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Sanders continues his speech, warning that if AI were to surpass human intelligence, as experts predict, it would bring “potentially catastrophic consequences”.
He says he will introduce a bill next week to “permanently ban the development of artificial super intelligence”.
“Further, this legislation will put an immediate pause on advanced AI development until we have clear safety rules in place developed by the most knowledgeable scientists in our country,” Sanders says.
He then calls on President Trump to negotiate a treaty on AI safety with China’s President Xi Jinping during their meeting in Washington next week “to establish a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence”.
“A super intelligent AI that escapes human control will not simply be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem, » he says. « It will be humanity’s problem.”
I’m here at the AI summit in Washington where Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has been raising the alarm about AI risks to the highest level.
He is among the progressive US lawmakers, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, calling for a complete moratorium on AI data centres.
“Let us be clear: artificial intelligence and robotics are the most transformational technologies in the history of humanity,” Sanders tells the crowd. “And they will impact the lives of every man, woman, and child in our country.”
“The economic impact of that is that AI has the potential to eliminate tens of millions of jobs, wiping out entire professions and making it harder for our young people to enter the workforce,” he continues.
“Civil libertarians warn us that AI is in the process of eviscerating our privacy rights by making it easier to collect and analyse every email that we send, every text, every website visit, and every trip that we make in our call, resulting in the creation of a mass surveillance state.”
Over in San Francisco, Anthropic boss Dario Amodei has been speaking at an annual Salesforce conference, days after calling for the development of AI to slow down.
Asked about his remarks, Amodei says it is tempting to « attack » competitors but that it is more responsible to try and establish industry-wide standards.
« Let’s make our practices better, let’s recommit to transparency, let’s invest more in safety, then let’s organise the rest of the industry and say what can we do to set standards for everyone, » he says, adding that there should be an « international component » to any such development.
« I think that’s the way to lead the industry forward, to set an example, to say that everyone can always be better, » he adds.
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