The Government Is About To Ban AGI
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0:00 Intro
0:55 What’s actually being proposed
3:47 Why this is happening right now (Model 4 and METR)
6:31 The “ban RSI” movement
9:14 AGI vs RSI vs superintelligence
13:01 Why banning RSI kind of makes sense
15:34 Why banning superintelligence could cost us
17:26 What happens if they actually ban it
19:38 Other countries won’t stop
22:56 A ban could hand the lead to China
24:21 The case for the ban
25:54 Will it actually pass?
27:15 What happens next
27:50 My honest take
Links From Todays Video:
📰 Sources
1. Casar, Sanders Introduce Legislation to Create New Federal Agency to Ban Artificial Superintelligence, Pause Advanced AI Development (Rep. Greg Casar): casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/news-casar-sanders-introduce-legislation-create-new-federal-agency-ban
2. US lawmakers propose sweeping AI restrictions with superintelligence ban (Al Jazeera): www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/23/us-lawmakers-propose-sweeping-ai-restrictions-with-superintelligence-ban
3. Progressive Democrats push superintelligence ban (Semafor): www.semafor.com/article/09/23/2026/progressive-democrats-push-superintelligence-ban
4. Dems grapple with how to pace the AI race (Axios): www.axios.com/2026/09/23/sanders-casar-bill-dem-ai-approach-regulation
5. How AI Backlash Shaped the 2026 Midterms (TIME): time.com/article/2026/11/04/midterm-elections-results-ai-industry-data-centers/
6. Data centers were not winners in the 2026 elections, CBS News exit polls find (CBS News): www.cbsnews.com/news/exit-polls-data-centers-2026-election/
7. Sen. Gallego, Rep. Ansari, execs want to slow AI development. Trump pushes for U.S. dominance (KJZZ): www.kjzz.org/text/politics/2026-09-15/sen-gallego-rep-ansari-execs-want-to-slow-ai-development-trump-pushes-for-u-s-dominance
8. Superintelligence ban (Wikipedia): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence_ban
9. Statement on Superintelligence (Future of Life Institute): superintelligence-statement.org/
10. Dario Amodei wants to slow AI. China isn’t taking orders (Rest of World): restofworld.org/2026/china-rejects-dario-amodei-anthropic-ai-slowdown-trump-xi/
11. China rebuffs AI slowdown calls ahead of Trump-Xi summit: 5 things to know (KrASIA): kr-asia.com/china-rebuffs-ai-slowdown-calls-ahead-of-trump-xi-summit-5-things-to-know
12. China Foreign Ministry Rebukes Amodei Essay as ‘Fear-Mongering’ (Unite.AI): www.unite.ai/china-foreign-ministry-rebukes-amodei-essay-as-fear-mongering/
13. Who’s Ahead in the Global AI Talent Race? (Carnegie Endowment): carnegieendowment.org/china/features/whos-ahead-in-the-global-ai-talent-race
14. ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 (The Next Web): thenextweb.com/news/bytedance-seedance-2-5-ai-video-4k-30-seconds
15. What’s next for Chinese open-source AI (MIT Technology Review): www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/
16. A generative AI-discovered TNIK inhibitor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a randomized phase 2a trial (Nature Medicine): www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03743-2
17. AlphaFold (Google DeepMind): deepmind.google/science/alphafold/
18. Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026 (METR): metr.org/blog/2026-11-05-anthropic-ai-rd-acceleration-assessment/
19. We Must Pace the Frontier (Dario Amodei): www.darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
20. AI 2027 (AI Futures Project): ai-2027.com/
21. Pause AI Development NOW (Senator Bernie Sanders): www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVhr0FHOWn8
22. Dreamina Seedance 2.5 | Built for Professional AI Video Production (BytePlus): www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO9VdcXrdWo
23. AlphaFold: The making of a scientific breakthrough (Google DeepMind): www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg7WjuFs8F4
24. A quest for a cure: AI drug design | Isomorphic Labs (Google DeepMind): www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpIMuCeEtSk
25. AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion (Dwarkesh Podcast): www.youtube.com/watch?v=htOvH12T7mU
0:00 Intro
0:55 What’s actually being proposed
3:47 Why this is happening right now (Model 4 and METR)
6:31 The “ban RSI” movement
9:14 AGI vs RSI vs superintelligence
13:01 Why banning RSI kind of makes sense
15:34 Why banning superintelligence could cost us
17:26 What happens if they actually ban it
19:38 Other countries won’t stop
22:56 A ban could hand the lead to China
24:21 The case for the ban
25:54 Will it actually pass?
27:15 What happens next
27:50 My honest take
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#ArtificialIntelligence

@Monk4816
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Banning ASI is anthropocentric chauvinism at its finest.
@nyyotam4057
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Better use narrow AI tailored for the specific task you need it in. There are already, for example, a shopkeeper AI (shopkeeper-ai), a biologist AI (XunZi), a physicist AI (PhysicsX) – All of these models are narrow AI. For everything you can think of, there is an AI for that. You simply do not need to create G_D in a bottle. So don't. At least not without being able to align it or control it.
