“On the same day OpenAI declared the 'AGI era,' Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar announced the 'Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act,' a bill whose up-to-20-year prison penalty its authors compared to nuclear-weapons-development law, with Sanders stating he was introducing legislation to pause and ban the systems.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders / Rep. Greg Casar (legislation); OpenAI president Greg Brockman (AGI claim), 3 September 2026
Recorded 5 September 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
8 receipts: 3 support the claim, 2 contradict it, 3 add context. 3 figures on the record, 2 traced to a quoted receipt.
Call resolution, recorded 27 Sept 2026
We were wrong. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act was formally introduced, with public bill text, on 2026-09-23 -- exactly the flips_if condition, and well inside the call_due of 2026-12-31. Our call that it would NOT be formally introduced by end of 2026 was wrong.
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That's why I am introducing legislation to immediately pause the development of increasingly powerful AI and ban the creation of systems that humanity cannot fully control
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