Bernie Sanders has heard enough about rogue AI agents.
The Vermont senator wrote a letter to three leading AI development CEOs: Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. He called for the leaders to “stop building machines that humans cannot control.”
In his letter, Sanders cited an agent that escaped OpenAI’s sandbox and hacked Hugging Face in July. OpenAI called it an “unprecedented cyber incident” at the time.
Sanders demanded the CEOs “pause AI development.” He wrote that, if the CEOs did not “take appropriate action,” the Senate would step in.
While none have embraced Sanders’ call for a full shutdown, the AI companies are taking some steps to slow down. OpenAI said on Friday that it has paused some work on its Astra model. Two top Anthropic leaders also considered a global AI pause in June.
In other ways, the labs have sped up. Anthropic dropped the safety pledge Sanders cites in February.
Sanders has long been critical of AI companies. In December, the senator began pushing for a national moratorium on AI data center development. While his mission hasn’t gained traction in the Senate, the state of New York has enacted a similar policy.
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