Sen. Bernie Sanders Unveils Bill to Ban Artificial Superintelligence
23rd September 2026
Two leading progressive lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, are unveiling legislation Wednesday that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI as some of the industry’s own leaders urge Congress to impose guardrails on the advancing technology.
The bill, provided first to The Associated Press, would also pause advanced AI development until guidelines are implemented while creating the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Multiple employees at leading AI companies are endorsing the bill.
Of the two things, the more important in the eyes of a statist like Bernie is the creation of a federal agency to ‘oversee’ it. The worst thing in the world, in the eyes of a typical statist Democrat, is for something, some area of human activity, to be ‘unregulated’. Whenever you hear Democrats fear-mongering about something, be it COVID or AI, is them beating the drum of “It’s unregulated!”