Sanders AI bill could bring 20-year sentences, its superintelligence bar may already be met by open models
victor_explore · x · 2026-09-27
Ex-White House AI czar David Sacks warns that Bernie Sanders' AI bill would expose developers to up to 20 years in prison, and its definition of "superintelligence" is so loose that today's models may already qualify.
The post adds that criminalizing a capability threshold nobody can pin down turns every open-weight model on a developer's laptop into a legal question — the chilling effect Sacks means. If passed tomorrow, AI development work would grind to a halt.
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