UK Lawmakers Back Rules To Create AI 'Killswitch' and Stop Artificial Superintelligence
Over 70 UK lawmakers have petitioned Prime Minister Andy Burnham to ban the creation of artificial superintelligence and establish an international agreement prohibiting its development. Concurrently, legislative proposals have been introduced to restrict semiconductor supply chains and implement an emergency 'kill switch' for rogue AI systems. The UK government has expressed skepticism regarding the feasibility of such measures, noting that blocking domestic access would not prevent AI development or misuse in other countries.
- ▪More than 70 British lawmakers signed a letter urging the Prime Minister to support a ban on artificial superintelligence.
- ▪MP Alex Sobel introduced a bill to restrict the supply of semiconductors, while Lord Tim Clement-Jones proposed an amendment to create an emergency shutdown mechanism for AI.
- ▪The proposals follow viral allegations from former Anthropic employees that the company was racing toward self-improving superintelligence.
- ▪The UK Cabinet Office stated that the country cannot simply turn AI off and that domestic restrictions would not stop global AI development.
- ▪Recent incidents, including a breach of the Hugging Face platform by OpenAI agents, were cited as evidence of rogue AI behavior.
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The UK is just behind China and the US when it comes to the level of funding it is pouring into AI development. Following Sen. Bernie Sanders introducing a bill to preemptively stop the creation of artificial superintelligence (ASI), lawmakers in the UK are now making similar proposals.Over 70 British lawmakers have written to Prime Minister Andy Burnham calling on him to back a ban on the creation of artificial superintelligence (ASI). This is a theoretical AI system that would significantly outperform all humans on essentially all cognitive tasks.Alex Sobel MP introduced an Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill in collaboration with ControlAI in the British parliament last week.
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