Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon doesn’t always align himself with Sen. Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist from Vermont. But on Tuesday he said threats posed by artificial intelligence span political ideology.
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“We have to rise above it,” Bannon said at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, a conference focused on prioritizing humans as AI develops. “This is a hinge in history.”
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Bannon blasted the “arrogance” of AI leaders and warned of “oligarchs” in much the same way Sanders does regularly.
Speaking from the same stage earlier in the afternoon, Sanders called AI and robotics “the most transformational technologies in the history of the world” and said the public should have a greater say in how the industry develops.
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“If the lives of every man, woman and child are going to be fundamentally changed by this technology, then the people of this country must make the decisions about AI, and not just a handful of oligarchs,” Sanders said.
