Can this new Bernie Sanders bill stop ‘superintelligence’? Can anything?

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) does not want to wait around to see what the next artificial intelligence disaster is going to be.

The longtime progressive senator has introduced legislation that may please AI critics, but the proposal may end up being a classic case of bloated leftism.

‘Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own.’

Sanders, along with Texas Democrat Rep. Greg Casar, is looking to put a halt on advanced AI development with new proposed legislation, the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act.

The act primarily focuses on “banning artificial superintelligence,” which is defined as “a system that can easily be modified to exhibit capabilities that match or exceed” what humans are capable of or “AI systems that have sufficient capabilities to plan and