Bernie's AI bill reportedly proposes 20-year prison terms for advanced AI developers
tzmartin · x · 2026-09-12
- A post by @venturetwins flagged a startling clause in Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposed AI bill: developers and researchers working on "advanced AI" could reportedly face up to 20 years in prison.
- tzmartin amplified it with the quip "a prison sentence for writing a sentence."
- If accurate, this would be one of the first legislative proposals to criminally penalize AI development directly, and it's drawing sharp pushback from the developer community.
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