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Sanders proposing treating AI superintelligence like nuclear weapons.
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A strange trip through the U.S. prison system's never-ending cycle of failure and reform
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) have introduced new legislation that would ban anyone from developing artificial superintelligence - a technology the bill describes as capable of the "destruction or disempowerment of humanity," including by overthrowing the government. Under the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act , AI leaders would face up to 20 years in prison for violating the law. The bill doesn't just ban the more powerful artificial superintelligence; it would also pause the development of advanced AI systems, which lawmakers classify as frontier models trained on a specific threshold of data. The law would only … Read the full story at The Verge.