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[-] 00000@reddthat.com 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is supposedly the actual ordinance

https://bloomdocs.org/wp-content/uploads/simple-file-list/2026-10-14-Bloomington-city-council-Ord-2026-29-Artificial-Intelligence-Rollo.pdf

However it's not published on their official government site (yet?), which only has up to ordinance 28 published (the anti_AG one is #29). I can't find any indication this has actually passed (note that the doc linked above isn't signed and has an empty space for date-of-passage). But maybe the site just isn't updated.

https://webmail.bloomington.in.gov/council/legislation/Ordinance/2026

I guess the interesting parts are, the justification for the law

Under Indiana Code § 36-1-3 (The Home Rule Act), the Common Council has sovereign authority to regulate public safety hazard nuisances within its jurisdiction.

The definition of what's banned, which, as other comments have pointed out, doesn't actually exist

Superintelligence” shall be analogous to an Artificial General Intelligence (“AGI”) with capabilities of Agency (A), Generality (G) and Intelligence (I), wherein an AGI does possess super-human capability in all three aspects, of AGI, as an AGI wherein any such autonomous Agentic (A) system capable of self-modifying its core algorithms, executing code in environments outside its initial sandbox, or operating without continuous human oversight while Generally (G) performing any complex goal-oriented task that may affect municipal infrastructure, financial markets, or public safety, in combination with an extreme level of super-human Intelligence (I), and defined by the AI Industry standard terminology “Superintelligence” herein defined as “Any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest.”

And that it doesn't say you can't use it, it says you can't "deploy" or "distribute" it

No person or corporation shall distribute or permit to be distributed nor deployed into the premises of any citizen or business in our City, any Superintelligence for any purpose. Deployment, for the purposes of this ordinance, shall include the remote execution, activation, or utilization of any unauthorized digital agent through a locally accessed interface, browser, API, or connected hardware within the City of Bloomington, regardless of the physical location of the server infrastructure hosting the system.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

However it's not published on their official government site (yet?), which only has up to ordinance 28 published (the anti_AG one is #29).

50k Satoshi says that nobody knows how to update the site without AI assistance, and the AI is preventing them from doing that.

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

LLMs don’t have agency or intelligence so this does nothing

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