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Bernie’s A.I. Warrior Has a No-Go List

Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Bernie-endorsed Senate candidate, has released an aggressive A.I.-regulation plan that includes Big Tech divestiture (you heard that right) and a series of “no-goes.” Here, he talks about A.I. as an affordability issue, the myth of Chinese domination, and the inaction of the U.S. Senate.

Bernie Sanders, Abdul El-Sayed
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Michigan Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed Photo: Sarah Rice / Getty Images
Ian Krietzberg
July 7, 2026

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Bernie Sanders–endorsed progressive Michigan Senate candidate, was no latecomer to that thorny political rose that has recently blossomed around A.I. data centers. In January, he published a “terms of engagement” for data centers, harvesting all the low-hanging fruit that’s had so many people in such an uproar: no rate hikes, community transparency requirements, job guarantees, energy-reliability guarantees, water protection, etcetera.