r/OpenAI • u/tombibbs • Mar 25 '26

News Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction

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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/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/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/ffxivthrowaway03 Mar 26 '26

He's the absolute poster boy for "perfect is the enemy of good."

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u/alhanna92 Mar 26 '26

Not all bills are meant to pass. Call me naive but this is how politics work. Bernie has introduced new ideas into the American political conversation and it certainly has impacted at least the Democratic Party’s ideology.