\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/ai-revolution-bernie-sanders-warning\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The truth is that our need for employment will keep us, the current and who-might-soon-be-extinct white-collar workers, feeding the AI, making it go faster and faster; helping it grow bigger and bigger. The only intervention possible is through political will.
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Slow it down. Give humanity the time to adjust. AI is an accelerating revolution, which isn’t giving humans enough time to think, gather, and revolt, let alone enough time to evolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well said, Bernie Sanders, and thank you for saying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bernie Sanders says, “Slow this thing down.”
\nWhile most politicians have merrily gone about doing their stuff (gathering votes, building vote-banks, getting donations from tech-companies, and so on) without stopping to give AI sufficient thought, Bernie Sanders voices the real concern. The Tech Billionaires are going to lead the world in the future. They are smart enough to understand what motivates politicians and businessmen – and they know that it sure as heck isn’t a great future for humanity in general. <\/p>\n
I’ve just followed Bernie Sanders’ Twitter account. I’ll never be his voter, but I am turning into his supporter. Right here. Right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[164,14,272,276,273],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-news","category-ai-philosophy","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-existential-crisis","tag-us-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}