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Sanders and Casar's Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act carries a 20-year prison penalty and a corporate death penalty
Announced September 3 by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, the bill would permanently prohibit superintelligent AI, pause advanced AI development until a new cabinet-level federal AI regulator is operating, and pursue international agreements and export controls. It defines superintelligence by capability breadth or by capacity to disempower humanity, including subverting shutdown commands, with no compute threshold specified. Individual violators face up to 20 years, explicitly compared to unlawfully developing nuclear weapons; corporate violators face dissolution.
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