Sanders urges AI labs to pause development amid testing incidents
X-Risk Daily
Thursday 13 August 2026
Transformative AI
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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