Sanders to hold Senate briefing on AI dangers with Hinton and Tegmark
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-10
A scoop reports Bernie Sanders will host a bipartisan Senate briefing next week on the "extraordinary dangers" of AI, featuring Geoffrey Hinton, FLI co-founder Max Tegmark, and Ajeya Cotra, an independent researcher from the OpenAI-Hugging Face hacking incident investigation. The quote-tweet is critical, arguing the Effective Altruism camp has rebranded to escape its doomsday-cult association: Dustin Moskovitz's Open Philanthropy pivoted to deepfakes, copyright and datacenters and renamed itself Coefficient Giving, while the Center for Effective Altruism became Effective Ventures Foundation.
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