16 October 2026

Michigan Senate nominee calls for banning superintelligent AI development

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Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Michigan's US Senate seat, has called for banning superintelligent AI.
He also called for banning recursive self-improvement, where an AI system improves its own design.
El-Sayed presents this as a serious danger that he considers one of the most urgent issues of the moment.

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Only Transformer, one of the 30 newsletters tracked, covered this story. It follows the Bernie Sanders call for a worldwide AI development pause on 2026-09-02 and Senate leader Thune's call for light-touch AI rules on 2026-10-10 in our archive.

Earlier on this story

Oct 10Senate leader Thune calls for light-touch AI rules
Sep 2Bernie Sanders calls for worldwide AI development pause

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