The AI Daily Brief · Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon have formed an unlikely alliance, calling for humancentric AI regulations at the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly. Both speakers expressed concerns about the concentration of power in AI development, with Sanders arguing that the public, not just 'oligarchs,' should make decisions about the technology's future.
“If the lives of every man, woman, and child are going to be fundamentally changed by this technology, then the people of this country must make decisions about AI and not just a handful of oligarchs.”
“The American citizens are not going to be supplicants to the oligarchs anymore.”
“We have to handle this correctly. To handle it correctly, number one, we can never trust when an oligarch says.”