{"id":66918,"date":"2026-02-20T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/slow-this-thing-down-sanders-warns-us-has-no-clue-about-speed-and-scale-of-coming-ai-revolution\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:56:10","slug":"slow-this-thing-down-sanders-warns-us-has-no-clue-about-speed-and-scale-of-coming-ai-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/slow-this-thing-down-sanders-warns-us-has-no-clue-about-speed-and-scale-of-coming-ai-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Slow this thing down\u2019: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After meeting with unspecified tech leaders, senator calls for urgent policy action as companies race to build ever more powerful systems<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders has warned that Congress and the American public have \u201cnot a clue\u201d about the scale and speed of the coming AI revolution, pressing for urgent policy action to \u201cslow this thing down\u201d as tech companies race to build ever-more powerful systems.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Stanford University on Friday alongside congressman Ro Khanna after a series of meetings with industry leaders in California, Sanders was blunt about what he called the \u201cmost dangerous moment in the modern history of this country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/ai-revolution-bernie-sanders-warning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After meeting with unspecified tech leaders, senator calls for urgent policy action as companies race to build ever more powerful systems Bernie Sanders has warned that Congress and the American public have \u201cnot a clue\u201d about the scale and speed of the coming AI revolution, pressing for urgent policy action to \u201cslow this thing down\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Slow this thing down\u2019: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/slow-this-thing-down-sanders-warns-us-has-no-clue-about-speed-and-scale-of-coming-ai-revolution\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Slow this thing down\u2019: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}