Sanders to Meet with AI Leaders in California

[Donkees]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced he would travel to California this month to speak directly with Artificial Intelligence (AI) leaders, and released the following statement:

Artificial intelligence and robotics will transform the world. Today, a handful of billionaires in Silicon Valley are making decisions behind closed doors that will shape the future of humanity. Meanwhile, working people have no voice in these discussions, and far too little visibility into the rapid changes already underway.

That is why I look forward to visiting California this month to meet with AI leaders and to ask the fundamental questions we need to be asking as a country. Here is just some of what I plan to raise:

Who will be in charge of the transformation into an AI world? Is the goal of the AI revolution simply to make the very rich even richer and more powerful, or will this technology be used to benefit all of us?

What impact will AI and robotics have on working people? If AI and robotics eliminate millions of jobs, how will people survive if they have no income?

What will AI mean for our democracy? At a time when authoritarianism is rising, will AI and robotics help make us a freer, more democratic society or will it give even more power to the oligarchs who control the technology?

Does AI raise an existential threat to the human species? The “Godfather of AI”, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, recently told me that it was only a matter of time before AI becomes smarter than humans. How do we work together with the international community to prevent this extraordinary threat?

Bottom line: AI and robotics are the most transformative technologies in the history of humanity. The American people must determine how AI impacts their lives. We can’t let those enormously important decisions rest in the hands of a handful of billionaires.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-to-meet-with-ai-leaders-in-california/

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. Well, let's see here...

Who will be in charge of the transformation into an AI world? Is the goal of the AI revolution simply to make the very rich even richer and more powerful, or will this technology be used to benefit all of us?

It will be used to benefit the wealthy and their tech overlords only. Anyone else is S.O.L.

What impact will AI and robotics have on working people? If AI and robotics eliminate millions of jobs, how will people survive if they have no income?

It will remove those pesky humans and replace them with something that does not demand to be treated like a human being and expected to be compensated adequately for their time and efforts. As far as the concern about peoples income should their jobs be removed, they don't care about that one bit.

What will AI mean for our democracy? At a time when authoritarianism is rising, will AI and robotics help make us a freer, more democratic society or will it give even more power to the oligarchs who control the technology?

It will give even more power and control to the oligarchs who own the tech.

Does AI raise an existential threat to the human species? The “Godfather of AI”, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, recently told me that it was only a matter of time before AI becomes smarter than humans. How do we work together with the international community to prevent this extraordinary threat

?

Yes, it does. As far as preventing this threat, the tech bros are convinced that they can handle it. Just like every other asshat who thought they could control something that they actually had little understanding of, just like these idiots in thinking they have control over something that is learning faster than they can conceive of, as well as having the entire depraved internets as a teacher. Oh yeah, this will work out just fine.

We work together to stop this lunacy until we know... know... we can control it. Until then, it is M-5 time with this crap.

[Auggie]

2. Cue this cliche line from many sci-fi/horror films:

"Fools! You don't know what you're dealing with here!"

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Gods, yes! (n/t)

[hunter]

4. True artificial intelligence will continue to be "just around the corner" just as fusion power is.

Both are disguises for more disturbing agendas.

We burn fossil fuels today pretending magical fusion power plants will pull our asses out of the fire tomorrow.

We're not told that the giant data centers supporting the Artificial Idiocy of today will actually be used as increasingly intrusive surveillance machines straight out of George Orwell's 1984.

Big Brother is watching you.

If you're not buying the bullshit, if you're not enjoying the show, you will be punished.

[highplainsdem]

5. The VERY FIRST subject Bernie should bring up is the greatest theft of intellectual property in the

history of the world, for the profit of the AI companies.

That alone tells you that the goal is to make the rich richer, eliminate millions of jobs, give more power to the oligarchs, and become an existential threat to creatives and everyone who does not want their IP stolen and used to destroy their livelihood.

[SheltieLover]

6. Agreed!

[marble falls]

7. If they're AI, why does Bernie gotta go to California?

[Ping Tung]

8. We lost