‘Do not let Sauron have the ring’: Voorhees warns against a government veto on AI

“Do not let Sauron have the ring,” Erik Voorhees, founder of AI service Venice, wrote on Nov. 12, warning against giving politicians control over artificial intelligence. His post as @ErikVoorhees targeted the concentration of political power over machine intelligence. His warning followed a clip of All-In co-host David Sacks predicting a Democratic push for a federal department to approve frontier AI models before release. A September Sanders-Casar bill already proposes such a department and approval powers for covered advanced AI systems. El-Sayed's October Senate campaign platform proposes an agency that could block releases, with a different set of safeguards. The clip published by @firesidealpha on Nov. 7 shows Sacks predicting a major Democratic push for AI legislation in the next Congress.

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