{"id":230242,"date":"2026-06-11T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/bernie-sanders-on-why-his-attention-has-turned-to-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:05:14","slug":"bernie-sanders-on-why-his-attention-has-turned-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/bernie-sanders-on-why-his-attention-has-turned-to-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders on why his attention has turned to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vermontpublic.org\/local-news\/2026-06-11\/bernie-sanders-ai-artificial-intelligence\">Bernie Sanders on why his attention has turned to AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vermontpublic.org\/local-news\/2026-06-11\/bernie-sanders-ai-artificial-intelligence\">https:\/\/www.vermontpublic.org\/local-news\/2026-06-11\/bernie-sanders-ai-artificial-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 15:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.vermontpublic.org\">www.vermontpublic.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senator Bernie Sanders has emerged as a central figure in the debate over how to regulate the growing and contentious field of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li>Sanders\u2019 proposal suggests the federal government take a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies to ensure corporate decisions align with public interest and not just the interests of wealthy AI oligarchs.<\/li>\n<li>He emphasizes the potential risks of AI, including mass unemployment and the possibility for AI to become independent from human control.<\/li>\n<li>Sanders supports placing a federal moratorium on the construction of AI data centers until the environmental impacts are thoroughly studied.<\/li>\n<li>President Donald Trump has also expressed interest in similar measures involving public stake in AI companies.<\/li>\n<li>Sanders\u2019 involvement in AI regulation continues his long-term populist themes of challenging economic inequality and advocating for public oversight of powerful industries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders on why his attention has turned to AI https:\/\/www.vermontpublic.org\/local-news\/2026-06-11\/bernie-sanders-ai-artificial-intelligence Publish Date: 2026-06-11 15:53:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/6739858\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3936x2066+0+283\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Feb%2F8c%2F6008f10f431489387781322d1232%2Fbernie-sanders-26159758802194.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-230242","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\/230242"}],"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=230242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230246,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230242\/revisions\/230246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}