Senators Sound Alarm As AI Companies Pour Millions Into U.S. Elections

LOADINGERROR LOADING WASHINGTON – Prominent critics of artificial intelligence warned that the industry’s plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on this year’s midterm elections are aimed at blocking Congress from regulating a rapidly advancing technology that poses serious risks to society, including jobs, energy prices, and privacy, along with more existential dangers. “The big money interests, the billionaires who control our economy and our political system, are going to do everything to elect people to give them a green light to go forward,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is planning to introduce legislation prohibiting the construction of data…