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Senator Bernie Sanders is under fire after teaming up with two Chinese nationals with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party at an event warning about the dangers of AI.
His co-panelists included a professor at the CCP-funded Tsinghua University, which has been linked to the Beijing cyber espionage campaigns against the United States, along with the dean of the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance.
The Vermont senator called for international cooperation on an AI moratorium, warning that AI could potentially, quote, turn against the human race with cataclysmic consequences.
Sanders' collaboration with the two Chinese leaders is facing pushback from American tech leaders, with tech investor Marc Andreessen calling Chinese involvement, quote, concerning, while Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale accused Beijing of leveraging the American left to kneecap U.S.
AI dominance.
This comes as President Trump pushes in the opposite direction, having launched the American AI Action Plan last July to accelerate AI development and remove regulatory hurdles.
No more questions.
With that, I go to Senator Murray.
You're not the congresswoman from Oregon anymore, right?
You're trying to become Secretary of Labor.
Let me back up.
and say a word about what the PRO Act is.
I'm not sure that most Americans know what it is.
The reality is that in America today, labor unions have the support of some 70% of the American people.
You know why?
Because people understand that the big corporations and their bosses have all the power.
People understand that CEOs make 300 times more than their workers.
And people say, you know what?
The only way we're going to get decent wages and benefits is when we organize.