13 September 2026
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Policy & Power

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AI regulation 2Anthropic 2AI control 1AI drug discovery 1AI risk 1AI scientific discovery 1AI-generated media 1Chain-of-thought monitoring 1Claude 1Data privacy 1Deepfakes 1Emad Mostaque 1Language models 1Local AI 1Meta 1OpenAI 1Surveillance 1

Sanders wants an AI pause; Moonshots argues for stronger defenses

Bernie Sanders invoked the AI labs’ own safety commitments in demanding a development pause. On Moonshots, Emad Mostaque and the panel argued instead for controls on biological synthesis and faster detection of threats—but a proposal to monitor every AI prompt raised a different question: how much privacy would those defenses cost?

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