Sanders and Casar propose permanent ban on superintelligence, drawing pushback
___Patrice___ · x · 2026-09-25
Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar proposed a permanent ban on superintelligence. Critics argue outlawing more capable intelligence is a spectacularly bad way to let ordinary people share in AI's wealth, with one replier calling it "dinosaurs thinking like dinosaurs."
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