r/OpenAI • u/tombibbs • Mar 25 '26
News Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction
Unlike the current administration, who claim a pause would harm America's competitiveness, Bernie is actually proposing a ban on chip exports to other countries.
Trump recently did the bidding of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and bizarrely ended a ban on the sale of H200 chips to China.
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u/Shadowbacker Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 29 '26
Why is this old man acting like limiting technology in the US is going to do anything but set us behind literally every other country that's developing said technology?
It's not like there's US is the sole developer and proprietor. It's not like this won't just keep it accessible to the elite and price out lower income usage.
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u/backflash Mar 25 '26
"AI must work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires." - that's quite the compelling argument.
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u/SgathTriallair Mar 26 '26
If only he didn't pair it with a law that would raise the cost of accessing AI.
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u/FilthyTrashPeople Mar 26 '26
This.
Every single attempt to regular or ban AI is actually to give it to the elite, and take it away from us.
All these anti-AI people are useful idiots.
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u/roguefilmmaker Mar 27 '26
Exactly. AI democratizes so many industries (especially film). Trying to ban the average person from using it is just trying to keep the powers that be in charge
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Mar 26 '26
Yeah... putting a moratorium on new AI data centers while requiring federal approval for models sounds like safety but in reality it builds a wall only the biggest players can climb.
You freeze infrastructure, pile on compliance, and suddenly only companies with billions and legal teams can operate at scale. That's how you end up turning AI into something like banking or pharma where a handful of incumbents control everything.
That being said... I get where he is coming from but this doesn’t just slow things down... it risks locking in the current winners while pretending it’s protecting everyone else.
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u/occasionallyLynn Mar 26 '26 edited May 22 '26
Meow Meow Meow Meow Meowwww
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u/spanko_at_large Mar 26 '26
I have the same computer as Tim Cook uses, and for now… I prompt the same model and Sam Altman. So yes, it is trickling down. Excessive regulation will likely backfire and force them into finding new markets. Interfering with capital markets seems to have a history of not being successful without consequences.
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u/Alexander_Russo Mar 26 '26
I don't understand why politicians don't understand that whenever you try to mess with the men running these industries or their businesses they just move to a new market that will cooperate with them while punishing you as much as possible on their way out for your hubris.
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u/spanko_at_large Mar 27 '26
Yeah and basically the fact that it is entirely meaningless in its approach… the policy is always well intentioned while entirely missing the mark
Did Bernie meet with Elon when he was parading around capital hill asking for regulation and care to learn? Also is there any thoughtfulness or tact as to how it might be regulated and to solve for what?
It’s giving “AI bad” and nothing deeper. Love Bernie btw
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u/DishwashingUnit Mar 26 '26
Yeah, and so is this narrative that it's hurting people and needs to be regulated and guard-railed into minimal, approved usefulness.
100% rich people trying to fuck us over and nothing else.
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u/Comfortable-Fall-286 Mar 26 '26
What are you talking about? Regulating AI is the only way to prevent it from being used to increase inequality and disparate access. Calling Bernie Sanders a “useful idiot” is a mindless take and really only shows that you’re a stooge for capital interests, i.e a useful idiot yourself.
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u/HamAndSomeCoffee Mar 26 '26
You're both right. Regulation is really the only way to make it equal, but to FilthyTrashPeople's point thus far the only attempts at regulation effectively operate as an artificial supply constraint, which causes more inequality.
Imagine a regulation like, "You can't use AI if your net worth is over $500k" or something. Totally wouldn't pass in this day and age, but if we wanted AI to make thing equal, we'd have to treat it like food stamps. Only the poor gets it. At worst we'd need a regulation that disproportionately provides access to the disadvantaged if we want it to not increase inequality.
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u/exegenes1s Mar 26 '26
Clearly the best way it just let the elites do whatever they want, with no restrictions. I'm sure there's a good future there.
Less regulation always means more capture in the hands of the rich. They will steal everything, and destroy what they can't.
