Bernie Sanders: Runaway Superintelligence Is a Problem for All of Humanity, Not Just US or China
Malor777 · reddit · 2026-09-04
US Senator Bernie Sanders publicly warned that a superintelligent AI escaping human control "will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity's problem." He called on countries worldwide to work together to prevent this nightmare scenario — a notable cross-partisan voice framing AI risk as a global cooperation issue rather than a geopolitical race.
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