Stop AI bill proposes criminalizing superintelligence with 20-year researcher sentences
Cagnazzo82 · reddit · 2026-09-12
- A Reddit post shares a screenshot claiming the "Stop AI" bill, crafted by politicians and anti-AI advocates, proposes criminalizing the pursuit of superintelligence, with researchers facing up to 20 years in prison.
- Backed by anti-AI advocacy groups, it's among the most aggressive legislative proposals to regulate superintelligence and is likely to draw strong backlash from the AI community. Specifics per the screenshot and original text.
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