{"id":203558,"date":"2026-04-09T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/bernie-and-aoc-pump-the-brakes-on-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:20:13","slug":"bernie-and-aoc-pump-the-brakes-on-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/bernie-and-aoc-pump-the-brakes-on-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie and AOC Pump the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2026\/04\/bernie-aoc-artificial-intelligence-regulation\">Bernie and AOC Pump the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2026\/04\/bernie-aoc-artificial-intelligence-regulation\">https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2026\/04\/bernie-aoc-artificial-intelligence-regulation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-09 09:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"jacobin.com\">jacobin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Unregulated AI threatens livelihoods and privacy<\/strong>: AI is poised to devastate the workforce by automating millions of jobs, while also exploiting personal data for profit, according to Senator Bernie Sanders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Environmental and community impacts<\/strong>: The construction of massive AI data centers has led to significant local opposition due to concerns about water usage, noise pollution, and grid upgrades.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Political opposition and legislative response<\/strong>: Senator Sanders and Representative Ocasio-Cortez proposed the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act to impose federal regulation and safeguard public prosperity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pro-AI opposition and the myth of market innovation<\/strong>: Pro-AI factions argue against regulation, invoking historical instances of market-driven prosperity while disregarding the detrimental impacts seen in prior economic shifts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI\u2019s societal and ethical risks<\/strong>: Unregulated AI poses risks to privacy, social cohesion through misinformation, and exacerbates loneliness, threatening overall societal well-being.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Need for federal intervention<\/strong>: Given local and state efforts to curtail AI growth, comprehensive federal legislation is seen as the only viable means to effectively regulate and mitigate AI\u2019s harmful impacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie and AOC Pump the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2026\/04\/bernie-aoc-artificial-intelligence-regulation Publish Date: 2026-04-09 09:52:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.jacobinmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/09084507\/GettyImages-2268357158.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-203558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203558"}],"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=203558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203560,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203558\/revisions\/203560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}