If you ever find yourself nodding along with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), populist hack Steve Bannon, and teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten, it may be time to go home and rethink your life.
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It turns out that all of the worst people you know hate artificial intelligence.
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Future of Life Institute’s “Pro-Human Assembly” event on Tuesday proves, once again, that politics make strange bedfellows.
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It also highlights the horseshoe theory in action.
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The furthest reaches of the socialist Left and populist Right have joined forces in an attempt to bring American AI to a screeching halt.
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Political commentators online like to label anything they don’t like an “op,” often to discredit their political opponents.
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Here, however, we have an entrenched labor boss and an unholy alliance between the radical Left and isolationist Right, flanked by supposed expert Jacob Coxon, who worked for Anthropic for less than four months before quitting his job over his alleged concerns over the potential development of superintelligence.
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This movement is not about protecting trucking jobs or “saving humanity.”
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It is fundamentally anti-progress, flies in the face of economic realities, and, intentionally or not, represents a massive gift to the Chinese Communist Party.
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If the latter doesn’t give the game away, as America and China grapple for AI supremacy, I don’t know what to tell you.
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Bernie Sanders introduced the “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act,” a draconian piece of legislation proposing a federal moratorium on AI, a new cabinet-level bureaucracy to monitor server rooms, and up to 20 years in prison for developers who push the boundaries of frontier AI models.
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Sanders, an avowed Marxist, has never met a communist regime he didn’t like, honeymooned in the Soviet Union, and has complained that Americans have too many options when shopping for deodorant.
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Steve Bannon’s willingness to run PR for the late sex offender and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein provides a window into the man’s moral compass.
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He also spent years in lockstep with Miles Guo (also known as Guo Wengui), the exiled Chinese tycoon who is spending 30 years in federal prison for orchestrating a $1 billion international fraud scheme.
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Bannon took over $1 million from Guo-linked entities, flew around the country on Guo’s private jets, and was famously arrested by federal agents for his “We Build the Wall” fraud charges while lounging on Guo’s 150-foot luxury yacht, the Lady May.
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Federal prosecutors named Bannon as an unindicted co-conspirator in Guo’s massive racketeering case.
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“I am the Hoax Buster, and I’m right now breaking another Hoax — That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!
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This is even wilder than the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, or the Global Warming Scam,” President Trump posted Tuesday morning on Truth Social.
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Trump has been consistently correct on AI and the dangers of losing the AI race to China.
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If America hits the brakes on AI development to appease a coalition of reactionary populists and progressive luddites, the technology will not cease to exist.
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It will simply be built in Beijing, governed by authoritarian rules, and deployed against American interests worldwide.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) echoed the president over the weekend, warning that federal over-regulation would hand the AI race directly to China.
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There is a reason why Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale dubbed the anti-tech coalition the “BBC”: Bernie, Bannon, and the Chinese Communist Party.
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