AI Pause Will Not Make Technology Safer

Bernie Sanders spent this week doing something he has done before, only with sharper teeth. In a letter first published by Axios, he wrote to OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, quoting their own past warnings back at them, then told them to stop. “Pause AI development,” he wrote. “It is not too late to avoid disaster.” He also wants Congress to consider a 50 percent government stake in AI companies and a one-time 50 percent tax on their stock, building on the AI Data Center Moratorium Act he introduced with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in March.