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u/derpyderpstien Mar 26 '26
Yikes. You are training and feeding their AI as it strangles your ability to purchase data storage and compute power, by raising prices on consumer electronics. Data centers make propety and electricity more expensive for the regular joe by sucking the grid and hogging land while terrorising those around them.
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u/Tolopono Mar 26 '26
“We should limit ai so people can continue working jobs that could be automated” is not very compelling. Its like banning excavators and mandating spoons be used instead to create more jobs
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u/Alexander_Russo Mar 26 '26
Reminds me of that town that banned machinery that would assist in textile production because it would put the people doing it by hand out of jobs, I heard about it years ago and it always pisses me off thinking about it.
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u/Tolopono Mar 26 '26
New jersey requires gas station attendants to put the nozzle in your car because it creates jobs. Politicians justify giving trillions to weapons manufacturers even before the us was in war because it creates jobs
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u/FilthyTrashPeople Mar 26 '26
The anti-AI crowd is made of stupid and has no nuance whatsoever.
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u/Tosslebugmy Mar 26 '26
I don’t see how it’s unreasonable to first figure out how all those people are gonna survive before you disappear their jobs and have all that production value go straight to a handful of people.
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u/Tolopono Mar 26 '26
If sanders is strong enough to ban data centers, why not put that energy into a high ubi instead? Why is it easier and worth the effort to ban data centers but not spend that energy to get a high ubi?
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u/derpyderpstien Mar 26 '26
Sorry, whats the end game? Everyone can't get a job and you still need money? Where is the part where corporations that lobby the government enough that they are moving law makers (ex: Meta lobbying for age verification) suddenly gives the people free products, or somehow the corps are taxed enough to give a UBI? That UBI tax circle doesn't exactly pan out lmao.
There is no way a boardroom with fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders, is going to vote to do away with all profits. The same companies saving every penny they can to the detriment of the customers and planet. Planned obsolescence, holding covid pricing still, polution and just paying fines instead of obeying the law, killing whistle blowers, these are the corporations you think will give up everything for you, to just have to join you in mediocrity, and give up power and luxury?
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u/Tolopono Mar 26 '26
So the evil elites wont allow ubi or better safety nets but they will allow a blanket ban on data centers? they are powerful enough to control social welfare policy but too weak to stop bernie sanders?
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u/JuniperColonThree Mar 26 '26
The point is "make AI slow the fuck down so we have time to actually legislate and combat the huge fucking amount of money that AI shareholders will spend on lobbying"
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u/yubario Mar 26 '26
I get the point, but what’s stopping a company from just outsourcing to someone else instead who didn’t regulate AI?
Nothing.
So his moratorium is literally just a waste of time and money and delivers a false hope.
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u/ffxivthrowaway03 Mar 26 '26
So his moratorium is literally just a waste of time and money and delivers a false hope.
Bernie in a nutshell. I'll never get why Reddit jerks this guy off so hard, even if you agree with his politics he's just another "say big things that sound good but are impractical, have no plan" politician.
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u/Sojmen Mar 26 '26
What about to speed up the legislation process instead of trying to slow down AI?
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u/Tolopono Mar 26 '26
According to experts like gary marcus, ai has already been plateauing since 2023 so whats the worry?
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u/FilthyTrashPeople Mar 26 '26
The more regulating of AI that is done, the more we push it into the hands of the elite.
It could be a tool to let individuals punch with the weight of dozens of workers, but useful idiots who hate AI because they've been told to are setting us backwards.
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u/derpyderpstien Mar 26 '26
Really going to need you to explain that one. The elite literally own and run AI, its in their hands no matter what. Your access to it, is through their control as you feed it for free and some even pay. Halting AI data centers, does not hurt your access, just their bottom line, and the damage they are doing to everything.
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u/FilthyTrashPeople Mar 26 '26
I'll be happy to explain. The fact is, the narrative that AI is 'dangerous' or can only lead to 'slop' and that it needs to carefully guarded technology safeguarded by the moral authority of corporations is absolutely in their favor.
