Why Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon teamed up in the AI fight

Welcome to the daily Inside Scoop newsletter. So a bunch of AI skeptics gathered in Washington today. Let’s say it was a motley crew. There was Sen. Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, Ashley Judd and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, among many others. It was called, get this, the Pro-Human Assembly. Moral of the story: They may be from different political movements and have different motivations, but they’re on the same page about the dangers they say AI poses. AI and tech reporter Jared Perlo filled us in. Plus, I texted with senior reporter Jane C. Timm about the Supreme Court decision that keeps mail-in voting unchanged for the midterms. Let’s get into it. A progressive firebrand and a former chief strategist to Trump have become unlikely allies in the fight to throttle AI’s explosive growth amid warnings about its destructive potential.