Senator Bernie Sanders recently hosted a panel on "The Existential Threat of AI," featuring Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark and other x-riskers. Dr. Nathalie Maréchal joins Emily and Alex to unpack this latest stop on Bernie's descent into doomerism. We return to the MST3k model with a rare video artifact! Nathalie Maréchal is a writer, researcher and advocate fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. Her latest article, ["Tech Policy Is on the Front Line of Fascism vs. Democracy. Pick a Side,"](https://www.techpolicy.press/tech-policy-is-on-the-front-line-of-fascism-vs-democracy-pick-a-side/) is available in Tech Policy Press. She is currently the managing policy director at Northeastern University’s Institute for Information, the Internet, and Democracy. *References:* - ["LIVE: The Existential Threat of AI and the Need for International Cooperation"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjBfS3AEk2c) *Fresh AI Hell:* - ["The AI Pledge for Humanity" petition](https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-ai-pledge-for-humanity) - [Richard Dawkins force-femmes a chatbot](https://archive.is/6RdK9) - [Anthropic claims LLMs have "emotion concepts"](https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function) - [Palantir wants us all to stop being mean to data centers](https://archive.is/Hqsou) - ["Optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again"](https://bsky.app/profile/alexhanna.bsky.social/post/3mkavytwfgk2v) - [Luxury surveillance cat](https://bsky.app/profile/standplaatskrk.pl/post/3mkb5zu4nm22o) Check out future streams on [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute). Meanwhile, [send us any AI Hell you see](https://thecon.ai/submit-fresh-ai-hell/). Find our book *The AI Con* [here](https://thecon.ai/), and MAIHT3k merch [here](https://store.dair-institute.org/category/mystery-ai-hype-theater-series). Subscribe to our newsletter [via Buttondown](https://buttondown.com/maiht3k). Follow Emily: [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/emilymbender.bsky.social)/[Mastodon](https://dair-community.social/@EmilyMBender) Follow Alex: [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/alexhanna.bsky.social)/[Mastodon](https://dair-community.social/@alex) Music by Toby Menon. Artwork by [Naomi Pleasure-Park](https://naomipleasurepark.com/). Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.