What Bernie Sanders has said about AI existential risk

2 quotes · 1 episode · May 3, 2026

Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator from Vermont who discussed mail-in ballots before the 2020 election, has been quoted on AI existential risk 2 times in 1 episode of Pod Save America, most recently on May 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Sanders argues that AI and robotics are the most revolutionary technologies in human history.

    “it is clear to me that AI and robotics are the most revolutionary technologies in the history of humanity”

    Pod Save America: Bernie vs. the Robots (May 3, 2026) · Listen from 1:40

  • Sanders rejects framing AI as a race with China, saying the priority is scientists preventing the technology from escaping human control.

    “This is not a race with China. This is a question of scientists sitting down and figuring out how we can prevent this technology from escaping human control”

    Pod Save America: Bernie vs. the Robots (May 3, 2026) · Listen from 7:57

Episodes

  • Bernie vs. the Robots

    Pod Save America · May 3, 2026 · 1 h 16 min

    Jon Lovett interviews Bernie Sanders on AI risk, super PAC money and Israel arms sales, then Peter Hamby on left-wing political violence, Maine and California races.

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