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Bernie Sanders: “Billionaire friends, Mr. Musk, Mr. Bezos, Mr. Zuckerberg…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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FULL SPEECH: Bernie discusses the existential threat of AI and endless war in Ohio

Published | Video Starts at 17:47

But it's not only the militarism of Trump that we've got to worry about. We got to worry about another issue that I fear is not getting the attention that it deserves. Right now, our Billionaire friends, Mr. Musk, Mr. Bezos, Mr. Zuckerberg, Mr. Ellison and others are spending hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars developing artificial intelligence and robotics. Mr. Bezos himself just recently is now working on creating a hundred billion dollar fund to quote, unquote, automate factories in America and abroad. Do you all know what automating factories means? (17:47–18:02)

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Asserts that billionaires are investing heavily in AI and robotics development.

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