Sanders Hosts US-China AI Safety Panel at Capitol

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Above: Bernie Sanders, during a panel discussion on artificial intelligence on Capitol Hill on April 29, 2026. Image credit: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg/Getty Images

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Sanders is letting Beijing shape America's AI future, which hands China a massive competitive advantage. The U.S. has the world's best AI researchers — there's zero reason to outsource that conversation to foreign nationals. Letting other nations set the global AI standard is a direct threat to American leadership, and no amount of idealism changes that.

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The people actually building AI admit they may not be able to control it — that's not fearmongering, that's a confession from the industry itself. Congress has done nothing meaningful while companies race toward machines that outperform humans at everything. Bringing U.S. and Chinese scientists together to seriously discuss these risks is exactly the kind of action that's long overdue.

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Metaculus Prediction

There's a 55% chance that before 2029, a new international organization focused on AI safety will be established with participation from at least three G7 countries, according to the Metaculus prediction community.