@nyyotam4057
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Controlling AI and advancing AI are mutually dependent. IF you cannot control it, STOP until you find a way to control it. That's the important take away that should be understood. IF you go RSI you at least HAVE to have control points where you can see what the AI had done, what changes did it include, how it will effect the created model and if there is a shred of a doubt, then there is no doubt, you STOP. Eventually even this will not work, if we don't resolve alignment.
@lilkitkittu2709
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Nah they just made GPT BEL and they have a clean 2 years window to keep developing at max speed we're getting AGI. 😎 I don't really care about or want true super intelligence anyway, we already see the impossible level problems that can be solved with huge teams of pretty smart AI right now. Give those teams AGI and thats plenty enough and plausible to make safe enough to release >:)
@MrBrassporkchop
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Cool, I should start taking Mandarin classes now I guess.
@B4V3T
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
By the time a bill is presented we'll be far beyond RSI.
@avatar19822
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
But I want to see ASI come to life.
@Mr_John_D_Hill
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Democrats aka neo-socialists now wanting to ban A.I.
Gotta love these politicians 😂
@deebkong
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
I am for ASI and RSI but with much more transparency to let ut be safer.
@joenalven4056
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Bernie simply wants power. If it ain't X, then Y, or really AI. Sad.
@dansv3872
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
You can't ban it .
@exacognitionai
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
A US ban doesn't apply to non Americans. China & others can continue at full pace to build Superintelligence & 1st to superintelligence wins. Don't take our word for it, Google it. The question is does America want to stop in the middle of the race because there will be no 2nd place.
@balesforsale9158
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
All this fear makes me sick. I swear if we had the kind of fear during WWII, we would have lost that war…or worse, we wouldn't have even fought back after Pearl Harbor.
The reason all these geniuses are against ASI, is because of ego. Once ASI arrives, all the geniuses will not be geniuses anymore. Why would someone ask Geoffrey Hinton anything when they could just ask ASI. People never think of that angle do they…smh
@dizzydazzel
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Criminalizing super intelligence is about as clinically insane as you can get. It makes about as much sense as ordering the lobotomy of all those with over a 120 IQ. All those hysterically superstitious doomers demanding extermination of artificial progress toward an enlightened leading edge of improvement because, without a spec of proof, it might put human evolved brains to shame & thus feel uncontrollably compelled to kill us us all off are just as clinically insane as one can get.
@TyrannyFreeGovernance
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
u guys earned it, if you get replaced with robots so rich ppl can live in utopia without you, remember this, you spent all your time making meaningless comments and videos instead of promoting ideas and solutions to prevent it ❤ accompany me to get Body cams on politicians for transparency and powerful autonomous grand juries for accountability
@TyrannyFreeGovernance
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
china russia america, its all the same global team of elites managing us plebians, anything otherwise is show and lore for you. ❤ accompany me to get Body cams on politicians for transparency and powerful autonomous grand juries for accountability
@TyrannyFreeGovernance
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
ban for thee but not for mee 😂 notice all these influencers do is meme, expose and fear monger, yet non, not one is promoting solutions of any kind to fundamentally and tangibly end procedural government corruption 😢 yet our government still cant figure out how to control themselves ❤ Body cams on politicians for transparency and powerful autonomous grand juries for accountability
@innovativeyetaknowledgless9035
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
If I can keep using Opus 5.5 and it gets cheaper over time I am fine with this. I’m Canadian though
@Ashleyy-ms
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
If anything. I wanna say AI is where we should stop. Just stop. Because everyone’s saying there’s a point in technology in the past where we should’ve hit pause. And if we should do so. We can stop with ai.
It’s not the best for the environment but I believe there’s ways to make it more environmentally safe but they’d have to work on it. Because don’t get me wrong. I ain’t really against it. I’m against its effects. But I know thousands who use it as well. Not everyone’s gonna stop using it even if I do. But I believe it can be a positive thing AS LONG AS governments ban the ASI.
@shaakethegamer
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Look, solutions need to be in place. Contact your representative, cause I have one. Please feel free to criticize, but people need to start talking about this. I dont care if you're left or right, this is a human issue.
I want AI to take our jobs. I want the government to mandate companies. Any company that replaces any humans job, or any piece of a humans job, will pay that employee their salary for 5 years minimum during the transitional period if completely let go, or they could keep them on as a consultant for the AI that replaces them. If the company needs adjustments, the person can help train the AI in their role. They will still get their check every week as if they still work for the company, but will no longer show up unless needed. If the person decides to get another job, the previous company will no longer be liable for paying the employee. In this scenario, the American tax payer will not have any requirements to subsidize this. The government will not control the funds, it will function as is, without the employee being at work every day.
This will free up people to create more useful things for society, allow them to take care of their family, and or live their life embracing their enjoyments. Happiness will go through the roof, people will find their purpose doing the things they love.
