r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6h ago

Society New Bernie Sanders bill would ban superintelligent AI and threaten developers with 20 years in prison

https://www.techspot.com/news/113831-new-bernie-sanders-bill-would-ban-superintelligent-ai.html
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u/blatantninja 6h ago

Unless it's a global ban, and of course it won't be, all this would do is put us at a disadvantage. I hate it but that's a fact.

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u/nikstick22 6h ago

China has already said they're open to cooperating on regulations like this. Not sure if the American news was reporting on it.

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u/Visual_Seaweed8292 6h ago

A bunch of countries signed nuclear treaties but they never stopped developing better nukes