The progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) but offered competing visions for what they termed a “cold war” with China.
Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, noted that Trump is due to host the Chinese president Xi Jinping in Washington next week.
Sanders drew a comparison with US president Ronald Reagan and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev seeking to avoid nuclear conflict at the height of the cold war, eventually signing a treaty that eliminated an entire class of missiles.
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Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, noted that Trump is due to host the Chinese president Xi Jinping in Washington next week.
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Leftwing senator and far-right strategist rail against tech oligarchs but offer competing visions on Chinese ‘cold war’.
The progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) but offered competing visions for what they termed a “cold war” with China.
Speaking at the “Pro-Human Assembly” in Washington on Tuesday, the ideological adversaries were united in warning of the potential dangers of AI and demanding stringent guardrails against Silicon Valley’s “oligarchs”.
Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, noted that Trump is due to host the Chinese president Xi Jinping in Washington next week. Sanders called for international diplomacy and a global agreement, including with Beijing, to ban the development of super-intelligent machines.
Sanders drew a comparison with US president Ronald Reagan and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev seeking to avoid nuclear conflict at the height of the cold war, eventually signing a treaty that eliminated an entire class of missiles.
Bannon also used the cold war analogy but did not arrive at the same conclusion.
The host of the War Room podcast and former White House chief strategist under Trump called for an aggressive economic and technological “quarantine” of China, demanding the immediate expulsion of Chinese nationals from US research laboratories, an end to the training of Chinese engineers and technologists and the total severance of capital flows.
“The American people are not going to be supplicants to these tech oligarchs,” Bannon said, praising grassroots campaigns that before defeated federal pre-emption bills aimed at blocking state-level AI regulations.
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The Guardian Australia (Technology)Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on AI at ‘pro-human’ summitplain
The West AustralianSteve Bannon, Bernie Sanders unite over AI oversightplain
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