Mock city-council ordinance banning recursive self-improving AI, printed on a T-shirt
matdryhurst · x · 2026-11-09
AI researcher Mat Dryhurst shared a meme T-shirt printed with a deadpan fictional ordinance: "Bloomington, Indiana's city council voted unanimously this week to ban any recursively self-improving entity capable of greatly outperforming all humans on all cognitive tasks from inside city limits, citing existential hazards and loss of human control."
The joke grafts grandiose AGI existential-risk language onto a small-town council vote — a parody of AI regulation discourse.
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