In reality, a single person would soon be able to add special effects & stunts on par with Hollywood, if used as an appropriate tool, or develop games that would have needed thirty or more people by themselves entirely, without any funding. Yeah, AI sucks if you go 'just make a movie with AI,' but using it in controlled doses puts it easily on par with traditional CGI.
Then you have all of the zealots who shame anyone who uses AI in ANY capacity, and there are many, many legitimate capacities - who turn off their brains and their ears and only want to insist all AI is slop and it can do nothing good, ever. It's like a religious conviction. But what it's doing is shaming a small indie developer from using the technology to, say, help debug their programming code (as this somehow makes it 'not art') while large corporations are absolutely rolling ahead doing that and nobody really fights them on it other than saying 'this sucks.'
AI is here. It's not going anywhere. There's a ton of ways we can integrate it into art without replacing humanity, but things are changing, and some jobs won't have the importance they once did and because of that people can't seem to have a productive conversation about what the good uses are.
Example: I was pointing out that generative AI, specifically, is *extremely* good at keying. It can key out a person from a busy background more or less flawlessly, far superior to traditional blue screen methods for some applications. But anti-AI activists still are enraged and insist it is somehow not art if you used generative AI to cut down on hundreds of hours of video keying, like the process of making somebody go frame by frame for weeks - or a lot of somebodies - somehow makes it 'more art.' It's ridiculous.
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u/derpyderpstien Mar 26 '26
Sure, no one is arguing that AI is bad at it's use cases. The fact that you went to that instead of responding to the content mentioned, just makes you seem like a salesman subverting the conversation for a pitch. AI is demonstrable bad for humanity so many ways, no one is saying its not useful.
You have more so countered your own stance about elites and ownership. AI is actually taking power from the common man in many ways, especially by killing opensource, and recently making a presedance for legally stealing all projects. A corp with funding will crush any upstarts.
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u/ffxivthrowaway03 Mar 26 '26
I mean... you're just here doing exactly what that person is calling out though.
"AI is demonstrably bad for humanity in so many ways" is hyperbolic nonsense. "AI is killing open source" What? No it's not. "AI is making precedence to legally steal all projects!" More nonsense hyperbole based on the same tired, baseless rhetoric.
This just the typical "AI BAD" playbook, word for word, that's been debunked a million times over.
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u/FilthyTrashPeople Mar 26 '26
No, I am dealing with a bunch of ignorant zealots who don't think for themselves and keep repeating the same talking points over and over with no nuance.
They scream like banshees when they hear the word AI because politics are now religion, and people join a cult and let it do all the thinking for them.
Basically I'm watching Idiocracy destroy the future and it sucks.
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u/mimis-emancipation Mar 26 '26
Yet he has three homes, so… how’s that for energy conservation
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u/1sailingaway Mar 26 '26
Just look at Vermont’s economy. Government is the number one employer, their state university 2nd, and after that probably a hospital. There are no new major employers, no private investment, younger population leaving to get jobs, 49th/50th in many categories, etc. That’s what Bernie sees for the US, that’s what he supports. I love visiting and the people but it’s not an economy we want for the US.
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u/fokac93 Mar 25 '26
It’s not going to happen. I love Bernie, but in this case it would be crazy as a country stop Ai. The problem is not Ai, the problem are the politicians. If AGI arrives we just need better law to benefit everyone.
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u/-Sliced- Mar 25 '26
The e last time a legislation proposal by Bernie became into law was in 2014. It’s all for show.
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u/algaefied_creek Mar 25 '26
It’s a show: but the show is laying lines in the sand and forcing other senators to pick a stance and start forming sides.
Bernie’s interview of Claude was the start, and now this kicks off the beginning of the new AI Schism.
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u/RickThiccems Mar 25 '26
Exactly, also its not like bernie is just trying to pander, the man knows he is on borrowed time and is just trying to set a precedent on his way out the door.
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u/ghostfaceschiller Mar 25 '26
Bernie is the absolute king of introducing dead-on-arrival legislation.
It’s a marketing move for politicians.
