Sanders, Bannon, Hollywood Elite Join Forces

An AI safety summit in Washington includes two people you don't often see on the same bill: Sen. Bernie Sanders and Trump ally Steve Bannon. They're headlining Tuesday's "Pro-Human Assembly," organized by the Future of Life Institute, to push for tighter guardrails on artificial intelligence and keeping humans in charge of key decisions, reports Axios. Joining them is former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who resigned last week over safety concerns and said it's widely believed within the industry that AI could "kill us all by the end of the decade." He tells ABC News the time is ripe for such a chat.

The event backs a "Pro-Human AI Declaration" emphasizing human agency, limits on corporate power, and tougher accountability. It lands as some industry leaders call for slowing AI development, and King Charles convenes AI leaders for a similar discussion across the pond. Speakers at Tuesday's event include Hollywood actors Ashley Judd and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, labor leaders, religious figures, and congressional progressives and conservatives, underscoring how pervasive AI concerns are, even as Congress has yet to turn that unease into law. Previewing comments ahead of the event, several speakers noted that the lack of AI protections is a key issue for voters heading into the midterms.