Bloomington, Indiana passes ordinance banning superintelligent AGI within city limits
yoavgo · x · 2026-11-10
- AI researcher Yoav Goldberg shared a screenshot of Bloomington, Indiana's municipal ordinance (14.25.010), which declares it city policy to "prohibit the distribution and deployment of superintelligent artificial general intelligence within the city," invoking the "city's police power."
- The ordinance explicitly recognizes state-level regulation of superintelligence as optimal for long-term governance and frames the ban as an interim public safety measure during the "period of state legislative omission."
- The juxtaposition of solemn legal language with a sci-fi subject made it a viral curiosity in the AI community.
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