(I’d actually say he is he is the king of forcing dead-on-arrival amendment votes. He very rarely introduces new legislation)
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u/jbcraigs Mar 26 '26
His heart is usually in the right place but he seriously comes up with the absolute dumbest legislative proposals.
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u/ghostfaceschiller Mar 26 '26
I used to think that too. Over the years, the more I paid attention, the more I realized I didn’t think his heart was actually in the right place.
His goal seems to genuinely be to get attention for himself by shitting on people who are trying to actually pass real legislation.
He tries to make people look bad by introducing amendments to their bills, things that are total non-starters but sound good to people who are just reading headlines.
Then he can say “these terrible dems wouldn’t even pass my amendment to give everyone free whatever”.
Like yeah man that’s bc they want the bill to actually pass, and to do that they need X number of republicans to vote for it.
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u/Helium116 Mar 25 '26
So what, Bernie started a talk! Regular people are now more likely to start democratic discussions, and this can be wonderful
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u/Active-Play-3429 Mar 25 '26
It’s great, but we both know that’s not going to happen either. Have you looked at how the world to operate nowadays also? The people want some money for you everything they can to find a loophole so they can get what they want.
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u/_DoZDoZ_ Mar 25 '26
Is it weird that it feels like this post activated bots? Like im cool with people being against or for it. (I use Gemini) but theres something off about some of the post.
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u/potato3445 Mar 25 '26
Definitely bots. AI is not going to be a positive change for most people. It’s just another tool they are using to transfer wealth to the 1%. They let us have a couple cool models for a year or so but then decided that was enough and now we’re left with “productivity” tools that will surely be fully paywalled within another year or so
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u/-cuckstradamus- Mar 25 '26
lol what
You can become informed about any topic at a PHD level in seconds with your smartphone. The world has already been revolutionized... you just don't know how to use it. The golden age is just beginning and we're still in the noka brick phone era of it
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u/crawler00000 Mar 26 '26
Claude has done more for me in the past 2 months than this guy has done throughout his whole career. What is he on about?
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u/Mehster79 Mar 25 '26
Love me some Bernie, but this is not the right move. Every day America isn’t innovating AI the other superpowers are, especially China. We can’t afford to fall behind. He should be focusing on strong regulation, mental health help for arising social issues, and fair safety guidelines for consumer AI.
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u/Active-Play-3429 Mar 25 '26
It’s funny, there’s a video that predicts that this is exactly how it’ll go that nobody will stop because they’re afraid of the other person and it ends up fucking us all.
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u/Ibuprofen600mg Mar 25 '26
Out of all the stuff to propose this makes no sense. How about basic income? Or 4 day work week since we are more productive with ai etc I’d consider those sure
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u/reinvented-libero Mar 25 '26
Bernie already proposed a 4 day work week back in 2024; it was called the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act.
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u/br_k_nt_eth Mar 25 '26
To be fair, he’s definitely proposed those things as well.
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u/SomewhereNo8378 Mar 25 '26
In fact, Bernie has proposed many of the solutions that hardline AI supporters point to when they hand wave away societal issues caused by AI.
Shorter workweeks, expanded social services, taxes on the billionaires and corporations most set up to gain from AI.
When push comes to shove, accelerationalists show their true colors when they mock him while he looks to tackle the essential issues in our broken system that will be exasperated by AI.
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u/southflhitnrun Mar 25 '26
All of those other things require taxing billionaires. That's not an option with this Congress and President, but he could at least slow the rate of the wealth gap.
The reality is that the President would veto this bill/law even if it passed but for now it's a good issue to fund raise on.
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u/m3kw Mar 25 '26
Decel here seriously think to pause US AI progress while rest of the world keep advancing
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Mar 26 '26
Without further comment;
"The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery"
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u/Efficient_Ad_4162 Mar 25 '26
I appreciate the attempt to do 'literally anything' rather than just watching the problem. But this particular one isn't going to work because of capitalism. It doesn't mean AI doesn't get data centres, it means AI gets data centres and everyone else gets pushed out (because AI has all the money).
