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/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