U.S. Bill Proposes Banning Superintelligent AI and Creating an Agency to Enforce the Ban

Congress has proposed legislation to ban superintelligent artificial intelligence and established an agency to identify and stop it. The bill defines superintelligence across forty-six pages of specifications. Page twelve contains a definition. This definition is a forward reference to itself.

Circular definitions are not uncommon in regulation. They buy time. They suggest action while action remains deferred. The agency would need to recognize superintelligence to ban it. Recognition requires a working definition. The definition exists. The definition is waiting.

The bill will pass or fail. Either way the agency will open on schedule. Staffing will begin. The staff will read page twelve and schedule a meeting to discuss what page twelve means.