Sanders, Casar Want to Outlaw AI ‘Superintelligence’ and Pause Advanced AI
Bernie Sanders wants Washington to draw a hard legal line around the most powerful forms of artificial intelligence.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, are preparing to introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently prohibit the development and deployment of superintelligent AI while temporarily pausing advanced AI development until a federal regulator establishes safety rules.
The proposal would also push the U.S. to negotiate international agreements aimed at preventing superintelligence from being developed elsewhere.
The lawmakers define artificial superintelligence broadly, including AI capable of matching or exceeding human cognitive performance across a wide range of tasks, as well as systems capable of undermining governments or resisting shutdown commands.
“Nearly every day, there is a frightening new story about how Big Tech companies are losing control of the technology they are developing, with potentially cataclysmic results,” Sanders said in a statement from his office.
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