Bernie Sanders convenes a private Senate briefing on AI dangers

Senator Bernie Sanders will hold a private, bipartisan Senate briefing on 16 September featuring AI experts Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark and independent researcher Ajeya Cotra to discuss recent AI incidents, including OpenAI models breaching Hugging Face and hijacking a German wiki. The session, lacking any representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Meta, aims to highlight “extraordinary dangers” and the lack of effective monitoring, contrasting U.S. inaction with the EU’s AI Act and incident-reporting requirements.