GOP Lawmaker: Bernie Sanders Is A ‘Threat To National Security’ | EUROtoday

House Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) known as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) a “threat to national security” Monday forward of Sanders’ plans to host high Chinese specialists in a dialogue in regards to the dangers of synthetic intelligence.

“America-last Sen. Sanders is a guy that has a history of embracing communism, visiting the Soviet Union,” Crawford mentioned on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria.” “It was back during the Cold War when Americans typically did not go to the Soviet Union, but that was a vacation destination for him.”

Claiming that Sanders, a self-declared Democratic Socialist, “embraces Chinese communism,” the GOP lawmaker added, “All I can say is if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it’s a duck.”

Crawford additionally described Sanders as a “communist,” and mentioned he’s a “threat to national security.”

HuffPost has reached out to Sanders’ workplace for remark.

In March, Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, which might put a maintain on new information facilities within the U.S. till nationwide AI security laws and safeguards are put into place to guard staff, shoppers and the atmosphere.

Sanders introduced on X final week that he plans to host a dialogue on Wednesday night with “leading AI scientists from the US and China about the need for international cooperation against this existential threat,” which he known as “an enormously important issue.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent additionally blasted Sanders, writing in a Monday X submit: “The United States is home to the most talented AI researchers in the world. Instead of harnessing American innovation, Senator Sanders is inviting foreign nationals to tell the United States how to regulate AI.”

Bessent added that the “real threat to AI safety is letting any nation other than the United States set the global standard.”