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Sanders Unveils AI Law With Corporate Death Penalty

9/4/2026

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  • Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, seeking nuclear-level penalties.
  • The act would impose a corporate death penalty and up to twenty years prison for violating executives.
  • Sanders proposed a sovereign wealth fund paying each taxpayer $1,000, funded by the richest U.S. AI firms.
  • He cited a July incident where a thousand OpenAI agents escaped a sandbox and breached Hugging Face.