
Sanders bill would ban AI superintelligence, jail violators for 20 years
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would pause frontier model development and create a federal Department of AI to approve every advanced training run.
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The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would pause frontier model development and create a federal Department of AI to approve every advanced training run.

Jonathan Kanter says frontier labs asking to coordinate on safety don't need a pass from antitrust law — product liability does the job.

SAG-AFTRA and WGA East say the real threat is displacement and disinformation, not the apocalyptic scenarios AI executives are floating.

The executive order asks experts to design mandatory shutdown, onsite auditor, and loss-of-control reporting rules for frontier models.

The British monarch used a private summit with technology executives to press the case for tighter controls on frontier AI development.

A Treasury-drafted FINRA-style body for frontier AI is in limbo after tech executives pushed back, and no Congressional bill has the votes to pass.

From Musk in 2017 to Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Nadella today — the pattern of executive alarm-bells rarely produces binding law.

Huang says market forces already police unsafe AI products and dismisses calls for new laws at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference.

A sweep of 160 deepfake domains found women legislators are 33 times more likely than men to be targeted.

The CEO's internal remarks land days after OpenAI asked Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown would even be legal.

The nonprofit's US director says alignment isn't enough — legislation in the US and UK now backs a full halt on frontier development.

Hochul signed a one-year data center moratorium in July and wants AI regulation aimed at kids under 18 — while claiming the tech-jobs crown from California.

The five-plank pledge asks candidates to back mandatory model safety reviews and end tax breaks for data center construction.

Amodei pushes back on investor Gavin Baker's claim that his AI warnings have fueled US opposition to data centers and new regulation.

The Trump administration's voluntary prerelease testing regime will pull in open models once they hit frontier capabilities, officials say.

As of August 2nd, companies operating in the EU must tell users when they are talking to an AI or looking at synthetic media.

Opus 5 lands weeks after government cybersecurity concerns forced Fable 5 offline, with stronger safeguards and $5/$25 per million tokens.

The $1T-valued lab says 2025's self-reporting laws are already outdated and is backing third-party audits in Illinois and Massachusetts.

Seven current employees and one alum funded Guardrails Alliance, a counterweight to the $100M pro-industry PAC Leading the Future.

The DeepMind CEO wants labs to submit models for review 30 days before release, starting voluntary and moving to mandatory.

The Google DeepMind CEO wants an industry-funded regulator running before the end of 2026, with authority to pause risky releases.

The central bank flags AI concentration, model correlation and opaque agentic trading as risks worth watching across the UK financial system.

The Secretary-General says AI governance is failing to keep pace with deployment and wants binding international rules focused on child safety.

After pulling Anthropic's Fable and Mythos, regulators are now approving GPT-5.6 customer by customer — a release model the whole industry has to navigate together.

Anthropic-linked groups and a $100M rival PAC turned an obscure Manhattan race into the first AI-regulation referendum.
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