Sanders wants 20 years in prison for building superintelligent AI.
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar filed a bill on Wednesday to outlaw artificial superintelligence permanently. Breaking it would carry up to 20 years in jail, the penalty for illegally building nuclear weapons. The bill also pauses frontier AI work, but faces long odds in a Republican-controlled Congress.
Why it mattersA sitting senator now wants to outlaw the very thing top AI labs call their goal. The bill will likely fail, but it shows how far the safety argument has moved.
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