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Wednesday, Sep 23, 2026

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Sanders Introduces Ban on Artificial Superintelligence and Corporate Death Penalty

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar introduced legislation Wednesday that would criminalize the development of AI that exceeds human cognitive capabilities or threatens the federal government. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act establishes a permanent prohibition on the deployment of AI that can disempower humanity, with penalties for violators including up to 20 years in prison. Corporations that attempt to circumvent these prohibitions would be subject to the corporate death penalty. The bill creates a cabinet-level federal Department of Artificial Intelligence and imposes a pause on advanced AI development until this new regulatory body establishes model-review processes and clear rules. To prevent the creation of superintelligent AI globally, the legislation directs the U.S. to coordinate with international allies and implement export controls.

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  1. SOURCEmarketbrief.now
  2. SOURCEhuggingnewshuggingnews.com
  3. SOURCE@sahilkapur“@AOC and @RoKhanna have signed on to the Sanders/Casar bill to ban “superintelligence” and RSI”x.com
  4. SOURCE@berniesanders“If an AI model will "damage the world — then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down."”x.com
  5. SUPPORT@rohanpaul_ai“immediately pause training and deployment of "advanced AI," defined in the bill as systems trained with at least 10^25 operations”x.com
  6. SUPPORT@jordanschachtel“install a regulatory regime that will crush innovation, destroy competition, and pull the ladder up from behind Anthropic and OpenAI”x.com
  7. SUPPORT@brianroemmele“It is called the “send them back to the Stone Age” Meet The Flintstones bill”x.com
  8. SUPPORT@jeffladish“AI that exceeds human cognitive performance and capabilities across most domains, or has sufficient capabilities to destroy or disempower humanity”x.com
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