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Bernie Sanders has unfortunately been duped into thinking AI is what the evangelists (tech CEOs and doom evangelists, including the cult leader Eli Yudkowsky) have told him about it.
Here (Twitter) is a video from Bernie's office that starts with a cult leader telling Bernie that AI will kill humanity. It is presented uncritically.
Oh no
Also, LLMs are not AI (in the sense that most people would deem meaningful): there's no reasoning involved, just a convincing illusion of it, served by extensive knowledge compaction and next token prediction. That is not to say that LLMs are useless, or that the sort of all-powerful AI people fantasize about cannot exist (I really don't know, no people do). That is to say that it's not for now, and that before it happens, we will see another long AI winter before the emergence of something fundamentally more convincing than LLMs.
LLMs are highly impressive text generators, amazing facsimiles of human writing and wholly unsuited to anything involving semantic understanding and critical thought. You cannot generate facts, and it doesn't understand how the patterns it analyses and reproduces relate to actual concepts or things, but they're extremely "knowledgeable" about those patterns.
They're a technological marvel, relentlessly abused by grifters posing as prophets to scam the gullible.
Unfortunately, the gullible are executives and representatives.