{"id":189453,"date":"2026-02-21T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/bernie-sanders-warns-about-ai-tsunami-at-stanford-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:30:10","slug":"bernie-sanders-warns-about-ai-tsunami-at-stanford-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/bernie-sanders-warns-about-ai-tsunami-at-stanford-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders warns about AI &#8216;tsunami&#8217; at Stanford town hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/regional-politics\/2026\/02\/21\/bernie-sanders-warns-about-ai-tsunami-at-stanford-town-hall\/\">Bernie Sanders warns about AI &#8216;tsunami&#8217; at Stanford town hall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/regional-politics\/2026\/02\/21\/bernie-sanders-warns-about-ai-tsunami-at-stanford-town-hall\/\">https:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/regional-politics\/2026\/02\/21\/bernie-sanders-warns-about-ai-tsunami-at-stanford-town-hall\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-21 12:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.paloaltoonline.com\">www.paloaltoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna hold a town hall at Stanford University to discuss the future control and implications of AI.<\/li>\n<li>Sanders questions the societal impact of AI, suggesting a potential loss of meaningful work and human connection.<\/li>\n<li>Khanna describes Silicon Valley as the &#8220;epicenter of wealth concentration and AI,&#8221; highlighting tech billionaires&#8217; dominance over AI leadership.<\/li>\n<li>Sanders advocates for a nationwide moratorium on data centers growth to assess AI&#8217;s long-term impacts, contrasting with Khanna&#8217;s view favoring financial accountability for tech companies.<\/li>\n<li>Both speakers cover issues like data privacy, AI&#8217;s impact on mental health, and deepfake technology, emphasizing the need for urgent and responsible AI development.<\/li>\n<li>They conclude by highlighting AI&#8217;s rapid evolution and warning of the risks if society is not proactive in its regulation and management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders warns about AI &#8216;tsunami&#8217; at Stanford town hall https:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/regional-politics\/2026\/02\/21\/bernie-sanders-warns-about-ai-tsunami-at-stanford-town-hall\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-21 12:12:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WEB-260220-PA_Sanders-Khanna_55-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189455,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189453\/revisions\/189455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}