Bernie Sanders Proposes Banning Superintelligent AI and Imprisoning Developers for 20 Years
"When you are racing towards a cliff, you don’t just ease up on the gas pedal. You hit the brakes." The post Bernie Sanders Proposes Banning Superintelligent AI and Imprisoning Developers for 20 Years appeared first on Futurism .
Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont is pushing for a ban on the development of superintelligent AI and proposing severe penalties for those who defy such a ban. The urgency behind his proposal stems from the growing concern over rogue AI models that could endanger humanity. While tech leaders from the majority of frontier AI labs have shown support for slowing down AI development to prevent a potential catastrophe, Sanders believes that simply slowing down is not enough.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman have all agreed that the industry needs to pace the frontier by opening up to third-party evaluators, establishing common safety standards, and coordinating with other nations to enforce these standards. Sanders' newly introduced "Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act" aims to halt AI development until a federal regulator establishes safety rules.
If passed, the bill would set penalties of up to 20 years in prison for AI developers attempting to build superintelligent AI, similar to the existing penalties for unlawfully developing nuclear weapons.
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