Bernie Sanders Gets Personal To PROVE Congress' FAILURE On AI

[Rhiannon12866]

Bernie Sanders showed how Congress is not prepared to deal with the impact AI could have on our society. - 04/13/2026.

[usonian]

1. Drump is already a chatbot. So is half of congress.

See for yourself.
The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

This is not the response of someone working from actual knowledge or policy understanding. Instead, it’s precisely how an LLM operates: taking a prompt (the question about job losses) and generating text based on some core parameters (the “system prompt” that requires deflecting blame and asserting greatness).

The hallmarks of AI generation are all here:
• Confident assertions without factual backing
• Meandering diversions that maintain loose semantic connection to the topic
• Pattern-matching to previous responses (“ripped off,” “billions of dollars”)
• Optimization for what sounds good rather than what’s true

Just as an LLM will confidently generate plausible-sounding text without any real understanding, Trump generates responses that sound like answers while avoiding any engagement with the actual substance of the questions.

He doesn’t answer the actual questions. He doesn’t address the actual points. He doesn’t understand what’s actually going on, so he crafts a rambling nonsensical answer based loosely on the question, while following the system prompt’s instructions to make sure the answer makes himself look good.

[jfz9580m]

2. Tfp

I will def.watch it. Bernie is awesome. I agree with his first question.
I really hope he also points out that it is overrated junk. My only issue with some ai criticism is it ends up perpetuating the fraudulent humblebrags of those guys.

Both Ed Zitron and Adam Becker point out how mostly it is just overhyped clunkware.

Important to point that out because it is such false advertising to portray it as this omnipresent, omnipotent, superintelligent threat rather than obnoxious, parasitic bloatware.

It is demoralising when you know that stuff is bunkum and yet other people are buying it and or repeating it. That’s what their shills in the tech press want.

Its a space and wealth grab without even a marginally commensurate return.

Would the average person consider it a good contract to hobble themselves all the time with bloatware with no expectation of any return on an investment you never chose to end up with fearmongering that these ai oligarchs pitch that dwarves Y2k but sidesteps the very real and serious nuisance value their “ai” has as invasive spyware engaged in an economic war of attrition hogging everything? It is not GIGO.

It is more like the human response to a pointless parasitic technology with no clear value except to these charlatans.

That is the worst deal ever when spelt out.

[MagaSmash]

3. There is hope if we could just replace government with AI.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

4. Bernie is, in a word..........

a "BELLWETHER"-"the leading sheep of a flock, with a bell on its neck., an indicator or predictor of something".

AI scares the crap out of me. (Thanks, Bernie.) With all the commotion and craziness about Trump and his antics, WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION to other real and present dangers!

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread Rhiannon

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Thanks so much, Uncle Joe!