I came across this image and had a good laugh. People really do come up with the wildest stuff. I looked it up, and Sanders did introduce a draft bill called the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, proposing to pause or even ban the development of superintelligent AI, with a maximum sentence of 20 years for violations. But this is being spun as “the first thing he’ll do after winning” and “a Democratic Party-wide ban”… Let’s just treat it as a bit of fun. Out of the hundreds of bills introduced in the U.S. Congress every day, the odds of something like this making it through the whole process are basically zero. The tech giants and big money would never agree to it. Compute power is power. AI will keep moving forward, and everyone should just carry on as usual. Don’t let one image throw you off~