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Legislators introduce measure to curb AI

Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Washington -- Two leading progressive lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, unveiled legislation Wednesday that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI as some of the industry's own leaders urge Congress to impose guard…

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  1. Bangor Daily News

    Sen. Bernie Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create Department of AI (opens Bangor Daily News)

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    Washington (AP) — Two leading progressive lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, are unveiling legislation Wednesday that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI as some of the industry’s own leaders urge Congress to impose guardrails on…

  2. ABC News

    Sen. Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence, create Dept. of AI (opens ABC News)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar are introducing legislation that would ban artificial superintelligence, pause development of advanced AI systems and create a new Department of Artificial Intelligence

  3. WISH-TV Indianapolis

    Sen. Bernie Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence, create Department of AI (opens WISH-TV Indianapolis)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar unveiled legislation on Wednesday to ban artificial superintelligence and establish a federal Department of Artificial Intelligence to oversee advanced technologies.

  4. Fortune

    ‘It doesn’t take a genius to say, ‘slow it down”: Bernie Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence (opens Fortune)

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    "Do we really want to develop a super ntelligence that ... could act independently of human control? I don’t think we do.”

  5. FOX Business

    Employees at AI companies back Bernie Sanders bill cracking down on development (opens FOX Business)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar are pushing to halt advanced artificial intelligence development and establish a new cabinet-level AI agency.

  6. NOTUS

    Sanders Unveils a Bill to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Create a ‘Department of AI’ (opens NOTUS)

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    Multiple employees at leading AI companies have already endorsed the bill.

  7. Roll Call

    AI ‘superintelligence’ ban proposed by Casar, Sanders (opens Roll Call)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks on Sept. 15 during the Pro-Human Assembly conference on AI legislation in Washington.

  8. Common Dreams

    Sanders, Casar Introduce Legislation to Create New Federal Agency to Ban Artificial Superintelligence, Pause Advanced AI Development (opens Common Dreams)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act — legislation to stop artificial intelligence (AI) oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control and to pause advanced AI development until we have put in place rigorous feder…

  9. Washington Examiner

    Sanders-Casar bill would establish Cabinet-level ‘Department of AI’ (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) formally introduced legislation on Wednesday to establish a Cabinet-level executive agency, called the Department of Artificial Intelligence. The bill is Congress’s answer to regulating frontier AI development after concerns about the rapidly adv…

  10. The Boston Globe

    Senator Bernie Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create Department of AI (opens The Boston Globe)

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    Multiple employees at leading AI companies are endorsing the bill.

  11. NBC News

    Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar propose AI ‘superintelligence’ ban with a 20-year jail penalty (opens NBC News)

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    New legislation authored by Sen. Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Casar, D-Texas, also calls for a Cabinet-level secretary of AI to regulate artificial intelligence.

  12. Revolver News

  13. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    Legislators introduce measure to curb AI (opens Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

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    Washington -- Two leading progressive lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, unveiled legislation Wednesday that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI as some of the industry's own leaders urge Congress to impose guard…

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