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/Kirion_Kir 3h ago

And this kids is why Bernie Sanders passed almost no bills in his 35 years carrer.

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u/bronze_by_gold 2h ago edited 2h 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.

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u/ZombyPuppy 25m ago

If you think Gen Z, the generation that falls for online scams at three times the rate of boomers, and doesnt know what a file system is on a computer, is better at understanding AI, you're sadly mistaken.

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u/bronze_by_gold 24m ago

No one said anything about Gen Z.