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.
More from Safety
- Outsider with no GitHub role deleted Dodo Payments' private repo, audit log shows — kingslyj · 2026-10-28
- OpenAI researcher: frontier AI ideas can't be patched for safety after the fact — willdepue · 2026-10-28
- Altman: models will find bugs 'outside the normal threat model' and patching won't save us — wfithian · 2026-10-28
- Report claims Anthropic Slack breach gave attackers full admin access to research secrets — willdepue · 2026-10-28
- Codex scans your connectors/MCPs unprompted in the background, and you can't tell — kenziyuliu · 2026-10-28
- Claude analysis flags TikTok and Instagram for allegedly bypassing mic permissions — thunderbong · 2026-10-28