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The Bannon-Bernie Bromance over AI and Oligarchs

The Bannon-Bernie Bromance over AI and Oligarchs

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The odd couples, who would have been hard to fathom just weeks ago, are also reshaping the legislative agenda. “The American citizens are not going to be supplicants to the oligarchs anymore,” the MAGA strategist said in what easily could have been a continuation of the Vermont socialist’s remarks. “The robots are not going to be taking over the world,” he told Huang, who took the call while speaking at a summit in Los Angeles and put it on speakerphone for the crowd to hear.

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PoliticsThe Only Thing Capable of Uniting Bernie and BannonThey both fear that AI could wipe out humanity.By Toluse OlorunnipaFinn Gomez / GettySeptember 15, 2026, 8:09 PM ET ShareSave If there was any question over whether the concept of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is still operative in Washington’s hyper-partisan political environment, the answer may be found in the budding coalition of progressives and MAGA-friendly activists who have united in recent days to speak out against artificial intelligence.

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