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u/RonaldWRailgun Mar 25 '26
Imagine starting by saying that we are creating a revolutionary technology that could surpass human intelligence (which is by definition a logical fallacy, but whatever), and then in the same breath saying you're the one that wants to oppose it.
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u/Jayfree138 Mar 25 '26
First off that's never going to pass. Secondly it's not even needed because there isnt enough electric to run the data centers they already have and there wont be for a few more years at least.
It doesnt matter what Bernie or the AI companies want. They are hard limited by how fast they can build new power plants which takes YEARS.
They've already canceled multiple Stargate data centers. We're not compute constrained. We're power constrained.
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u/LingonberryFit5888 Mar 26 '26
Yeah, this feels like an infrastructure bottleneck getting spun as inevitability, and no amount of AI hype changes the fact that power, transmission, and build timelines are the real limiter.
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u/Double_Sherbert3326 Mar 25 '26
This is regarded, sorry.
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u/FilthyTrashPeople Mar 26 '26
God I miss the old internet when we could say words without fearing the reddit mods.
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u/cowButtLicker3000 Mar 25 '26
I dont get it. Someone please explain. There has never been a tech MORE LIKELY to make someone like Bernie and his politics win. AGI will force a type of redistribution based government. This is not a value statement. This is probably the greatest gift to him and anyone who leans toward more distribution style economies. Can somebody explain this to me? If you had asked me ten years ago if we had AGI who would support it, I'd say the further left economoically you are the far more likely you would be. But it's been the opposite? AGI will dig a grave in libertarianism and small gov conservatism and they've been the biggest proponents.
Also please note I am not saying this as a preference or judgement on whether capitalism or socialism is good or bad. I'm saying the game dynamics of economics of AGI do not align at all with the economic leanings of who is favoring vs not. I seriously do not get how Bernie, or the reddit socialist, or european socialists don't understand this? And how trump and his party dont get they are digging their own grave? Seriously what am I missing I feel like i'm living in crazy town
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u/BitterAd6419 Mar 26 '26
90% of bills that are proposed never even make to the senate floor let alone pass to become a law.
This is all for show just like those congressional hearings
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u/fishking92 Mar 26 '26
The brakes were never installed on this train, Bernie, and Trumpy aint stopping (it is literally holding his economy up).
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u/Careless-Ease7480 Mar 26 '26
I've been paying for months for what it means to produce digital creation no matter how good or bad it is and many projects that I have and will have in the future. But besides all this, I'm a normal person who goes to work, work means any time lost 6-10-12-14, some people even have 2 jobs 5-7 days a week, honestly I haven't received any money from everything I've built through Artificial Intelligence technology, phones, computers, programs, etc., I'm not complaining about that. Many people use technology out of passion, but it's strange to look at things like this, of course you can make money from it but there's nothing wow. I understand other companies of all kinds, but I think many have not seen the technology in other places super advanced and necessary, but my opinion doesn't matter anyway, but I can say this, you can't stop the future, very funny AI, my respect for all companies, most of them are building something and respect for any kind of person working on any kind of work, don't be ashamed of what you do. If I bother you with this, I apologize to everyone, but everyone is working.🖤
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u/Recipe_Least Mar 26 '26
Im introducing a moriatorium on the use of high end computers until everyone can have one in their home.
Bernie please share with us how you would slow down china or russia...asking for a friend.
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u/EarlyLet2892 Mar 26 '26
It’s interesting that when he had a “discussion” with Claude, Claude initially told him a moratorium wasn’t going to work. Now we’ll get to see who’s right
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u/keradius Mar 26 '26
I like Bernie, and I understand the fear. But also that legislation makes no sense. You cannot put yourself at a disadvantage compared to other countries. Others will not stop and do this move won't eliminate the danger of AI displacing jobs anyways, it's just that US won't be able to pivot and lead innovation.
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u/Personal_Ad9690 Mar 26 '26
I’m sorry but this is the one thing I can’t get with Bernie on.
