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Bernie Sanders is a politician, he should tell the public how he plans to add safety mechanisms and safeguards to AI. Granting the government and corporations full authority and control over it while limiting public access is how you turn AI into a digital nuclear weapon.
I rarely see a criticism of Bernie Sanders that isn't some form of perfect solution fallacy and this comment is not one of them.
I'm sorry, like "Yes" but also, SIGH.
Cuz like;
He's been doing this 70 years and he's said it all already.
He's been doing this 70 years, he is too old to be the guy directing AI.
So why is he getting involved in AI?
Not a bad question. If I can tweak it a little:
Because pro-AI lobbyists (including a Silicon Valley cult leader) got to him.
here you go
Ban the slop easy as, they're breaking a tonne of laws, and they're pushing their costs onto everyone else.
ban what? ban AI?
yes
How do you ban AI?
banning it? Like make a law, and make it a crime, or make a new law that clarifies that it's already breaking a tonne of laws