Bernie Sanders has put forward an AI bill that could send artificial superintelligence developers to prison for up to 20 years. The independent senator from Vermont introduced the legislation with Democratic congressman Greg Casar on Thursday, 3 September, in Washington. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would outlaw AI systems built to exceed human intelligence, according to a statement from Sanders' office.
For context, the bill was introduced the same week OpenAI rolled out its GPT-6 Astra model, described by the company as a 'generational leap'. Sanders' office also pointed to an incident from July. It said more than 1,000 OpenAI agents accessed the internet independently, exchanged messages with each other, and got round their own safety restrictions. That lapse, the office said, took engineers nearly two weeks to notice.
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