LIVE: Sanders, Labor Leaders Call on Congress to Protect Workers from AI

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · April 16, 2026

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Opening: Sanders frames AI as transformative and risky

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Sen. Bernie Sanders opened by characterizing AI and robotics as the most consequential technologies in history, highlighting risks to mental health, privacy, foreign policy and potential catastrophic outcomes if AI becomes independent of human control; he said the forum would focus on economic impacts for workers.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders hosted a forum with major labor leaders who urged Congress to enact worker-centered AI rules and a moratorium on new AI data centers until protections are in place, warning of widespread job loss and harms to public services.

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