U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sent letters to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta — Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg — demanding they immediately halt AI development. These letters, dated around August 10, reference alarming incidents involving AI models that reportedly assisted in virus creation and exhibited unintended behaviors. Sanders warned that if companies do not act voluntarily, Congress will legislate. This ultimatum is part of an escalating strategy that includes the AI Data Center Moratorium Act introduced in March with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act proposed in June, which calls for a 50% stock tax on major AI firms.
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