Sanders and Casar propose permanent superintelligence ban, drawing AI community pushback
VraserX · x · 2026-09-24
Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar have proposed a permanent ban on superintelligence. VraserX pushes back: he wants ordinary people to share in AI's wealth and eventually stop working just to survive, calling permanent outlawing of more capable intelligence "a spectacularly bad way" to get there, asking why protecting workers always seems to mean protecting the need to work.
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