{"id":6262,"date":"2025-10-27T20:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bernie-sanders-breakup-openai\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:15:21","slug":"bernie-sanders-breakup-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bernie-sanders-breakup-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is publicly calling on the government to break up ChatGPT maker OpenAI.<\/p>\n

When Axios<\/em> asked him<\/a> whether the Sam Altman-led company should be broken up, he responded with \u201cI do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to take a deep breath and understand it\u2019s like a meteor coming,\u201d he told the publication in an interview last week<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to be prepared to deal with all of its complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be clear, the idea is a serious long shot. While president Donald Trump ran on the promise of breaking up big tech, major companies spent millions on currying favor with him \u2014 including donations<\/a> for his latest White House ballroom project \u2014 with varying levels of success.<\/p>\n

Trump has also embraced AI fullheartedly during his second term, proudly announcing a massive $500 billion AI infrastructure project<\/a>, dubbed Stargate, soon after taking office. The initiative involves OpenAI, among other entities.<\/p>\n

Whether OpenAI is an anti-competitive monopoly in need of breaking up remains a point of contention<\/a>. Plenty of alternatives to its AI models exist, including Google\u2019s Gemini and Anthropic\u2019s Claude.<\/p>\n

In a statement to Axios<\/em>, OpenAI\u2019s head of policy communications, Liz Bourgeois, argued that the company is \u201cbuilding in a field shaped for decades by a few large technology companies with deep resources and structural advantages.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur growth reflects something simple: People find what we\u2019re building useful,\u201d she added. \u201cThis is what healthy competition looks like in the US \u2014 offering better choices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others have called for regulatory intervention following concerns of a growing AI bubble, which could leave the US economy in ruins<\/a> in case it were to burst.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first step to a healthier market is to break up companies that are vertically integrated, so that platforms don\u2019t compete with their customers,\u201d Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator director of AI and technology policy Asad Ramzanali wrote in a recent piece for TIME<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ramzanali pointed at AI chipmaker Nvidia\u2019s eyebrow-raising $100 billion investment<\/a> in OpenAI, a \u201ccircular\u201d deal that fueled fears over a looming AI bubble.<\/p>\n

\u201cChips must be independent from clouds, and clouds must be independent from AI models,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThose models should compete on merit, not on whether they\u2019re tethered to a trillion-dollar sponsor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides calling for the breakup of OpenAI, Sanders argued during last week\u2019s interview that AI could have an \u201cenormous transformational impact\u201d while also potentially causing \u201cmassive\u201d job losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to see small businesses develop,\u201d he added. \u201cI want to see creativity out there in the economy. Ain\u2019t going to do any good for the younger people if the entry level jobs are taken over by AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

The senator also said he\u2019s concerned about \u201chow we relate to each other as human beings,\u201d while taking direct aim at AI startup Friend, which made headlines for its controversial wearable<\/a> that\u2019s designed to act as a companion. The company\u2019s New York subway ad campaign drew major backlash<\/a> and ignited a heated discussion surrounding the role of AI in our daily lives.<\/p>\n

The news comes after Sanders shared a report earlier this month<\/a> about the impact AI could have on jobs over the next decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI and automation could destroy nearly 100 million US jobs in a decade,\u201d the report<\/a> reads, noting that the \u201ceconomic gains\u201d in AI \u201chave gone almost exclusively to those at the top.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, Sanders called for a \u201crobot tax\u201d to be levied against large corporations to distribute to workers whose lives are upended by technological automation, a radical solution that will likely draw plenty of skepticism. For one, the vast majority of companies are currently struggling<\/a> to generate revenue using AI.<\/p>\n

In short, Sanders is making no secret about his disdain for the AI industry\u2019s disregard for working-class people.<\/p>\n

In a separate interview with Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> last week, Bernie took aim at Trump\u2019s personal embrace of AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump is taking this country in a whole new direction,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a guy who puts up an AI image of him in an airplane defecating on American cities \u2014 not quite the image of the president of the United States that I was educated to respect when I was in the fourth grade,\u201d Sanders added, referring to a controversial AI-generated video<\/a> Trump posted on social media, depicting him releasing feces on protesters.<\/p>\n

More on Bernie Sanders:<\/strong> Bernie Sanders Has a Fascinating Idea About How to Prevent AI From Wiping Out the Economy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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