Senator Bernie Sanders thinks OpenAI should be broken up, and worries about the onslaught of AI: 'It's like a meteor coming to this planet. We gotta be prepared to deal with it in all of its complexit

AI represents many things to many people. To some, a way to tackle menial work. To others, a tool for usurping artists and laying off workers . To Nvidia, it represents a significant portion of its $5 trillion valuation. To Senator Bernie Sanders, a meteor metaphor. Say that three times fast.

In a recent conversation with Axios (via Futurism ), Sanders ponders the potential downsides of such a technology. He tells host Alex Thompson, "I worry… what the enormous transformational impact in our economy will be through AI and robotics."

When questioned on whether he thinks OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, should be broken up, he says, "yeah, I do". He suggests it's deeper than just that, though and that AI in general is "like a meteor coming to this planet. We gotta be prepared to deal with it