Sen. Bernie Sanders is gathering Senate colleagues for an artificial intelligence briefing as he escalates efforts to push Washington toward stronger oversight of the technology. Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, has cited a late-2025 committee report estimating that AI and automation could eliminate nearly 100 million U.S. jobs over the next decade, including 47% of truck-driver roles, 64% of accounting jobs and 89% of fast-food positions. His campaign has included a U.S.-China AI risk event in April 2026, the AI Data Center Moratorium Act with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in March, and an Aug. 10, 2026, demand to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for a pause in AI development. Sanders has also proposed public ownership stakes in major AI companies through the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. In a Sept. 8, 2026, post on X, he said 81% of Americans believe Congress is not doing enough to regulate AI and that the industry is spending more than $300 million against candidates favoring tougher rules. He has warned that technology billionaires including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos wield disproportionate influence over AI development and deployment.