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Who Is AI For? | Pro-Human Assembly, 2026

In a 20-minute speech at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, Steve Bannon argues that AI company leaders are using a safety crisis to build a cartel and shift liability onto the public, and calls for executive action and a quarantine of China's AI ecosystem.

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Why it matters

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What it means for you

Bannon says AI companies want ordinary Americans to carry the risks, including possible bailouts, while the companies keep the gains.

For lawmakers

Bannon says rules should come first through executive action rather than slow legislation, combined with cutting China off from American AI technology, talent and capital.

The question it raises

Bannon frames the question as whether citizens will be supplicants to AI company leaders, and where the gains from AI should go.

In their own words

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“What they want is to socialize all the risk with the American people, including potential bailouts when they come, and they want to keep all the upside.”
Steve BannonBannon on what AI company leaders seek, after saying their recent calls for controls are a bald-faced lie.
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“And this is not legislation. This is going to have to be executive action.”
Steve BannonBannon says the first step is to slow the pace, because legislation would be complicated and slow.
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“Yes, I would like to have some international agreements with the Chinese Communist Party. Not that they would ever live up to anything, particularly on something this deadly. I think that would be great. I also think it doesn't matter.”
Steve BannonBannon on an international agreement with China, before arguing that the US should act first.
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“We should quarantine now every aspect of the ecosystem of artificial intelligence away from the Chinese Communist Party today.”
Steve BannonBannon's proposal on China, which Bannon says would buy time to design a regulatory body.
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The record

Questions
Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment? · What happens to work, income and the economy?
People
Steve Bannon (Speaks) · Joe Allen (Mentioned) · Bernie Sanders (Mentioned, Senator) · Marsha Blackburn (Mentioned, Senator)
What we read
We read the whole source.
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Cite this
Future of Life Institute, “Who Is AI For? | Pro-Human Assembly, 2026”, November 5, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/fli-2026-11-05-bannon-pro-human-assembly-speech
Our notesAuto-generated captions. Bannon states as fact that OpenAI's IPO was pulled over a risk disclosure of a 10% chance of destroying humanity; this was not checked and should not be repeated without a source. Bannon also makes claims about AI amnesty votes (99 to 1) and Chinese students that were not verified.