SITUATION EXPLAINED: Does Bernie's superintelligence ban know what superintelligence is? • The bill creates a cabinet-level Department of Artificial Intelligence and pauses advanced AI development • Advanced AI system means anything trained above 10^25 FLOPs, which already covers GPT-4, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Llama 3.1 • The Secretary has to ratchet that threshold down every year for algorithmic efficiency, so it catches more models over time • Superintelligence precursor characteristics…