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The Guardian - US
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Bernie Sanders

AI poses unprecedented threats. Congress must act now

Proliferation of data centers in Northern Virginia. An image made with a drone shows an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Manassas, Virginia, USA, 23 September 2025.
‘Virginia is home to more than 650 data centers, the highest concentration of data centers in the world.’ Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Artificial intelligence and robotics will transform the world. It will bring unimaginable changes to our economy, our politics, warfare, our emotional wellbeing, our environment, and how we educate and raise our children. Further, there is a very real fear that, in the not-so-distant future, a super-intelligent AI could replace humans in controlling the planet.

Despite the extraordinary importance of this issue and the speed at which it is progressing, AI is getting far too little discussion in Congress, the media and within the general population. That has got to change. Now.

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