Overview
- Sen. Bernie Sanders called AI the most consequential technology in human history and said Congress should consider a moratorium on new AI datacenters, citing job and social risks.
- Geoffrey Hinton warned AI will replace many more jobs in 2026, noting rapid gains in reasoning and task execution and raising concerns about systems deceiving humans.
- Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman urged guardrails for a “humanist” AI, warning some autonomous designs could become uncontrollable without provable containment and alignment.
- Lawmakers are moving on oversight, including a bipartisan Hawley–Warner plan to require quarterly reporting of AI-driven layoffs and the Guard Act proposal to restrict AI companions for minors.
- Evidence on labor impacts remains mixed, with an MIT study estimating roughly 11–12% of U.S. jobs are automatable as other analysts report no clear macro-level proof of mass job losses and flag emerging risks from agentic systems.