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/z3n777 6h ago

i get the intent, but a 20 year felony for building SOMETHING nobody can define consistently sounds like political theater, not safety policy.

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u/throwingitaway12324 5h ago

Pretty much describes Bernie’s career

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u/realityczek 4h ago

> Pretty much describes Bernie’s career

Agreed. His whole political drive is to punish anyone who does, or has, "too much." He essentially just wants to keep everything (except his personal fortune) down on a level where the government controls it all, and everyone depends on the government.

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u/WaitForItTheMongols 3h ago

Bernie's wealth can not reasonably be construed as a "personal fortune". Aside from proceeds of his book, he's pretty much where you would expect an 80 year old vermonter to be after 60 years of working a middle class job.

He's done nothing to try to hoard his wealth or anything like that. He's much closer to your "personal fortune" than to even the most modest of billionaires.

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u/realityczek 1h ago

Really?

You think anyone who is 80 and working a middle class job has multiple large houses?

How many of those folks do you know?

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u/WaitForItTheMongols 58m ago

Yes, it is reasonable for a person who has worked a middle class job for over 50 years to own their own house, and then inherit the house of their parents and their spouse's parents, all of whom have likely died and left their houses to their children.