Exclusive: Hinton, Tegmark, Cotra to brief Sanders' Senate session on AI's "extraordinary dangers"
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-10
According to a scoop shared in this retweet chain, Sen. Bernie Sanders will hold a bipartisan Senate briefing next week on the "extraordinary dangers" posed by AI. Scheduled participants:
- Turing Award-winning deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton
- Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark
- Ajeya Cotra, one of the independent researchers who investigated the OpenAI-Hugging Face hacking incident
Commenters note Sanders' earlier doomer event featured CCP officials, and now hosts two European socialists and an EA figure, questioning how bipartisan it really is—but the briefing news itself is a notable industry development.
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