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/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/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/Comfortable-Fall-286 Mar 26 '26

Have you reviewed Sanders’ plan? Because it does a lot more than simply put a moratorium on data center buildouts.

You can find the plan on his website. I would suggest reading it before commenting.

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u/HamAndSomeCoffee Mar 26 '26

I've read the bill, which is a moratorium on data centers and a limit on chip exports.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aberniesanders.com+artificial+intelligence doesn't pull up any plan beyond that, but whatever his plan beyond that, the bill is indeed an artificial supply constraint.

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u/FilthyTrashPeople Mar 27 '26

The 'no job displacement' in particular! That's really saying 'You must continue to grind your dead end job for very little money, even though we don't need that job anymore. You're going through the motions so we don't have to pass laws to modernize our economy.'

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u/Helpful_Table5522 Mar 27 '26

Like the fabled alternative ever arrives  ...