After Anthropic got an invitation from Pope Leo XIV for his encyclical on artificial intelligence, OpenAI is looking for its own moral authority to latch onto. It seems that Altman and company have chosen Bernie Sanders. After the Senator announced he would be introducing legislation for the federal government to take a 50% ownership stake in frontier AI labs, Altman reportedly requested a meeting with Sanders. Keep an eye out for white smoke pouring out from a data center to know if the meeting went well. Sanders revealed that he would be meeting with Altman on Wednesday during an appearance on CNN. When asked by Katie Collins if he’d be sitting down with Altman, Sanders confirmed he would be and said it was Altman who asked for the face-to-face (though whether they’d talk about Sanders’ proposal for partial nationalization of the AI industry, the Senator said, “Who knows?”).…