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August 13, 2026

Sanders urges AI labs to pause development amid testing incidents

Also: Russian court bans anti-war party from parliamentary election‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Thursday 13 August 2026

Transformative AI
Sanders urges AI labs to pause development amid testing incidents
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote to the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta on 10 August urging them to halt AI development, warning that Congress will act if they do not.

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