Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation Wednesday to create a new Department of Artificial Intelligence and ban artificial superintelligence until AI can be regulated in a way to ensure it doesn’t destroy humanity. But the timing of Sanders’ new Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act is a bit awkward, if only because President Donald Trump wants to rename AI itself as “Super Intelligence.”
“When you are racing towards a cliff, you don’t just ease up on the gas pedal. You hit the brakes. When the future of humanity is at stake, we cannot let a handful of Big Tech CEOs write their own rules,” Sen. Sanders, an independent from Vermont, said in…
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