Bernie Sanders calls out Musk's AI risk flip-flop: from 'summoning the demon' to 'a setup'
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-12
Senator Bernie Sanders pushed back on Elon Musk's claim that Jacob Coxon's AI existential-threat warning is a "setup," citing Musk's own record: in 2014 he said we were "summoning the demon," in 2018 that "AI is far more dangerous than nukes," and in 2025 he put a 10-20% chance on killer robots annihilating humanity. Sanders implies the shift tracks Musk's billions invested in AI and plan to build ten million robots a year, and questions why regulatory oversight still doesn't exist.
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