Set criminal and corporate penalties for attempts to violate or evade AI development pauses and superintelligence bans.

Setting penalties for any person or entity that attempts to violate or circumvent the pauses and prohibitions laid out in this bill.

The announced bill would impose penalties, including corporate dissolution and prison terms, for violating or circumventing its AI restrictions.

NEWS: Sanders, Casar to Introduce Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Temporarily Pause Advanced AI Development  » Senator Bernie Sanders
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today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation to stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Official Senate announcement shows Casar joined Sanders in announcing a forthcoming bill, but it was not enacted law.

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NEWS: Sanders, Casar to Introduce Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Temporarily Pause Advanced AI Development  » Senator Bernie Sanders
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Entities shall be subject to the corporate death penalty, and persons shall be subject to not more than 20 years in prison

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The official one-page summary contains the exact proposed corporate and criminal penalties, documenting concrete effort toward the commitment.

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Ban-Artificial-Superintelligence-Act-Release-Summary.pdf
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next week, I will be introducing legislation with Congressman Greg Casar to permanently ban the development of artificial superintelligence

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): As of September 15, Sanders described the Casar-backed legislation as planned for introduction the following week, indicating it had not yet become enacted policy.

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PREPARED REMARKS: Sanders: Regulating AI “is as American as apple pie.”  » Senator Bernie Sanders
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Sanders told reporters on Tuesday that he expects to release text for the bill next week.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Roll Call corroborates that bill text was still expected in the future during the lookback window, leaving the commitment unresolved.

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AI threats confront a Congress far from erecting guardrails – Roll Call
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The bill text will actually be released in the coming days.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Casar himself said on NPR that bill text was still forthcoming, supporting effort but not delivery of enforceable penalties.

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Texas Rep. Greg Casar discusses bill to temporarily pause advanced AI development | KUNC
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But action before the midterm elections looks unlikely as neither party has coalesced around a legislative plan on AI

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Contemporaneous Capitol reporting found no clear path to action, so the proposed penalties remained unresolved rather than delivered.

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AI threats confront a Congress far from erecting guardrails – Roll Call
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