AI CEOs a choice: voluntarily pause AI development now, or Congress will intervene.Sanders sent letters to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking the companies to "stop building machines that humans cannot control."