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Greg Casar

Summary

Greg Casar is a U.S. Representative from Texas who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act with Bernie Sanders, and introduced the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act.

Verified Facts

  • Official House biography states that Casar represents Texas's 35th Congressional District, was sworn in in January 2023, chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and previously served seven years on the Austin City Council.1
  • On September 3, 2026, Senator Bernie Sanders's office announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act with Casar as forthcoming legislation to permanently ban superintelligent AI and temporarily pause advanced AI development until a federal regulator exists.2
  • Casar is quoted in that announcement stating that "cutting-edge AI technology is less regulated than the average food truck" and that Congress "should immediately ban AI systems too powerful to control."2
  • Casar's office announced the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, described as prohibiting automated systems from setting prices or wages based on personalized data, with FTC, EEOC, state-AG, and private-right-of-action enforcement as stated by the office.3

Key Legislation and Oversight

Historical Context

Casar's AI work pairs labor and consumer-pricing concerns with Sanders's existential-risk pause agenda. The Ban ASI announcement treats 2026 lab loss-of-control reports, including the Hugging Face incident, as the predicate for a development freeze. OIR records the announcement; it does not treat those characterizations as findings.

Relevance to Open Source and Software Companies

A superintelligence ban and "advanced AI" pause would be definition-sensitive for open-weight releases and independent evals. The price-and-wage bill would reach any software that sets consumer prices or worker pay from behavioral or demographic data.

Relationships

Sources

  1. SRC-CASAR-BIO: About | Representative Casar.
  2. SRC-SANDERS-BAN-ASI-ACT: NEWS Sanders, Casar to Introduce Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence.
  3. SRC-CASAR-AI-PRICE-GOUGING: NEWS Congressman Greg Casar Introduces New Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act.

Research Debt

  • Confirm a Congress.gov bill number for the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act.
  • Locate a Casar.house.gov press release for the Ban ASI announcement if one exists.
  • Add Congress.gov text for the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act.
  • Corroborate biography claims with the House History, Art & Archives concise biography.

Document metadata

  • Last verified: 2026-09-17

  1. SRC-CASAR-BIO — About | Representative Casar. Official House biography; self-reported. ↩

  2. SRC-SANDERS-BAN-ASI-ACT — Official Senate press release (September 3, 2026). Announced / forthcoming bill. ↩↩

  3. SRC-CASAR-AI-PRICE-GOUGING — Official House press release. Proposed legislation, not enacted. ↩