US Lawmakers Move to Ban Superintelligence — With Prison on the Table

New federal legislation targets superintelligence and rogue frontier models, arriving the same week OpenAI released a model it says can find and exploit zero-days.

The regulatory response to the frontier is accelerating, and it now includes criminal penalties. US lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban superintelligence and impose "severe corporate penalties for rogue frontier models," according to Mikey Nicholls. The framing is notable: rather than regulating deployment or requiring disclosures, the bill reportedly aims at prohibition of an entire class of capability.

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