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Steve Bannon and Susan Rice Agree on One Thing: AI Needs a Leash

There are exactly zero things Steve Bannon and Susan Rice agree on. Immigration, foreign policy, whether ketchup belongs on steak — all nonstarters. But AI? Turns out, that’s the one. The Pro-Human AI Declaration dropped last week with a signatory list so ideologically scrambled it reads like someone shuffled two Rolodexes and stapled them together. Bannon. Rice. Glenn Beck. Ralph Nader. Richard Branson. The AFL-CIO. SAG-AFTRA. Turing Award laureate Yoshua Bengio. Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu. ...

March 9, 2026 · 5 min · DBBS Tech