Bloomington, Indiana unanimously bans deploying recursive self-improving superintelligence within city limits
pickover · x · 2026-11-11
The Bloomington Common Council unanimously passed Ordinance 2026-29, banning distribution, deployment, and activation of Artificial Superintelligence within city limits.
- What's banned: systems capable of recursive self-improvement that significantly outperform all humans across all cognitive tasks without continuous human oversight; standard tools like ChatGPT and Claude remain permitted.
- Remote access rule: the ban covers browser sessions, APIs, or devices accessed from within Bloomington even if servers sit outside Indiana.
A rare case of city-level AI regulation reaching beyond state jurisdiction.
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