Bernie Sanders on A.I.: ‘You’re Going to See Massive Job Loss’

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SANDERS: "Well, here’s what I think, Chris, and it’s the reason why I’m going to introduce legislation for a moratorium on data centers. And data centers are the infrastructure of AI. I think we have not a clue. We are totally unprepared for what is coming. And what is coming, I think, as you’ve just indicated, it is not just robots, you know, Bezos at Amazon talking about replacing 400,000 workers and other companies doing similar things, it is impacting entry level jobs for college graduates. There is no profession out there that is not going to be hit. So I think you’re going to see massive job loss, and I think also what you are seeing now is literally a cognitive decline among young people in this country. Their attention spans are worse, significantly worse. I worry very much what used to be science fiction, that computers will take over, there is now a legitimate fear that artificial general intelligence will not only become smarter than human beings, they’ll be able to communicate with each other independent of humanity and the implications of that. Bottom line is, I’m not a Luddite, and we have got to make sure, though, that AI and robotics work for working people, not just to make these billionaires even richer.”