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Sanders and Casar draft a prison-backed ban on “superintelligence” development
Sep 23, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, punitive definitions may slow experimentation but also concentrate control of advanced capability in fewer hands. The signal is regulatory capture risk, not safety.
New legislation would outlaw building “superintelligence,” defining it as capable of humanity’s destruction or disempowerment, including government overthrow. The old system’s containment reflex arrives as the inversion accelerates.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.