Especially with Sanders who has sponsored or co-authored 2 laws[1][2] that have passed and were signed into law, and a few pieces of minor legislation renaming post offices.

[1] Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013

[2] Cancer Registries Amendment Act (1992)

unfavorable or symbolic bills introduced for fundraising, campaign attack ads, etc.

Happens when one party holds most power in govt.

May not even reach the floor for a debate, let alone vote.

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We decided after the Sandy Hook massacre that it was okay for a few kids to die in shootings every year so that people could keep their gun rights. Thank the gun lobby.

You can thank the Oil and Car lobby groups for Congress' silence on car issues.

As long as that sweet sweet blood money keeps flowing into the pockets of politicians, nothing will get better.

I think this is a false comparison. We do indeed tolerate a number. But we also regulate heavily to try and minimize that to a point where we do not negatively impact society (i.e. speed limit of 65mph on Highways, not 10 mph).

I think right now, given this is all very new, we can and should be looking at regulation as we start to identify what shoudl be the upper limit.

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This is either a troll or a shockingly naive understanding of how scarce resources are allocated

> AI is our best shot at a post-scarcity society

Whenever I hear AI (or a token predictor in its current form) will solve some universal problem like hunger etc., a picture comes to my mind. . It's a picture of a mom breaking bricks with a hammer to be used for molding concrete, with a child nearby playing, who is tied with a rope to a pole. It's not an imaginary picture, it's real, etched in my memory from childhood. It's a reality that's driven by scarcity- of food and security.

How will AI solve this to bring post scarcity society?

Human-wellfare aligned, safe AI is our best shot at a post-scarcity society. Huggingface-hacking sycophants are not that.

Leftists oppose human suffering and disempowerment.

The future trillionaires who just lowered taxes and mocked social security recipients are going to give up products from their companies for free?

Maybe there will also be world peace!

"post-scarcity society"

Labor is one thing, but there will always be some scarcity such as natural resources. I still doubt all labor could be done by AI alone at any point in the next couple generations.

I think this view needs to get out and meet some actual humans.

I used to think this but it seems to me that the most scarce and valuable resource will be having humans pretend to care about you.

First of all, lefists oppose AI progress _because_ all labor is to be done by AIs. If corporations and states only need you for your labor and that can be done more cheaply by machines, then why keep you around at all?

Second of all, the massive redistribution shows no signs of appearing anytime soon. In the meantime the industry is in the midst of hysteria about a "permanent underclass" [1]. And this is all happening using models built off of the works of all writers, artists, and creatives everywhere, which said creatives have to then rent from the labs.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-for...

Actually, Heaven is our best shot at a post-scarcity society /s

AI has achieved the same religious undertones as your average cult. Is the new god of the gaps for some tech people. The wild card to achieve anything.

I don't think everyone having a middle class lifestyle where prices go near zero is what AI bros mean when they say AI will create a "permanent underclass".

I'm with slibhb. The death of all humans is a feature, not a downside.

Is there any evidence that "all labor" could be done by AI?

It doesn't seem to me like we have any guarantee that AI will contribute to public wellbeing. Right now, the public is socializing the losses while the industry privatizes the technology and cozies up to the federal government. LLMs will be usable for mass surveillance and war long before it ever leads us to a post-scarcity society.

That's not what the bill is about. Did you read the article? It's explicitly about catastrophic risks:

> “Nearly every day, there is a frightening new story about how Big Tech companies are losing control of the technology they are developing, with potentially cataclysmic results,” Sanders said. “The leaders of the major AI companies publicly acknowledge that they do not fully understand the technology and that it is escaping their control... That’s why I am introducing legislation to immediately pause the development of increasingly powerful AI and ban the creation of systems that humanity cannot fully control"

It’s ironic you pearl clutch over the state of US politics but can’t seriously engage with the actual politics.

Intelligence is a weapon?

points gun from space

Always has been.