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View More NewsIn brief Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar announced a proposed ban on artificial superintelligence. A separate provision would pause advanced AI development pending federal safety rules. OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra the same day, with Greg Brockman suggesting it could qualify as AGI. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) announced legislation Thursday to permanently ban artificial superintelligence and temporarily halt advanced AI development, with prison sentences of up to 20 years for violations.The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would suspend advanced AI development until a new federal agency sets safety standards and procedures for reviewing AI models. Sanders accused…
Since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the federal government has repeatedly used immigration law to stifle speech. Legal noncitizens have been threatened with deportation for criticizing Israel and American foreign policy, but a federal judge says this is unconstitutional. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Noël Wise of the Northern District of California held that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s use of two provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952 to target legal noncitizens violates the First and Fifth Amendments. Under the first provision of the law invoked by Rubio, the secretary of state may…
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Gillo Pontecorvo’s film The Battle of Algiers was first screened at the Venice Film Festival on 31 August 1966. I saw it several months after it was released in North America in September 1967 while I was an undergraduate at York University in Toronto. The political and cultural turmoil of the late 1960s was in full swing, and the film made a deep impression on my friends and me. We immediately understood that this was a seminal piece of cinema—a compelling work of art about a compelling historical event—and it quickly became an iconic exploration of the revolutionary anticolonialism that…
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