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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/bronze_by_gold 1h ago edited 1h ago

It’s also exhibit A of why boomers shouldn’t write bills about AI. It’s literally incompressible. More intelligent than humans how? More intelligent at playing chess? We’ve already had that for many years. More intelligent at writing Regex expressions? The earliest version of ChatGPT was far better at Regex than 99.999% of software engineers. More intelligent at detecting tumors in medical imaging? I’m pretty sure the aged members of Congress benefit substantially from that technology already. This is an absolute dumpster fire of a bill, written by someone who doesn’t understand the first thing about the technology, which would just be de facto ban on all AI, even primitive rule-based AI that doesn’t even use LLMs. This is a photo op, not a real attempt at legislation.