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Geoffrey Hinton told a closed-door congressional briefing that lawmakers have “maybe a year” to regulate AI. The congressional calendar says the real deadline is a lot sooner than that, and it is not September.

Dario Amodei’s warning about AI agent swarms sparked two competing bills in Congress, one demanding a kill switch, the other seeking an outright ban on superintelligent AI.

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar want to permanently ban superintelligent AI, pause frontier development and hit corporate violators with what they call the corporate death penalty.