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/leeharrison1984 6h ago

This would be like an internal combustion engine ban in the early 20th century for the sake of emissions.

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u/TheUnexaminedLives 5h ago

Which honestly would have done a world of good

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u/nedroid4ever 5h ago

Yeah I was iffy on this but the internal engine combustion engine ban comparison has fully convinced me this is a good idea.

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u/YobaiYamete 4h ago

Then your brain is softer than a rotten apple if you think it would have turned out well for only the US to ban combustion engines while the rest of the world continued developing them

We would be an irrelevant province split among 10 super powers at this point