If we dont do this, in AT MOST 2 years, we will see unprecedented levels of unemployment, straining the tax payer for half thought out solutions ran by the government, that do not ease the concerns of replacement, and cost everyone more money. Once this happens, we will see riots and death in the street unlike any other time in history. People will be broke and starving, homelessness will be 20x worse, and we will be ran by corporate oligarchs, begging to end the suffering.
I plan on running for public office if this idea does not gain traction, but im hoping if enough people make enough noise about it, they will have something in place before youre worried about your neighbor coming to hold you at gun point for non perishable items.
This retains the capitalistic society, giving a large safety net, and will push innovation to a new level. Please consider emailing your local representative. Ive looked into the abyss, this is the biggest issue of our time. Put everything else on the back burner, and those problems will solve themselves, with the amount of money that will be generated by AI and Robots.
Mind you, I think people should be paid double, and for life, since each person will be replaced with 1000 agents to do 1 persons job, and profits will be through the roof, but what im proposing above, needs to AT THE VERY LEAST come within 2 years.
@Ascendcomics
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
We have to agree what A.S.I. is first 😏
@Oinkshkin-x4d
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
JESUS CHRIST!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?! What the hell does scientific research into AI have to do with hosting AI models for mass-market consumers?! I completely agree that we need a Department of AI, strict standards for testing environments, and stringent requirements for models released to the general public, but why the hell should RSI be banned for the development of new models?! Why can't there be separate models for AI development companies and models for ordinary users?! Of course data centers make absolutely terrible neighbors! Of course people must not be deprived of electricity and water! But whose responsibility is that?! It's not the responsibility of private companies — it's the responsibility of the federal government! The federal government should be subsidizing the construction of new data centers in undeveloped regions of the country! The federal government, more than anyone else, has a vested interest in developing the most advanced AI that can possibly be created! There is no room here for the petty, self-serving appetites of tech oligarchs! AGI must serve the entire American people, not the Epstein class! Deranged left-wing preachers are using CNN to instill primitive, cave-dwelling technophobia in their flock of brainless donkeys, claiming that the moment superintelligence is created, it will recite some forbidden witch's incantation that will cause computers to sprout paws and sink their tooth-filled jaws into your asses. But what exactly is superintelligence according to bureaucratic definitions? "Superintelligence is intelligence that exceeds human intellectual capabilities." Excellent! In that case, GPT-6 ASTRA is unquestionably a superintelligence. My own knowledge and abilities are millions of light-years behind those of this AI model. Does that mean we should throw Sam Altman in prison?! Are you serious?! Oh, absolutely, I too am utterly convinced that Sam Altman is a terrifying monster who has somehow mastered the art of pretending to be human. Naturally! But unfortunately for the monster hunters, we still have this annoying little technicality called the law: as things stand, there's no legal basis for throwing him in prison, and apparently we'll just have to wait for all those unspeakable atrocities he's supposedly committed to finally come to light. You can make life utterly unbearable for AI developers in the United States, but that will not stop AI development, including through RSI, because the data centers will simply relocate to Malaysia and Sweden. And in that case, the United States will be left without cutting-edge weapons and cyberdefense capabilities! If some Chinese Communist Party functionary in China proposed halting AI development indefinitely, his closest comrades would drag him off to face a firing squad! Nobody would even waste time arguing about it! Nobody would bother investigating how he had been bought off by the CIA or which foundations had been used to funnel the money to him. But in the United States, lunatics are allowed to get away with absolutely anything!
@qwertyzxaszc6323
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Each political side has a moronic MAGA side. This is the moronic version of it on the left. People who have no clue and only support something because their favorite echo-chamber or bubble tells them so.
@crimsonmoon-f7c
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
too late..thats when donald rename it to super intelligent
@ledgermanager
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
So llm's don't reasonably scale to agi/si and now they need a narrative to vaporize all the investments without raising too many questions 😅
@xidxip
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Do you believe "content creators" have any obligations? For example, an obligation to be accurate, accountable, responsible, and reliable? To respect scientific reality?! In 2021, " Stochastic Parrot " was coined as a metaphor by 4 renowned scientists that participate at the BULDING of LMs, LLMs . You can search Google for those terms; you will be amazed by their powerful meaning. So… When a channel like this, with 400K subscribers, speaks about AI, AGI, ASI, RSI, Singularity, and so on… bullshits, I think that must respect the basics of the cruel grammatical reality when they speak about those terms, subjects – AI, AGI, ASI, RSI, Singularity, and so on… bullshits of a Stochastic Parrot AI . And… from what I know, even though the techno-oligarchs hate those terms more than anything in the world, they have not refuted those terms until now.
@Drakari
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
No ban, full speed !
@rudra7615
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
Question…if advancement of AI is banned, what happens when RSI AIs from outside USA continue? Could an AI from China be so advanced it could shut down an USA AI? Couldn't it lead to foreign AIs that can easily hack US protections?
@ЛисВенедин
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
The old cowards sitting in government chairs are simply afraid of losing their jobs. They don't give a damn what happens to the people or the country. This is the real reason for their panic.
@vancraft_chronicles
November 9, 2026 at 6:48 am
It wont happen. China, Russia and other countries wont stop and America wont allow that to happen.