For forty years, you have been a champion of the cause, a man on the barricades. You have dedicated your entire political life to fighting for the worker and against the greed of big money. But today, at the most critical crossroads in human history, you are blind. You look at artificial intelligence (AI) and see an enemy. You see Big Tech, you see billionaires, and your reflex is to tax, slow down, and halt progress.

But Senator, hear this hard truth: you are fighting a war from the last century. You are trapped in an industrial mindset from the 1970s, when the factory gate marked the edge of the world. Through that outdated lens, you view AI as a thief stealing jobs. Yet the reality is that AI holds the key to breaking the chains of the working class. Your fear makes you conservative, your blind spot turns you into an unwitting ally of the status quo.

It is time to open your eyes. Look at what is truly possible if you dare to combine your political courage with the future.

AI does not steal jobs, it abolishes the slavery of wage labor.

You want to protect jobs. But why? Why do you want a human being to spend forty hours a week filling out forms, hauling boxes in a distribution center, or performing grueling administrative tasks? That is not human dignity, that is a struggle for survival.

In the world of tomorrow, AI automates tasks, not people. AI is the ultimate engine of productivity. If we embrace this technology, no one will have to toil just to pay the rent. A 20-hour workweek will become the standard. People will reclaim their lives, their time, and their creativity. You are so busy defending the right to work that you are blind to the right to freedom. AI is the only technology that can truly liberate the worker from the tyranny of the clock.

Your moratoriums on construction are a capitulation, not a solution.

Together with your progressive allies, you are demanding a halt to the construction of AI data centers. You want to slow down processes to save the climate. What a monumental miscalculation. Do you really think China, Europe, or the rest of the world will wait until Washington is done meeting? If you bring American innovation to a standstill, the future will move abroad. That is when the American worker will truly lose everything.

Take off those defensive glasses. A true visionary doesn’t ban data centers, they demand that these centers become the catalyst for the energy transition. Force tech giants to finance and build cutting-edge, clean energy sources, such as advanced nuclear fusion. Let AI analyze complex data to solve the climate crisis and design new materials. AI is not the polluter, it is the only scientist fast enough to save the planet.

Stop redistributing scarcity, create abundance.

Your entire economic philosophy is based on scarcity: there is a pie, and billionaires have too big a slice, so we must redistribute it. That was a noble goal for the 20th century. But the modern AI economy creates a post-scarcity world. The pie isn’t being sliced ​​differently, the pie is becoming infinitely large.

When autonomous systems take over production, healthcare diagnostics, and education, costs will drop to zero. Wealth will become digital and exponential. By taxing AI companies into oblivion, you are destroying the engine of that abundance. What we need is the AI ​​Dividend: a direct flow of the fruits of these machines into every citizen’s pocket. Not a complex bureaucratic construct, but immediate economic security. Free, top-tier education via AI mentors for every child in the Bronx, free, life-saving medical diagnoses for everyone in Vermont. That is not a utopia; it is the logical outcome of technology guided by social justice.

The choice is yours: the conscience of the past, or the architect of the future.

Senator Sanders, you possess the unique political will to make this happen. Young people are listening to you. But if you continue to feed them fear of the future and nostalgia for the past, you are letting them down.

Do not be the man who stood on the sidelines shouting that machines were dangerous while the world changed. Claim the machines for the people. Become the architect of a world where technology does not widen the divide, but instead secures lasting equality and freedom for humanity.

Open your eyes, Senator and lead in an innovative future!