# Bernie Sanders **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** Public thought / artificial intelligence / governance **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Bernie Sanders** is a United States senator whose work in this corpus is relevant to labor, inequality and proposals to slow advanced AI deployment. ## Article Context [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] uses a source-attributed statement from artificial-superintelligence and data-center legislation as an independent intellectual object inside its analysis of public competence, technological risk and AI transition governance. The quotation is preserved as that speaker's position rather than treated as Bryant McGill's voice. ## Relationships - [[wiki/AI Transition Governance|AI Transition Governance]] - [[wiki/Public Epistemic Capacity|Public Epistemic Capacity]] - [[wiki/AI Risk Communication|AI Risk Communication]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “It doesn’t take a genius to say, ‘slow it down.’” > **— Bernie Sanders**, *Artificial-superintelligence legislation, September 23, 2026* [[reminders/AI-Science Doomers/It Does Not Take a Genius to Slow AI Down by Bernie Sanders|It Does Not Take a Genius to Slow AI Down by Bernie Sanders]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] — article context and complete attribution.