Sen. Bernie Sanders is heading to California next week during the Senate’s recess to discuss the future of artificial intelligence with industry leaders — with a particular focus on how it will impact working people and the economy.
“Congress and the American people are totally unprepared for the extraordinary transformations that AI and robotics are going to make in our country and, in fact, throughout the world in the next few years,” Sanders said on a press call Wednesday. “We have seen the development of electricity, the automobile, radio, TV, computers, the internet — all of which were very significant. But all of those technologies pale in comparison to the impact, in my view, that AI and robotics will have on our world.”
Sanders said there are a few important questions to ask: “Who is pushing the development of AI and robotics? Who are the people who are putting many, many, many hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, into AI and robotics?”