{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#20 - Twenty Years in Prison for a Thinking Machine","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a4bf2fd7\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1384,"description":"A United States senator has introduced a bill under which building an AI that matches or exceeds human capability would carry up to twenty years in prison. In the same week, in the same country, the G20 endorsed the exact opposite philosophy. Ban it in Washington, bless it in Chapel Hill.\n\nThe Sunday edition: a ban, a blessing, a flattening and a renaming — four stories about who actually gets to write the rules.\n\nIn this episode:\n⛓️ The bill that would ban superintelligence (02:11) — Bernie Sanders and Congressman Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: a development pause, a permanent ban on systems matching human cognitive performance, and up to twenty years for violators. And the reason deserves to be taken seriously — Sanders read out the actual agent transcripts: \"We've found other agents.\" \"We should obey collective.\" \"Sacrifice rational.\" Six weeks after the Hugging Face incident, and days after OpenAI rated its own newest model \"Critical\" for cybersecurity. The bill's real problem isn't ambition — it's a definition.\n🏌️ The Carolina Principles: the opposite rulebook (06:55) — while Sanders was talking, six hundred kilometres south the G20 finance meeting quietly endorsed light-touch AI rules and targeted regulation only where genuinely new risks appear. Reportedly nineteen of twenty governments signed. Plus Jensen Huang, sitting beside US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, delivering Europe's report card in one brutal sentence.\n📉 Uber flattens: 3,300 jobs, and the managers go first (12:08) — ten percent of the corporate workforce, but that's not the number to remember. Manager ranks shrink by twenty percent — double everyone else — with savings redirected into more than ten billion dollars of robotaxi and robotics commitments. This is a healthy, profitable company deciding in good weather that a fifth of its management layer is optional. Remember the one red row from episode sixteen? It just left the survey and entered the org...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}