Bernie Sanders: Ban Superintelligence [from NYT - nytimes.com/2026/09/21/opinion]Sept. 21, 2026 Will A.I. wipe out humanity in 10 years, 20 years — or never? I don’t know. You don’t know. But I don’t want to wait to find out.Call me a raging conservative, but I don’t want to see a dangerous technology continue to evolve rapidly when the owners of that technology acknowledge they can’t control it and they don’t know where it’s going. For the sake of all humanity, the United States and China must reach an agreement to stop dangerous A.I. development.link to PDF file with his article - drive.proton.me/urls/N3K8T5K5Z#news #politics #Aritificialintelligence #AI #technology #BernieSanders@technology

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[–] 6 points 1 month ago

Ban it all you want. Someone in a basement will make it happen anyways, just like Skynet. I truly believe it is inevitable. Sooner or later, if it can happen... it will.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Good luck banning math and algorithms.

    You can't put that genie back in the bottle, somebody will work on it anyway. Even if the only models produced will be tuned to be "completely ethical" (whatever that may mean), they can always de-tuned and ran by someone with more "moral flexibility".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Local boomer politician has no idea how technology or the internet works, spouts nonsense.

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    [–] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I refuse to talk to anyone who calls it "superintelligence"

    I thank the fucking morons for identifying themselves and saving me the strife.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Can I interest you in...

    Ultraintelligence

    No, how about

    Extremeintelligence

    No, how about

    Megaintelligence

    No, how about

    Terrificintelligence

    No, how about

    Colossalintelligence

    Would you like it here or there?

    Would you like on a plain or a valley?

    Would you like it next to your house?

    You do not like it you say. So you say. Try it! Try it! And you may!

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago

    Maybe start by doing something about all the crimes the AI companies admitted to allowing after they plugged their text generators into a computer terminal.

    They could hook a nuclear missile silo computer up to a hamster wheel, and leave a hamster nearby. That would also have a pretty high chance of ending the world.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    And before that, don't adopt the MAGA branding. It's AI.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    LLMs are large language models, so you’re excluding image and video models with this term

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    The change that made LLMs more effective than older approaches was the transformer model, and extended to transducers/encoders+transformers for general, non language based models. But I doubt anyone is going to call current 'AI' tech transformer models, maybe if it's shortened to TMs.

    There was ai used as the concept for machines that can think and reason as well as humans. I think around when marketers got people to accept splitting ai and AGI for general Intel and ai was left with whatever was left I guess reduced the scope of the meaning that continued to today's common use of ai for non thinking, non rational models and a bit of a vacuum for the original usage.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Bernie is playing right into the AI companies’ hands. Everyone knows (including the AI vendors) “superintelligence” isn’t coming with LLM technology. They’ve got Bernie fighting against imaginary monsters, while the companies devastate the environment and ruin the economy today.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    Don't worry, no superintelligence exists in america...

    And why change the name AI, NYT?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Because of Trump’s dumbfuck proclamation, I’m sure

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  • [–] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Bernie Sanders has apparently lost the plot completely. Whoever is advising him must be an industry plant. This criti-hype is really counterproductive to reigning in these companies.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    As a person that only reads headlines and is a potential member to Mentos, I am highly offended that someone wants to get rid of super intelligent people like myself!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Republicans need not to worry.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    We need more intelligence. Moar, not less intelligence.

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