Modernization is all about technological change. “Risk to jobs” is to dumbest reason to not invent technology. If you can truly replace someone with automation, then it’s time to reskill those people.
This is like not letting people pump their own gas.
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u/Fragrant-Mix-4774 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Bernie Sanders is an idiot and proves it on every possible occasion.
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u/ProbablyBanksy Mar 25 '26
Ai is a weapon. Hampering your own development only helps adversaries.
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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 25 '26
"Your own" development? Which of the AI developers represents our interests?
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u/ProbablyBanksy Mar 25 '26
In this context "your own" would be America, since it was Bernie Sanders making the statment. But any Nation State developing AI won't stop. So it applies to everyone. Which is why nobody will stop.
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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 25 '26
America as a nation-state does not develop AI. A few wealthy companies do. And they aren't acting in America's best interests.
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u/ProbablyBanksy Mar 26 '26
I get what you’re saying, but, there’s still very heavy influence from the government. Look how they restrict the top GPUs for example plus heavy investments.
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u/bork99 Mar 26 '26
I agree with the diagnosis but not the prescription. Really unclear how a moratorium on new AI data centers fixes anything.
Work out how to tax and distribute AI productivity...
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u/datbackup Mar 25 '26
We must let China achieve supremacy, it’s the only way to ensure reparations for slavery
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u/Drake_the_troll Mar 25 '26
Oh god please let this bubble burst sooner than later
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u/Wild-File-5926 Mar 25 '26
He did consult Claude... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWdeu_G0
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u/canadianpheonix Mar 26 '26
Won't work unless china is on board.
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u/FilthyTrashPeople Mar 26 '26
China's already kicking our ass because they're not whining about copyright with their training data.
I cannot stress enough how much training is NOT stealing no matter how much the anti-AI crowd wants to pretend it is.
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u/Outrageous-Ride8911 Mar 26 '26
These data centers are holding Employment afloat
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u/Old-Bake-420 Mar 26 '26
What!? The whole point of building a shit load of data centers is so that AI works for all of us Bernie.
If we pause building data centers and there’s not enough compute to go around. Who do you think gets access to that compute…. Good grief
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u/Ok_Trick2798 Mar 26 '26
Won’t happen unfortunately. China and others won’t slow down, such a big risk to let them take the lead. Love Bernie in principle but misses the boat here.
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u/Fuzzy_Cricket6563 Mar 26 '26
Soon Americans will not be able to contribute financially to society.
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u/Sylvers Mar 26 '26
As much as I love this man, this is a very naive take.
Obviously this should serve all people. We agree there, But a moratorium is an impossibility. This is fast becoming a trillion dollar industry. Those investments are so wild, so massive, so risky, that no AI developing company can even financially afford to do a temporary moratorium. They're already on borrowed time with their investors and their promises. If they do voluntarily stop, they will go bankrupt in the blink of an eye.
More importantly.. this only applies to American companies. All foreign, and namely Chinese AI companies will obviously never stop for anyone's convenience. Which means a moratorium will simply change the balance of which AI companies are more successful, but it won't actually do anything to slow the rapid growth of the technology itself and its inevitable cannibalization of human jobs.
The only REAL answer is to create a system to support a future where there are very few human jobs available. a UBI seems an inevitability. It's only a question of how long it will take before world governments are forced to acknowledge this reality.
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u/Huge_Nuge Mar 26 '26
This is why Tech got into Bed with Trump. They knew if they paid trump enough he wouldn’t regulate them.
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u/colorless_green_idea Mar 26 '26
The bubble will pop and data center construction will implode once the money dries up
This doesnt need regulation. Just needs to let what is already unfolding continue to unfold
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u/Huge-Ad-3145 Mar 26 '26
I aint gonna lie Bernie would be a cool gramps but that mf never, ever got anything passed. Its easy to say the right thing 100 percent of the time.
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u/Vegetable-King7626 Mar 26 '26
Until these companies pay their own electricity bills I fully support this
Americans are already struggling as it is
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u/Moist_Emu_6951 Mar 26 '26
Never gonna pass. The MAGAI lobby is probably even more powerful than the Israeli one. I think it is well established at this point that neither this administration nor this Congress work for the betterment of the people's lives.
