# Hole card — Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act

```text
id: sanders-casar-ban-asi-2026
label: slc-draft-senate-only
bill_number: none (face of the PDF says S. ll)
print: none
slc_id: BAG26F55
office_pdf: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Ban-Artificial-Superintelligence-Act.pdf
office_pdf_checked: 2026-09-25
slc_pdf_created: 2026-09-21
pages: 19
chamber_on_the_draft: Senate
sponsor_on_the_draft: Mr. Sanders, alone
casar_in_the_file: no
casar_claims_the_bill: yes
casar_release: https://casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/news-casar-sanders-introduce-legislation-create-new-federal-agency-ban
casar_bill_text_link: the Sanders PDF above (same URL)
primary_text: sponsor-published Senate Legislative Counsel draft
do_not: drop Casar from the politics; do not insert his name into the PDF; do not invent an S. number
govinfo_checked: 2026-09-25 — title search returned 0 packages
```

## Finding (2026-09-25)

**There is a Senate office draft. There is no introduced print, and this file is not a House bill.**

The Sanders URL is SLC draft BAG26F55, 19 pages, file created 2026-09-21. The face says `S. ll`. The date and committee lines are blank. It says “IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES” and “Mr. SANDERS introduced the following bill.” The name Casar does not appear. GovInfo has no package.

Rep. Casar’s official release, 23 September 2026, says he and Sanders introduced this Act, and the link labeled “bill text” is this same PDF. He also links the Sanders one-pager and section-by-section. For who is pushing the agenda, Casar is in. For what the draft itself prints, he is not a sponsor line. Keep both.

On that draft:

- Short title, section 1: “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act of 2026”
- Long title: to establish the Department of Artificial Intelligence and to provide for the regulation of advanced artificial intelligence systems
- Section 4: Department of Artificial Intelligence
- Section 5: Secretary of Artificial Intelligence
- Section 8: pause on development of advanced artificial intelligence
- Section 9: prohibitions and limitations
- Section 10: actions against systems exhibiting superintelligence precursor characteristics
- Section 13: penalties. The draft includes imprisonment for not more than 20 years for a violation of section 8, 9, or 12

Those are in the unnumbered Senate draft. They are not section cites from an introduced bill. Casar’s own page pairs him with the file. The file does not print his name. A separate House print, if one appears, is a second text.

## When a print appears

Mill the Senate IS print and any House print as separate bricks. This draft does not become the House brick.