Sen. Bernie Sanders is gathering his Senate colleagues for a briefing on artificial intelligence, the latest move in his increasingly aggressive campaign to force Washington to reckon with a technology he believes is barreling forward without adequate oversight.
The case Sanders is building
Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has assembled a body of work over the past year that paints AI as an existential economic threat to working Americans. A late 2025 report from his committee estimated that AI and automation could eliminate nearly 100 million US jobs over the next decade.
The projected losses cut across industries in ways that are hard to ignore. According to the committee’s figures, 47% of truck drivers, 64% of accountants, and 89% of fast food workers could see their roles replaced by AI systems.
Sanders has referenced AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “godfather of AI,” to bolster his argument that artificial intelligence may soon surpass human intelligence entirely.
