Bernie Sanders Warns Against Big Tech's Transhumanist Vision in The Atlantic

In an essay published by The Atlantic, US Senator Bernie Sanders argues that the technological ambitions of the world's most powerful figures should not be dismissed as the idle fantasies of science-fiction-obsessed teenagers. According to Sanders, these are instead the foundational beliefs of extremely wealthy individuals who are directing trillions of dollars toward making them real. The piece frames the debate over artificial intelligence and transhumanism as a question of who controls humanity's direction, warning against allowing large technology corporations to set that course. Sanders positions the concentration of both wealth and technological power in the hands of a small oligarchy as the central danger, and calls for public scrutiny and regulation rather than passive acceptance. The essay appears in The Atlantic's Ideas section under the headline urging that Big Tech not be permitted to dictate humanity's future.