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Far-left senator Bernie Sanders is working with individuals closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party in his crusade against artificial intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n Sanders on Wednesday evening will sit down with Chinese nationals Xue Lan, a professor at the CCP-funded Tsinghua University, and Zeng Yi, the dean of the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance. The event is slated to examine the \u201cexistential threat\u201d posed by AI and the need for international cooperation to regulate it.<\/p>\n The Tsinghua University is China\u2019s top engineering school and works hand in hand with the Chinese government and military. The university has been linked to the CCP\u2019s cyber-espionage campaigns<\/a> targeting the United States \u2014 the university owns companies and projects tied to Beijing\u2019s priorities to achieve technological breakthroughs.<\/p>\n In 2018, Chinese cyber actors targeted Alaskan networks and organizations at the center of trade negotiations with the Alaska state government. The surveillance attacks occurred before, during, and after the negotiations between China and the governor. The United States is a top study abroad destination for the highly skilled student engineers whose top employers after university <\/span>are<\/span><\/a> Nvidia\u2019s Chinese rival Huawei, the State Grid Corporation of China, and China\u2019s Aerospace, Science, and Technology Corporation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Yi, of the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance, is an advocate of scaling back AI, warning of <\/span>environmental concerns that \u201cfall disproportionately on the most vulnerable.\u201d He argues AI is driving mass surveillance and discrimination.<\/p>\n The campaign from Sanders and his Chinese allies to scale back AI comes as President Donald Trump pushes to make sure the United States stays at the front of the AI race. Trump launched his \u201cAmerican AI Action Plan\u201d in July 2025, which made a commitment to AI development, absent onerous regulation and infrastructure inhibitions. Sanders\u2019 event advocates for the opposite.<\/span><\/p>\n The event has been criticized by prominent voices in the American tech industry, such as Marc Andreessen, who called the involvement of China \u201cconcerning.\u201d There have been warnings from the tech industry that the American left will be China\u2019s only hope to leapfrog America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Joe Lonsdale, the co-founder of the defense giant Palantir, said China is desperate to catch up with the United States in the AI fight.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe United States has opened a significant civilizational lead versus China when it comes to the defense and economic situation around Artificial Intelligence,\u201d Lonsdale said, warning that China is \u201cdesperate to use the left\u201d to set America back. <\/span><\/p>\n He said it\u2019s difficult to tell whether the left is on China\u2019s side or just naive. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCCP leadership encourages regressive socialist views in the United States of America, in [a] desperate attempt to slow adversaries\u2019 economic and military advantage.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sanders leads the Left\u2019s campaign against AI, proposing an AI moratorium in December. He also frequently voices concern over the technology turning on humans. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf AI becomes smarter than human beings, we could lose control over this revolutionary technology and AI could turn against the human race with cataclysmic consequences,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s AI czar David Sacks argues the opposite. \u201cAs I\u2019ve <\/span>said many times before, the biggest risk of AI isn\u2019t James Cameron\u2019s The Terminator, it\u2019s George Orwell\u2019s 1984,\u201d he wrote in an X post<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Sacks says the AI safety crowd will inevitably \u201cbring about the Orwellian future they claim to oppose\u201d because \u201ctheir solutions always favor more government centralization and control.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He also argues it\u2019s crucial that the United States reign over China on AI superiority, or the rest of the world will embed China\u2019s technology into their ecosystems. Sacks claims China\u2019s models enforce ideological bias, censorship, and historical revisionism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n