Sanders: 'Embarrassing' how 'ignorant' Trump is on AI

Bernie Sanders calling Donald Trump “ignorant” about AI isn’t a warning bell. It’s a TV segment. The senator went on MS NOW to say it’s “embarrassing” how little Trump supposedly knows about the “dangers of AI,” and we’re supposed to gasp and clap because Bernie used a scary acronym. Name-calling is not an AI policy. If Sanders has something concrete he thinks the next president should do, he can say it without turning it into a personality test.

Here’s the part Sanders skipped: the people who’ve been running Washington’s “serious” tech conversations are the same ones who let Big Tech get fat off our data, our kids, and our jobs. They hold hearings, issue white papers, then act shocked when deepfakes spread and workers get replaced. The “experts” had their chance and they punted. Trump, for all the sniping, is the one who actually talks about protecting American workers and pushing back on corporate power when it’s stomping on the country.

AI is real. It’s going to touch national security, elections, the classroom, the workplace. We should want a president who asks the basic questions: Who controls the models? Where’s the data coming from? Are we letting China set the pace? Are we letting a handful of companies write the rules for everyone else? This can’t be another gift to Silicon Valley. If Sanders wants to help, fine. But yelling “ignorant” on cable doesn’t keep anyone safe, doesn’t create a single job, and doesn’t stop a single bad actor.