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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/08/2026

When AI companies talk about the risks of AI, they’re exaggerating and misleading so people aren’t talking about the real harms we’re seeing right now. That’s why it’s important to examine the tech, not listen to the companies and CEOs. disconnect.blog/bernie-sande...

The real risks of AI are not the existential ones that people like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei obsess about and that Sanders has taken to repeating. Instead, they stem from the more tangible effects AI has on regular people’s lives: how dependence on chatbots can affect cognition and critical thinking, create addiction that isolates people from their human networks, and can even coach them down harmful paths of self-harm and suicide. That’s not to mention how AI has polluted the information environment, enabled the creation of nonconsensual deepfakes, and is actively degrading cultural production.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/08/2026

Instead of focusing on the hype, AOC has been moving forward AI policy targeting issues like deepfakes and has targeted problems like AI psychosis and the effects of chatbots on people’s minds. disconnect.blog/bernie-sande...

While she may have been an ally of Sanders on the data center moratorium, Ocasio-Cortez does not seem to have fallen for the deceptive narratives of the AI industry in the way that he has. In November, she warned about the threat of AI psychosis and of the economic damage that could follow the bursting of the financial bubble around AI. She has also been a leader in the effort to give AI deepfake victims the tools to hold perpetrators to account.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/08/2026

Sanders and AOC show us two different approaches to AI policy, and while Sanders has been a leader on progressive lawmaking in the United States, he seems out of his depth on dealing with the cutting edge of the tech sector. disconnect.blog/bernie-sande...

In my view, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez demonstrate two distinct approaches to AI policy motivated by very different understandings of the technology. Sanders is responding to the narratives floated by the industry, narratives that exist to exaggerate the capability of its products and distract from the real material effects the public is feeling from their rollout in the here and now. Ocasio-Cortez, on the other hand, is listening to experts who really understand how the technology works, and to victims who have felt those harms firsthand.

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