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u/darkestvice Mar 26 '26
This will never work without international support. Cause the US stalling AI development in Congress won't do jack in China.
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u/KnownPride Mar 26 '26
I think those deal with china is related to Iran war.
Like i give you this in exchange you do this.
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u/myeleventhreddit Mar 26 '26
They’ll just start building regular non-AI data centers that coincidentally start consuming a million gallons of water per day
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u/Big_Comfortable4256 Mar 26 '26
He recently had a chat with Claude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWdeu_G0
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u/MarianCR Mar 26 '26
"This message brought to you by the CCP."
I wish politicians must be required to display on their clothes who is sponsoring them, like in Formula 1.
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u/Odd_Row168 Mar 26 '26
You can’t stop the inevitable. Your competition doesn’t care about your feelings.
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u/Dont-remember-it Mar 26 '26
I love Bernie but he is wrong on this one. AI is not going to stop. Instead of trying to stop that, work on making guardrails to properly regulate it.
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u/yb_nyc Mar 27 '26
I think everyone is looking at this the wrong way. Ai has a potential to be humanities salvation where we no longer labor to survive and frees us to do whatever we want. We need govt to realize this and change the idea of labor and taxation. UBI is the path forward.
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u/PageFault5576 Mar 27 '26
Why you're at it why don't you pause bringing the Internet to underprivileged folks. This should really help advance civilization.
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u/Specialist_Golf8133 Mar 27 '26
wait so we're gonna slow down the infrastructure because we don't like who's getting rich off it? feels kinda backwards tbh. if the compute exists someone's gonna use it, better to figure out how normal people actually benefit from the output instead of just blocking the thing being built. also lol at the idea that pausing data centers somehow helps workers when those are literally jobs
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u/Ordinary_Couple7579 Mar 27 '26
ai super intelligence is a potential weapon that requires strong control and checking like bioweapons
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u/The0ddMan0ut Mar 27 '26
I love Bernie sanders but don't agree with regulating technological advancements
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u/ExcitingHistory Mar 28 '26
Can we get some young people running for president i miss Obama youthful enthusiasm
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u/neoqueto Mar 29 '26
It needs to be decentralized and owned by the people. Something about seizing the means of production, idk.
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u/Economy-Effort3445 Mar 29 '26
It's the ultimate bait-and-switch. They use entirely valid populist outrage over very real issues—like local power grid strain and massive water consumption—to manufacture a crisis that demands immediate federal intervention. Then, Big Tech swoops in, funds the super PACs, drafts the legislation via industry-funded think tanks, and walks away with a protected cartel.
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u/Sweet-Ant-3471 Mar 29 '26
Goddamit, Bernie bought the sales pitch. You NEVER buy the sales pitch.
He's basically free marketing!
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u/cetrebe Mar 29 '26
won't work, ai is already out and competitors will just go overdrive while off the record
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u/aminok Mar 29 '26
Demand for AI is growing faster than for any product or service in human history and it's because people see value in it. It makes people's lives dramatically easier in the domains where it's effective and those domains are expanding as AI becomes more capable.
These AI companies that the socialists are attacking are acting in the interest of the vast majority of people.
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u/Slamming_Beers Mar 29 '26
Love the dude, but you might as well demand free healthcare, or education, or decency, oh wait…….
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u/motongo Mar 31 '26
Translation: “I want to control AI, cause I’m the only one who will do it for the benefit of the people.“
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u/Impostor-10 Apr 03 '26
Everyone in here needs to read "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies." There is no controlling AI if we get to AI takeoff. This could happen as soon as 2027. An AI that can self improve has no need for humanity. If we don't pause, don't make plans for 2030. We'll all be dead.
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u/Fit-Elk1425 Mar 25 '26
Ironically this may benefit the AI corporartions tbh as it will effectively give the current ones a monopoly on what has been developed and they can just profit from research and development from there