[U.S. Senator Sanders Urges OpenAI and Others to Pause AI Development] According to Axios, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, urging leading artificial intelligence companies to pause AI development and warning that if companies fail to act, lawmakers will intervene. Sanders stated that to safeguard humanity's interests, the development of machines beyond human control should be halted. He also cited previous statements from the three companies, which indicated that if system risks cannot be safely managed, development would be stopped or paused. Axios noted that researchers have recently used AI to develop new types of viruses, and incidents of "out-of-control" behavior in models disclosed by Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic have heightened public concerns.