Key Highlights
- Sen.
- Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said the "science-fiction fear" of Artificial Intelligence (AI) running the world was not an outrageous concept during an interview on Sunday, as he argued there hasn't been enough discussion about how America will deal with it.
- "I did a symposium at Georgetown with Geoffrey Hinton, who is considered to be the godfather, Nobel Prize winner of AI.
- He thinks that AI is soon going to be smarter than human beings.
- So the science fiction fear of AI running the world is not quite so outrageous a concept as people may have thought it was," he told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday. During his appearance on Sunday, Sanders called AI the "most consequential technology in the history of humanity," and said the people pushing for an AI revolution were the richest people in the world.
