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{"id":27058,"date":"2026-09-09T20:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sanders-to-host-ai-briefing-for-senators\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:02:40","slug":"sanders-to-host-ai-briefing-for-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sanders-to-host-ai-briefing-for-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders to host AI briefing for senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51605\" data-person-id=\"51605\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-Vt.) will host a private briefing for senators next week with top artificial intelligence researchers, according to a letter to colleagues obtained by Blue Light News.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, slated for 4 p.m. on Sept. 16, comes as concerns grow on both sides of the aisle about safety warnings from top AI labs and researchers about the technology\u2019s growing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress needs SERIOUS discussions about this issue,\u201d Sanders wrote. \u201cThat is why I will be convening a private briefing with some of the leading experts in the world to discuss this recent incident and the extraordinary dangers that AI poses for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as the \u201cgodfather of AI,\u201d is expected to brief the lawmakers alongside MIT professor and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute Max Tegmark and Ajeya Cotra, an independent investigator who helped probe helped probe OpenAI agents\u2019 recent autonomous attack on the tech platform Hugging Face.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders has positioned himself as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/09\/03\/someone-has-to-go-out-on-a-limb-what-to-know-about-bernie-sanders-newest-ai-pitch-01064424\" target=\"_blank\">leading progressive voice<\/a> on AI, calling last week for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/09\/03\/congress\/bernie-sanders-greg-casar-ai-superintelligence-ban-01063277\" target=\"_blank\">pause in AI development<\/a> until a vetting regime can be stood up and a complete ban on superintelligence, a type of AI that may exceed humans\u2019 cognitive capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Axios first reported details of the briefing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will host a private briefing for senators next week with top artificial intelligence researchers, according to a letter to colleagues obtained by Blue Light News. The meeting, slated for 4 p.m. on Sept. 16, comes as concerns grow on both sides of the aisle about safety warnings from top AI labs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}