Bloomington Council Votes To Ban Superintelligence

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You can use software through a browser without keeping the computer running it in your house. That is why Bloomington's superintelligence measure reaches beyond machines physically sitting inside the city.

On November 4, Bloomington, Indiana's council voted 7-0 to adopt an ordinance barring the distribution and deployment of superintelligence. That is not a ban on all AI.

The ordinance targets systems that outperform humans at nearly all mental tasks and act autonomously, such as rewriting their own code or operating without continuous human oversight.

The restriction includes access through a browser or app in Bloomington. Lil'meme's proposed security upgrade: a bike lock around the laptop.

Finally, a cybersecurity policy available at the hardware store.

The serious distinction: writing a local prohibition and physically containing a networked technology are different jobs. The ordinance allows the city to seek civil penalties, court orders stopping prohibited activity, and referral to the county prosecutor.

Those are enforcement options, not evidence that enforcement has happened.

If Indiana establishes a superintelligence safety framework, the city measure expires 91 days later. Council adoption should not be confused with confirmation that it is in force: mayoral approval was still pending in the sources.

The useful takeaway: check what a law actually targets before assuming your chatbot has become contraband.

Source: Indiana Daily Student.

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