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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Rep. Ro Khanna asks ODNI and Chinese AI firms for info on safeguards and recursive self-improvement

Rep. Ro Khanna, top Democrat on the House Select Committee on China, sent letters asking the ODNI to assess US readiness for a lab losing control of AI and asked Chinese companies DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI for documentation on efforts toward "superintelligence," recursive self‑improvement (RSI), safeguards, kill switches, and willingness to accept inspections. Khanna says he ultimately seeks a US‑China treaty to ban RSI and monitor frontier labs but acknowledges such an agreement is unlikely soon.

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REGULATION · 2 SOURCES · The Verge AI · The Decoder

Sanders and Casar introduce bill to ban ‘artificial superintelligence’ and pause frontier AI

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would criminalize development of artificial superintelligence and pause development of advanced 'frontier' AI models until a new scientist‑led Department of Artificial Intelligence is established. The bill would require companies to get permission from that department and could impose penalties of up to 20 years in prison on company leaders or 'rogue actors' who violate the law, according to the bill's one‑pager.

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