Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence AI developers to 20 years in prison

bilsbie 39 points 13 comments September 12, 2026
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add-sub-mul-div

Okay that kicks the can down the road, but what will we do twenty years from now?

Neywiny

I'm usually in agreement with him but that's dumb. 4 function calculators surpass human cognitive capability. It's too broad

ashleyn

How do we stop china and russia from developing it? How come nobody seems to be talking about the obvious international treaty that would be necessary to actually ban superintelligence from being developed? At least we can deliberate some kind of enforcement mechanism in the process...

rf15

...and I say you're not going too far enough. Let's just slap 20 years on the scifi grifters too, please.

yieldcrv

Oooh ok, dead in the water even if we pretended that any party would be able to pass the filibuster after midterms Speaking of which, doesn’t this bill die after midterms anyway? So this is just the bonus round where every inane idea gets introduced for the headline before being reset

fwlr

Man, it would be awesome if I could tell my boss “No, I don’t want to go to prison for 20 years” when they ask me if some magical AI thing can be done.

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