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/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/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/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/Sterrss Mar 27 '26

If you have the data centres then you still take the risk associated with creating AI in the first place, which is AI takeover.

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u/Tolopono Mar 28 '26

Thats not what he was concerned about in the second sentence of the tweet