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Bernie Sanders proposes to ban 'superintelligence' and put violators in prison

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1h agoHN ↗

This isn't going to play well with Trump renaming AI to "superintelligence"...

1h agoHN ↗

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Ban-Artifi...

The applies to any system trained on computing power greater than or equal to 10²⁵ integer or floating-point operations. The Secretary of AI is required to adjust this threshold annually to maintain equivalency as training methods become more efficient over time. The bill bans systems exhibiting or easily modified to show human-surpassing cognition across most domains or existential threat capabilities capable of disempowering humanity.