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Policy & power

Executive orders, accords, bills, institutes and summits: who is trying to govern superintelligence, what the rules say, and what they leave out.

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Policy & power

UN Security Council AI briefing: Altman and Amodei warn of lost control, and the US says no to global governance

On September 23 the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face and Yoshua Bengio briefed the Security Council on AI risk. No resolution has been reported, and the US is on record against centralized control.

October 1, 2026

Policy & power

The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: what the Sanders and Casar bill would do, and what it would not

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar want a cabinet-level AI department, a pause on advanced AI and a permanent ban on superintelligence, with up to 20 years in prison. The releases name no bill number or cosponsors.

October 1, 2026