Bernie Sanders: “A handful of billionaires, you know, it's Musk and Bezos and…”

“And the implications of that bottom line is I'm not a Luddite and we have got to make sure though, that AI and robotics work for working people, not just to make these billionaires even richer. A handful of billionaires, you know, it's Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg and Altman and Ellison and some others, the richest people in the world are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI and robotics. Do you think they're worried about the implications of that for working people, the middle class? I don't think so. I think we got to take a deep breath.” (05:53–06:06)

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