NEWS: Sanders to Meet with AI Leaders in California

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced he would travel to California this month to speak directly with Artificial Intelligence (AI) leaders, and released the following statement:
Artificial intelligence and robotics will transform the world. Today, a handful of billionaires in Silicon Valley are making decisions behind closed doors that will shape the future of humanity. Meanwhile, working people have no voice in these discussions, and far too little visibility into the rapid changes already underway.
That is why I look forward to visiting California this month to meet with AI leaders and to ask the fundamental questions we need to be asking as a country. Here is just some of what I plan to raise:
Bottom line: AI and robotics are the most transformative technologies in the history of humanity. The American people must determine how AI impacts their lives. We can’t let those enormously important decisions rest in the hands of a handful of billionaires.