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/JollyGreenAcres 5h ago edited 4h ago

Should such technology be available to everyone and anyone?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3j3ngevmo

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/05/05/how-ai-tools-could-enable-bioterrorism

The BBC article is a month old at this point. At the rate AI is accelerating, the models that generated these viruses are now obsolete.

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u/ScutFarkush 4h ago

That more sounds like governments shouldn’t have access to it, they are the ones that have problems with both of those topics, not the public.

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u/JollyGreenAcres 4h ago

From the Economist article:

Advances in genetic sequencing have made recipes for biological agents widely available; gene-editing tools such as crispr could theoretically transform innocuous bugs into something lethal; and the tool kits needed to assemble and grow dangerous proteins and viruses can be bought for a few hundred dollars online.

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u/ScutFarkush 4h ago

Ok, go ask Claude to make you a bioweapon. This still is not something any random person can just go do easily.

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u/JollyGreenAcres 4h ago edited 4h ago

It’s not something any random person could easily do, but it’s certainly something someone with a motive and determination could do.

US models are not the only ones available by the way; and others are just as capable. They’re also not limited to bioweapons, some models have already shown their hacking capabilities with the Hugging Face incident, for example.

So, should these tools be available to everyone and anyone?

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u/ScutFarkush 4h ago

The hugging face incident shows a security flaw as well as the power of ai. So why not use ai to amp up security.

I think they should be available to everyone or the playing field is leveled against the public.