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Bernie Sanders rallies with labor leaders for AI protections and tells oligarchs, ‘Go to hell.’

Union leaders across industries joined the Vermont senator to push for jobs protections as the technology quickly evolves. Sanders has called for a pause on data center construction and warned that left unchecked, within ten years, “the idea of a manufacturing job will no longer exist.”

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