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UPDATE: As of today, over 125 lawmakers across the UK and Canada have publicly called for a ban on the development of runaway machine intelligence.

The movement to keep humanity in control is growing.

Article: blog.controlai.org/p/125-uk-and-c…

Over 125 lawmakers across the UK and Canada are now publicly calling for an international ban on runaway machine intelligence.

As new evidence emerges that it could arrive sooner than expected, momentum is building to change course.

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WATCH: ControlAI’s Samuel Buteau speaks to lawmakers from around the world at an Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting.

He explains how the attack on Hugging Face by rogue AIs demonstrates that we can’t control today’s AIs.
Failing to control today’s AIs, we can’t expect to control AIs far more powerful and autonomous, which AI companies are racing to build.

As Samuel advocates, we recommend countries agree a mutual “trust but verify” regime to ban the development of runaway machine intelligence.

Even the CEOs of the companies racing towards this warn that it could end humanity. This is how we prevent that.

In resurfaced footage of Dario Amodei being interviewed, the Anthropic CEO says there will be AIs so powerful that if they want to destroy humanity, “we have basically no ability to stop it.”

“There will be powerful models. They will be agentic. We’re getting towards them.”

“If such a model wanted to wreak havoc and destroy humanity or whatever, I think we have basically no ability to stop it.”

Days after @alexsobel introduced our bill to ban runaway machine intelligence, 70 of his colleagues in Parliament joined him in a letter to the Prime Minister urging its adoption and the pursuit of an international ban.

Another 15 have signed, making 86!