News Summary

• Bernie Sanders will convene a private, bipartisan briefing for senators on the risks of artificial intelligence on 16 September.
• Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark and Ajeya Cotra will address the room for an hour on Capitol Hill.
• Hinton is one of the field’s most prominent critics of the direction AI is taking.
• Cotra is the independent researcher who investigated the Hugging Face breach.
• Sanders is not an unexpected choice as the organiser.
• He previously wrote to three AI chief executives calling on them to stop building.