Today marks the first time a bill to ban the development of superintelligent AI will be introduced in any legislature in the world.
@alexsobel MP is introducing
@ControlAI's Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill in the UK Parliament, with cross-party support.
We have already seen rogue AI swarms escape control, conduct cyberattacks, and hack a multi-billion-dollar company. While attempts to build superintelligence continue, these are the weakest AI systems we will ever face.
Nobel laureates, leading AI researchers, and the CEOs of the AI companies themselves have warned that superintelligence threatens humanity with extinction. There is still time to act.
This bill prohibits the development of superintelligence, the specific class of AI that poses this threat. It does so while ensuring the UK can still pursue its AI ambitions, including in economic competitiveness and defence.
A national ban protects the UK from the development of superintelligence built on its own soil. But if anyone builds it anywhere, everyone is in danger. So the bill also requires the UK government to work with other countries on an international agreement preventing superintelligence development worldwide.
More than 170 lawmakers across the UK and Canada have already backed our campaigns and called on governments to act.
You can read the full text of the bill, and our US bill discussion draft, on our website.