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Bernie Sanders tells OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development or face Senate action (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's not a threat, it's a plea.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And that's why they're weak.

[–] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, they do not have any kind of majority at the moment. So no, they cannot do much without any republican spine.

After the midterms, let's hope, they will have the majority everywhere except the White House. Which, after that, won't take long.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Then why make threats they can't back up? It just makes them look worse. Shit like this is not helping them get elected.

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Because that's Bernie in a nutshell. It help rile up the base, you think things are being done so you keep voting the same way, but nothing changes.

[–] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perhaps to show the voters: see we want to change things, but you will have to get us in to make that happen?

It's the repub's that are stopping all this?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Demonstrating it that way doesn't work. If they're proposing action they know will be blocked it just makes their words look hollow.

[–] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I have to agree. I always try to find the most positive angle, hoping to the Gods that is was a positive thing...

But no, they are incompetent aren't they.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

The corpos like it more that way. After a little lobbying, a popular politician tells the world that their product is actually Great and Mighty, the media repeats it uncritically, and the public believes it.

Doesn't matter if the product isn't Great and Mighty, the stock goes up.