# Sanders Tells Three AI Chief Executives to Pause Development or Face the Senate

The letter cites the Stanford and Arc Institute study published in Science on August 6 in which generative models designed 16 working viruses that do not exist in nature.

- Published: 2026-08-11T06:26:24.055Z
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Senator Bernie Sanders wrote to Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, and Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, asking them to pause artificial intelligence development, in a lett…

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